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REV. FRANKLIN O ATHEIS Oompanion Leoture to His Views of Theism Recently Delivered at Temple Israel. INGERSOLL RECEIVES ANOTHER REEUKE God of Numanity Who Uares Not tor Sect or Creed—Uiversal Religlon as an Extermination of infidel ity—The Lecture, Leo Franklin's second lecture at lsrael was largely attended. He “Atheism,” in the following re- Rev. Femple denounced marks: “An eminent writer has defined preaching asthe art of making men think and fe in proportion as they think. But in ord to make men think and feel about a subje it is necessary to bring before them in ¢ and distinct outline all the essential ideas related to that subject, and it is with this idea in mind that we wish to proceed ir the arguments begun in our last discourse as 0 the relative cluims of theism and anti- theism. Having discussed last week the subject of theism our special theme tonight will be “What of the Atneist.’ If we turn to the book of Psalms, chuvters fourteen, verse one, we find the following sentence: “The fool hath suld in his heart, thero Is no God. . “From this sentence, written in that re- mote perivd before the close of the biblical canon, it will be evident that the denial of the existence of God is by no means a recent davelopment, but it has been noticed well nigh as far back as we may trace the course of history. But this is not allto be mar- veled at. Wherever there exists belief there must be doubt. Without doubt there could be no reason, no thought and no intelligent judgment. And, therefore, honest doubt 1s not only not to be mocked at, but it 18 to be commended as being honorable and desira- ble. He who doubts not, believes not—or, if he believes, his is a blind faith and a blind, unreasonable and unintelligent faith we heartily desyise. 'Nor s blind faith at all essential to or even in consonant harmony with a belief in God. One whose taiti is blind must grope in darkness, for it will never bring him to the light of an sntelligent God. But this fact seems to be constantly overlooked by our atheistic friends, who seem to look upon belicf as something effeminateand unworthy of a manly man, They seem to mistake be- lief for credulity, faith for blindness, and theism for dark superstition. Because that in which we believe is not a tangible some- thing that can be seen und felt and touched, they think that we are misguided, unreason- able and in error. They forget that all be- lief which¥s based oa inference has i it the element of ' doubt and that after all nothing is certain. Take any of the count- Jess multitude of things the truth of which no man ever questions and you will find that 10 @ great extent we tuke them all on faith, Because in the past winter has followed autumn in unvroken regularity, we take it on faith, and asa matter of fact that in future it will do the same. But do we know 12 Are we certain of it? Most assuredly not. Yet who will doubt it? Who will say that it is effeminate and unreasonable to be- lieve it? Surely there is no man so foolish as todoso. Now as with the seasons, so with night and day, with light and davk- ness, with life and death, we take them all on faith., No living man can know that at some time their order may not be reversed, or the distinctions between them obliterated altogether, but there is no man who would 80 expose himself to the ridicule of reasona- ble men as to say that be doubts their con- sing regularity. Immenso Barrier Agalnst Belief. ‘‘Before belief such as this atheists, agnostics, infidels and nonbelievers feel no compunctions, they recognize no feminmity, no olindness, no creaulity. It is only \\'};en they vo;ne to God that they se! up an mmense barrier against belief. And now we may fuil']yg ask, which is the more reasonable the belief of the theist or the nonbelief of the atheist! In order to answer this let us examine the basis of belief. Some people in common parlance say that seemng is believing, that what the eyes behold cannot be doubted. Some men of science, however, go a step farther than this and tell us that not even all the things we scem to see are wortl belief. The ot y optical illusions, 50 many wa ving the sight, that we may scarce vely upon it. We see Her- mann perform his marvelous sleight of hand accomplishments and yet do reasonable men actually believe that he does what they seom to sco him do? Of course not, and, therefore, with the men of science we ‘must say that not even seeing is believing, What reinains is only this, that reasonable