Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1894, Page 8

8 WAS MOSES A SOCIALIST? Dr. Mackay Declares that it Looks Very Much that Way. IN CHRISTIANITY DEMOCRATIC IDEA 010 Lawglver Economlist of Something Like t Sehool ~Wisdom and Inherent Authority of 01d Jewish Statutes. All Saints church delive discourse on tho Moses a Soclallat?’ A large number of the Masonic fraternity were pres ent as invited guests. Dr. Mackay said One of the most Interesting events in all history Is the liberation of the descendants of Abraham their hondage In Egypt and their experience from that time until they are established in the land of Canaan. You can find no parallel to it in all history because it 15 the history of a race of Xings, nor of the growth of a great emplire, but the history of the common people. In the history of the Jews of this period we have a noble Instance of the rec gnition of man as ma Respect for manhood colors th whole story of the chosen people. ym the very first they have their simple patriarchal constitution by which th community at large Is repr nted in all fts Interests by elders chosen from its own mem bers, and they retain these through all the oppression of Bgypt, the wanderings in the desert and their mo settled life in Can: When Moses enters upon his liverance he gathers all the cldel children of Israel for consultation and it a most remarkable feature of the entirc history that never once does the great law- glver attempt to usurp kingly dignity, d spite the temptation to such a course that must have occurred to one so familiar with the court life of Bgypt. Iustead of the despotism of that day we are brought face to face with a form of constitutional govern- ment that with our boasted freedom we might well envy. Moses, though their leader and director, bore himsif only as the Instrument and pice of God, from whom their laws came and to whom supremely they owed spiritual obedience. Though forty centur| have passed away we feel as we read their wonderful hi: that we are In the presence of brethren we are reading not the history of the | but the history of. humanity In its aspir tions after truth and freedom. While all the world beside was sunk in slavery, the noblest ideas of liberty found a home among this remarkable people—and the laws which form the basis of all law today were being uttered in the hearing of a people scarcely capable, as we suppose, of understanding Rev. Dr. last evening subject “Was Mackay from not Dr. John Lord In his lecture on Moses in reference to these laws: “The obligation to obey them is seen and felt at once as soon as they are declared. What he says in regard to the relation of master and servant, to injuries inflicted on the boiy, to the respect due to parents, to the protection of the widow, the fatherless and the unfortunate, to delicacy in the ir of women, to unjust judgmoents, to | and corruption, to revenge and covetous- ness, to falsehood and tale-bearing, to un- chastity, theft, murder and adulte never be gainsaid and woud have by accepted by Roman jurists as readily as by modern legislators, yea, they wwould not e disputed by savages if they acknowledged a God at all.” In this last sentence of Dr. Lord we have the keynote of the whole history—that which marks it as peculiar and different from all other history. It was by a direct appeal to the most sacred feelings of man's nature that Moses enforced his laws. Not in his own name, or with threatenings of his power did he command obedience to his laws, as did other rulers, but in the name of a Being whose wondrous guidance they recognized and under whose care they had been mira- culously preserved, the Lord Jehovah, the ruler and king and guardian of his own chosen people.” The memories of all th mighty nations that have lived and passed | away from earth are fast crumbling into de- cay In their ruined temples and pyramids and obelisks, while the laws of this once obscuro and unjustly despised race are s the foundation of true morality and human dignity among mankind. Says another famous writer, Bunsen: ““Moses had given them a consgitution which was democratle in the noblest sanse, for every Israclite, whether poor or rich, was equal before the law and was a free man. They had been taught to feel themselves the peo- ple of God, and to treat them like slaves was a crime against Jehovah.” In the present unsettled condition of society how remarkably suggestive are the following laws (Leviticus xix, especially 25th verse): * * * Toward such bene- ficlal laws, so pure and so lofty, modern legislation is slowly striving. IDEA OF A SOCIALISTIC STATE. Was Moses inspired by God to utter these laws regarding inheritance, the fifty-year Sabbath of release, the provision for the poor and the land laws of that time? Was it the intention of Moses to found a_great nation on a purely socialistic basis? It cer- tainly looks that way. Refusing himself any kingly power and his successors following his example for several hundred years, giving the people & pure democratic form