Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1893, Page 8

JUNE 5, 1693, LIFE AND VOWS OF JESUITS President of Oreighton Oollege Answers Oharges Against Oatholio Orders, EXTREME OATH OF JESUITS A FORGERY They Wers Taught that the Fnd Justifies Unlawfol Means—The Bogus Encyolical Denounced—Certain Secret Socleties Condemned—The Higher Life. Rev. James Hooffer, S. J., presidant of Creighton university, lectured last night at the College church before as large an audi- ence as could be packed into tho building. 1t was the last of o series of lecturcs on the analysis of religion, in which the lecturer had traced religion from its beginnings to its full aevelopment in Jesus Christ and Christianity. Ho took for his theme last night the higher lifo of the evangeli- cal counsels which Jesus Christ pro- Posed to men and women whose ambition or more generous impulses would lead them to aspire to the highest human perfection. Christ presented to the world in His own person the pattern of the higher life in the voluntary choice of poverty, continency and obedience. He embodied its teachings in His public discourses as the readers of the bible know. The lecture was in substance as follows: “Tho Acts of the Apostles, and the epistles of St. Paul show that the disciples in many instances embraced that higher life. Tt is a matter of history that the carly Christi in large numbers adopted . the higher way of living, some of them remaining in the busy world, others betaking themselyes to the deserts of Egypt and the Thebaid the better to devote themselves to the pursuit of spiritual perfection. In the course of time these hermits of the deserts were forced by circumstances to form themsclves into com- munities and thus were formed the first religious orders of the Church. However much those orders differed in their purposes and the means adopted for - ing them out, thev all agreed in_ the voluntary observance of pov- erty, chastity and obedience, binding them- selves to such observance by vows, that is to say by a solemn promise to God. From that time until now it has ever been held by the church that the essential constituents of the religious state are the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and that a religious order or society is an organized body of men or of women who bind themselve promise to God, to voluntary pov chastity and obedience. The Vows. The vow of chastity mcans to promise Almighty God to be chaste in thought, word and deed, and so to continue in single blesscdness. The only great objection which some people have to this vow is that they cannot believe that any man or woman can keep such promise, that any man or woman can be chaste. (mr] By the vow of obedience the religious promises God to obey his lawfully ap- pointed religious in all that is not un ful and not at, with the laws of his order as laid down by the church. The church has alwa taught that no human being may promise God to do things which are manifestly unlawful, for to make such a promise or vow is not to honor but to insult the God of all law and order. Consequently, no religious superior may command his sub- jects to do anything unlawful; should he do 50, the subjects may not and should not obey the command. The vow of poverty does not mean a prom- ise of pauperism. The religious person who takes that vow thereby surrende sonal right to ownership or acquisition of property. Such personal vow of the indi- vidual does not, as is evident, deprive the religious order community of the right of acquiring or owning as a corporate body. Americans, who understand better than any ‘other people ‘what' is meant by & corporation, ought to under- stand _better than nuybullfy else how a body of men or women could own property as a corporation and at the same time waive their rights personally to a per- sonal ownership of a share of the common stock. Anybody who has read the bible should find no difficulty in understanding the ownership of religious orders, They do pre- cisely what the bible tells us certain com- munities of early Christians did; they have everything in common, everything is common property and common’ fund, out of which every individual gets what he needs for his ersonal wants, and into_which everything e receives by way of offering or donation must go. Such an arrangement is certainly biblical enough and American enough not only to be understood by Christians and Americans but Lo be applauded by them with honest approval. What Are the Jesults? Asa professed father of the Society of Jesus, that is to say, as a full-fledged Jesuit, who has been in the order since September 8, 1869, I believe I know, I am sure 1 know, what the Jesuits rcally are, and as there is not and never has been any secret about it, I am ready to tell everybody who is willing to know what the Jesuits really are. The Jesuits are one of the religious orders of the Catholic church. They are not monks, not one of the mendicant