belief depends upon the weight of evidence brought in support of one position or the other. A strauger tells me, for instance, that a fricnd whom T had supposed Lo be in a far off country is around the corner, Ican ce believe it, for the evidence 10 the contrary is too great. But suddenly a friend in whom 1 have great confidence comes and brings me the same news as did the stranger. Because his evidence is more reliable my belief in the matter is strengthened, and when three, four or halfa dozen friénds come and cov: roborate his statement the evidence is sufti- cient to make my belief nbsolute. “Now, 0 with the higher questions of the universe it becomes simply a matter of weight of evidence, and the question for us to decide is as to whether the weight of evi- dence is in fayov of theism or atheism that 15 to say, whether things in the universe, as we sce them, sustain the premise that mat. ter is God created or that it is self created The evidence in favor of a God-created uni- yerse we laid before you in_our discourse of last week, For the sk of clearness let us an @ word, recall the argument used on that oceasion, - First, from the side of histo we found inate'in man the instinet of wor ship, and, because all instinets correspond to something in the outer universe, there must be something to sutisfy the yearnings of this one also. Some men call this out- WAId corresponding power nuture, force or energy. We call it God, In the second place, we looked at the subject from the side of evolution, and there wo found staring us in the face the inevitable necessity of a first cause—the principle that gave force and en- ergy to the first link in evolution's chain and for this, also, we found the neea ot God And again, though science could construct the figurc of man, with outlines so delicate and features so fine as to deceive us ull, we fonnd it entirely incapable of creating brain that could think, & soul that could live and a heart that could' feel or sympath For these things, 100, we founda that God Was necessary. *Ihus, then, is briefly stated the evidence In favor of the position of the theist. Where is that of the oposite side? We look for it, but we find none. With the atheist all is negation, aud he rests his disbelief upon the theory that the evidence we have given is not sufticient to prove that there is a God. New arguments he advances not one, He simply says that we need no God, that na- ture carries on the work of the' universe, and he asks in order to puzzle us, *Have you ever seen God creato anything?' flis ques- tion we answer, howeer, by the counter question, ‘Have you ever seen anything create itsell?' We, as thiests, do not at- tempt to tell how God created the universe, but neither does the atheist tell us how the universe created itself. Al that we ask is, Cau one look about him and see the con: stantly chungiug aspect of nature and the universe and still hold that there is. no God, o creative and governing power, who made tho universe what it is." Tu this comes the reply from the athiest: ‘It is true we see all this, the world with its wonders and its beauties, but at the basis of all we find no God, for'we believe that nature made all that we see.’ Argument of Athelsm, “Now, friends, you and I and all the rest of us who are believers in the creative power of God have heard this answer time and time ain, and if you are an atheist you have given it more than once, but reasonable men who hear this argument can come Lo only oue copclusion. Tho entire argument of atheism becomes a quibble about names. The theist looks about him and beholds the beauties of the world, uud, carred away In rapture, he worships the God who caused these things to be. The atheist, however, finds it imy sible to worship and bow'low before the G of pature, und therefore he bestows his pralse upon nature's own self. In other words, one worships the God of nature and the other worships nature; one siugs praise ; the Creator and the other to the creature. And therefore, though he will not admit it and possibly though he himself is not con- scious of the fact, I think that the ro-calied atheist believes in God almost as fully as does the one who claims to do so. Isit possible to admire a piece of handiwork and utterly ignore the hand that framed it? Surely not. How then, in the name of common sense, can a man worship nature and overlook the power, the principle—call it what you will— the God who made it! This is, however, the foundation on which the atheist bases overy ono