of govern- ment and a system of laws far above the reach of the most civilized nations of today, it is hard to reject the idea that Moses from first to last was imbued with the desire to found for all time a socialistic state which should serve as a model for all the nations of the earth. Where did ho get this idea at such an early age of the world? It 18 not unreasonable to suppoie that to a man versed as he was in all the learning of the Eeyptians the subject of pelizical economy would be a neglected swudy. Put- ting aside for a moment the fact of his laws being the result of a direct revelation from Jehovah, it requires no great stretch of the fimagination to belleve that he was capable of working out this problem of the ages by his own unaided genius, He had been conversant with the means that Joseph had adopted to save the lives of the Egyptians during the memorable seven years' famine; how that during the seven years of plenty, by prudent management, he had amassed such stores of corn that all during the famine he was able from the royal gran- aries to supply the needs not only of the Whole Egyptian nation, but the inhabitants of surrounding countries as well, and the result he also knew—that the people of the land in thelr distress were compelled to part with their moveable property, then their flocks and herds, and finally with their lands, that Pharoah owned all the land of Egypt, except the portion that belonged to the priests, the people thus remaining bonds- wen and paying to Pharoah one-fifth of all the produce of the soil as a rental We must remember that it is Moses who records these facts himself, and in his long sojourning in the wilderness of Sinal after his first flight from Egypt, caused by the slaying of an yptlan, it is not at all un. likely, brooding as ho wmust have been over the wrongs of his brethren, that he then formulated the project which he afterwards carried into offect when he became the leader of the Israelitish host. We must bear in mind that at the time when Moses wrote Mo great pyramid had been built for as many conturies as have intervened from the birth of Christ to the present day, and that, as Draper observes, so ancient was the civ. ilization of Egypt that the Egyptian priests might well say to the earliest Gregk philos opher “You ( are mere children Ikative and vain; you know nothing at all of the p MOSES AND HENRY Conversant with such wisdom surpr! man like at the contrast offered by the condition of his enslaved race, should have arrived at the same conclusion that our wisest men of our day are gradually coming to, viz That the land belong not to the rulers, but to the people. He saw that in Egypt Pharaoh owned (he land upon which and for which Le did not labor, and that it fol- lowed as a matter of course that he could appropriate the produce of the people's tabor as his permission to cultivate the soil He saw what 50 many are seeing now in the older countries of the globe, that while the land owner receives without' producing the people produce without receiving. In laying down his law for inheritance he must have been governed by the knowledge GRORGE is it at all Moses, looking ‘ | Dellone far ARY 19, 1894 Joint property of all, else he would nevet have declared, in the name of Jehovah, that the land should never be sold, basing his reason therefor on the saying of Jehovah: “For the land fs mine,” saith the Lord In establishing the law of the fifty-year Jubilee he must have forescon the evils that arise from vast landed estates and the ac- cumulation of vast fortunes, for in the fiftieth year he commands o shall re- turn every man unto his own possession and every man unto his family.”” Every pur chase of real was made with this understanding in view. uch a regulation as this you can readily sce would make the accumulation of large fortunes difficult, if not impossible. It would prevent the accumulation of such large fortunes as those left by such men as anderbilt, for no man can honestly in one lifetime accumulate such a sum of money in lawful trade or business, With the prophet’s Instinct he must have seen that the mnequal distribution of wealth and power of any kind was then, s de- structive to all civilization and ad He recognized in his distribution of the land of Cannan among the twelye tribes a well nigh forgotten truth, that the land common_property of all, and in his bution of the land he followed the ptimitive Jand law by giving the largest families the largset portion of land, and to all according to their needs The equity of this distribution will be apparent at a glance. We have a beautiful instance of the same wisdom in this country in our mining laws. It may not be known to all that all land bearing gold and silver belongs to the government. When the min- ing excitement broke out in California and Colorado the discoverers of the rich mineral Ad fell back unconsciously on the primitive law regarding land on this very regulation of Moses. The title in the land remained in the government and no individual