Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1894, Page 2

Cramblet, Thomas Anderson, John Hender- son and many other: The stage was decorated with the American flag, while a large streamer across the rear | wall of the hall faced the general with the words, “Omaha's Welcome to General Booth."” A life-size crayon portrait of Mrs. General Booth hung immedlately back of the speaker’s stand. The stand and reading desk were covered with red, the Salvation colors. A large corps of ushers from the membership of the Young Men's Christian association hssisted the audience In finding seats, while the ticket takers and guides were also sup- plied by that association. Colonel Hawley called the vast assemblage 10 order and led in the singing of the opening hymn. He then offered a brief prayer and introduced Major Halford as the president of the meeting. Major Halford expressed in a few brief sentences his gratification at being permitted to be present at the welcoming meeting to General Booth, and then intro- duced Rev. Fraunk Crane, pastor of the First Methodist church, who delivered an address of welcome, speaking briefly as follows. “I came not here to bury Caesar nor to praise him, but to welcome him. It may not be entirely amiss to compare this man who 18 the central figuro of this gathering to Caesar, Both have had dreams of a conquest of the world, There are some differences, however, Ono waded to fame through the blood of his enemles, the other conquers through the blood of the lamb. One mad war to rule men, the other makes war to serve them. One subdued kingdoms that he might exact tribute from them, the other approaches the kingdoms of the world having on his banner Inscribed the legend, ‘T seck not yours, but you.' “I am glad on account of the Salvation army, because it shows that the race of mankind fs still heroic. The same blood that stirred In the youth to follow Alexander or to go with the templars into the crusade stl burns in men. The Salvation army Is the largest outlet for herolsm. The soldier instinct is turned not agalnst the Turks, but against sin, the great, strong citadel of sin, with its oullying fortresses of dirt, drink and idleness. Your army, sir, has overcome two great obatacles, pers cution and contempt. In these parts of the world it is now prac- tically unmolested and held in gcod esteem. CAN DO THE BUSINESS. “You have only to overcome two greater ‘enemies 1o your cause, success and flattery, But so far from saying this in a spirit of eriticism, we firmly cherish the belief that you will be able to meet and vanquish these foes. I havo watched your lads and lassies as they marched the streets, have studied their book of discipline, end taken note of their private life, and 1 believe that they shall be successful, for. they have put on the whole armor of God that they may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Shouts of hallelujah! Amen!) Tt is easy to criticise methods, but no man should degener- ate into a spirit of cynical fault-findiag unless he s able to do something better. (Applause.) They find fault with your organization be- cause It is so great, reaching round th: world in its comprehensive plans; because it makes such a great noise with the booming of drums and the shouts o hallelujah, and because it s going to take a great deal of money to run it. Well, sir, you have before you a great sin as deep as hell, a great sal- ‘vation as high as heaven, and a great Savior, the King of kings and Lord of lords: (Ap- Plauso and shouts.) “For one, I am Inclined to the belief that the man who has had the brains and conse- cration to plan such a movement as this has had foresight enough to see and guard against the dangers of prosperity. But these people have come not to listen to me, but to you. On behalf of the citizens of Omaha I extend to you most cordial wele This welcome is joined in by all class all churches, and all men who love their race. We welcome you to the Gate City of the west. Whatever reception they may have given you in the conservative east, you will find ont here that we are willing to give a man all the credit he is entitled to. We do not look into his pedigree, nor inquire of his relations; we only ask one question, “Can he do the business?” (Applause.) ** Judging from tho actions of your army in our city and from the reports that we hear from all over the world, we are inclined to-think that you and your troops can do the business. (Shouts and applause.) T would like to have all in this andience who:ayvill unite with, me In welcoming the general {o our city, no rise and wave their pocket handkerchiefs. In respovse to the invitation of Mr. Crane the large audience rose to its feet and the air was white with the fluttering handkerchiefs of those who tdok the novel method of ex- pressing their welcome to the distinguished visitor. General Booth spoke for two hours, holding the attention of the audience (o the very close of his address. He was fre- quent’y interrupted by round after round of applause, in which even the many repre- gentatives of the Omaha pulpit hearti jolned. He spoke In substance as follo GENERAL BOOTH'S ADDRESS. “I wish to express my hearty thaoks for your welcome and your greeting. It is the same welcome that 1 have received every- where since 1 landed at Halifax nine wieks ago. It is the same welcome that greeted me in Africa, in Australasia, and, in fact, every- where 1 have been. 1 will be careful and not permit myself to be carried away by suc- cess, as Mr. Crane has suggested. I am bit little concerned about the maintenance of my humility. Once and awhils T may be lifted up to the third heaven, but I am never al- lowed to remain there but a few moments. I am to speak to you this afternoon on the soclal operations of the Salvation army. I would much rather grapple with the con- eclences of men and Iead them to the feet of Obrist. 1 do not like the title of my ad- dress, as it has been announced. It has been callsd the “Darkest England Scheme.” That seems to localize it in Englacd, when, in fact, I will show that the principles in that scheme are perfectly applicable to the whole world. “Twenty-nine years ago, while I was in Bast London, 1 saw there for the first time the depth of the misery and sin and degra- dation of the submerged classes of humanity, and from that moment 1 gave mysell to the service of lifting these people out of their degradation. From that consecration has come the Salvation army, working in fosty- two countries, with 4,000 local organizations, with 10,600 officers, twenty-seven War Cries elrculating 50,000,000 coples per annum. 