of his arguments. He boasts him )If of rearing good families, of acting well towara fellow men, of regarding the rights of others, of dispensing charity to the poor, but he will give no whit of ereditto the bible wherein is contained the first comprehensive code of ethics that was ever compiled. The atheist is, therefore, the soul of ingratitude, for as a child he forgets the fatner who reared him, as a pupil he ignores the teacher who taught him. Aund thus I wish to em- phasize the fact that because the atheist adores ‘the things that God has made, and acts rding to the moral laws laid down by men inspired of God, it is selfish pride that prevents him from doing homage to the source whence sprang all these. And again, thiere are other things that point to the fact that true atheism does not and cannot really exist today, “If we note the tendency of the times we find that nonbelievers have changed their names within the past few years. In ages pust when they began to be, they said that there was and is no God and called them- selves by names_of atheists. Today, however, they have changed their position with their name, and calling themscives agnostics, they simply s ‘Wo don't know whether there is a God or not.’ ‘May- Do thereis, and maybe there isn't.’ Along these same lines, who can tell how soon these very gentlemen, who erstwhilenvere athvists and today are ugnostics, will be fighting with those, if any there exist, who still hold out to the idea that there is no cre- ator? Now, all these facts and many more point to the inevitable conclusion that there i8 10 man toduy who is morally sure that sts no God—hence, to my mind, e is today no full-fledeed utheist. Need we. il Support of our arguineat, point to the deathbed scenes of men who all their lives have called themselves atheists and who al- most without excention call out with their dying breath for God to have mercy upon them? Need weemphasize the thought so beautifully put by the inspired poetess, Mrs. Browning ““Thore is no God,' the foolish satth, But nono, *There 1s no sorrow,’ And nature oft the ery of faith In bitter necd will horrow. os which the preacher could not school. By wayside gravesare raised, And 1ips say, ‘God be pitiful,’ Who ne'er suld, ‘God be praised.’ “Awain, in support of our position reed we poiut to the despairing words of one of the most pronounced atheists of our own day. 1 for yourselves. 1In his book, ‘A Candid Examination of Theism,’ he breaks out as follows: ‘Tam not ashamed to con- fess that with this virtual negation of God the universe to me has lost its soul of lovli- ness. When at times 1 think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast be- tween the hallowed giory of that creed which onee was mine and the lonely mystery of existence as now I find it, at such times I shall ever feel it impossible to avoid the sharpest pang of which my nuture is suscep- tible. 1 cannot but think that for me and for otiiers who think as I do there is a dreadful truth in those words of Hamlton: ‘PPhilosophy having become a meditation not only of death, but of annihilation, the pre- eept, * “Know thyself”’ has become trans- formed into the terrible oracle of Oedipus, * “Mayest thou ne'er know the truth of what thou art.’ Tngersoll's Inconsistency. “Are depressing words such as these, from the mouth of a pronounced atheist, suf- ficient to prove to you that true atheism does not exist, or do you need yet stronger proof ? 1f so hear the words of Robert Ingersoll, which he spoke over the grave of his brother and which wre part of one of the most glow- ing and most elogquent tributes that was ever paid by man to man. These are his words: ‘Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. ‘We cry aloud and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word, but in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. *‘Does this sound like the mockery and the riaicule that we heard from the lips of this same mun ten days ago? Most truly mnot. ‘T'his is not the voice of atheism, not the voice of iuofidelity, but it is the still, small voice that seeks communion with its od. friends, I think there is no atheist, no heart 5o hard that it shuts out a God. For our own being in life and in death we need him for comfort, for hope, for trust. A God we need, not who is a gigantic man and oue that we can see and touch, the God of a few people, but the God whom we need is the God of humanity, who cares not for sect nor for creed, but whose temple is the uni- verse, whose rule is