could acquire more than a possessory claim or more than a certain amount of land. The miners in each locality agreed upon the amount of land each individual could claim and the amount of work that must be done upon it in order to hold possession of it. Thus labor was acknowliedged as the creator of wealth, was given a frée fleld and secured its reward. No one could play the dog in the manger with the bounty of his creator. The idea of pri- vate property soon came in, permitiing the patenting of mineral lands, but even here there is a check upon the ownership 1 have only hinted at questions that urally follow from what I have said in re- ard to the laws of Moses—questions that in older lands are today exercising the most vigorous intellects and the most commanding talent 1 have asked the question. Tt is for you to answer it. Was Moses a soclalist? Was he inspired by God to promulgate his won- derful laws regarding inheritance and the ownership of land? I leave the answers with yo the conclusions that must follow. P ey ANNOUNCEMENTS. as well as “The Lion's Mouth,” Henry Guy Carleton's play, which will be given at Boyd's on the opening night of the Warde-James engage- ment, is a romantic, poetic drama, which has been played for two years past. It is full of character and affords fine scope not only for the stars, Frederick Warde and Louis James, but for all the members of the compar The scenc is laid in Venice in the sixteenth century, when Venice was a powerful republic. “Othello” and “Julius Caesar” te George H. Baker's fine traged a da Rimini” will also be given by the co-stars. All the pieces will be given with elaborate enic investiture. jr., the advance represen- & Davis' company in the The Ensign,” 18 in the city, aving just relurned from the Pacific coast. The Ensign” will be presented at the Boyd for four nights and matince, com- mencing Sunday evening the 25th inst. A. M. Miller, tative of Litt nautical drama, Julia Marlowe comes to the Boyd on the first three nights in March and matinee Saturday. The Marlowe company will present the following repertoire: Thursday evening and Saturday matinee, “The Love Chase;” Friday evening, “Much Ado About Nothing,” and Saturday evening, “Twelfth Nioht, or What Yon Will."” B. W. Krackea- wizer, agent for Miss Marlowe, is now in Omaha. —_—— Gasoline Stove's Work, Fire broke out in the building owned by Fred Christiahson, 1333 North Twenty- fourth street, about 10:35 last night. The building was occupied by George Tostevin, who Keeps a barber shop at the number and William Lehman, who has a saloon Tostevin uses his part.of the building as a shop and for residence purposes, and while his loss will not be great by fire it will reach $75 on the furniture and broken mir- rors, His sleeping quarters were prin- cipally damaged by smoke. Mr. Lehman's loss will be trifling. Mr. Christianson, the owner of the build- ing, is the greatest sufferer. His loss will reach $200, as the building was considerably cut up and burned.” He had $2,000 insurance on it. A man named Noonan turned in the alarm. He was passing the building and noticed the smoke on the inside. The exact cause of the fire is not known, but between Mr. Tostevin's barber shop and the saloon is a stairway leading to a hall and underneath this was a oline’ stove with a kettle on it and as the fire started under this stairway, it is thought the stove exploded and this is corroborated by the fact that both the doors leading to the strect were blown off and half way across the street, Some that this is not so, but that dynamite was placed near the doors, but no one is sure. The proprictor of the saloon, like Mr. Tostevin, was not at home, . LOCAL BREVITIES. The veteran Masons of Nebraska will hold an annual conclave at Masonic hall Friday evening. The officers and trustee: the Masonic Home association will hold a business meeting in the afternoon. Last night the police raided a place kept by Gus Shoats at Third and Pine streets, suspected ot being a gambling resort, Noth- ing was found but a crap table, which was demolished. PERSON AL PARIGRAPHS, J. B. Dixon of Sidney was at yesterday. J. H. Ager of Lincoln stopped at the Mils 1 yesterday. D. Palmer of Hastings was at the Ar- cade yesterday. H. H. Wallace of guest yesterduy H. Cochran of Logan, ., was at the Mer chants yesterday, John Chamberluin of Leigh stopped at the Paxton yesterday H. Linley of Crete stopped chants yosterday. W. E. Bo Millard yest R. J. Kirkpatrick of Beatrice ton patron yesterday. Theodore Mayer of Schuyler the Arcade sterday, W. H. Saunders of Lincoln stopped at the Merchants yesterday W. I Currie of Lir the Dellone yesterday. W. P. Fritz of Fremont yesterday the Arcade la Tekamah was a Mercer at the Mer. of Fairbury phtronized the was a registered at oln was registered at partook of the A. H. Sears of Grand ray guest last evening, R Martin of Blair Merchants last ovening E. H. 8. Johnson chants guest yesterday James T. Rourke of Grand Dellone guest yesterday J. W. Deweese of Lincoln was registered at the