Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 7, 1895, Page 8

8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: INNDON SCHOOLS OF THE PEOPLE Ohicago's Struggle to Meet the Wants of Trooging Ohildren, COST AND GROWTH OF SCHOOLS Practical Appliention of the Agri- al College Iden in Minne- sotn=Continuous Development of the Faculties—Notes The annual report of the Chicago Board of Education for the year ending with June last, presents an instructive view of the public school system of that city, and the herculean task of providing accommodations for the increasing number of school children. During the fiscal year sixteen new school buildings were opened and the erection of twenty-one begun, yet it seems there s an imperative demand for at least fifteen more new build- ings. In addition to this there has been for a long time an urgent necessity for the ac- commodation of 12,600 puplls now occupying rented quarters, for whom fourteen schools will be necessary, making twenty-nine build- ings of 900 scholars each, which ought to be ere The enrollment of chiidren during the year was 201,380, or 12 per cent of the population, and the increase was 16,022 over the preceding year. The average number of pupils per teacher in the primary and gramihar school grades was forty-four and in the high schools forty. The average dally attendance was 164,216 cut of an average dajly membership of The cost of tuition alone per pupil $8.66, against $7.53 in 1593-'94 and $8.47 in 1592-'03, and for all current expenses $10.10, agalnst $8.86 in 94 and $9.97 in 189293 The total ex- endiiure for the year was 6,134,325, of which tuition took §3,614,078. Hali a million of this wount Is secured from rentals of school fund property, the balance by direct taxation, The city has fourteen high schools, with an average dally attendance of 6,631, and twenty-three kindergartens, with 1,070 attendance. The president of the board, while pro- nouncing the training school for teachers an unqualified success, recommends that tion of the teachers be selected from othe localities and trained in other methods, thu glving variety and rivalry in the methods of Instruction, as it is found that where home talent Is alone used the tendency is to degeneration and the adoption of routine methods and contracted habits of thought and work.” Fifteen truants agents were employed by the board, at a cost of $14,675, and through their efforts 3,700 children e brought (o the schools by persuasion. value of schiool property aggregates $17,273,490. COLLEGE FOR FARMERS' WIVES. The Glrls' School of Agriculture at St. An- thony Park, Minn., midway between St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1§ probably the most unique educational Institution in this counsy. There farmers’ daughters are taught to cook and can and gew, how (o raise fruits and flow- ers, the sciences of dairying, household chémistry and entomology, and many other useful things, which will make them valu- able alds to the farmers lucky enough to win_ their educated hands and hearts The school was founded seven years ago, but only last summer was the experiment made of admitting girls for a course of four weeks, This was so successful that the course this summer was extended to six weeks, and the regents of the university are now planning to admit girls for the full term from October to Avril The plan is to have the boys and girls in classes together except in such lines of prac- tical work as will fall to them separately in life. In such Bubjects as botany, bookkeep- ing, givics, chemistry, mathematics, dairMng, ‘poultry, entomology hor physics, physiology, musie, drawing, etc., they will work together, but while the girls are busy with cooking, sewing, millinery and the like, the boys will work at blacksmithing carpentry, animal industry, ote. In domestic chemistry the girls are in- structed in the chemistry and economy of foods, the purity of ihe water supply for housshold purposes and the chemical changes that take place in the making of butter and cheess, Simple tests for the detection of the adulteration of foods are aso given. Many other topics, as the chemistry of sewer gases, disinfectants, soaps, dyes, etc., receive due atiention and some laboratory work is done. Later the girls study the nutritive value of foods and their purity from adulteration, and how to analyze water. The analysis of soils and the testing of iluminating oils will likewise ba a part of the future housewife's education. Two forencons a week are devoted to cook- ing and other household subjects. The girls listen to a demonstration lecture and then engage in practicd work to put their newly acquired knowledge to the test. Mainly the common foods are treated. Baking bread boiling, broiling, frying and roasting meats canning and pickling fruits and vegotables making pastey, puddings and dressings, the preparation of salads, soups and gravies, and the best methods of carving and serving are discussed. When it s remembered that the prevailing diet of the farmer during the win ter months is saly pork and petatoes, it will be seen that the future holds great possibili ties when these “‘new women' become queens of households. In sewing these girl students are taught various stitches used In basting, seaming hemming, mending, ete. Then comes instruc- tion in the making of underwear and other plain garments, after which