orders, but one of the orders of clergy of the Catholic church, They are like all the orders of the church, like the Benedictines, the Dominicans, the Franciscans, in that which essentially consti- tutes every religiousorder, in the obser: of the vows of poverty, chastity and obedi- ence. The Jesuits differ .from the other oraers of the church in the tollowing points: The ultimate end at which the order aims 48 not ouly the salvation and sanctification of its members, but the salvation and sanc- tification also of all men. Lam quoting the yery words of our constitution. To reach that end the order has by its constitution di- rected its labors in two directions, mission- ary work and higher education. It is there- fore an order whose members are either missionaries or professors, are either preachers of gospel truth orcducators in colleges and universities. There are four grades in the order. First you have the lay brothers, men who assume the burdens of domestic service in the houses of the order, but who are really Jesuits, though they never take holy orders, ‘They are not always mechanies and laborers, but sometimes mon of education and refine- ment, as was Alphonsus Rodriguez, now a canonized saint of the church. The second grade of Jesuits is the Scholastics, tne {nung men who are destined for the priest- 00d, The third grade is that of Spiritual Coadjutors, that is to say, of for one reason or another, gen: ly on a count of bad health, could not finish all studies required for the highest grade, fourth grade is that of Professed Fathers, of priests who, after satisfying all the re- uirements of the order, mako like ull pro- lessed religions of other orders, sol- emn vows of ‘m\'crly, chastity und obedi- ence, All these grades are Jesuits, every mon is a Religious, because every one takes the three vo In this they are per- fectly like the members of other religious orders, ry candidate for the order must make a noviceship of two years, during which his tiwe is spent in prayer, in study- ing the rules of the order, in order to satisfy himself and the Master of Novices as to his yocation, He may leave at any time during his noviceship, but if he remains and has ven satisfaction as to his fitness is allowed take the simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience at the exviration of the two years, and from that time he is a Religlous of the Society of Jesus. The differenco be- tween the simple vows and the solemn vows o all religious orders is this, that the sim- o vows can be removed by dispensation by he ordinary authorities of ‘the church, ‘whereas solemn vows cannot, the dispensing power in this case beiog reserved to the su- Ppreme pontiff, Right here allow me to read to you the g:mulu of the simple vows which every 1 per- fesuit takes on completion of his noviceship. 6 ceremouny, usually, though not neces- sarily, for there is no rule about it, takes ¢ in the church or chapel at mass in nce of the community, Just before re- ving holy communion the novice kneels wi before the altar and recites this ula, which I myself did on September 7, Slmple Vows. Almighty and Eternal God, I N. N., wiat vhvarthy i Wy bivie k though yes, yor trust- ing tn Thy Infnits goodness and mercy, and impelled by the desire to serve Thee vow to thy Divine Majesty, in_vresence of the most blessed Virgin Mary and the whole court of Heaven, perpetual poverty, chastity and obe- dience In the socioty of Jesus; and T promise to enter the said society forever to pass m 1ife in [t, understanding ovory thing in accord= ance with its constitation. beseach Thee, therefore, by the blood of Jdsus Christ, that in Thy infinito goodness and clemency, Thou will deign to accept this holo- caustas” an odor of sweetness; and that, Thou hast €l ven me grace to desire and offer it, %0 also Thou wilt grant me grace to fulfil ity Amen, This {s numberone of the Jesuit vows, and it is the genuine articlo which it will atall times give mo great plensure to show to any inquirer in the books that contain our con- stitution and rules. When a lay brother has been in the order some ten years and has glven satisfaction to his ‘superiors, he isallowed to pronounce the last vows of the temporal coadjutor ¢ brothers. Here 1s the formula or last vows of the tem- poral condjutors or lay brothers, I, N. N. promise to Almighty God, in prosenco Gt His Virgin and W \eavenly coutt, and to you Roverened I N. General of th Socloty of Jesus holdi ioa in rogard, and your tov. Father N. in plac T tho t nd his sors, ete.,) (God's Vicegerent,) perpotual Poverty, ( and O according to the manner expressed in the Apostolic L ters and Constitutions of the said Soclety, In such a town, place, day, month and year. Training of the Jesuit Fathers. After two _years of noviceship the young Jesuit spends two years in post-graduato embracing ancient and modern - literature, oratory, vedagogy and normal training generally in all the branches of a collegiate