Paxton yesterday H. B. Peters of nd Island the Merchants yesterday. L. A. Royce of Hastings was registered at the Merchants last evening. L. F. Enderly of Harrishurg tered at the Mercer last evening J Lyons and M. D. Welch of Lincoln were Murray patrons yesterday orge A. Kellogg of Missouri stopped at the Merchants yesterday E. J. DeBell of Rosebud, S. D. among the Paxton arrivals yesterday J. W. Tinkle and Stella Tinkle of Missouri Valley were registercd at the Murray yester Island was a Mur regi the Wahoo was a Mer- Island was a patronized was regly Valley was Ahg) the soll Was from the begloniug the | day, v THE OMAHA DAILY BBEEf MONDAY, FEBRU FORWARD INTO THE LIGHT Celestial Bummits of White that Guide the Spiritual Progress of Mankind, HEAVENLY DAWN PROMISING GLORIOUS DAY Things of that Are S Spirit — Sermon of Chapin at the First Universalist Chureh Yesterday, the Eyes Rev. Dr. Rev. Augusta J. Chapin, D. D., preache at the Universalist church yesterday morn- ing on the subject, “The Heavenly Dawn." Her text was, “The dayspring from on high hath visited us.” She sald The word “dayspring” 18 well symbolical of all the higher and better thoughts and experiendes that come to us The new era in religious life which was just dawning when this song was heard in the temple of old is still brightening upon the world. The truth is now advancing with a power and a glory not to be rosisted or hidden. “The life of God in the heart of man” is an ideal of ever increasing attrac. tiveness; and the perception of the better faith and higher thought and life steadily increases in the world, The conception of all this as the dayspring or sun-rising from on high is highly poetic and suggestive. Nothing in nature is more beauteous than the sunrise. On land or sea the dawn of the morning is glorious; but among the snow-crowned mountains the sublimity of the vision is most impressive It is upon the mountain summits that the rosy light glows before it Is perceptible elsewhere, and so isolated do they secm that it is hard to believe that they are of this world at all. They are ‘‘companions the morning star at dawn.” In the light of the heavenly dawn we per- celve heights whose summits are whiter than snow, and which glow by a light not of sun or moon. They belong to a region unknowr to any territorial geography. John saw it as a city which had no need of material light, for the glory of God did lighten it;” and s I8 not a region of dream land. This un verse in which we live and of which we are a part fs not all within the limits of sense perception. Indeed, there is reason to be- lieve that the larger and by far the most important part is quite beyond these realms. There Is that which we cannot see or weigh or measure, yet which exists as really—eyen in what we call a material sense—as do the things which our senses commonly per- ceive. Science tells us of the solid cther which fills all space, and which only reveals itself by the merest shimmering or quivering as the light rushes through. It tells us of the strange force that dwells in the substance of the crystal and compels its formation in a certain shape— a force which quite eludes our physical senses. It reveals to us also that there is in living matter a something which no scientist can discover by any of his fine in- struments or chemical analyses which causes germs, which under the most powerful microscope are alike, to unfold into the diverse forms of plant and animal life. This force gives evidence of its being and location in the living organism by no quivering or trembling. We only know that it exists by its gathering and holding together the forms in which it dwells, and by their falling to pleces when it is gone. We cannot explain these things. They are too wonderful for us. No one can tell what lifo or by any means discover it. And yet it is a tremendous realty. It is not more certdin that the tangible form exists than that the mysterious, impalpable something exists which determines the form and holds its myriad of cells together. In- deed it cannot be doubted that this some!hing unseen, call it life, soul, spirit, what you will, is the essentlal thing which determines the form. There is a body because there is first a soul. There is a visible, tangible, ponder- able world because there Is back of it and in it all an eternal something of which there are only manifestations in the realm of sense. The manifestation changes, fluc- tuates, but the basis or cause of all remains the same. Things seen are temporal, things unseen are eternal. LIGHT THAT SHINES FOR ALL. There is something in human life which does yot appear on the surface of things and something beside wordly possession of houses and lands and luxuries for the body. There is something beside business and the prac- tical question of getting on in the world and having what is called & good t'me. Men shall not live by these things, by bread alone. Every mode of lifo is a mistake that does not take cognizance of the unseen and eter. nal. It is in no mere physical sense