follow dressmnk ing, millinery and vir 0~ forms of art need'e- work. In connection with sewing are taught the qualities of various fabrics, the harmony of colors and the principles of aesthetic taste The school is conducted upon the prinei- ple that character makes labor honorable As much labor, therefore, at the home and on the farm as can be distributed among the students {5 given them, and they are paid a fair rate of wages. This enables those of small means to get through the school year at an infinitesimal cash outlay for board and lodging. The attendance has Increased from seven In 1888-89 to 360 in 1894-5. The buill ings have multiplicd, 5o that where two wcoden structures stood In 1888, three wooden and five brick buildings now stand. During the seven years of its existonce the school has graduated 106 studeuts, twelve of whom ars continulng, in the agricultural collega course, und the rest—with but two or three exceptions—are following some line of agri- enlture. Most of these own their own farms, scme serve as foremen on large farms, and two as foremen on state experiment stations. CONTINUOUS EDUCATION. Education, says the Philadelphia Ledger, was once supposed to consist mainly in the acquisition of knowledge, but modern ideas have includad in it the development of the ulties. The mind is 1o louger treated fike an_empty vessel, to be filled as speedily as possible, but as a conselous personality to be led to self-development. Many of the studies now pursued are chosen with the direct ob; Jeet of mental diseipline; and the imparting of knowledge itself is held to be a fallure unless suflicient curlosity is awakened to Induce the wipil cagerly to seek for more, Nor is the mfud alone thus rationzlly treated. The senses are taught to work actively and accurately; the band also is made skilful, and the faculties generally are aroused and get to wor Science and art go hand in hand now in our best systems of education, and wherever they are divorced tho effects e recognized as lamentable These two departmeuts of education, the acquirement of knowledge and the develop- ment of the faculties, are now wisely united in every system of instruction worthy of the pame: but the truth that they should occupy & prominent place all through life has uot yet received the attention it deserves, It is curious that, with all our advanced ideas about_education, we should still practically Hmit it to a few years during childhood aud youth & half educated man, of a well educated man as if education were something which could be begun, contiuued and fnished—something n which one man may have no share and another can have the whole. There still lin- EErs AMOng us & conception of some definitely lald down course of instruction (o be carriel through to this end, and the ph “his or her education is finished" 1s not yet quite out of dite. If It were merely this It would not 60 much signity, us phrases, iike other forn: often live on after their real significance has passed away. The transition which a youth experiences when he leaves school or college fo enter what we superficlally call )m. & om0 great that It is per- forty- We spenk of au uneducated man, of | haps not strange that he should bid fare- well to the past and welcome a future which, to his mind, seems to bear )ittle or no relation to it. Hitherto his attention has been mainly directed to his own self.improve- ment; now he Is expected to entertain far different aln Instend of any longer ac- quiring knowledge, he I8 now urged to ac- quire wealth or fame or high position; in- stead of exerting his mind for the sake of its discipline and power, he must exert it for external and materfal results. Previously having been absorbed In takirg in, he must now be equally absorbed in giving out. Gen- erally, too, having hithertc depended on others, he is now expected to depend upon himself. This wholly new view of life nat- urally turns his thoughts away from what he has regarded as education, and while he may nominally admit thal. his education can never be finished while his powers last, he yet plans his life without auy direct purpose of continuing it. To be sure it will be in- cidentally continued, even without his ihtend- ing it. Whatever be his pursuit, he cannot follow 1t with energy and conscientiousness without acquiring furtner knowledge, nor can he avold developing his faculties by thelr constant use. Still this is undesigned and cannot have the sare kind of influence that a conscious and determinate intention would produce, It should be realized, not in mere words, but in practical action, that education must never stop; tha, although a transition time comes, when further aims than self-improve- ment must be recognized, they are added to supplement, not to obliterate, the other. Among the various objects of life, that of continuing the education should be always kept prominent, with no thought of brin ing it to any terminus short of life itseit The acquirement of knowledge in some form | should be one definite feature in the plan and the development of faculties, apart from their external _results, should be another This will not Interfere with the life work, nor with any of the soclal or domestic re- lations we may be called upon to fill, for the progress side by side. No one can ai- tain his full excellence in any department of lite if he drops out of his motives that