Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 14, 1895, Page 8

e s e ——— R — Yo T 8 THE OMAHNA DAILY BEE:” MONDAY, T00 MUCH ROOM AT THE TOP Expensive Bchool Buperstruotures and Neglected Foundations, DEMAND FOR ROOM AT THE FOOT Ausplelous Opening of the College Yenr—Marricd Women as Tenchers ~Decadence of the Country School — Edueatl Note The tendency of public school management | in recent years has been markedly toward supplying the superstructure with all neces- sarics to the manifest neglect of the founda- tion. It is particularly noticeable in the large clties, where there is a woeful lack ot accommodations for children in primary schools, while In the higher grades there fs an abundance of room. This condition pro- vokes sharp criticism. Tho press of Chicago vigorously assails the system, which has there reached the proportions of ja public scandal, and insist on the equality of all | puplls, regardless of the educational stand- ing. In the public schools of Chicago there was a total enrollment in 1894-5 of 220,179 pupils Of this number only 7,589 were registered at the high schools, and when the school year closed on June , 1805, the attendance at the high schools had diminished consider ably. From these schools, which cost for maintenance $306,455.18, thero were gradu- ated 725 young men and young women. These figures show an average cost for the total enrolled number of $46.97, and for the graduates of $505.45. The number graduated was less than 3% per cent of the total school attendance, and this was extraordinarily large. As against this comparatively small proportion of puplls on whom was expended the sum of $366,000 was the great army of 143,302 In the pr y and 49,914 the grammar grades, most of whom will never sce the inside of a high scheol. In other words, nearly 20 per cent of the achool funds of the city of Chicago last year was spent in the high schools and in speci studies, whilo only 3.8 per cent of the pupi was enrolled in those schools. Chicago has a lower percentage of its children in the high schools than any other large city whose fig ures have been taken, excopt Louls, Minneapolis has 7.6 per cent, Cleveland 5.9 Boston 5.9, Cincinnati 4.4, Milwaukee 4, and Chicago but 3.8 per cent. In the meantime, both in the buildings ownad by the city and the rooms rented for school purposes, there were but 186,848 seats to accommodate the 210,280 pupils, and, though thore Is plenty of room in the high schools, 14,432 pupils of the lower grades could not be accommodated with sea s0 twice that number had to be put off with half a day's schooling a day. When this fall thousands of children denled admission for lack of room AN IMPORTANT EVENT. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the opening of the eollegiate year is a more Important event than the opening of a session of congress, says Harper's Weekly. The growth of the American colleges in numbers and wealth during the past thirty years has been one of the great facts in our history. It has been mpanied by a corresponding increase In the colleglate life on politics and other institution—religious, poli —has grown as the college b the schools had opened to be it is fortunate to reflect that its influence has been wholly beneficial, It was at the beginning of what may be called the present era t Greeley appealed to ho sald: “Of from a college the late Horaco broad prejudice when all_horned eattle, deliver me duate.” If any such preju- dice still survives, it does not show itself in so boastful a form. Any expression of contempt for education is now treated as a deflance of common sense. The collegs edu- catlon of this country has vindieated itself by the service it has rendered to the cause of good government. The college influence has been clearly discernible in every move- ment to remedy the evils and abuses which have called for reform. One of the characteristics of college life says Leslie's Weekly, is. the increasing ind pendence of the coilege student. He has ceased to be a boy; he has become a man. He now has the freedom of choosing his studies to a large degree, and is not obliged to follow a system prescribed for him. I 0 his manner of lite, poor though 1t w not yet in his manner of thinking, though that ‘may have been narrow. Let any ean- did observer go into a neighborhood where the land has been tilled by the same family for generations and let him find & farm whers there are still three generations upon it. He 18 almost sure to find that those of the old- est generation can speak, write and think with more acéuracy than the second genera- tion, and that the second generation will show more evidences of education than the third. This shows degeneration, and this de- generation can be directly traced to the de- cadence of the country public schools, which now are really beneath