that the deat hear and the blind see in the kingdom of the Nazarene, but in a sense ins finitely more blessed and real. Such souly as Laura Bridgman and little Helen Keller, dwelling in bodies with all the gates of sense save one closed, have revealed (o us what the spiritual may be,’quite independent of sense, Blind Milton says: Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out, So much the rather thou Celestial light, Shine inward and the mind through all ler Jowers Irradiate; there plant eyes, all thence Purge and dispense, that T may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. There s a sense In which the day star from on high shines for us all. The figure is to be referred not merely to somethiif that happened in old Judea 1,800 years ago, but to what Is going forward now in the moral world around us. We are watching the advance of the day whose dawning was seen upon the mountain summits of hope and faith so long ago, We are conscious of up- litting, enlarging and brightening experi- ences and influences that come into our personal lives. These come from the realw above us; never from beneath. The eyes of the flesh see the glory of the sunlight brightening over the hills and ad- vancing to the day. The eyes of the spirit see the indications of goodness and truth dawning and brightening upon the world, and hall with joy every influx of light. A consclons and habitual looking for the light confirms us more and more in the loftiest couceptions of truth and life, and strengthens our vision. to behold what would otherwise be Invisible, The light comes to us only as we live king by ol dience the things of the spirit—the thing: good, beautiful and. tr All true livin is an ss of light, and the highest light at can come into any soul is a certain enthuslasm, exaltation or spiritual uplift- ing, which we well name inspiration. As we rise higher and higher in the scale of work and duty, the joy of doing and being —the light—correspondingly increases, and we are led on and on until the state is reached only to be described as rlect day." 1t is true, one of old wrote with surely something more than earthly w dom, that “life is the light of the world This is the life that conquers death and ness, the life that is now and shall be er, a4 dawning om abo 1 AND BOA: cliosen as mist from RU tterson Thinks that if They Had 1 Later They Might Have Eloped. the First Presbyterlan church last evening the Rev. J. M. Patterson, Aiscussed the that can be drawn from the life and character of Ruth. As an incident In the life and character of Ruth, the speaker called attention to the provision made for the poor in ancient times. From God's law given to the anclent house of Isreal, he showed God's bountiful provision for the destitute, and how it was made Incumbent upon Isreal to give the poor an opportunity of providing for their cessities. This lesson was regarded speclally timely. Attention was also called to the relation that existed between Boaz and his laborers, Emphasis was placed upon their kindly in. tercourse and Christlan greeting. Mr. Pat- terson regarded the relation existing betwe Boaz and his employes as a handboard poi ing out the road which leads to the solut of the Qifferences between labor and capi Nelther arbitration or the profit sharing sys tem will ever settle the vexed problem. The spirit of Christ will settle the problem if it 18 ever settled. Lessons w At pastor, lessons ne- as drawn from the love affair of Ruth and Boaz Both the method and the object of marriage were commented upon, The speaker believed that the circums in which Ruth and Boaz found themselves l\\vUN in modern times certalnly have res sulted in an elopement. But neither of them belleved in clandestine marriages. Henco they did all ®hings decently and In order, This marriage resulted in a blessing to both parties. It redoubled their joys and cut their sorrows: in halvi Mr. Patterson de clared that he.was old fashioned enough to believe in love. And that this was not a mercenary but a love affair. No woman should give her heart and hand to a man at the altar unless she was surc that in her home she was to find rest. The theory of marrylng a man in order to convert or to reform him was considered a most dangerous theory. Next Sabbath evening sther, the Queen.” - LOCAL SCANDINAVL Gustaf Bradilson, an workingman, died last severe attack of influen: C son was born in Halland, Sweden, His par- ents were wealthy people and he received a fine education at the University of Lund an was In his 28th year admitted to the bar. Being an eloquent orator and at the same time having a striking perso he became celebrated as a prominent lawyer in his native town, but emigrated to America in the ar 1870, He came to Omaha about nineteen years ago and went into the real cstate business; later on he bought several lots on Leavenworth and Thirteenth streets. The frontier life in this new western town did not suit him and he went to Boston, where he for some years was connected With one of the leading