education. He next entors upon a three years' university tal and moral philos; physics, chemistry, and other natural sciences, and the higher mathemat sven years are gone when he enters upon the duties of a college pro- fessor, in which he is employed, as a rule, for five years. He then bogins his university course of divinity, spending four years in studies of scripture, dogmatic and moral theology, canon law, church history, liturgy, ete. Sometime before the close of the course, after he has labored through fifteen or sixtecn years of as hard an intel- lectual training as can be imagined, he is at last ordained a pricst, But he is not yot a eompletely developed Jesuit, One = year more must be devoted to the study and prac- tice of the spiritual life, aud to & thorough review of the constitution and history of the order, and he must have completed seve teen years to the day and hour from the first day of his noviceship, before he is allowed to kneel down before the altar and pronounce tho solemn vows of a professed Jesuit father. If for some reason or other, the Jesuit father was uuable to go through the entire training, he could be ordained at an earlier period and admitted to the last vows of the formed spiritual coadjutor. Here is the formula of these vows: . promise to Almighty God, in the pre- of Tils Virgin Mother, tho wh only court, and to you, Rev. Father > 1of the ety of 'Jesus, holding the 1, and_to N.. in” place of sus and his sug sors, holding t of God in my re perpetis verty, chastity and obedicnc and in ¢ Wwith that obediene cial devotion to the education of hoys e the miunner expressed in the apostolical na the constitution of the samo so- the gene According to the law of the church all sol- emn yows must be pronounced in public; the Jesuits are no exception to the rule. over 300 years they have made their solemn i hody could go and hear on Februar; y that 1 xnelt down before the high altar in the old college church of . Louis university and publicly read my solemn and last vows. Hereis the origi eaft, written by my- self, and signed by myself with an ordin pen and black ink. I never heard or read of # Jesuit signing his solemn vows with a inard dipped in blood, taken from above rt, until T came to Omaha a year ago. anxious to inspect this bit of paper 1 invite him to call on me at the college. .If he is afraid of me, he can ask policeman to ompany him. If he does not know T.atinlet him bring along some professional man who can read Latin und understand what it means. This docu- ment had to be in Latin, it is an official doc- ument, and,” consequently, is written in the official language of - the church, and not only of the church, but of all great universities and colleges, which always'issué their di- plomas in Latin, This is my diploma as a professed father of the Socicty of Jesus. It is a real diploma, for according to the consti- tution of our order, it attests that after fre- quent and rigid examinations in all college and university courses 1 was declared by my exuminers fully competent tohold in any university the chair of philosophy, of science, of mathematics and of divinity, As most of my hearers would not under- stand these my last vows in Latin, I shall read you the formula done into English, Four Solemn Last Jesuit Vows. 1, James 1. X. Hoeffer, make my fprofession, and'I promise to Almighty God, 1n the pres- once of His Virgin Motlier” and ot the whole court of heaven and of all persons who stand and 1o thee Rev. Father Rudol or, provinefal in the place of the oclety of Jesus, and of hi o pl d in my ro tion to the educition of boys; in o with the modo of life preseribed by the apo tolic_lotters of the Soclety of Jesus and its constitutions, sver, I promise special obedience to the erelzn pontifl with reference to missions, ording us it is contained in the same apos- c letters and constitutions. 1887, St. I’ h JaM Signed with my own , Sometimes o member belonging to the grade of Formed Spiritual Coadjutors is on account of superior talents or signal ser- vices rendered to the order or the church promoted to what is called the Profession of Three Vows. The formula of these three solemn vows is identically the same as the formula of the four vows, except that the fourth vow of special obediénce to the pope with regard to the missions is omitted, After pronouncing the solemn vows the newly professed father takes the following simple vows, which uliar to the Society ot Jesus, Here is the formula which Iread immediately after my profession in 1887, Formula of the simple vows which the professed take after their profession: T, James I, Toeffer, a professed father of the Soc Jesus, promise to Almighty God inthe y co of 115 Virgin Mother und the whole he 1V Court, and i tho presenco of Rev, Path yer, provinclal, hold- al of the socety, 1y do anything oOrF whereby the poverty o onstitution of t g at somo )f the caso’ might ty be mado wmore should be’ Just eau o seewm to that