of his own self-improvement. It is not enough that he is improving in many direc- tions by his efforts for other purposes. This is happily inevitable, as we have said. But beyond this, if he cherish the conscious aim —if he determine that he will continue his own education in the broadest sense of the word—that he will in some way steadily in- crease his knowledge and develop his facul- tles—tliere can be no question that he will be a more efficient worker in his special de artment and a more valuable member of the community than would be possible without. It is sometimes objected that those who are absorbed in business and other pursuits have no time for deliberate self-culture, but when it comes to be recognized as one of the aims of life, time will be found for it. Mr. P. G. Hamerton says on this point: There s great danger in apparently un- limited opportunities, and a splendid com- pensation for those who are confined by cir- cumstances to a narrow but fruitful field. * * To supply our own need, within the narrow limits of the few and transient hours that we can call our own, is enough for the wise everywhere. Let us resolve to do as much as that, not more, and then rely upon the golden compensations.” Educationnl Notes. George Vanderbilt has agreed to contribute the greater part of $1,000,000 to found an Episcopal college in Washington, General J. Watts De Peyster of Tivoll, N. Y., will contribute the money to establish a college of languages for the mew Methodist university in Washington. The subject Of text hooks also receives at- tention, and the sensible rule laid down that the only standard by which books should be valued should be “not how cheap, but how good. " One of the few cities in the United States which employ a special Instructor in graphy in the public schools is San Francisco The instructor, who has had great success, is Miss Hattle B. Steele. She has a collection of more than 3,000 stereopticon slides, which she uses in her lectures The number of students at Yale this year is somewhat smaller than usual. Both the academic department and the Shefiield Scien- tific school show a falling off. That for the academic department fs but slight, from 1,159 to 1,180, but for the SheMeld school it is from 577 to 605. This marked decrease for tae scientific school is attributed to the rais ing of the standard of admission, while the business depression Is given as the cause of the falling off in the college proper. It is proposed in Boston to raise more money for the public schools by selling lig- uor licenses at auction. The uniform li- cense fee in that city is $1,500, but as some saloons are much more valuable than others it is contended that they ghould pay more. The Boston Advertiser ¢'aims that if all licenses were put up at public auction the city would get from $150,000 to $200,000 a year more than it does now. This would be a very wel- como addition to the school fund. Boston needs over $2,000,000 to bring its public schools up to the demands made on them. Notes from the Schools. Miss Morlatity is pfomoted to the elghth grade at Lincoln. Miss Gralg has been changed from *Central Park to Druid Hill, Dr. A. P. Marble and I a few days for Philadelphia Superintendent Pearse recommends ing s a part of the 1B work, Mrs. Points of Mason has been spending a few days visiting schools in Kansas City. Several of the Comenius corps are devoting a part of the ncon intermission to the study of the French languaj uperintendent Pearse has removed family to the cl They will reside Fort. econd and Farnam streets, Miss Kate Foos has charge of the second grade at Mason, having bren exchanged with Miss Duncan, who takes the fifth grade at Lake, Miss Lida Schallenberger, for several years principal of the Vinton school, was married Wednesday afternoon, October 2, to Mr. Wil- liam L. Drew, an attorney of tis city. Miss Irene Byrne Lad leave of absence on Friday to attend the Nebraska State Federa- tion of Woman's Clubs, where she read an excellent paper on “Opposition to Realism." Mr. and Mrs. James Hodge of 2118 South Tenth street have welcomed to their home a baby daughter, Mrs. Hodge was Alice Har- mon, once a popular and suceesstul teacher at Lake school, Mrs. Keysor's ture, of which members, has resumed waork. on Saturday morning at 10:30, Ject for study is Hawthorne. The Principals’ club met Jast evening, but adjournéd at request of the superintendent, and attended the second grade meeting. They will meet on the third Wednesday of thé month to discuss “Na- ture Work." Mrs. Emma R. N ily leave within spell- his at class in American several of the litera- teachers are They meet The first sub- Wednesday dig, ex-prineipal of Ban- croft school, after several weeks' visit with friends, has returned to her home in Los Angeles. During her sojourn here Mrs. Neidig organized a hive of Ladies of Mac- cabees, in which order she helds the posi- tion of supreme lieutenant commander. Park school is just taking up the vertical writing. To create a lively interest they had a little contest between the pupils of the fifth and sixth grades. Each child’s slate was carefully prepared, the name and grade being upon the reverse side of the slate. Then the slates were arranged upon the stairs. The children viewed them by going up one flight and down another. On every step was a slate, and the fifth and sixth grades all mingled without distinetion. After the chil- dren bad had a good look the judges pra- ceeded to select the best five slates. By veference to the back of the slate it was re- vealed that three of these were from pissils in the sixth grade and two from the fifth. So the sixth grade won. ————— Steam's Up! Moorings Caxt OfF, Mafestically the great ocean gray hound leaves the dock and steams down the river outward bound. 