theaters. When a few years later al cstate had a great boom in Omaha Mr. Bradilson sold his lots here and cleared a very handsome profit on the le. In 1879 he married the noted Fremch actress, Mme. ~Adita de Terlang, and went With her to Paris. There he commenced to lead a life of wild excitement and soon ruined his foytune and his health. He was at last accused of bigamy and his wife left him. Two years ago he came to this country for the second time, hopin to get some of his old friends interested in a novel theat- rical scheme that he was the originator of. He failed in this and then went into the dimo museum business in a small town in Ilinofs. “He had poor luck in the show busi- ness and arrived lately without cent in his pocket in Omaha, the city where he gained his wealth many years a, He commenced, pressed by the utimost poverty and too proud to beg, to work on the streets as a com- mon laborer. He did not associate with anybody, spent his earnings in the purchase of liquor and led a_miserable life in a small garret on North Thirteenth street. When he at last got sick nobody attended him and he died without a friend at his death- the tople will be AN NEWS. Mr. Carl Swedish old, poor week of a Q. Bradil soon [AFFAIRS AT SOUTH ONAHA Talk that the Now Federal Building Propo- sition Has Given Rise To, ANNEXATION PROSPECT AGAIN DISCUSSED Councilman Debal Wyman Declines to 1 with Taxpayers Loague Re senthtives About City Affairs— Other Magle City News. Micly Ever since the telegram came from Wash ington announcing that Congre had succeeded in se sman Mercer uring a favorable mendation of the bill giving South Omaha a federal building there has been much g about the Business men at signed a complimentary petition and sent it on to Mr. Mercer. The report that the ty government buflding had n it was whispere ound that postofice would soon be made a suboflic and the ry of a postmaster wounld L done away with This sort of talk was not greeted with cheer from the dozen men who have been anxfously walting to succeed Dr Glasgow, still the democrats in this city o about given up hope of getting any r rd from the present administration and don’t care whether the poatoffice Is abolished or not, just so something s done to revive business interests. The talk now is that as soon as the ca project is settled South Omaha will he nexed to Omaha, the federal buildin be erected, the postmaster done away and a superintendent put in, more carricrs put on the staff, better police and fire service given and general prosperity come, The majority of the people have great fidence In the city's future and will patiently wait the coming of prosperous times, matter onee was to have a old befo puth Omaha's al an- will with n Won't Do It. refused ion at Wy Councilman Wyman las Ed Johnson in open discus council mesting ton The directors of the Taxp: and agreed upon Tuesday for a general meeting of interested in hearing city This meeting was suggested by the remarks made by Mr. Wyman and others at the last meeting of the Citizens Campaign club. The members of the citizens club demanded that the city officials who have been accused of reckless conduct in ofiice refute the to meet the city ors league meot night as a tine 1l citizens who are matters discussed bed. He left a big bundle of old, faded pho- tographs of pretty ladies and a diary con- taining the story of his stormy life, The next Scandinavian play to be given at Washington hall by the Danish actors will b Bjornstjerne Bjornson's famous drama, “A Bankruptey.” ~ Miss Larson will take the leading part as Walborg. Mr. H. Scheel will vlay the old merchant, The Scandinavian actors are thinking of renting Boyd's opera house in the near future and there play Count Etlar's grand historical drama, “The Chiet of the Gjonges.” Mr. Fred Jacobson of Council Bluffs in- tends to make a change in business and talks some of settling down in Omaha, where ho was In business a few years ago and still has many friends. The members of Dannebrog, the new Dan- ish 0dd Fellow lodge, went over to Council Bluffs last Friday on a special train and were the guests of the Buckeye lodge of that city. Dannebrog is but three months old, but has had a remarkable success since it started and can now boast of having nearly 150 members, over $500 In the treasury and property to the value of about $600. Mr. A. Johnson'is president; Mr. N. Jensen, vice president; Mr. Dienesen, sccretary; Mr. Jacobson, cashier. The lodge meets every Monday ‘evening In -its beautiful assembly hall, Fifteenth and Farnam streets, Miss J. Christoffersen celebrated her birth- day last Tuesday at the home of her parents. A large party was invited and a‘good time enjoyed by the young people who were Miss Christoffersen’s gucsts. Mr. and Mrs. Chris- toffersen intend (o start for Burope as soon as the weather gets milder. Mr. Jens Hansen of Council Bluffs has bought the large corner lot on Avenue B and Thirteenth streets and intends to build himself a fine residence. sl sl FRACTURED HER SKULL. Mrs. Hess Falls