discussion, were there not a hope that by telling of their badness some interest might be excited, and that through this interest they might be improved. We do not want an ignorant peasantry in this country—we have no use for peasants. But we are getting such a class, both by importation and by breeding. The , city schools are bad enough in all conscience; the principle which controls their government le both false and corrupt, but they are fountains of light compared with the country schools that prevail in the United States today. In a country school, as at present governed, the more a teacher knows the less is his or her ability to accomplish anything, so those who are wise and politic do as little as possi- ble, hoping thereby to escape the hostile Judgment of fgnorant school committeemen. In a country district the clergymen, the phy- sicians and the lawyers should be asked to serve on the school committee, for men of these professions presumably have some edu- cation, But the noisy and disputatious vil- lage busybodies are usually those chosen. There is no use in refusing to look facts squarely in the face, and the fact that coun- try people—agricultural people—are growing more gnorant generation by generation is so patent that instances or groups of instances ueed not be recited to prove it. The mere spending of more money on country schools will not effect any reform. The states, for a whilo at least, must take the schools in rural districts under control.” w SRICA. L STUDY AME stnug Han What the « 1 1 Colleme Undertaken to Do, The Chautauqua college is making arrange- ments for its third year's course of etudy and lectures. Two years ago this institution was organized by Mr. Crane and his co- s at the First Methodist church, It success from the start. Many of the most prominent men of Nebraska and lowa delivered lectures before the college, and at 1 t two hundred persons took up the course worke was a of reading. The second year the success was still more marked. It Is expected that this year will be the best of all. college, not because it Is a school, but the word college is uged in its more general sense, meaning merely a col- lection of students. It is designed to assis and encourage all who wish to follow a sys- tematic course of useful reading. The name Chautauqua in its title arises from the fact that the books of the C. L. S. C. are used as (the course of reading, these being selected be they are already prepared, and are probably better adapted to the purposes of general culture than any others that could be chosen. Although the college is held at the First Methodist church, it is entirely undenomina- tional, and very many of its members are not members of the church. Among those who attend its sessions are many professional men, school teachers, as well as mothers and quite a sprinkling of working men, The in- stitution seems pecullarly adapted to cateh all those who wish to become better posted on general culture, but who do mot care to subject themselves to any rigid curriculum or examination. It is designed upon the most liberal scheme, Its prospectus naively sets forth that there are “‘no rules, no constitution, no by-laws, no dues, no fe and no qualifications as to moral character.”” The exercises of the ses- slons are divided in two par the first hour for reyiews, questions and discussions on the course of study, and the second hour for a talk or lecture from some representa- tive man. The prospectus says: This 1s our plan, A book and a man, Among those who have addressed the ses- sions in the past are George D. Herron, Rev. Leo M. Franklin, ex-Governor Crounse, Pres- ident Johnson of Wyoming State university, ex-President Quayle of Kansas City, Presi- dent King of Towa college, William J. Bryan, ter, Bishop Newman, Mrs. Peattie, . Keysor, E. W. Halford and Henry D. tabrook. It will thus be seen that the scope s broad, the mm being to bring the members into touch with men and women representative of all shades of culture and be- liet. It is calied a shows his manhood and his manliness in the absence of tricks and the spirit of trick- iness. It is no longer a mark of the ablest man to steal the tongue of the collzge bell or to get a cow into chapel ready for mo ing prayers, or to bedaub the walls of the recitation halls with outlandish pictures. The college man has become independent, and has also become, usually, a gentleman, The introduction of athletics as a s 1s a second change in the order life. For more than a generation has been played in the American college, and also for more than a generation gym- nastic work has been done; but it was not until within a few years that athletics have held the largs and strong place they now hold. 1In the opinion of some this piace is too large and too strong, and probably in some institutions ‘they do occupy