justice and whose ministering priests are goodness and love. When ail religion shall acknowlege such a God atheism, even in nawe, will be impos- [ infidelity will dissapear and as this belief grows stronger so will the belief in God become universal.” —————— REGISTER! REGISTER! STRATION I8 VOID— EVERY VOTER MUST REGISTER, Following Are Remaining Dates - for Registration, Friday, November 3, Saturday, November 4. Registrars will sit at the polling booths in each voting district until 9 p. m, on the days above named. Last year's Registration *is void, If you want your name on the vot:rs' list you must register, Pk TR Your Last World's Fair Opportunity, October 15-31 the Burlington Route will sell round-trip tickets to Chicago at TEN DOLLARS., Tickets good to re- turn until November 15, This is positively your last opportu- nity of cheaply and easily reaching Chi- cago during the World's fair. Do not allow it to pass. A lifetime of regret is in store for every one who fails tosee this greutest of all great exposi- tions, The Burlington offers an unequaled ervice to Chicago. Three vestibuled and gas-lighted trains daily. Magnifi- cent sleeping, dining, smoking and free chair chairs, Bagguge checked direct from vesi- dence. Crey TICKET OFFICE, STRE 1324 FARNAM ————— OW KA’ Vin the Missourl Pacific, Tie following reduced rates will bein effect via the Missouri Pacific railway: Omaha to Kansas Cit, .§5.00 Omaha to St. Louis. . A .. 8.00 Omaha to St Louis and return . 9,20 Double daily service between above points, he above rates will be in ef- fect until and including October 3lst. Limit for return passage November 15. For further information address or call agent at 15th and Webster or company’s oftices, northeast corner 13th and Farnam, THOMAS F. GODFREY, Pass. and Ticket Agt. J. A PHILLIPP, Asst. Gen. Freight and Pass. Agt. e o Tourist Curs are the latest, most comfortable and cominodious means of travel for large Ea rties, Intending settlers,homeseekers, unting parties aud others will find these cars on the Union Pacitic system fully equipped in every way. For adai- tional information regarding these cars see your nearest ticket uagent, any Union Pacific agent or address E L. LOMAX, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Omaha, Neb. The Last Chanc Only a few days more of the World's fuir. "Rates about 1 cent per mile via is all ay we said—s quibble about nawes. | the Union Pacitic. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: GREED FOR GOLD AND GAIN Ministerial Ideas of Mankind's Pursnit of the Butterfly of Wealth, REV. A. ). TURKLE'S SPLENDID SERMON Hope of Heaven In the Soul 18 Better Than Pockets Filled with Satanic Gold—Mad Rush for Riches—Happls Fortune, Rev. A. J. Turkle delivered an interesting sermon at the Kountze Memorial Lutheran church last evening upon the subject of The Craze for Mone, The discourse was as follows ““T'his is a materialistic age. Men are fast coming to fulfill the letter of the command and worship one God. The only trouble is it is neither the living, nor the true one, Money 1s_worshiped with all the mind and heart and soul. Its love is the besetting sin of our people and time. The greed of gain flows in the very blood of the American peo- ple. It has bronght millions to our land from the old world and led streams of immi- grants to break up their comfortable homes, gather their little or much together and strike out across the continent to carve out their fortunes, ‘‘There are a few paths of life not lead into this aesire to be rich, And those who will be rich find the thought of money pursuing them everywhere. Some men phn their next week's ventures even in the house of God. That such cares and all- absorbing influence should cause vhe depar- ture from the faith that Paul speaks of is not atall surprising. The wonder is that this maddening rush for money aoes not root out every heavenward aspiration, [t was this benumbing of s fluence against which Paul wu Shrist portrayed so clearly in the le of the sower: ‘He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and he becometh unfruitful.’ Such warnings of Christ and his apostles are not out of date now. The love of money lies deeper m men's hearts and is a more fruitful root of evil in the nineteenth than in the first century. This spirit has led to some good results. It has led to much of the progress in ail departments of human activity, The desire for gain has led men to work out most of the useful inven- tions, It has moved man to conquer the earth, clear it of its forests, plow its prairies. delve to the hearts of its mountains for its treasures. Some Benelits of Greed for Gain, “Much good has wrought from this desire for gai We are today a nation of work not idlers. All life is eager, active, fow or nono despairing of rising in the world, and fewer still content with the fortune to which they have already risen. In agriculture and the manufactures and professional life the people are all in earnest about something. They are not indolent and lazy. They are active and aggressive, “It is a most laudable ambition to make money, if the right purpose is in view and it is made in the right way. The world needs money just as much as it needs any other good thing. 1 wish you were all richer than you are; that you every one had work, and Tigher wages, greater profits, more comfor There are right ways of making mon Every man who works with his hands in an honest occupation makes money. 8s you know. The man who pamts your house makes yvour housc more valuable, and so adds to your wealth and gets something for him- self, So men, also, muke wmoney by their thoughts, as well as by their hands. A Morse dreams of telegraphic communication and his thought materializes in hundreas of millions of value in tele- graphicstocks. A Stevenson mvents the loco- comotive, and we have thousands of millions of dollars in railroads. An Edison conceives of speaking by wire,and we have millions upon millions of money in telephones created By his thought. The thoughts of these men create actual money values. *So you see the thoughts of men make money as well as the works of their hands. The cutting off of vices makes wealth. As soon as vice is cut offand its waste is stopped, then plenty comes in 1ts place, It 18 expensive to be wicked. All our police, jails, criminal courts, penitentiaries, poor houses, asyvlums and reform scnools are maintained at an_enormous expense largely on account of wickedness. Fulse Idens of Economy, “Some people claim it costs too much to belong to fenurch. Why, u life of wicked- ness costs ten times as much as the church, and the church standing iu any community simply as a means to lead men from vice to virtue is a great saving to the communit; b man that is virtwous and earns his own living is a_great addition to the public good. Kvery man that-s viciousis a g burden on the body politic. Stopping vice makes money. Practicing virtue makes mone As 5000 as o man becomes good he has new wants, and he goes about to satisfy those wants. You have ten thousand wants where not long ago your ancestors had, per- haps, ten. The more wants you have the more you will work to satisfy them. Your work makes you money. These are only a few of the worthy wiys of gctting money. It 15 all right to iuherit it, and yet few things dwarf and dwindle and debaach more men than inherited estates. Waiting for an Inheritance, “Nothing shrivels a man in our esteem faster than to see him sitting around waiving for his father or his mother-in-law to die o he ean come into their property, The white- washer who dances attendance upon some rich man in the hope of being made his bene- iciary or his heir; the Micawber who sits complacently waiting for something to turn up, are characters whom every self-respect- ing man regards with a sort of pitying con- tempt. “A young man begins life strong, tem- perate, self-denying, full of energy and courage, thinking high thoughts, cherishing noble ideas. He goes towork n earncst. The excitement of it pleases him; the sue- cess of it fascinates him; the gain of it begins 1o cast its spell about him, Insatlable Thirst for Wealth, “Now mark how such a one sinks into a mere money gatherer, First he gives up the Sunday school, then he quits some other religious duties, then he steals off to his work on Sunday, then he gives up old friends one by one. He becomes more and more mercena until the accursed thirst for gain becomes the one passion of his life. Men's whole lives are regulated by this love of money und it becomes a curse. For let me tell you that the power of riches is what it can do for humanity, If it can give you greater opportunities for doing good day by day, if.itenables you to bring your family in & wider and better sphere, 1f it overflows and produces in your town and neighborhood public benefaction, it you become the head- quarters of a stream, as it were, that waters the kingdom of God in this world, od are your riches and you, Bui unused is money that is dead. Unused money is of no more use to the