1 am to speak more particularly of the history of the Salvation army in the morning, and so I will not say mo:e of it this afternoon. Suffice it to say that the Salvation arm takes the sinful, degraded men or women as it finds them and endeavors to lift thim up out of their misery. It endeavors to house the homeless, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, find work for the idle cr the unem- ployed and save their souls ubove all clse. “Human misery is very much alike the world over. Tu the submerged class we find the man in the lowest depths of degra- dation, misery and wickedness. for him? Who cares anything about the anguish of the human soul in this condi- tion? We have endeavored to classify the evils which have brought these men to this frighttul condition. First, we ascribe their condition to destitution. Some of them are always hungry. They have lived and died and all but rotted in the strests. They live in the slums, and it is difficult to con- vey to an sudience like this what a slum really 1s. PICTURES FROM THE SLUMS. “You can imagine a dark and narrow alley, hedged with lofty buildings, and into which the light of the sus seldom, If ever, penetrates, and in which the fetid odor from heaps of garbage and fith continually breed misery and disease. In the dilapidated structures on either side of (hese loathsome alleys are rooms in which whola families are compelled to live and die. One room for the man, wife and children. One room in which to eat, sloep, to be sick in, to die in and to lie in until the undertaler comes with his hollow shell to carry away the poor carcass of humanity to its last resting place. 1 will draw you a pieture of one of those rooms in the London slums. Lot me place it before you as a series of plciures. “Scene 1. In a miserable room up or five flights of rickety stairs are to be found & man, drunken and besotted, and three little children three parts naked. For furniture they have a soap box for a table, some brick for chairs. On the floor in the coraer a mother, her eyes blacked by the viclous blows of her drunken husband, and 5000 to add anotber babe to the fami'y. “Seene 2. The same woman ou the street and trying to earn a few pennles with which to keep her little children from starvation. She feels the pangs of travall coming upon her, avd with her totteriug footsteps she hurries to the workhouse, where her babe is born a'most before she can get within the “Scene 8. The same woman on the atr four Who cares | ARG THE OMAHA DAILY BER: MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1894, agaln, with her new-born babe in her arms and selling Httlo bunches of matehes. Plicky woman, that. A big policeman looks over her | shoulder and tells her there is something the matter with her child, She looks into its face and sees that it has died in her arms, starved for the nourighment she could not | give 1t “Scene 4. The slum again. This time the wretched family is in the street, the landlady having put them out for lack of the rent money due her. They are in despair, when two af the Salvation army girls—the angels of the slums, as Cardinal Manning called them—these slum angels take the mother and the children to the shelters provided by the | Salvation army. They go about the saloons until they find the husband and father. They provide him with employment. The little family is again united. A cottage is procured for them and some furniture placed in it. Ttey go there ard commence a new life “Scene 6. The last picture. There is a great gathering of the slum corps. The corps 18 to be provided with a new banmer. It is furhished by the once unhappy mother. The staft has been made by the once drunken | | husband. Both have been redeemed by the Salvation army, and, oh, the joy and con- tentment in that now happy little family. They are once more on the firm footing and have a future before them full of hope. HELP FOR OTHER CLASSES. “That is what the Salvation army is doing in the siums of London, and it is what the army will and is doing in the slums of every great city of the world. There is another class which receives the attention of the Sa vation army. It is the drunkard class. When the hideous appetite for drink fastens itself upon @ man like a boa constrictor, wound round and round about him, with its glitter- irg eye and forked tongue. The man is there! there! there! What are you going to do with him? You have got to reform him and make him quit drinking. He can cnly quit drinking by the help of the Almighty. There is no other way. And there is still another class that is never mentioned in polite society or in any other society except in scorn. 1 refer to the poor, unfortunate girls who have been be- trayed and who are compelled by the society that shuts tho door In their faces (o live lives of shame. Ah, mothers, thoss girls were once as pure as the little one you danced on your knee only this morning. What are you Qoing for them? Have you no duty to per- form toward them? 1 want to tell you that there will bo two, yes, thres partles before the great white throne cn the day of judg- ment. Not only will the poor wronged girl | be there with the dark, damned wreich that brought her to ruin, but the soclety that sits idly by and contemplates her ruin with scorn and ‘makes no effort to save her will be there, and let me tell you, I do not believe that the peor girl will be punished any more severely than will the society that today closes its doors against her. “I come now to anmother class, the crim inals. The world has but little pity for them. ‘The prevaling idea is to punish them and ke:p on punishing them. ‘Give it to him hot,’ cries society. ‘Make him fecl it. Make him smart.” And so society, the judge, the police, the jailer, all are bent on punishing, punishing him. What for? Why. to deter him from committing further crime. Well, punish him, but if you want to deter him you must reform him. When a criminal serves his sentence and is released from prison there are four courses open to him. He must cither work, starve, steal or com- mit snicide. If you wish to prevent him from doing any ome of the latter three things, you must furnish him honest employ- ment. 1 be wants it, let him have work. If he does not want to work, compel him to. SCHEME OF THI ARMY. “The great questicn is, how shall we help these submerged classes? The Salvation army scheme contemplates first of all, work. We first find the man. We give him a warm place to sleep for 2 cents, with a piece of bread thrown in. For 2 cents more we give him a bath, with hot and cold water and towels. For another 2 cents we give him a good meal. And then we talk to him. We interest him In his own welfare. We find him employment, and then, best of all, we en- doavor to convert him. We don't ask him it he has been bad in the past. ~ We don't ask him for tis pedigree. < - tWe accept him