too large a place in the lives of the students. But on the whole it must be acknowledged that athletics have done more good than harm. A third characteristic of the American col- lege life today is its increasing luxurious- ness. It is a well known and sad fact that the cost of getting a college education is now far larger than it used to be. It has in- creased two or three fold. This increase is slmply a part of the increased cost of Ameri- can living. It costs a family in New York twice as much to live now as it did before the war. Huteit is always to be sald that college life should not become luxurious. The cost of college education should be kept as low as possible. The scale of expenditure among the students should also be narrowed. There should be at least one place where men should be measured, not by their wealth, nor by the luxuriousness of their apartments, nor by the elegance of their garments, but by their sheer and simple manhood. = The American college could hardly do a better thing for American life than by in every way seeking (o illustrate the truth that the great verities, the cardinal virtues, aro the supreme things in life, MARRIED WOM There is one married ste of college foot_ball AS TEACHERS, woman teaching in the public schools of Kansas City cut of a total of 350 instructors. The rule with the Board of Education, says the Kansas City Star, is to not employ any married women as teachers who are not over 45 years old This regulation presupposes that women of that age have no pressing family duties which can interfere with their professional duties and that they are In a position to give all of the attentlon to their school work which i required. This policy has been adopted in St. Paul, where the Board of Ed- yeation has decided by a unanimous vote not to employ married women as teachers in the schools. The same rule has been es- tablished In many other citie a very thorough discussion of its expe and propriety, School teaching Is like any other business. To pursue it with suecessful and satlsfactory results the teacher must hold it as a primary consideration and make other matters subordinate to her calling., 1t is scarcely possible for a woman with a family to do this, She may have all of the other Qualifications of a first-class teacher, but her thought and care are bound to be divided, and it is only natural that her husband and her children—If she be a mother—should be the first objects of her concern. This may work severe hardship in individual cases where married women are compelled to sup port their families and where they have been accustomed to doing this by teaching, but the custom, which is becoming general in all of the large cities and towns, Is founded upon good reasons and not on the foolish assumption that when a woman gets married she. forfeits the privilege of doing anything for hersel and is an interloper if she attempts to compete with women who are without conjugal protectors, INEFFICIENCY OF COUNTRY In a paper fn the October Fo Gilmer Speed ks the cour schools and contends that terlorated as to create as “illiterate learned a class of people as can b any clvilized state in the worll” “The Amerlcan farmer of two geuerations ago,” he writes, “‘was a better educated mau than is the Awmerican tarmer of today. No one SCHOOLS um Joh y pub they have d un The institution s as prosperous financially as it is educationally. In order to clear e penses for last year it secured Frank G Carpenter’s lectures for a final entertain- ment to which admission was charged, and by this means pald all the expenses of tho year d cleared a few hundred dollars besld The books of this year are written simply enough, so that any one with a common sehool education can easily unders them. It is distinctly a popular cour: “The Growth of the American Nation,” by H. P. Judseon, professor of political science in the University of Chicago, leads the list. Then follows ‘‘The Industrial Evolution of the United States,” by Carroll D. Wright, United States commissioner of labor; “Initial Studies in Amerfean Letters,” by H. A. Beers, pro- fessor of English literature in Ya ome Pirst Steps in Human Propress, Prof. by Frederick Star of the University of Chicago, and “Thinking, Feeling, Doing.” by E. W. Seripure, direc'or of the psychological labora- tory ot Yale. There will be a meeting for organization at the First Methodist church next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, to which all who are interested are invited. Here the plans will ba more fully discussed, and the books them- selves will be on exhibition. The public gen- erally is invited. Arrangements will be made by which members of this college can obtain the books at much cheaper rates than usual, = au 1 Notew. ow York's night schools this year have 40,000 pupils. The St. Paul school board