comniunity or church than are those mum- mies at the World’s fair they took from the sepulchres where they had laid for genera- tions—the dust of the tomb. M‘muiy is hke power—it has no power until it is set off. Yet how many men are stacking it up and salting it down, and putting it in dirt and brick and mortar that they call corner lots and blocks to become the headquarters of Mammon! Money must be sent out on its errands of blessing, educating, assisting, cheering, meeting honest obligatis and performing its mauy needed and helpful ministeries before it is of any account. Few sights in life are more pathetic than the sight of & man who has devoted his energies to making money, starving his intellect, cut- ting himself off from all larger sympathy with enterprises of utility and beneficence, all liberality and Christian zeal diminishing untal his shriveled soul scarce bears & trace of the Master’s image. Results of the Mad Kush. “Every man who covets riches at will find 10 his riches a departure from th and the grace of his manhood. But still farther he finds ‘many sorrows.” How many find themselves physical wrecks! If there is & slaye on earth doomed to drudge under the lash till worn out nature dm‘: exhausted it is the mun striving to be rich. What means this increase of neryous dis- eases, this alarming advance of the percent- age of insanity, these sudden deaths and hopeless breakdowss iu the prime of life, at which do irvitual in- ned Timothy, been g which physicians amd statisticians shake their heads? Largoly this is the fruit of this mad rush after wiches. 1do not forget how many are driwen to these calamities by the pressure of theilife about them, the ex- actions of others, s needs of those de- pendent upon them, or even b, high ambi- tions for usefulness.. Nevertheless, 1 do say that in multitudes of cases the greed of gam is nlone responsibles It is not work, but overwork, that bremles men down, and not so much overwork, ovem, as worry—the worry born of an eager, gmsping ambition that cannot be content with a little, but strains every nerve to be rich, “If men wonld matlerate their desires for money and bend their energies to the cul- ture of their mindsvand a_development of their souls they would live longer and more vigorous lives, s well as happier ones, The epitaph of many a strong man, dead in_his prime, if honestly written, would be ‘A sac- rifice offered up by his own hand o the altar of Mammon.’ But how about it when i ness or trouble eomes? Will money br health or happiness? Do you suppose a man happy becauso hie has a good deal of money av interest, deeds to a good many lots? Can deeds cure rheumatism? Can notes and mortgages reclaim his wayward son! Fine clothes are very good things, but I have seen a great many unhavpy men and women with fine clothes on Happine s 1s the Gr “Finely furnished houses are a great com- fort, and a well laden table is very cheering, but 1 have seen men and women with both Ey. And I have seen the poverty stricken widow hungry and full of pain 10 the midst of her desolation and wrongs lifting her voice in songs of gladness and joy. Riches will never bring nappiness, and, indeed, the apostle was right when ho said: “T'hey that covet after them pierc themselves through with many sorrow Wo nre living in times of great financial stringency. It is well for us to learn the lessons God would teach us day by day. These times are to make us stronger and better. We must cherish a pure heart and true conscience and noble love. The hope of heaven must fill cur souls. We must see to it that we could live in heaven. could speak its ianguage, could enjoy its hapbi- ness and stand in the presence of the all lov- ing Father.” ali Sk AMUSEMENTS. test Fortune, he Stowaway,” with its pictures qf the seamy side of London lifo and its sharply drawn characters, in a word a realistic melo-drama of the good old English school, opened an engagement at the Fifteenth Street theater sterday. The company is adequate, even the Beau Brummels of mod- ern safe blowing having their business “down fine.” Mr. Mahoney plaps the hero with manly grace, while the villain is im- personated by £.G. Spangler. Miss Nellie Buckley is seen to excellent advantage in the role of Althea Dale, while Miss Libby Kirke » as Chucky the newsboy gives a clever portrayal of the typical “Lun'un” street gamin. The piece is well mounted and tnere is every indication of good busi- ness. The best food is mone too good for the baby, hence the highest award was nono too good for Meilin’s Food at the World's fair, and it got it—n medal and a diploma. s e The Last of the World's Fair. During the present month the Chicago & Northwestern railway has placed on sale round trip tickets to Chicago at the lowest price ever offered, and contrary to the usual custom, t* tickets are good in any car on their four elegantly equipped daily eastern trains. Vestiouled sleeping cars. Free reclining chair cars, Call at city ticket office, No. 1401 Far- nam street, for time tables, maps of the World’s fair grounds and full informa- tion. R. R. RITCHIE, G. . Wg General Agent. C.P.