from a Roof gerously Injured. A serious accident befell Mrs. Hess, who resides at 2314 South Fourteenth street, Saturday morning. The snow on the flat tin roof of her house was thawing fast and she went on the roof to sweep it off. After sweeping a few moments she slipped on some Ice and fell to the ground, striking on her head, causing a_fracture of the skull. She sprained her ankle and was otherwise bruised and injured. For an hour she lay on the ground in an unconscious condition, but some one happened along and took her in the house. Mr. Petersen of Petersen Bros. telephoned for the county physician at onca, but lie could not be found and she did not recoive medical aid for ten or twelve hours. Then Dr. Birkhauser was called and sewed up the wound in the woman’s head. About 10 o'clock yesterday the county physician called and found the woman suffernig In- tensely. nd is Dan- e Ugly Tempers Are a product of bad digestion. Your dys- peptic is almost invariably a cross-patch. The way to renew cheerfulness of disposition and an equable temper soured by digestion 18 to take a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which not only banishes dyspepsia, but_also relieves biliousness, constipation, chifls and fever, rheumatism and kidney trouble. it with persistence three times a day. e —— ounted O ) Hurt., When the roll had been called at the police station yesterday morning and the men w starting to their beats, Mounted Officer Green came out to get on his horse and had just got his foot on the stirrup when the horse became frightened and jumped. T oficer was thrown to the sidewalk, striking on his head. For some time he was unconscions, and when he revived he raved for a time. It was thought at first the skull had bheen fractured, but this was not the case, and after being attended by Dr. Lee he was removed to his hom It will be some da before he will be able to resume duty. Beg Pardo For Interrupting you, but you may possibly be going east. If so, there are a couple of trains you shomld really bear in mind. Thesa ure “Northwestern Line” Nos. 6 and leaving Union depot daily at 4:05 aud 6:30 p. m., respeetively, arriving in Chicago at 8:15 and 9:30 next morning. City ticket oftice, INo. 1401 Farnam st. World's fair-souvenir comns of 1 at Chase & Bddy's, 1518 Farnam Omaha. 2, for sale street, Leran ALTON—Thomus, aze 80 years, old homestead, South Omaha. ' Funeral | Monday, February 19th, at 9 o'clock, to | gnes’ church, Intérment St. Mary's | | vears, | will be for Interment, copy the “Willlam H., aged 68 aturday evening. Remains sent to Washington, D. C,, Washington papers’ please charges made by the league in an open meeting. If they were innocent the me bers of the club wanted to know it, and if not they were not worthy the support of the club. Mr. Wyman and Mr. Johnson met in the city clerk’s office Saturday and Mr. Wyman refused to meet the gentleman to debate the matter. At the meeting next Tuesday night all factions will be welcome and the man- agement of city- affairs will be discussed freely. Y& Magle City Mr. and Mrs. Francisco of Missouri Valley are the guests of Mr. Joe Cornish. Mr. and Mrs, J. P. Lange are the arrival of a baby boy at their home. John Monroe was arrested last night stealing a bale of hay at the stock yards. Ray Stanford was locked up yesterday, charged ‘with stealing $4 from 'his room mate, J. Martin. Both men are employed in an N street restaurant. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Watts entertained a small party of friends Saturday night. The evening was spent at progressive high five, after which luncheon was served. The concert and ball given by Prof. Stein- hanser on Saturday night passed off pleas- antly. The singing of Miss Bertha. Stein- hauser was highly comvlimented. The Bmergency Hospital assoclation wishes all who are interested in the work to meet with the association at the charity store Twenty-fifth street, Friday evening at 7 o'clock. jeneral Manager W. N. Union Stock Yards company, W. S. Knox, traffic manager for the Cudahy Packing com- pany, and Freignt Commissioner ULt of the Chamber of Commerce have gone to New Orleans to attend a meeting of the South- ern Railroad Freight burcau. over for Babcock of the This winter all roads lead to California and, as usual, the route via Denver and Salt Lake City is a prime favorite, Every one knows how it's formed—the Burlington from here {o Denver and the “Scenic Lines” and the Southern Pacific from there on. Absolute comfort and a magnific of scenery are its greatest attraction the feature of low rates is not lost si The present round trip rate is $6 Tickets, berths, time tables and advertis- ing matter at 1324 Farnam s ILL, et Agent. ‘Wales Wil Hold a I LONDON, Feb. 18.~The prince of Wales will hold a levee tomorrow at St. James palace on behalf of the queen. Another levee will be held on her behalf in the be- ginning of March by the duke of York. - THER FORE evee. wet AN and Snow Today in sk Feb. 18.