as we find him, dirty, dfunken, misérable, wretched, afid e ‘léad ‘him first to inde- pendence and then to ‘salvation. “Our colanizaticn scheme has worked ad- mirably.. We bave outsidé of London 5,000 acres of land settled with men and wonren and children we have saved from the slums of London. We hope to push ‘the coloniza- tion idea all over the world. Here in Amer- iea, with ‘millions and miliens of acres of unoccupied land, the problem ought to be easy of solution. We have convinced the world that the work of rescuing people from the misery of the slums can be done net only cheaply, but at a profit, We want to establish a place of refuge in every city, town, village and hamlet of the world, and from these places of refuge we want_to transfer the men and women we have saved to homes where they can live in con- tentment and peace on the fruits of thelr own industry.” In illustrating the condition of the wretched General Booth described a number of in- stances with a pathos of truth that brought tears (o many eyes. He also showed a wholesome appreciation of humor, by little bits_of digression, that cavsed ro of laughter. At the conclusion of General Booth's ad- dress a collection was taken up for the assist- ance of the Salvation army projects and the audience was then dismissed by Rev. Dr. H:l- lings. W. H. Alexander of this eity claimed the attention of the audience for a moment to | testity the sentiment of Omaha toward the Salvation army. AFPEALS TO CONSCIENCE. A parade similar to the one earlier in the day preceded ‘ the evening, meeting when General Booth and his Salvation warriors faced another Audience which tested the capacity of the building. It was representa- tive not so much of the rabble which had gathered on the street corners to listen to the exhortations of the Salvationists, as the better slement of the city. Few of the churches of the ety lacked representation in the vast throng, and while ~curiosity may have at- tracted many to hear the veteran leader of the canse of the lewly, the interest with which he was heard indicated that his senti- ments found a sympathetic response in the | hearts of his hearers. The cervice was very similar to those which may be heard any Sunday evening at the barracks. Iirst came a season of brief prayers, interspersed with the characteristic | songs of the army, which was led by Colonel | Hawley. Then General Booth delivered a | sermon, which was more in the nature of an | exhortation, and after another interval of | prayer the singlug was resumed, while the | unconverted were agaln urged to come for- ward to the altar and renounce the paths of sin. General Booth spoke from the passage, “Remember Lot'’s Wife," His remarks were largely descriptive and related to the story of the destruction of the wicked cities of the plain and the application of the moral to the circumstances. of his_ hearers. He said that many peoplo had very indifferent ideas on the subject of religion. They would like to do right and to know that they were ready for the judgment day, but their hearts were not in it. The prospects of the straight and nar- row path were too uninviting, and they hesi- | tated to give up the worldly pleasures which had become a part of their life. MAKE THEM THINK. How to get such people into a better life was the auestion. It was useless to tell them to pray, for an irreligious person could offer no prayer that would be acceptabe to God. They could not be made to feel the necessity for religion more deeply, because it was usually the case that the more direct an effort was made to induce fecling the more impervious the heart ‘wou'd become He would tell them to go and think, and if they could be induced to ponder over their condition it was reasonably certain that feeling would follow and that they would soon be crying, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner." The speaker deseribed in detail and with some dramatio effect the history of Sodom and its destruction by divine wrath. Fol- lowing the story down to the closing in- cidents, when Lot's doubting wite shared in the ruin by turning to look back upon the abode of sin, he said that he stood in the same position the two angels who came to warn Lot and his family of the death that the morrow was to bring. He came to tell rs he brought to Omaha. Sodom and fly to Jesus. No one was com- pelled to obey unless he pleased, but to- morrow the fire would come. Those who would have sin must accept the destruction that was to follow. The exhortations and prayers that followed the rermon lasted for some time and several converts went to the altar, General Booth will breakfast with the clergymen of the city this merning at the First Methodist church, and will deliver an address to the general public at the same place at 11 o'clock. In the afternoon he holds a meeting at Council Bluffs, and in the evening leaves for Kansas City. i i SOME NOTES OX Thursday evening the Misses Drake gave a musicale and high five party for a number of thelr friends. During the evening selections, solos and duets were rendered by Miss Laura Drake, L. B. Holton, Blanche Holton and L. Holton. Mr. Van Meter won first prize in Ligh five and Blanche Holton the booby prize. Those present were: Mesdames E. M. Hoge N. 0. Drake, W. G. Drake, Mrs. Hustler, Mrs Van Meter, Mrs, T.. E. Holton; Misses Ida Heim, Etta Murphy, Marie Holton; Messrs W. G. Drake, Mattson, Van Meter, L. E. Holton, J. L. Holton, Miss Minnie and Harry McFadden of Malvern, It has been a custom of several standing for a party of well known young people to attend the annual foot ball game between the universities of Nebraska and lowa, in the evening attend the theater and later round out Thanksgiving at one of the member's house. Last Thureday even- Ing the soclety people attended tha perform- ance of “Sport McAllister,” at Boyd's, and later were entertained at luncheon at the ret- idence of Miss Fritza Barnard. —Those com- posing the party were: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wheeler, Mrs. Kerbert, Miss Doane, Miss Curtiss, Miss Pugsley. Mr. Doane, Mr. Guiou, Mr. Zug, Mr. Mullen, Mr. Pierre Garneau, Mr. Charles Howe, The dancing party given by the Philhar- monie club Thanksgiving evening at Hascall's hall was one of ths pleasant social events of the season. The hall was brilliantly lighted and festoons of smilax and the national col'rs deccrated the interior. Palms and ferns were banked about the stage and ad- joining rooms. The members of the club ar- od at 8 o'clock, and the guests were re- ceived half an hour later. Among the pleas- ing featuzes of the evening were the hand- One was to leave SOCIETY years' painted programs, on which were engraved | all the latest dances. The programs were tird