&T. A, — - Chleago and Return, Ten dolars, $10.00, -Ten dollars, $10.00. Ten dollars, $10.000- Ten dotlars, $10.00. Ten dollars, $10.00. Ten dollars, £10.00. Via the CHIC! & NORTHW ERN RAILWAY Ten dollars, $10.00. T Ten dollars, dollars, $10.00. $10.00. QITY TICKETOFFICE, 1401 STREET Ten dollars, $10.00. Ten dollars, $10,00. Ten dollars, $10.00, Oct. 15 . 31, Good returning till Noy e S ey Chicago From Oct. 15 to and includi Oct. 31, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul will sell round trip tickets to Chi- cago for $10.00. These tickets a class and are good returning any time before Nov. 501 Farnam st. e $10.00, Chicago and Return, $10.00, Via the Chicago & Northwestern rail- way. Tickets are full first-class. You know what ‘‘first-class” means on the orthwestern.” CITY TICKETOFFICE, 1401 FARNAM STREET, OMAF ———— The ongo, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Will sell round trip tickets Omaha to Chicago for $10.00. Tickets on sale Oct. 15 to 31 and good returning until Nov. it e Ll LoC BREVITIES, GO ARNAM The Woman's club will meet at 4 p. m. today. The Second ward democrats will hold a rally av 1603 Leavenworth street this even- ing. Rev. Patterson delivered a lecture on “Business and Religion” at the First Pres- byterian church lust evening, The colored voters of the Sixth ward will hold a mass meeting at Twenty-sixth and Like streets Tuesday evening, ‘'om Tierney was arrested last night on the complaint of his wife. Mrs. Tierney says that her husband has a habit of coming home drunk and beating her, 1t is reported that Fred Krug has secured a twenty years lease on the property where d Wittig's saloon stood pefore the destruc- tion ot the Farnam Street theater and will erect a two story brick building at’once. J. W. Hughes. John Shannon, Thomas Clark and Pearl Meyers engaged in a free- for-all fight in a house on Ninth street early yesterday morning and all of them were arrested. They are charged with disturb- ing the peace. The parks were deserted yesterday and the wind whistled a dirge through the fallen autumn leaves, A young man wearing a cartwheel straw Mat with a shoestring “trolley” attached to the brim, was the lonesome occupant of a bench near the band stand at Hanscom park. Otherwise, the great resort seemed deserted. There was & great demand for copies ot 31 AY BeB containing the account nation of Mayor Carter Harrison of Cnicago. After'the supply of papers had been sola there was a rush for Cnicago papers in ihe evemug at the hotels, The cruel murder was almost the sole topic of conversation arounda the hotel corriders yesterday and last night. —————— MARRIED. Notices 0f Aive Linesar less wnder this head, Afly cents; each additional lne, ten cents. SHEDIWY - SCHULZE 1o this city, Satur- Huty.c tober 28, M. Ignuz Shediwy and Miss Atna Schulze, Athome at 1018 South Nine- teenth street after November 16, No cards MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 189: AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Sheriff Bennett and Ohief Beokett Have Out the Ties of Former Friendship. POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN THE MAGIC CITY Judge Fowler 1a Fixing His Fences—What Other Candidates Are Dolng-Sunday in the Suburb-G Personal M Judge J. M. Fowler, the independent nomi- nee for sheriff and a resident of this ¢ has been making a thorough canvass and is outspoken in his assertion that the fight has now sifted down to a battle between himself and Drexel, The judge banks on a big vote in South Omaha. It is said that the votes that Mr. Fowler will receive will come principally from the men who would have voted for the regular republican nominee had he been & man whom they could con- scientiously suppo Bennett has been in South Omaha once or twice since the cam- paign opened and was greeted with a very cool reception. The men who chaperoned nim around town are men who have no in- fluence amoug the