—Forecas for For Nebraska—Cloudy; probably north winds, nd probably snow flur- northwest wind ?air; cold, mnorthwest It Wil B Flurries May Be Wi Monday: snow flurries; col For Towa—Cloudy ries; decidedly colde For South Dakotn— winds. neal Record. Orprce oF THE WeaTHER B Owama, FFeb. 18.—Omaha record of temperature and rainfailcompared with corresponding day of St four years: PARY AR 1894, 1893, 1802, 1591 Maximum temperature 412 472 Mininium temperature. Averize temporiture E 140 1ont showing the condition of tem- peritureand procipitation at Omaha for the Gay and sinco March 1, 1803: al temperature s for tho diy fency sineo Mreh 1 mal precipitation jclency for the day clency sinee March 1 Reports from Other Stations 195 STATIONS 00/ Cloudy 00/ €1 001¢ 00| Clouds 00| Clear 00/ Cleqn 00/ Pari ¢ 00/ Cle 00 00 Kearney North Platie Valentine Chicago 8t Louls. St. Paul Davenport Kansis City Denver Mt Lake City. Rapid City Helena, Bismarck St Vi Clieye Miles Cit ORGE E. HUNT, Lot Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, "PRIGE'S an Baking Powder. The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powd: ~No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes—a40 Vears the Standard: Send or same as Pearline. story don’t believe duced market prices. MANH tion of a fa Constipaiion. CUPIDE BEFORE ano AFTER organs o CUPIDENE strengthens and The reason BUTCICTs dre Hot ¢ by D Prostatitis, OUPIDENE 18 the thnoniais, A writton & anent etire, 1,00 b M rass DAVOL M Goodmav Drug C OWER nd »IC 0. Chicago, 245 Lake St. Omaba, 107 S. léth St SAP AND PERMANENTLY UIOKLY Devllity. Lust v of Kervou Aity, Viried Physica] Weaknes, DATO, the great 1 Writheén gunrnatee of cure. Sof [o0hy & 1 RATT} LOMATIA o0 Ttemedy; CARE FOR YOUR EYES Imperfectly Fitted Glasses ARE A GREAT ANNOYANCE. AND RUIN the EYES Wo Fit Glasses Perfoetly, Lyos Tostod FREE W. 1. SEYMOUR, . 1 Optioian tly relieved by th Nervous lache gre ‘/ —""I bending or bobbin it—you save the wear to your clothes and the work for your back. That's Pearline’s way. Dircctions on every p;\ck:\gv. THE ALOE & PEN:OLD €O, 1908 Fa rnam St. Opposite Paxton Hote | Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you 1S : and if your grocer sends you something in it Back honest—send 1¢ back, 3 RUBBERS FOR ALL NHE Groundhog saw his sha goes that the **Woodchuck” more about the weather thaa Congr about making laws for the good of the peg ple, but we do look for plenty of winte weather yet, because it is the ru'e, ous F' s or discases of th 1801 , 'alns In the Buek, 1y known remedy to oney returnc .60, by miadl, g T P. 0. Hox 2076 San Frandisco, ( 1110 Farnam St., Omaha; Camp Brog., Council Bluffs, Iowa. FROM IST POW —t When you're Rubbing over y(\llr W old-fashioned way, these are some of y“llr motions, up and down, without the tub. they are, way of washing. hboard, in that painful, » positions, Just try these That will prove how hard Then try Pearline's That will prove how need- less and absurd they are. With- out the washboard and the rubbing on it, and without over the wash-tub up and down over this {s as* good as" s is never peddled, Jlace of Pearline, be JAMES PYLE, New York. FALSE—Pear 390 dow and the weeks of winter weather will be our portion. Personally, we knows ny does 33 r If you with will bear us about an hour we shall not use the Book Agents' subterfuge Cleveland or Governor McKinley, celebrated man or woman sent us to you to get your ordcl_:‘ but we will tell you the old, old story of Meyer Co., 20, New Jerseys 20 and 12, Amazons 20, 12 and 1 siors 45, straight stars, ‘*dirt cheap” and that our stock of Rubber Boots, Sandals, Tennis Shoes, Mack- intoshes, Slickers and Rubber Clothing is large. SEND FOR LISTS AND RRICES: Zachary T. Lindsey, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, and tell you that Grover Mary Lease, or some less* , and Excel- N IS TSNS, A complete assortment of all grades of furnitare, from the plainest to the most expensive, recently purchased at the re- 1206-1208 Douglas St. “CUPIDEWE"™ blo 1 physiciun, will quickly curt You of all et Boeretiye oriiim, mich 3 Lost Manhood, e clean:es the liver, the kidnoys and the urinary ALl fmpurities. 11 wealk organs. inety per cent are troubled with withaut an operation. 5.000 tes., X boxes does not effect o pey ilar and testimonials o R o by = —) GASOLINE DIRECT FROM THE TANK. 3 GHEAPER THAN STEAM. No Steam. No FEngincer. rn und Feed Mills, Ballng No Boiler. IR for € lay, Running Sepurators, Creameries, & |OTTOGAS ENGINE WORKS 33d & Walnut Sts,, PHILADELPUIA, PA, OTTO GASOLINE ENGINES Stationary or Portahle. TtomIL I 81020 11, P eccribing work to be done, ’ — <’ 7“DIRT IN THE HOUSE BUILDS THE HIGH~ WAY TO BEGGARY.” BE WISE IN TIME AND USE m I nd you will where for photos, the latest in back- grounds, aceessorics and lenses. Our stylish inphotos are always up to date. E4 HIGH CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY. 318-315 847 So. 45th St., Omaha Taks E'evator, Between Farnam and Harney. I’ll Pull Your Tooth DR. WITHERS, 4th Floor, Brown Block,, 161l #nd Douglas Telephone 1770.