pov stringent, 150 morcover that T will never do any- rseek oven indirectly to be chosen or llml toany post of honor or dignity i 1 promiso, moregver, that I wil ambition any prefs the society; nor, vor seek or v dignity outside of s (0 wo les, will 1 consent to'my befng chosen, unless forced by my obedience to him, who'can comamand mo under pain of si. Again, i I learn that any one secks or ambi- tions any of the two aforesnid dignitles, I 150 that I willmanifest him and the wholo clety o its gencral. at uny time 1tshould happen, pitd these promises, I bo elevated 1o any digniy in tho church, having & caroof my own salyation and of tho right fulfillment ot tho duty Imposed upon me, | promise that [ will 50 Tegard the genoral of the soclety, ns never to refuso to lsten to the advico, which he himself, or some other person of the society, whoul ho shall constitute. for himself i tls watter, muy delgn to give me. And I promise that 1 will thus always foilow ‘adyice of this Kind, 1f T judge 1t to bd botter than that which oceurred to my own mind; understanding all things according to the' constitution and declarations of the Society of Jesus. Slgned as before with an ordinary pen and biack ink. You hiave now heard all the vows, every one of them, which the Jesuits pronounce There are no other Jesuit vows, 1f ever it should happen that & Jesuit takes a vow here in Omaha I shall invite all of you to be present to see how simple the whole busi- ness is, it 80 totally lacks ceremony. Forgeries of the Vows, For 800 years these last and solemn vows of the Jesuits were, m-curnflnf to the law of the church, pronounced in public, for 800 years the public heard them, for 800 years nobody, pot even the Jesuits, knew of any other extreme vows. Not even the Monita Secreta, the most daring of all the forgeries against the Society of Jesus, had a word to say against the Jesuit vows. The fabrication of the terrible Jesuit oaths, the most outrageous forgery on record in his- wri'. was apparently reserved to the pious zeal of the most saintly and loyal subjects of her majesty, the queen. These latter day saiats and wmost loyal subjects evidently held the doctrine that the end Justifies the means even the most criminal. The fnrr(‘r of the Jesuit oath was first pub- lished In Lendon in 1848, apparently as a part of the Monita Secreta, or secret in- structions, which it had never been before. Tt was a 11o and a forgery prefixed to the old tissue of lies, very much enlarged and developed in the English translation. In 1865 & member of the corporation of Dublin, one of the saints, introduced a petition to the British Parliament, which was the god of those saints, to take an almighty action against the horrible Jesuit oath. Some members of the corporation who had more common sense than piety and_a little more of what we call gu\mmion than religious fanaticism, challange the saint to give proof of the authenticity of the alleged h. The saint_was highly offended that he should be asked for proof, but as he could not furnish it the corporation—as we say it imply snowed them under. The most frightful specimens of the trans- atlantic and Cang n Jesuit oath cannot for a moment compare with the revised, en- arged, stereotyped, blood-curdling, wild and wooly western Omaha edition whi has been appearing woek after week in this city, presumably for the special delecta tion of other most loyal and saintly subjects. 1t is but natural that those who are not aintly and loyal subjects of the Queen, but law-abiding citizens of these un-British United States, would like to have proof from these latter day imported saints for the au- thenticity of the extremeoath of theJesuits, as published in Omaha. 1 for one, as a citi- zen born and reared in this country, chal- lenge every comer to prove that said extreme oath of the Jesuits is authentic. 1 denounce itasa forgery, I publicly denounce it asa libel, and if I was sure who the forger or the libeler is, I would take steps at once to bring him to justice in the courts. If these saints are at all honest let them furnish the proofs; the burden of proof rests on the accusers. And here in the same breath I denounce that other forgery of that very alarming enclyclical, according to which the Pope and the Jesuits ave to exterminate all pro- testants. The Pope is one old man, a pris- oner at the Vatican. The Jesuits in the whole world today do not amount to four- teen thousand. In the United States today the Jesuits are by actual count no more than fifteen hundred, fathers, scholastics and brothers all told. Yet these fifteen hundred are going to exterminate fifty millions of protestants! What a huge fake!l The Jesuit Tenching. In their teaching in philosophy and theo- logy, the Jesmits have ever held, taught and defended the doctrines of the Catholic church. So true is this that the Order has always been reviled by its encmies as tho champion of orthodoxy. But they are ever n accused of