better class of citizens, The few respectable persons who advised with Bennett on his visit had him come to their ofice and the conference was held behind closed doors. The element thut was behind Bennett two years ago and which gave him such a big vote is considerably dis- figured this year. It 18 divided up into factions and the word harmony is a stranger in that camp. Chief of Police Beckett was a red-hot Bennett man two years ogo. He is now a candidate for justive of the peace on the in- dependent ticket, and is giving Bennett a black eye whenever the opportunity presents itself. Bennett heard of what goIng on and came dowa to South Omaha to read the riot act to Beckett. Beckett is a shrewd politician, and Beunett's “sandy” didn't work. The chief toRi him just where he st00d and why he was standing there. It is said that Bennett threatened to have him “fired,” but Beckettzave him a dose of facts that he had to swallow. The men are now enemies, and each is fighting the other Bennett claims to be the man who secured Beckett his job, The sheviff is pretuy c ceited to imagine that he dictates the pointment of all minor offices in the county, 10 say the least. Tne fact that Judge Fowler has a clean record and is a man competent in every way to fill the oftice of sherifl and that Benunett is just the reverse is going to give the South Omaha candidate an immense vote at home. He will not only receive the solid indepen- dent vote, fully one-half of the republican votes, but a great many democrats are out- spoken in their endorsement of Mr. Fowler. Those who knew Judge Fowler when he was sheniff of Nemeha county say he made an excellent officer. He has certainly given entire sagsfaction as police judge here. Martin Eddy and Ed Hanley, candivates for constable, and Levy for justice of the peace are the only democrats who got on the ticket, and they only got in six minutes be- fore it was w00 late, and by petition at tha Mr. Montgomery, the other democratic nominee for justice, was left out in the cold, all because the sceretary of the nommating convention forgot to file the names with the county clerk before it was too late. Charles Lake, the republican nominee for justice, i the most competent and most popular of the justice candidates, and his election is almost certain. [fe is an intelligent and honest young man, who wiil deal out justice regardless of whois affected by his decisions. It 1s thought that Mr. Stanley, registrar of deeds, will receive the solid support of his party here, and thera are democrats who sa; they will vote for him on ac superior qualities for the posi Stanley is a thorough business man. He has lived here for seven years and has shown to the people that he is a man who can be trusted. He is competent to condvct the office without employing brains to help hun out. He has the advantage of a svlendid education, as well a8 years of experience with business men. The big vote that Mr. Stanley will get at home will give him a good starter for the race in the other voting places in the coun: Magie City Gossip. Miss Cherry Tylee is on the sick list. L. J. Carpenter is home from a visit to lis former home in Polo, Ill. Jim Pivonka’s daughter fell down a flight of stairs yesterduy and broke her right arm. Donald McLain will have to answer to the charge of drunkenness today in the police court, Mrs. Colorado lealth, Rhody Redmond came over from M Valley vesterduy to spend Sunday triends. The Misses their brosher Visit to the Barney Taylor and Jim McCoy have signed articles of agreement to fight in South Omaha on the night of November 25, John Mullin and John Tucker had a fight in Jim Callahan's suloon in Albright yestei- is said Mullin got_the worst of it. “Among the Breakers” will be produced by homo talent at Bauer concert hail Thurs- duy evening. The cast is well selected and there should be a large uttendanc, John Geary ism jail for disturbing the peace, Two otherinen named Piver and Geary got into a row. Piper chased Geary with a gun aud both men were placed under arrest. Deputy Sherift’ Ferguson arrived from Armourdale, Kan., yesterday and last ovening started home, with Jick Carey as his prisoner. Carey is wanted in Armour- dale on the charge of forgery. The amount he 1s aileged to have secured is §160. e DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures sores. DeWitv's Witch Hazel Salve cures ulcer. AGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY Round Trip to Chicago #10.00. 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