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At the the First Bishop services held by Methodist church yesterday James A, Handy of the African Methodist Eplscopal church preached. The opening prayer was by Rev. Richardson, a delegate to the African Methodist confer- ence now being held in this city. Rev. Frank Crane followed in a short introductory speech, saying that there was no race dis- tinction In the Methodist church. He said there had been riots In China against white missionarfes, troubles in California wherein the miners had risen up against the Chinese, and the lynching of negroes in the south wherein the victim had been found innocent when it was too late to make restitution. Many of these race troubles had been waged in the name of religlor, such as the late Armenian outrages in Turkey, but by far the majority were caused from a lack of re- ligion. Religion knew no race distinction. Frank Crane then introduced Bishop who spoke on “Immortality.”” He said that Paul liked to preach In large cities, liked to address large audiences and convince them of the fruitlessness of living in_the world by the manner in which they had been existing; that there was something beyond, something greater to be attained than the luxuries of this earth. While at Phillipi Paul succeeded in emptying all the temples and synagogies of the Jews. They came first to scoff and deride the new religion, but were held spelibound by the eloquence of Paul. He was not a Demosthenes nor a Plato, but his words were heaven born and carried conviction with them. They as- saulted him when he would not desist, but were finally convinced that he was inspired, and adopted the religion of which he preached. Everything in nature showed the fleeting character of life on this globe, showed the power of God and the indestructibility of the soul. The bishop then drew a pictur of the difference of feeling at a pagan death bed and that of a Christian. He had at- tended the funeral of a brotlier of Colonel Ingersoll's while living at Washington, and had observed the deep sorrow of the mighty orator and wondered if a belief in Christ would not have enabled him to bear his be- reavement with greater fortitude. ~When the silvery-tongued speaker had bid goodby forever to all that remained of a brother he had loved and cherished in life, would he not have felt happier could he have believed that they would meet again in the great beyond? He thought so. The bishop said that the belief in resurrection was the great tle that kept all Christians together, that made them work and strive for something better than anything on this terrestrial foot- stool; that the love of God was far greater even than that of a mother, and that to Him everything was .possible. ' The death of an infidel was indeed a terrible thing to wit ness, and the bishop concluded his remark: by exhorting all to embrace the religion that was the only saving factor to humanity be- fome it was forever too late. An announcement was made by Rev. Frank Crano that Rev. Richardson of the confer- ence would address members of the church on next Thursday, describing his fifteen years' missionary experience while in Africa The benediction was then pronounced by Bishop Handy. CHURCH. Dr. Leard Finds They Are sigmnificant. “What Is Wrong With the Church?” was the topic of Rev. Asa Leard's discourse at the Knox Presbyterian church yesterday morning. He said in part: This has been the cry of the pessimist for about 1,800 years. ‘‘O, the inconsistencies of the church,” says the skeptic. ‘“‘Yes, and the heartlessness and tyranny of the church,” says the anarchist. So it goes. ‘‘Mine her- itage is unto me as a speckled bird, all the birds are against her.”” It Is about the most faghicugble thing in the world today to abuse the church. Th has pretty nearly always been the case and doubtiess will be until the millennium dawns. There have been times when the church seemed to be pretty nearly all wrong. No doubt a good deal could be found in the church today that would not seem to be in the line of God's plan for it. What are some of these things,gand how are they to be set right? These questions ought not to be very hard to answel We have a full record of the church as organized by Christ and his apos- tles. That church was surely right. That church would be right today. Jave we that church? If not, in what do we differ from it? Now I know there are some people who the Holy Ghost has to be consulted and obeyed ganization in the church today. They cry out, “All wrong! All wrong The trouble is these people will persist In seeing only the errors and then characterize the church by these. If a man chance to have a wart on his nose it would hardly be right to call the' man himself a wart. About as reason- able are some of these denunciations of the church. The church of the apostles was above all things an evangelistic church. The apostles had just one great theme, and that was “Jesus Christ, the promised Savior.” They