with ribb us of vellow and blue, the club colors. Light refreshments were served in the east room adjoining the stage. Prol Dworzak's orchestra played throughout the evening. This was the first dancing party givin by this club, u series of card parties and musicales having been, up to the present, thelr mode of entertalnment. Those present at the dancing party of the Manhattan club Friday eveniug at Erfling's hall were: Miszes Hanan, Whalen, Collins, Riley, Knight, Garritty, Durr, R. Durr, Healy, Karney, Coburn, Karney, Smith, Mc. Eneary, L. Verwald, C. Vorwald, E. Vorwald, Wilson, Hagerty, Martin, Carey, Frewe, Me- Cormack, Wertz, .Hight, Hinchey, Hinchey Lane, Young, Benson, Murphy, Meade, Carly Greene, Barton, Colby, Clarke, Taylor, Cramblett, Singer, Oleson, House, Lantry Martin, Mrs. 8. Collins, E. Dailey, T nett; Mesers. Dailey, Collins, Reynolds, J. Reynolds, Fyfe, phy, Smith, Karney, Clerk, Touts, F'. Furay Furay, Cahalane, Lerne, Wilson, Kosters, Bennett, May, Hagerty, Donaloe, Hinchey Gilbert, Dalton, Holland, Leighty, Benning- Murphy, Johunson, Sander: Peterson, Salter, Randelph, Sullivan, Dart, McPherson, Samuels, Tracy, Kline, Sumner, Dee, Lanyon, Sievers, Stacey and Salter. Mrs. John 8. Knox gave a delightiul recep. tion Tuesday afternoon from 3 to 6, assisted by her daughter, Miss Knox, Mrs. P. A English, Mfss Ruth and Miss Fowler. A pro- fusion of smilax surmounted the doorways and hanging in graceful festoons from the chandeliers, with chrysanthemums of pink and white on every side, lent such a truly tropical air to the rooms that the guests could almost imagine some magician had suddenly transplanted them ‘to the laud’ of perpetual sunshine and -flowers. . The lights, softened by pink shades, cast a radiant glow upon the scene ‘and ‘hélihtened ‘thé Ehatms which always surround gatherings of such fair women as honored the hostess by their presence. Mre. Knox's dress was of black satin and jet, with Magenta velvel. Miss Knox, in white silk and lace, with rose velvet sleeves. Mrs. English, old rose grenadine and et over black silk. Miss Ruth, gray crepe and rose silk. Miss Fowler, black satin, lace and Magenta velvet. Omaha has, in its history, seen many silver wedding jubilees, but none have so com- pletely filled the measure of such a function as the silver jubilie of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Lynam, which took place at their home, 1732 South Fifteenth street, Saturday evening, November 24. The happy couple received the hearty congratulations from thelr numer- ous friends, on living to see and celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary. Mr. and Mrs, Lynam received mauy beautiful pres- ents from their friends, one Which they highly appreciate, a silver basket, filled with rare and fragrant flowers, the gift of Father Shelley. A dainty luncheon and refresh- ments were served at a late hour. Those present were: Iathers Jeaunette, Crowley, Shelley, Galvin, Mr. and Mrs. M. Ryan, Mr. J. Rush, Mr. and Mrs. D. Shana- F. Morraitity, Mr. and Mrs. T. Mr. and Mrs. D. Green, Mrs. B. Mrs. Dee, Mrs. M. Bremnan, Mrs. Kennedy, Mra. James Shelley, Mrs. ¥. H. Keeshan, Mr. T. Tie, Mrs. 1. C. Shelley, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mulix, Mr, and Mrs. T. Lynch, Miss Mamle Shelley, Mrs. C. Fiyan, Mrs. MeAuliffe. The state chairman of the General Federa- tion of Women's clubs has issued a call to the women's literary clubs of Nebraska to meet in Omaha Dec:mber 10 for the pur- pose of forming a state federation, It is believed that many clubs will respond to the call and send visitors, as well as delegates, t) the convention. The Omaha Women's club will entertain the delegates, and it is safe to predict that the guests will find that the hospitality for which Omaha women have been noted has not been overrated. Thor- ough and ext-nsive preparations arc in pro- iress, and the affair promises to be une of the literary and social events of the searon. On the evening of December 10 the new aud spacious club tooms will be thrown open and the Omaha Woman's club will entertain the visitors at a reception from 8 until 1L Each member will have the privilege of Inviting one gentleman. With a membership of 400 the Omaha Woman's club is a power- ful and effective organization, and on this occasion will prove that it is not behind the older organizations of Chicago and the cast in any particular. In another part of this paper will bs foundl the official call, is- sued by the state chafrman, and it is ex- pected that gzy club seeing this notice, even though it has been overlooked, will Kindly and promptly respond us requested. Tracy, Farrel, TAVLORS ARE NERVOU Murderers of the Meeks Family Afraid of Lynehjug. ST. JOSEPH, Dec. 2i—8heriff Carson re- celved advice this afternoon from Sherift Barton of Linn county saying that he would arrive here tomorrow dnd take the Taylor brothers, the alleged | murderers of the Mecks family, back with him for arraign- ment in the Linn county ccurts on Tuesd When the Taylors were told they were to be taken back they became seriously alarmed, and the elder brother expressed great fear they might meel violence. lso stated they would ask for a chan; venue at once, us they are satisfied cannot secure a falr trial at home. brothers showed a tendency to weaken now that they know they will be taken back, aod the hoasts they have made all along to the effect that they wanted to be tried in Linn_county have fallen flat. The Linn county sheriff will come wilh a heavy gunrd, and thinks he will have no trouble to defend his prisoners. It is thought the prisoners will be taken secretly out of St Joseph and g0 to Linn courty by a row about way. e Cotton un Fire ST. JOUN F., Dec. 2-The British steamer Starlight, with a cargo of cotton, fourteen days out from Gulveston for Liver- peck, put o here today owing to an out- break of fire 0 her cargo on Eriday lust. The Starlight arrived here safely and will be unloaded until the fire is reached and extinguished — of the destruction that was surely coming aod to try to persuwade’ his hearers to leave their #ins and fly to the deliveravce offered through the blood of Christ. There was a striking resemblance between the warning that had come to the woman and that which Karihguake tn lilinots. 1, Dec, %A distinot arthquake shcek, accompanied by & rum- distant thunder, was felt ere The vibrations were from north to south, NEXT IRRIGATION MEETING ad Socond Annual Oonvention of the State Ascocl#ttt OaTled for Kearnay. PLANS MAD"I"'KOR LARGE ATTENDANC: Wit Promoters Rreparing to Entertain a Great Crowd of Delegates on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 18 and 19 ~Badi¥ of Representation, KEARNEY, Neb, Dec. 2.—(Special.)