teaching that the end Justifies the means, no matter how crimnal ans may be in themselves. This a cusation the order has always emphati denied, Against its falsity tho or always appealed to the authentic writing its members, and challenged the world to bring forth a single authentic passage in which a Jesuit taught, that the end justifies means which are unlawful. Time and again rewards of thousands of dollars were offered in different countries to any one who would conclusively prove by a single authentic passage that a Jesuit author even taught that doctrine. In 1 Father Roh read from the pulpit at Frankfort a declar: that if anybody could produce a J author who had uttered the maxim “The end justifies the means,” literally or in equiv- alent terms, he would pay him™ 1,000 florins Rhenish cur r. The decision was to resu with the Protes A Ji sity of Heidelberg, or with the mixed f ulvy, Protestant and Catholic of Bonn. offer he repeated in the Protestant cities of Halle in 1862 and Bremen in 1863, Ten ye: and more had passed and no one had cepted the challenge, At last a theolog: Maurer by name, put in_a claim; it was not allowed by the faculty of Heidelberg. In 1887 Bishop Coxe of Buffalo saw fit to accuse the Jesuits of teaching that the end justifics the means. The charge was imme- diately denied by the Jesuit facuity of Canis- ius college, Buffalo. To their indignant de- nial they added an offer of 1,000 to Bishop Coxe orany one else who could sustain the slanderous accusation by a single reference to the page of even one Jesuit writer. The profoundly learned bishop fell back on the “Encyclopaedia Britannica,” and from it quoted Rev. Dr. Littledale second hand, To his_consternation he very soon learned that Dr. Littledale had blundered egre- giously. The learncd bishop has been very quiet ever since and nobody has won the $1,000 yet. The Jesuits have by this time arrived at the conclusion that the offering of rewards is becoming as stale as the false ace Why the Jesuits Wero 5o Often Banished. nts and most loyal subjects often jcantly why the Jesuits were ban- ished from so many countries, They enumerate the countries, givo the dates, and triumphantly conclude that the Jesuits are the sworn euemies of civil gov- ornment. Of course, this argument looks damaging to the Jesuitg; but it also looked disastrous to Jesus ist to have been con- demned to death by the Roman governor. L In all such cases the question is who is wrong? Protestant ministers have been ex- pelled by civil governments time and again; are they therefore the inveterate enemies of civil government? To give a satisfactory explanation of the frequent banishment of the Jesuits, I will divide the cases into two classes: First, ban- ishment from Protestant or heathen countries; second, baniskment from Catholic conntries. Why were Jesults banished from Protest- ant and heathen countries? For the same reason that Protestant min- isters were banished from Catholic or heathen countries; it was simply because of religious antagonism, and that proves noth- ing more against the Jesuits and Catholic missionaries generally than it does against the Methodist and Protestant missionaries in general, 1f such expulsions give proof of anything it is of the spirit of Christiun mar- tyrdom, and the more frequent such banish- ments become the greater the honor and glory should be for the heroic missionaries. History of Persocutlons, ‘Why were the Jesuits so often banished from Catholic countries? Before answering this question, let me ask another: Why wero they as often invited and welcomed back again with universal joy? By whom were they bamshed from Cath- olic'countries? Not by Catholics, not by the people, not by the orthodox clergy or hier- archy, not in a single instance. By whom, thent By the enemies of tho hol church and by the enemies of all Christian- ity, whetlier Catholic or testant, and by the enem of lawfully coustituted civil government—it was, to give their proper names, by the Janseaists and the Voltairists and the secret societies of the revolutionists that the weak sovereigns of the Bourbon dynas sreed to expel the Jesuits from Catholic lands, Still, out of the deluge of slanders and false accusations the society soon came forth honorably acquitted; theé Jansenists and Voltairists had overdone it, a strong reaction was setting in against them, and they would have utterly failed of their purpose if the secret orders of revolutionists had not just then managed to get control of the Bourbon governments. The Jesuits could not be crushed by a ##1t war of persccution; thev had to be anniliisted by main and brute force, The pope gielded at last to their impor- tunities and their threats, and in 1773 sup pressed the erder “for the maintenance of peace.” The pope's good intention cannot be questioneds he sacrificed the Jesuits for the sake of peace in church and state, but instead of pemce the tyrants gave church and stato the horrors of