believed that without Him all men were lost, and they preached it. They belleved that Jesus would save all who would ¢ome unto Him, and they preached it. If they preached holy living it was the holiness that comes from being saved through Jesus Christ. If they preached a resurrection- it was a res- urrection through Jesus Christ. They were not afrald of being called ‘““men of one idea,” especially as that idea was turning the world upside down. The burden of apostolic preaching was ‘“‘Jesus Christ and Him cruei- fled.” They faced the same Ignorance, vice, and immorality that meets us, only in a greater degree, and this one truth was the panacea for it all. Paul desired to elevate the morals of the people of his day, so he preached to them Jesus Christ, and then ex- horted them to “walk worthy of their call- ing” in Him. Ie it not a fact that this same truth is the theme of the pulpit today? Of course we oceasionally find a pulpit given over to poetic effusions, fiddle strings and an. thems, but in the course of nature these ex- ceptions must soon give way. Jesus Christ will honor but one thing with ultimate pros- perity and ‘hat is the steady, sturdy, earnest preaching of the good news of salvation through His shed blood. Current topies and organ recitals like brass bands may draw a crowd, but only the preaching of the gospel will build up the chureh, save men, and reform the world. The church of the apostles was a Holy Ghost church. It had a bible that men rec- ognized as having been revealed by the Holy Ghost. The bible was therefore to the apos- tolic church as the audible volce of God. There was an intelligence in it, a personality back of it. Every decision of the church was from the Holy Ghost. They went where the Holy Ghost directed them. They sald what the Holy Ghost gave them to say. They be- lieved in Him, consulted with Him and fol- lowed Him. Have we such a church today? To the outside world the church may seem to be all machinery, because the world can only see that which is withowt, but the pray- ing Christian knows that all this machinery would be as motionless as a dead engine were it not for the power of the Holy Ghost within. Jesus Christ Is the great head of the church. When upon earth He directed all in person. Today His representative, the Holy Ghost, is the divine archbishop, managing all things. All that Jesus Christ was to His disciples | when upon carth the Holy Ghost is now, our comforter, guide and strength. If the church today would consult and follow the guidance of the Holy Ghost there would not | be s0 wmany congregations groaning under | the mortgage on their building or blushing | for the shortcomings of their members. If the Holy Ghost ghould be consulted and obeyed more fully in the calling of ministers there would be fewer fallures in the pulpit. Theo- logical seminarles may polish and train preachers, but the Holy Ghost calls and equips them. The apostollo church was & missionary Wk X9 command was ever upon g to Quite In. carry the gospel tovthe “reglons beyond.” The “spirit of missionw 4 the spirit of the church today. It wemid be hard to find a church that did notsibalteve in foreign mis- sions, and if such ostitdtbe found today you would find in it a dyfng ehurch. The church fs called a kingdom' in ithe new testament, and the first thought in ‘the kingdom is con- quest. No branch of ‘the church today is satisfied, neither ever cam be satisfied, until the nations of the earth have accepted our King. This, then, Is the:eéhurch of the apostles and the church of today, the gospel of a cruclfied Redeemer for m' theme, the Holy Ghost for a guide and the world for a field, SMARTYRS OF ARMENIAY Plea for Christh; % Under the Power of the Turk. “The Christian Martyrs of Armenia” was the subject of a very practical discourse by Rev. Vroomen at the First Congregational church yesterday morning. The theme served to introduce an interesting narration of the Armenian outrages and the previous history of Christianity under the despotism of the Ottoman empire. The preacher took a rad- fcal position relative to the policy of the Turkish government and held that it was high time that the Christian nations of the world united to secure to their brethern of the Ottoman empira the undisturbed enjoyment of equal privileges with the Moslems. Rev. Vrooma e from the text “Am I my brother's ke from which he drew an application as to the duty of all Chritian people to do all in their power to develop and crystallize a public sentiment that should ~ultimately result in inducing the Dowers to assert themselves In the intevests of the Avmenian, Macedonfan and Greek Christians. He held that the Mohammedans of the Ottoman empire were far more cruel and bigoted than the Motlems of other nationalities. He charged the United States consul at Constantinople with being in &ym- pathy with the Turkish outrages and as- serted that the only thing Consul Tyrrell had done to entitle him to an appointment was the fact that shortly after the war ho had written a poem in eulogy of John Wilkes Booth, Returning to the story of the of the Armenian Christians, Rev. Vrooman briefly outlined the history of the various general massacres and drew a vivid picture of the daily outrages to which they were subject. They were taxed for the privilege of living; they were not permitted to testify in court and they had absoiutely no