—The following call, signed by the Kearney State Irrigation conventien committee Buffalo County Irrigation aseoclation, by L. S. Deets, president, and W. L. Hand, secretary, and approved by L. A. Fort, president, and J. V. Hildebrand, secretary, of the Nebraska State Irrigation association, has been Issued: “The second anmual meeting of the Ne- braska State Iriigation assoclation will be held at Kearney, Neb., on Tuesday and Wed- nesday, December 18 and 19, 1894, at the Kearney opera house, under the auspices of the Buffalo County Irrigation association. We are earnestly deslrous of meeting you; come and bring your friends and neighbors. The ablest experts and speakers on this most Important question of irrigation for Ne- braska will be present and address you. Kearney will enfertain you with her prover- bial hospitaiity. Thercfire come and secure the education and information that is most urgently required by the people of our state. “The governor of the state is requestea to appoint twenty delegates, the State Board of Agriculture and state labor commissioners ten delegates, officers of the State university and the university agricultural department each ten delegates. Presidents of all farmers' Institutes, granges, agricultural, horticaltural and other socleties connected with the develop- ment of agricultural interests of Nebraska not herein mentioned, ten delegates, “‘Bach sectional state irrigation association will be entitled to a delegation of all its off- eers and fifteen members. Bach local irri- gation association will be entitled to a dele- gation of all officers and ten members, “Mayors of cities will please appoint ten delegates, villages five, presidents of Boards of Trade and Commercial clubs five delegates, private and denominational colleges thres delegates, and_ each labor organization three dslegates. “A general invitation is extended to all past and present members of congress from this state, and all past and present state ofi- clals, the present members of the Ne- braska legislature and the members now elect, and all county officials now holding office to attend as delegat ditors of agricultural and irrigation pub- lications will, ou presentation of credentlals showing their past and present position or occupaticn, be entitled to seats in the con- vention. “And we hereby extend a cordial invitation to all. Come and give your aid by your presence and your efforts to the most im- portant movemenit- ever inaugurated in our state. e . “Reduced rafrosd rates will be obtained all railad lines. Remember! Kear- Neb., Degember 18 and 19, 1891, “All Nebrasisa cities are requested to send bids by their(delegates for the next annual meeting of thisiassbclation.” e RODBED' on ne DRUMMER. DARIN ('l||l|ln|||5 Slugged and Relieved of His O % ninubles, TECUMSEH!, N¢b., Dec. Special )— George Welsh, iy jsold his restaurant busi- ness here to M.IP. Harts. Mr. Welsh will re-engage in ‘thb' Business in Fails City. Mrs. H. 8. Bl § Carfersville, Ga., is visit- ing in the oIty An“old fole’oeoncert” was presented’ at the opera housi last évening by local talent for (he benefit of the city library. Mrs. James Kinsey Is entertaining a friend, Mrs. G. A, Hoffman of St. Louis. Bd Watters, whp has been attending a school of pharmacy in Des Moines, la., was compelled to teturn home, owing to poor health. A Alfred Howarth and wife are visitng refa- tives in Dunlap, 1a. P. D. Cheney and wife of Jerseyville, IIL, spent the past week in Tecumseh. Emil Kazda, a harness dealer, was com- pelied to close his doors this week on ac- count of his fnability to meat obligations. Rev. L. H. Humphries of Fairfield, Neb., has recefved a call from the Christian churchl of this city and accepted the same. The members of Prof. Whitney's orchestra held a pleasant dance at (he opera house Thanksgiving night C. T. Bennett, editor of the Tecumseh Re- public, an independent sheet. skipped the town the first of the week, leaving numerous creditors. Sheriff Woolsey has charge of his hooks. A traveling man, giving the name of J. H. Cummins. was slugged in the B. & M. freight yards here Thureday night, robbed of & gold watch, overcoat and a small sum of money and roled down the rallroad embankment into the Nemaha river. Fortunately the river was not deep at this point and Mr. Cummins was rescued by some trainmen a short time after, physically not much worse of for his experiens Milo Halsted h a business coll gone to Lincoln to attend €. GUILTY OF LIBEL. W. J. Waite of Exeter Convicted and Sen. tenced to Pay a Fine, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Special)—The W. J. Waite libel case was finally settled Wednesday. The jury brought in a verdiet of guilty at the trial last week, and the de- fendant’s attorneys filed a motion for a new trial, but it was not argued until Wednesday. The judge refused to grant a new (rial, and sentenced Waite to pay a fine of §10 and the costs, which may not fall very far short of £200. Mrs. W. W. Parish left this week for lowa, where she will spend the winter with her hushand and relatives, Mr. Parish being in business there this winter. J. B. Girton and family of Lincoln ate Thanksglving turkey with the family of John Redfern. D. E. Vandeventer of Brownsville is visit- ing relatives and frieiids at this place. On Thursday ‘Arthur and Leon Buck were cleaning out & gun breparatory to going on @ hunt. They<¥d washer out the gun and were trying to_ drsit'as baeriedly as possible. To hasten matters' ‘fhey droppad a pinch of powgder in the LErfe} and snapped a cap on the fube, after Which Arthur told his brother to light a match and hold it o the tuba while he would put hfs Mbuth to the muzzle and draw the flamé gh into the barrel. The ouly reason he hi'- hjs head on his shoulders {s the small amobnt’ of. powder put into the gun. As it s, he has a very badly burned mouth and thro; The lecture by, Prok, Fling of the State uni- versity on the “ASsgasination of Carnot,” at the Methodist Epjscogal church, Friday night, was a fine discowsse, and was highly appre- ciated, as was shown by the large audience. He is a splendigylecturer. D. 8. Willianys was visiting relatives 7 Mrs. and friends in Omgha last week. 5 i, Jury at York Decides that e Did Not et ¥ire to the Gresham School Houss. YORK, Neb., Dec. 2.—{Special.)—The long- winded- arson case of ‘the state against Flick- enger, which has drawn so much attention during the last week, came to an end this evening at 10 o'clock, when the last address was made and the jury retired for a ver- dict. Flickenger resided at the villags of Gresham, this county, and Uesired to start a saloon. 