the revolution. The Jesuits fall aid with them fell, as the rotestant J.:yon Muller wrote, ''a strong hulwark of authority.” Singularly enough, Fredorick of Prussia, one timo leagued with the Voltairists, against the Jesuits, now politely declined to drive them out of his kingdom, declaring that he meant to keep them as ' preeious seed which would be in demand again very soon. Most singular of all, Catherine of Russia had learned to ap- preciate the Jesuits in her domain so highly that she would not allow the decree of their suppression to be promulgated in her realm, 80 that in white Russia alone in all the world the Society of Jesus yet remained. The Jesuits were expelled from Franceand Mexico and Italy in recent years, not by Catholics, but by infidels and secret oath- bound revolutionary orders, who were, and still are the tyrants of those countries. The Jesuits consider it an honor to be banished from the company of such)men; if the aints lilke their company they had better go and enjoy it, the sooner the better. To sum up the question of the frequent shments of the Jesuits, they were al- s brought about by the antagonism of fanatics, of irreligions atheists and of unprincipled political intrguers. Of the three classes, the two last named were the most powerful and deadly enemies, for they had no conscience, History repeats itself, for the same causes will, under vhe same conditions, produce the me effects. The Jesuits havenot changed. oy are still the champions of truth in religion, of truth in philosphy, of law and order in civil government, of Christian civillzation, and of God, and they are still educators and missionaries, and as such in- culeate and defend the truth from pulpit, Patform and professor’s chair. And there are still sectarian fanatlcs, saints who can lie about the Jesuits as hero- ically as the Jansenistic pharisees, thero aro still atheists who hate Christianity and God as cordially as did Voltaire, and there are still secrot oath-bound organizations leagued against existing governments, and there are still a host of ignorant and unscrupulous politicians who cannot gain office or salary without the backing of the saints and athe- ists and secret orders of revolutionists—all these exist and they hate the Jesuits, and they will leave nothing undone to banish them from this country, but remember the lesson of histor, he next blow they will strike will be at our established government. isto; repeats itself; the men who are conspirators against the Christian ministers of God will be found to be conspirators against their country, and their real mo- tives and purposes will be discovered to be— the spoils, The Catholic church has had a long and world wide experience with secret orders, and it is a well known fact that has condemnued certain secrev orders. It is a mistake however, and unfortunatels common one, to imagine that the church condemned them because they & or oath-bound. As the law of thec reads, such orders are condenned because they either openly or covertly machinate against the church or against any legitimate authority. On the face of it, this law will strike e’ fair minded mau as perfectly just; it is- only nolding men to the right dictates of reason and to the w of con- cience; it is only the afirmation of the highest tribunal on.earth that religious liberty and legitimate civil authority are alike sacrosanct and inviolable. ————— ANNOUNCEM The loadstone of interest at Boyd's New theater Tuesday and Weanesday, June 6 and 7, will be a new farce comedy called “The Idea,” in which the popular comedians, Hal- len and Hart, will appear as the principals. These entertainers have attained quite an enviable reputation for humorous ability, as well as effective organizers, for they have already appearea surrounded by players with claims of special reputation. They have also gono further, and uniformly sup- plied a light and airy entertainment entirely free from offensive songs, texts or antics. Their new picce is said to have all the in- dicnts which made ~“Later On” popular, nd more, too, with the added advantage of rhyme and reason. The principal role is that of *a reformer” crank, who is in a perpetual state of nervous worry over the immoral drift of the world and undertakes, single- handed, to alter and purify this uncomfort- able condition of things. Both Hallen and Hart are said to he well fitted for their respective roles. In the com- pany, besides these agrecable principals, are Mollie Fuller, Al Wilson, Fannie Bloodgood., Aiice Carle, Carrie DeMar, Donald Harold, Florence Bell, Emma Seymour, W. S. Francis, Mabel Nichols, Lulu Nichols, Harry Hilton, Adelaide Crawford, George 'O'Don- ald, and several others who are well known and liked. All of the scenery, property ef- fects and costumes, it is said, will be new; also the music, songs and dances. The locale of the pieco is New Orleans. Seats are now on sal —_——————— From the High School Room. Gurinie CeNteR, Neb., June4.