recourse against the outrages which the en ries of the sultan perpetrated on their homes and families. The speaker stated that he had heard these stories from the lips of those who had themselves experienced these suf- terings, and that he had access to the cor- respondence of 250 Christians who had been residents of Turkey for from five to forty years. Without one exception all these writers agreed that the reports which had been obtalned In this country through the diplomatic correspondence of Consul Tyrrell were grossly Incorrect and utterly failed to do justice to the real situation. He main- tained that this question had within itself the lite or death of Oriental Christianity, and at the close of the regulan service he re- quested the members of the congregation to sign a petition which represented their sen- timents and was designed to aid in the work of crystallizing the sentiment of the Eng- lish speaking people in favor of foreign in- tervention for the protection of the Christian subjects of the sultan. sufferings UNION IN CHURCH WORI, of Rev. Dre. rts at the Neth-Eden Baptist. The pulpit at the Beth-Eden Baptist church was occupied yesterday ‘morning by Dr. W. W. Everts, jr., of Haverhill, Mass. The min- ister, who Is a son of the late Dr. Everts, who for more than twenty years was pastor of the First Baptistichurch of Chicago, iv a speaker of quiet foree, Whose words are de- livered with no attempt at great oratorical effect, but reac’, Jirectly the minds of listensrs with their tnpressivenese. Dr. Everts' sermon was an extemporaneous discourse on “The Church,” the principal idea conveyed being the great need of more unity among church workers. The entire sermon was an illusiration, the church being compared to the human body, the branches of one to the members and functions of the other. The preacher said that the first man, Adam, combined in himself all the faculties and showed the perfectness of the human being, the great handiwork of God. Since his time, with tha disseminatiop of the human race, these faculties had become scattered and no human being combines them in his one body. Consequently it was ne ry for good work that the members of an organ- ization like the church bring their faculti together so harmoniously that they form a unit. In the human body, continued the speaker, the varlous organs are necessary to each other—onc helps every other. The eye helps the ear and the ear hlps the nose, and th all work together to make up the faculties of the man. In the same way in the body of the church one man may have musical genius, another another quality, but the various members should combine these facul- ties for the good of the church in the same way as the organs unite to make the man. 1f, on the otfer hand, th> organs of the human body refused to assist each other as nature requires them the organization would be more or less broken up. In directly the same way it some member of the church re- fused to help by not donating his gifts for the good of the church, that church was more or lews injured. Very frequently a member Q1d refuse assistance from tne fact that some desire on his part had been thwarted; per- haps he failed to obtain some office in the chiurch- that he wished, and falsely arguing that_the church did not need him, he ar- rived at the conclusion that he did not need the church. Especially did it often happen that when some man was elected to some high position the other members envied him and b-came dissatisfied, to the injury of the church. The speaker went to length in show- ing the uncharitableness of such conduct, al- though he said it was very prevalent. T In your blood is the cause of that tired, languid feeling. Hood's Sarsaparilla mak rich, red blood and gives renewed vigor, —_— SPECIALS, CUT THIS OUT. The Missouri Pacific railway will sell round trip tickets at very low rates for the follow- ing: . KANSAS CITY, Half rates from September 30th to October 6th, limited for return October 7th. ST. LOUIS, MO. 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On Tuesday evening, October 8, grand parade of the Velled Prophet. For tickets and slecping car accommodations call at Wabash office, 1415 Farnam street, or at union depots, Omaba and Council Biufts, or write G. N. CLAYTON, N. W. P. Agent. Sermon e BURLINGTO. Homeseek: Excursions. October 8 and 22—south, southwest west. Just about half rates. Call at 1324 Farnam street and get full in- formaticn, or write to J. Franels, G. P. A, ROUT and Columbla Metal Polish, Cross Gun Qg IT I8 NO GUESS, Nut a Well Authentiented Faet. The general advantages of the place and the chances for a successful career for & man of moderate means, but plenty of pluck and energy, are so well established and authenti- cated by the testimony of all those who have had the good fortune to see for themselves the beautiful Orchard Homes region, that it 18 no wonder we have all we can do to an- swer the anxious inquiries of those who are determined to locate their and better their own condition in life and give their families all the advantages with which this favored Orchard Homes region abounds. A wonderfully fertile soll, one that never fails you, and a climate that Italy ftselt can- not rival, makes Orchard Homes one of the most delightful places in the world in which | to live. When you add to this the fact that for every acra of land there that you