'Phis plan met with violent oppo- sition and epded with the conclusion that no such thing would be allowed. Shortly after the school house building was burned under suspleious circumstances and Flickenger was arrested for (he crime. After the trial in the county court Le was bound over and his bail fixed at $2,000. After lylng in fail for soms time this matter was adjusted and he left this county and did aot return until the time for his trial. Since leaving he has fall- EXETER, FLICK Was acouirtin, en helr to an estate worth over $40,000. Hoth sides made a strong fight. After being out over ten hours the jury brought in & verdict acquitting the defendant. Seth Mobley's Now Venture. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Special) —‘‘Oentral Nebraska Republican” Is the name of a wew paper which made its first appear- ance here yesterday. It is edited by Seth P. Mobley, late of the Wood River Gazette and formerly connected with World's Fair Com- missioner Garneau. Operation Was a Sucoess. STERLING, Neb, Dec. 2.—(Special)—Dr. C. 8. Boggs of this place performed one of the most difficult operations known to the medical science, that of tracheotomy, upon the 3- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Schus- ter, living two miles north of here. The operation was a success. IT EVOKES PERSIFLAGE, Does & Blackenod fiye, No Matter How it Was Obiained. “Lemme tell you something,” sald a drum- mer to the Dbtroit Free Press, as he slowly caressed the bandages which held the piece of raw beef tightly over his left eyve, and got his right knee up where he could clasp both hands around it. “You may have a whisky nose, a boil on your neck, a hat out of style, a pair of bow legs, or the mark of Cain on your brow, but nothing gives yon away like a black eye. In the first place, it is something you can't conceal. In the next, every man forms an opinion as to how you got It, and all your talk makes him smile the more. Are you ‘on’ to that fact?" The interviewer pulled out his pocket glass and looked to see if his eyes were all right, and answered that he tumbled. ““You see,” continued the aflicted, “I have to take a cortaln amount of exercise with the clubs every night before retiring. Doctor recommended it for my lungs, you know, and I carry clubs in my trunk. Expands the lungs, “braces up the spinal column, and strengthens the arms and shoulders. You follow me, I presume?" ‘He was assurad that he was followed, and, after wiping a_sympathetic tear from his right eye and heaving a heartfelt sigh, he sald: “Last night, while I was practicing as usual with the clubs, T accidentally hit the bodpost with one of them and it flew up and struck me in the eye. The clerk of this hotel knew that I was in my room, and that it was my habit to practice, and yet when I came down to ask him for a bit of raw beef he smiled and shook his head and asked how long I lay unconscious, and whether 1 had the fellow arrested. I had to £0 out and hunt up a_butcher shop, and as the butcher cut me off a piece of round he Inquired whether it was an uppercut or a straight blow, and where I landed when I countered. I et five or six of the boys when I came back to the hotel, and despite all T could say each and' every one would have it that 1 had been slugged. Can you realize the painful position a man with a black eye is placed in?" The interviewer said he could, and after the bandage had been tightened a little the drummer remarked: “My time is limited and I can't stop work for a black eye. I generally put in three days in Detroit, but tomorrow 1 leave for Grand Rapids. 1 have got as much nerve as the average man, but I can’t stand the pres- sure. Here is my note book, and here are a few of the interesting inquiries and observa- tions called out during the day: “*HIL you with his right, did he?’ “‘How did you feel when it landed?" * ‘Splitting wood and a stick flew up, of course!’ “‘What made you call him a liar before ot your hands up?’ You'll get over it in a couple of weeks, and next time yow'll know enongh to turn the back of your head:' “‘Run agin a lamp post in the dark! 1 sea! Have done the same thing myself!” “‘It was always a_wonder to me why a man who can’t fight should go around sassing folks.’ “‘R'ght in the eye, eh! Lor’, but if that fist had landed on your nose you could never have even scented a gkunk agin!' ““Train ran off the rails and you were caught between two cars, of course! Well, you have got a good case, and ought to get at least 00 out of it." “‘Y-c-s—been there myself! No excuses or explanations needed! Probably had you cornered up, with no show to dodge or run, but why didn’t you offer him a dollar not to do it? “Those,” sighed the drummer, as he reached for his note book, “‘are but samples selected at random from a tremendous fall and winter stock. 1 had to give up about 4 o'clock and come fn and lay down. Didu't dare show up in the dining room, end the ! waiter who brought up my meal wanted to know whether I was Bob Fitzsimmons or Jack Dempsey. Yes, I'll be going in the morning. 1 know a lot of fellows at Grand Rapids, but they are not the—" At that moment along came an acquaintance on his way to the billiard room of the hotel, and on sight of the bandaged eye he halted, threw up his hands, and exclaimed: “Holy smoke! but if you can't fight or bluft or run, why don't you put on roller skates and fall down before you are hit?"” e il il ey The Plodding Camel. Camels are now in general use throughout Australia. Within twenty-five years, by scientific breeding, a race has been produced larger in frame, sounder in wind and limb and able to earry more weight than the In- dlan camels originally imported. A quar- antine for imported animals is established at Port Augusta, 260 miles northwest of Ade- laide, where they are carefully guarded for three months, during which time they are subject to a destructive mange, which car- ries off most of them, but to which they are no longer llable when once acclimatized. There are 10,000 camels at work, which not only transport loads upon their backs, but are trained to draw wagons, yoked in teams of eight like oxen. Postal Upens Its Coast Line. CHICAGO, Dec. 2—The Postal Telegraph company has begun its transcontinental service. The wires follow the line of the Santa Fe from Chicago to San Francisco with repaters at Kansas City and Al- buquerque. Emergency repeaters to be used during bad weather are located at Dodge City, Kan., and Mojave, Cal. The wires are of copper and the lines are constructed in the most substantial manner. el LR Walth: 1 Take His Seat. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Representative Catchings of Mississippi says General Walt- hall, who resigned the senatorship from Mississippl which expires March 3, 185, but who was elected for the succeeding six years, will probably take his seat. He has recovered his health, the condition of which was the cause of his resignation last spring. e Has Authority to Settle the Diiculty. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.—Emillo Delon has arrived here from Guatemala, on his way to Mexico, Delon has been appointed minister to Mexito_and has received au- thority from the Guatemalan government fo negotiate a treaty which will settle the houndary dispute between the two coun- tries, X Agreed on Coast Excursion Kates. CHICAGO, Dec, 2—The transcontinental lines have reached an agreement on the round _trip rates between the Missourl river and the Pacific coast, which provides that the round trip rates between the river and Pacific coast common points that have been § for ‘several montha will "be advanced to 3 Wreck on the Wabash. ALTON, 1ll, Dec. 2.—The Chicago night express on the Wabash was wrecked at Nameoki last night. A frelght train failed to sidetrack in time and a head-end collision resulted. The engines were demoloshed and much other damage was done. Contrary to first reports, no one was seriously injured. ——— Sugar Refineries duart Up. BROOKLYN, Dec. 2.—Work at the sugar refineries which recently shut down in the eastern district was resumed tonight, To- morrow morning it is promised 1,000 men additional will be given employment. Four- (een hundred men were set to work. L LB, «Barge Rise” in the Ohlo. PITTSBURG, Dec. 2.—Heavy rains for the past week and in the upper river country have brought about a “barge riz" and to- morrow between 6 000,000 and 8,000,000 bushels of coal are expected to be started for south- ern ports, —_————— Death Makes u Vacancy. CHICAGO, Dee. 23.-8herwgod Wilson, United tSates district attorney for the northern district of Illinols, died this morn- I: of lar; s, He was inted to by I’l!tn ent Clevetand l:lpnuly. CHATS IN TRE CORRIDORS. “Yes, & hotel clerk's life Is full of expe- riences, some of them humorous, some pe- culiar, and others tragle,” said T. L. Mar- tin, an old hotel clerk, who is stopping at the Mercer. “I have met a good many, and 1 do not_pay much attention to them any more, The most commen Incldents, per- haps, are the positions that people get into who are affficted with somnambulism, When I was a boy not much over 15 years of age 1 obtained my first position as a hotel clerk in a hotel In & very small town. Here 1 met my first_somnambulist. One morning about 4 o'clock 1 was doszing away in the office in one of the hotel chairs. There were ¢ two lights in the office, and both near 1 heard & rustling near the stairs, and, halt asleep, 1 locked up. At the head of the stalrs 1 saw a vision In white, can_remember yet how the hair on the top v head began to rise. The apparition descended the stairs, as iU seemed to me, without nn{ noise. making straight for the door, and I saw that it was a woman who was stopping at the hotel. As #oon as I recognized her my fright left me and I stepped before her and asked her where she was going, She did not answer, and I touched her lightly oa the shoulder and awakened her. She lo'kel around, threw her arms around my neck and fainted dead away. It took the hardest kind of work for fifteen minutes to her to. When ghe became conscious 1 never saw a more confused and shamed woman in all my life, although, of course, it Wi not her fault that she was a somnambulist “In the same _town and the same hotel,’ continued Mr. Martin, another incident oc curred that almost made me a fit cadidate for an insane asylum. One night a man en- tered the office and registered for the night. He said that he had to make another town further down the road in the morning, and wanted to be called in time to maké th train. The train left at about 4:30, and, consequently, 1 put him down for a 3:40 call Well, at that time 1 sent a boy up to his room to awaken him. The boy came down and reported that he could get no answer. 1 got tired, and then I entered. I did not light a_match because the moon was shin- ing and cast a_dim light into the chamber, although the bed was in the shadow. I placed my hand on the man's shoulder to shake him and found that it was wet. Nevertheless 1 shook fim, but the shaking had no effect. 1 @id not fmagine that any- thing was wrong, but thought that the man was sleeping heavily. T lighted the lamp and carried it toward the bed. What I saw caused me to drop the lamp o the floor and €0 out of that room and down the stairs at W 2:40 clip. The man had cut his throat from ear to ear, and when I shook him I had placed my hand in the blood that flowed from the wound. than a door mail. 1 tell you such a sight vas enough to scare & man, let alone a 15- year-old bety.” “I_saw the foot ball ma on Thanksgiving day and T a traveling man from N Dellone hotel vesterday, “but yet I wished 1 was in New York, 1 am an old college graduate and a foot ball crank and T attend every game that 1 can. And New York is the onlv nlace in the wide, wide world for a foot ball crank to spend Thanksgiving. Every merchant down town has his store decorated with the colors of one of the colleges and everybody whom you meet has them on. In fact, it is a day given over to foot ball. In the afternoon coaches begin to make their way out to the ground, and when they get up town there is a con- tinuous line of them, covered with orange and black and the blue. The col- lege boys are on top with their sweet- hearts, tooting their horns and yelling like all possessed. There are thirty or forty tlers of seats all around the fieid at Man- hattan, where the game is usually played. On oné side is the elevated road, some fifty foet in the air, and on two others sides are bluffs of about the same height, and these are also crowded with the people. Jvery body has flags or banners or parasols or dresses of the colors. It looks for all the world like a deep abyss, fringed on the sides with gay flowers. Then the excite- ment of the game keeps one of the colors continually in motion. Now yon see the blue everywhere, and then it i3 the orange and black. This sight alone is worth going miles to see. In the evening the streets are crowded again and the air is filled with shouts and yells, The theaters are crowded. There is no performance, or if there is, you_cannot hear a word spoken on account of the noise and yelling. Nobody is at all disturbed, because the people do not for the Suke of the play, but to see hear this racket. There s no place in the world, 1 tell vou, like New York for a foot ball crank to spend his Thanksgiving in. “There Is going to be a great deal of suffering among the farmers of this state during the coming winter,” said J. W. Thompson, a Madison county man, who is at the Merchants, “Our state is distine- tively a corn state, and the crop through- out the whole state, perhaps with the ex- ception of the southeastern portion, s al- most a total failure. What the farmers will have to live on fs o serlous question, A great many of them are moving out of the state. It is sald that one-half of the in- habitants' of Holt county have emigrated. I moved to this part of the country twenty years ago, and I do not remember of as hard times as we have now.” this city enjoyed it,” said W York at the &0 and “You hfive heard of the dead lotter de- partment, 1 suppose,’” remarked a traveling man at the axton esterday afternoon. “I suppose, 00, you have heard of the queer letters that they get. When I was in Wash- ington an. attache of the office told me one that I think is true. A good many stories that are told of the letters that come into the office originate in the fertile brain of some individual, you know. A letter was forwarded to the office from some postoffice with the following address: “"Wood, “John “ ‘Mass.’ “After a good deal of study the address was figured out. It Is a pretty good one, If you will spend the time to find it out. It was sent to John Underwood, Andover, Mass, and reached the proper pérsen. Keep studying it and vou will discover how the right address was found. It is all in those three words." POST-MORTEMS ON FOOT BALL. Fablic 18 Tired of Kending Complaints from Outsiders Concerning Players' Conduct. The Bee is in receipt from Crete of an- other report of an autopsy held on the corpse of a dead and gone foot ball game, In this instance it refers to the game played at Hastings on Thanksgiving day between Hastings and Crete. 1t will not be pub- lished for several reasons, All recognize the fact that every story has two sides. If one is given publicity the other must also be published. In an un- guarded moment a letter from a dissatisfied spectator of a foot ball game wus published carly in the season. As a result, The e has been deluged with letters containing criminations and recriminations, charges and counter charges, of dishonesty and un- fairness, some writers golng so far as to impugn ' the motives of Bee reporters who have hendled the games in the state this fall. Several of these extremely partisan epistles have been given space in’ the ‘sport- ing columns of the paper, but calm reflec tion fails to endorse the course pursued. In the future, unless The Bee has actually pub- lished an opinion of a game, it cannot con- Nrm'» to the ulterance ot a writer nterest is apparently tne team he defends, and who incontinentiy assails and abuses members of the Oppos- ing team. In the matier of the Hastings game but a few words were printed, giving the result of the game merely, Whateyver charges may or may not exist corcerning the conduct of the players on either team is a matter in which this paper has no con- cern. As the custom is among devotees of that other great American game, ‘Let's | deal the cards and play another pot.’ Lowered a Record in the Rain. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 2.—~B. W. Twy- hearing to the Armenians in London on the 382 miles, less thirty-six feet, in twenty-four hours at Fountaln Ferry ‘track, breaking the twenty-four-hour record for the United States, This was accomplished in spite of a steady and sometimes blinding rain. Matched for 610,000, HOUSTON, Der, 2—~The managers of Joe | Patchen and Ityland T have decided to run the match for $10,000 between the horses at Dsllas, Tex., Baturday, December 8, Raport Lands Aead of Time. | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.—J. M. Raport, | who says he has. walked across the con- | and 1 It passed by me, | bring | So 1 went up and knocked on the door until | He was deader | the | tinent from New York, has arrived here, apart says lie made o bet of 8,000 that Be could Jeaye from New York May 1 and to San_Francisco before midnight, Decem: ber 1. He arrived about 7 o'clock Decem! 1, and therefore wins the bet Looking for Bethel in Nebraska. SIOUX CITY, Dec. 2.—Private advices from Bob Kneebs, the American horse- man who was arrested in Germany on & charge of “ringing” horses on German race tracks, show he has not yet been released from custody as reported.” A gentleman in- terested In the prosecution of Kneebs was | in this city today on his way to Wakefield, Neb., which Is Kneebs' home, to try and 10+ te Hethel, the horse which Kneebs s charged “with ‘ringing” and which he claims 15 still in this country adly Hurt. | Robert Combs, | the jockey who was stabbed at the Bay dis trict track by Robert Isom, another jockey, | was pronounced cut of danger at 9 o'clock last evening. He was stabbed three times, once in the arm and twice in the middle of | the back. The weapon used was a small pocket knife, Showalter's Chess Gymnastics. NEW YORK, Dec. 2-J. W. Showalter played on seventeen boards simultaneously at the Brooklyn Chess club on Saturday night. He won eight games, lost four and drew five. Jockey Combs 3 FRANCISCO, Dec k 8 —_— Tay Case Ready tor Argument. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 2—Both sides rested in the Bay embezzlement case yester- day and it will be srgued Monday. The defendant was placed on the stand this aft- | ernoon_and attempted to explaln the scrij | transactions with Spears. He said Wood- | ruff told him he had saved some scrip out | of his assets which he wanted him_to sell for him, as he (Woodruff) was in distress, Woodruff offered witness 25 per cent coms mission to sell the scrip. He accepted the | proposition, and within a few days had sold the scrip. - Wil Endeavor to Satisfy Flower, WACO, Tex,, Dec. 2—Cincerving the New York dispatches which state Governor Flower has refused to honor a requisition | for John D. Rockefeller and other Standard | Oil officials on the ground that the papers are insufficient, District Judge 8. R. Scott of the court by which the indictment was found, says: “If that is the only cbjection the governor has to honoring the requisition we will endeavor to satisfy him in that re- spect.” i Statesmen Flooking to Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—The hotel regls- ters show today that there will doubtless be a quorum of members of both houses in their seats to listen to the president's mes- | sage tomorrow. During Saturday and today senators and repreeentatives have been brought to the city on every train and to- night the hotel corridors are filled with politicians and talk of politics as they have not been since last August. \ Orleans, Ind, Good Reason for Faith [ Cured of Scrofula by Hood’s Serofula permeates humanity, It is thoroughly infused iuto the blood. ‘Scarcely a man Is free from it, in one form or another, Hood's Barsaparilla cures scrofula promptly, surely, permanently. Thousands of people say 80. 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