—[Special to Tue Bee.]—The High school graduating exer re held here last night. It was a class of flve young ladies. The Ladies quartet of Des Moines furnished music for the occasion, FrEM eb., June 4.—[Special to Tur BEE.]—' t Methodist Bpiscopal church was beautifully decorated with flowers and filled to its utmost c: y with intelligent people this morning to hear Rev, Georgo M. Brown, pastor of the church, preach the baccaladreate sermon to the Fre- mont High school. It was an able effory and commanded the close attention of all present. ki S Drexel Hotel, 16th & Webster, 1 blk from Mo, Pac. & Elk. depot. Nat. 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Many marvel at its rapid strides in popularity, The cause is its marked superiority over every other leavening agent, It is a pure Cream of Tartar Powder, Works quickly, Makes the finest flavored, most delicious and whoiesome food, Whitest flaky biscuit, Lightest and finest griddle cakes and Pastry and cake that remain mcist and sweet. AREYOU GOING AWAY? Whether You Are or Not You Need to Know Jast What to Do, Both at Home nd While Away. Nearly evorybedy ie planning to do more or leas travelling at this season. Many peoplo who can afford it zo to Europe and spend o greatdeal of time abroad. Today yon meet a man In Boston, and next week you encounter him In San Francisen, Those who have not the time or me1ns to take these extended trips RO to some summer resort, or take a little trip oconsioually. Thisis right ana proper. Wo need change, but all this running about causes frosh risks to health and life, aithough the travelling may bo taken for lealth and ploas- theso things make peoplo sick ut every inoon- venient times und in unexpected places. 'eo- ple under such eircumstances are often selzod with sickness whero suitable medloai heip or remecies nre not at hand. Old complaints nro awakened which froquentty take a fresh hold andoffen result 1o death, At such times - ness may often bo warded off by the prompt usc of some good medicinal stimvlunt. Thero 18 no stimulant equal to pure whiskey, und tho purest medicinal whiskey upon the ma ket today is Dufly's Pure Malt. - 1t has been beforo the pubils for years. It miy bo possi- Lo that somo nterested person miy sny that other whiskeys ure just as goo !, but it should b borne in mind thist other whiskeys do not uecomplish what Dufty's Pure Mait has ne- complishod for the past twenty yours, It has saved the 11ves of thousands, and 1ts prompt uge has prevented the dangers which changes of the seuson and Incidents of travel always oeeasion. Here’s the Idea Of the Non-pull-out Bow The great watch saver. Saves the watch from thieves and falls—cannot be pulled off the case—costs nothing extra, & ‘The bow has a groove on each end. A collar runs down inside the pengant (stem) and ts into the grooves, firmly locking the bow to the pendant, 8o that it cannot be m pulled or twisted off. AN Can only be had with cases stamped with this trade mark, Jas. Boss Filled Watch Cases are now fitted with this great bow (ring). They look and wear like solid gold cases, Cost only about half as much, and are guaranteed for twenty years, Sold only through watch dealers_Remember the name KestoneWatch Case Co PHILADELPHIA. Women Will Vote 4s usual at the next school election— but for many candidates. They give a unanimous vote—every day in the week—in favor of KRS WHITE RUSSIAN SOAP because they know it has no equal asa labor and temper saver on wash-day. The “White Russian” is a great soap to use in hard or alkali water. Does not roughen or injurc the hands—is per- fectly safe to use on the finest fabrics. JAS. S. KIRK & €0., Chicago. Dusky Diamond Tar Soap, Me¥ss.tiefkin Soft Cook quickest and best, They aro a kitchen necessity, lighten labor and jmprove the flavor. of the food Don'tles your dealer soil you another g kind, ! Send 2o, f stamp for & 100page COOK ¢ BOOK = T2 8N Zi MILTON ROGERS & 8913, Agts., Omaha, i;: ajestic Mfg. Co..St. Louls. CAUTION, [l KENNEDY'3 L4EAST INDIA BITTERS Aro NEVAR Sol1 IN BULK, WoNLY IN BOTTLES WITH ADEMARK LABELS wna vigor quickly re ( Moted, Slorvias Debity Gte, wurely cured by INDAPO, the great llindao Tieinedy. 5old with writ, o ree. Adiren rihiar 5 Viacer Cienro, 11 W. L. DOUCLAS me Did few of closed or seve today ! at our Annual Benefit Sale. I Y R A P PR IR ORI A Y O by correspondence, Ao contents or s private. Hook (Myster Hend stamp for circular, 83 SHOE noY'%e. Do you wear them? When next in need try a pair, they will give you more comfort and service for the money than any other make, Best in the world. T i W. L. Douglas Shoes are made In al the Latest Styles. 1 you want a fine DRESS SHOE don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3.50, $4 or $5 Shoe, They will it equal to cus- tom made and look and wear as weil, If you wish to economize In your footwear, you can do so by purchasing W. L. 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