culti- vate nature unables you to harvest not one, but two to four crops each year, and crops that pay you all the way from $200 to $400 for each and every acre so worl , it Is not strange that the people are determined to go south just as soon and just as fast as they can get themselves in shape to do w0 and se- cure a home there, The abundance and pro- fusion of the fruit’ that grows there and the facility with which you can sell that same fruit for cash is only equalled by the ample and sure crops that the market gardener is sure of who gives to his vegetables the same amount of attention and care that any prudent man gives to whatever business he may chance to b2 engaged in. Plenty of mill, refreshing showers and a generous and kindly soll make it possible in conjunction with the long mild gons of the Orchard Homes country, to raise two, three and four crops of paying vegetables each year, g what Is more, to get your cash for them man In that ‘section who wishes to get the very best results from the marvelous and fertile soil nezds or should have so large a body of land as in_this country is nec sary to get a bare subsistence out of. Every foot of land In Orchard Hones can be utii ized, and every veg:table and fruit not strictly tropical, can be raised in paying quantities, The material advantages of th country In the way of living and the making of money easily are uncqualled in this coun- try and render it just the place for those of limited means to “settle in and build up a prosperous - home, live nicely and indo- pendently and have a snug sum to put in the bank each year. The deprivations and discomforts of a frontier life are not to be encountered in Orchard Homes. On the contrary, you have | good churches, fine schools, a siate uni- | versity and also a state college for the sepa rate education of women, a + of society | that welcomes every new comer that i worthy of a welcome, and makes as pleasant a home for you socially as you can imagine. | To all these good qualities add that you have | good roads, good water, beautiful flowers, | shrubs and trees to embellish and adorn the | landscape, and the finest climate under the | sun to enjoy and thrive in. It will pay any thinking person who does nui yet compre- hend the great advantages of Orchard Homes | and who does not realize why so many people are going there to at onc George W. Ames, general agent, 1617 Far- nam street, Omaha, Neb., and get all the particulars as to how to get there, cost of | trip and when the next party will start for | Orchard Homes. | ——— | PACIFIC NGINEERS, see or write to | | UNION Biennial ¢ f Nrotherl a in Omau sdny. | Beginning today a biennial meeting of the | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for the Union Pacific system will be held in this city. The se:sions will be at Royal Arcanum hall. About sixteen delegates will be in attendance. Those who arrived yesterday are: W. J. | Ingling, Peter Grant, Pocatello; Frank Gin- | nell, Evansten, Wyo.; W. enne; Albert Flood, Rawlins; P. Mathison, Laramie; A. Preece, Salt Lake; J. C. Strahn, | North Platte. Chafrman George W. Vroman and other delegates will arrive this morning. The convention. will last two or three days. Headquarters for delegates are at the Arcade, As a matter of convenience the biennial meeting of the grievance commitice of the Order of Railway Conductors for the Union Pacifie is held colncident with the engineers’ meeting. Its deliberations will be at the Del- lone hotel. Chairman E. D. Woodmansee of Cheyenne, Secretary N. R. McBride of Grand Island, J. H. Sullivan of Rawlins, W. G Lane of Pocatello, Ed Boyd of Ogden, and Mr. Stone of North Platte, are here. Mr. Hinckley of Denver will arrive this morning. The officers say taat no special matters are to come up. Diphtheria Discovered When a case of diptheria is reported the whole town i in an uproar. It is wise to b prepared for all such emergencies! There i no cause for alarm if you have Allen’s Hy glenic Fluld at hand. Contagion is impossibl when it is used. 1t is a preventive medicine —adisinfectant, deodorant and germ Killer, and | has a remarkably agreeable taste and odor. It not only prevents disease, but is cleansing | and healing. Refined prople everywhere use it ARA S. McGuire, Chey- | PERSONAL ARAPHS, Attorney Ira D. Marston of Kearney is at the Millard. Attorney E. F. Warren of Nebraska City is at the Dellone, R J. L. Brush, stock shipper, Greeley, Colo., is a Paxton guest. William L. M/l Fox, is at thy Barker. Joseph Kraus, cigar manufacturer of Ni York, is at the Delione. The Rush City company are making Barker their headquarter W. S. and E. R. Grifith company are at the Barker. S. Mathews and Harry Bulger of the Rush City company are at the Barker. Sidney Wilmer of the Sl La company s a guest at the Barker. United States Senator Warren of Wyoming was seen inspecting the union depot yesterdap morning. R. W. Rosenegk of Milwaukee, with the Pabst Brewing company, is at the Paxton, ac- companied by Mrs. Rosenegk Dr. B. T. Whitmore of Chicago, formerly with' the Mercer Chemical company of this city, Is registered at the Paxton. Charles Barton, son of Guy C. Barton, re- turned to this city yesterday ternoon to spend a few days at home. For some time he has been looking after mining Interests in New Mexico. President S. H. H. Clark, General Manager Edward Dickinson, General Passenger Agent E. L. Lomax, of the Union Pacific, accom- panied by a party of friends, arrived in Omaha yesterday. They came from Chicago and will be here a few days looking after the interests of the road. Colonel R. M. Fraser agent for Conroy and the of the Mexico Stock and wife of St. Louls are in the city visiting Mr. Fraser's sister, Mrs, E. P. Roggen. Colonel Fraser is general freight agent of the Baltimore & Ohio South- western Rallway company, and has been with the present system since 186! He is much pleased to find Omaha interests prospering. Nebraskans at the Ho At the Paxton—F. J, Nugent, At the Millard—Carleton Saunders, man. At_the Merchants—John 8. Kay, Ewing; J. 8. Berger, Rushville; R. E.' Rogers, Grand Island; W. S. Cornutt, Culbertson. els. Ancoln. Her- Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, DR MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Frec from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterani, 40_YEARS THE STANDARD, U | L H i r L ] 5 ) 5 o ) HYGIENIC. .. FLEECED-LINED UNDERWEAR Jac A picnic is not a success unless there is pie to throw away. Many a good thing is thrown away here that would make good food for many a dealer. That 85¢ underwear—for instance. Take a sample, go anywhere and everywhere, where underwear is sold, and compare it side by side with anything as nearly as possible. Find it for less than—say at tho cheapest store—60¢, then we'll supply your underwear free of charge. Same thing last winter, 50e—2 winters ago, 0 Fl patent; color, light brown. cod-lined, warm and Gurable, wash splendidly, of the hygienio Como along all of this woek if you want any. Plenty for every- body. 400 dozen are here, and a couple of hundred to come. A line of mixed gray Better grades are Some cheaper underweac if you want any. tton, extra heavy, at 25, that are cheap at 40c. o—$1.00—$1.25 and $1.60. [P o 5 e 0 o P e = T O] Not So Convenient. Physicians indorse Ripans Tab- ules by prescribing the remedies they contain, but often in form not so convenient, inexpensive and ac- curate as in Ripans Tabules. Ripan's Tabules, it the price (; pans Che Sold by drugglsts, or by mail cents a box) Ix sent to th Company, No. 10 Spruce st., [ e [ E R erom GASOLINE DIRECT FROM THE TANK. GHEAPER THAN STEAM. No Boller. Ng Stea No Engineer. BEST POWER for'Corn und Feed Millx, Baling Huy, Running Separators, Creumeries, &o. OTT0 GASOLINE ENGINE. Stationary or Portabie. 1to 120 H. P, 8o 50 H. P. Send for Catalogue, Prices, ete., describing work to bo dono, } ORCHARD HOMES NO PLACE ON EARTH Offers greater advantages to the Intelligent ou now do here will give four times th Altive country. | Twenty to forty acres in this land of pleny 1n enough o Work and Is sure to make you money. Da the work and the results r secured; there 18 no such thing as failure, ~The people are friendiy; school charches newspapers, are pleity; rallroad facilities fine and a soil why Fichness ls wisurpaesed, ail invitd the entcrprising man who wants to bet- ter his own condition &nd that of his family. settler. One-half the work results in this wonderfully pro- Two and Three Crops Can be Successfully Grown the ame Year Timber fs abundant—Lumber {3 cheap—Fuel costs nothing—Cattle are easily raised and fattensd—Grazing is fine all the year. CLIMATE healthy and delightful; land and sea breezes and ool nights, mp:ru‘zru i ?z 0 66 degre The average rainfall i 50 extréme of heat or cold; sufficlent rain for all crops, 20 TO 40 ACRES roperly worked inakes you mere money and makes It easter than the best G0-acre farm ih the west, Garden products are a wonderful yicld and al ring big price Btrawberries, peaches, plums, apricoty, §ruves, pears, , early apples, in fact all small frul ‘6 sure and profitable crops. P The mean inches. No NO HOT WINDS, NO FLOOD, NO HEATED TERMS, NO BLIZZARDS, NO CuLD SNAPS, NO LONG COLD WINTERS. NO CROP FAILURES. reat frult growing and vegetablo raising district of the South, A woll bt “alnes Bnyibing that grows and & location from which you Feach the markets of the whole country. Your fruits and garden truck gold ‘o the ground and placed In Chicago, St. Louls and New Orlvans markets 1 12 to 24 hours.—In this gerden spot of America. The Most Equable Climate in America. Orchard Homes o most carefully selected lands fn the best fruit and garden soctlons #e no?'u&':‘sr”xln'n.rr.(:n‘fl 5t (an to for ty @ores i reasonabie prices and terms ‘to Hiose who wish to avail themselves of the wonderful resources of the couns iry now attracting the great tide of immigration. 20 TO 40 ACRES arvelous reglon with Its perfect climate and rich_ sol 1Bt e Yobi Mmore Toney and make It faster and ‘e TorKifnore farm fn the wost. Garden products are an lmmenso yield e e can Wil the year round. Btrawberries, agricots, plums, peachs BEine Pek ey Apples, flgs, oranges—all small Gullg-ure an early and very profitable crop. GO SOUTH, GO SOUTH — our opportunity. The people are friendly; schools eMioient; rats Srogvessive: ohurchios liberal. The enierprising man who wants to Baper B Elondition of mimself and his family. should investigate this mats tor and he whl be conyi Caretuly selecied Trul growilly nd garten fer and he Ml 810 % 20 acres we now offer on Jiberal termy ald Feasbhable hose™ ‘Correspondence. solicited GEO. W, AMES, General Agent 1617 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. NO DROUTHS, It properal er !hm 'h&