has decided that no woman who has a husband able to sup- port her may be employed as a teacher. It Is proposed to introduce into the public schools of Canada regular inspection of the tecth of all pupils by experts appointed for the purpose. The lowa State Normal school enrolled §77 students the first of the present school year, and the total enrollment will reach 1,000 There are now twenty-eight persons in’ the faculty. The officlal list of the Catholic university at Washington has been increased by the addition of registrar. The first Incumbent of the position is P. Robinson, a son of Prof. Robinson of the faculty of social sclences, Mr. Robinson is a graduate of e, in the class of '86, and of Yale law will In no other country in the world is there so much money appropriated by private citizens to the cause of education as in the United States. And as a result there were gathered during the past year Into our schools, colleges and universities 15,530,268 of the youth of our land. This Is equai to nearly one-fourth of our entire population. By order of the New York Board of Health the use of slates, slate pencils and sponges has begn discontinued in the schools of that city. Pens and lead pencils will be used hereafter and they must not be transferred trom one pupil to another. This is to pre- vent the Interchange of disease germs. Prop- erty left by a child sick with a contagious diseass must_be disinfected or destroyed. Books taken to their homes by pupils must be covered once a month with brown manilla paper. Places for drinking water on the ground floor of school houses will be abolished and coverad pitchers will be provided for each classroom. Every pupil will have a num- bered cup and the interchange of cups s pro- hibited, Omahn Sch Notes. Miss Sanford of the High school has been quite seriously ill for several days. She fv reported better, Miss Mary E. to Fort Omaha and [ schol. Broadhurst, Janitor of the Walnut Hill has received serious injurles by fall- fin_has been Miss transferred Robertson to the M. school, ing from a stepladder. The recent changes at Dodge leave Miss Milroy In charge of sixth grade, while Miss Kean has a first grade. Miss Jennle E. Fair, the training teacher at Mason, was detained from her duties by Illness a part of last wee would ever have thought of calling him a peasant; he did mot suggest suck a thing io physieal culture meets on Saturday even- iuga | A teacher is much needed for an | Lincoln Saturday. enthusiastic group who wish to devote thelr energles to English conversation, Mr. A. P. Tukey, ex-Superintendent Marble and Superintendent Pearse were visitors at the Lathrop school Wednesday. The ninth and tenth grades have held class meetings and perfected arrangements for tho seamon’s rhetorical work, Oon Friday the senior High school class held its first rhetoricals. One of the best essays was that of Miss Josephine Bell. Music was her theme. The ninth grade has selected Mr. Woolery s class teacher, while the tenth has be- stowed that honor upon Miss Towne, The class teacher has charge of the class during its debates, discussions and class meetings. Superintendent Pearse, Principals M- Shane, Hamilton, Newton and others were in attendance at the state superintendents’ and principals’ meeting, which was held in Mr. Pearse and Mrs, Newton bore a part In the program. Miss Hiast of Cass has been sent to Pa- cific and Miss Smith, one of the assigned teachers, is temporarily without a position. Miss Bess Skinner, one of the cadets in the city training school, departs in a few days for Chicago to attend the Cook County Normal school. Many of the teachers are enterlng the classes now organizing under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian assoclation, The list for German, under Miss Walker of the High school, Is not yet complete, The orchestra starts' under ~promising circum- stances. Eight have already begun practice, More violins are needed. Miss Harper's class The Park school contests in writing con- tinue, Formal challenges were sent last week by the sixth to the fifth grade. These challenges were very unique. The fifth grade, however, won this time. The sixth grade puplls, While accepting defeat with grace, declare themselves unconquerable and cry the challenge for next week to ba one not of slates and pencils but of pen and ink. SOUTH OMAHA NEWS The most Important matter which will come before the city council at its session this evening will be the awarding of contracts for the repairs of the L street and the Q street viaducts, At the last meeting three bids were opened, but no contract was let. Both bridges are in such shape now that something must be done at once in order to prevent serious accidents. The planking on both viaducts is in very bad shape and could last but a little while longer. On the Q street bridge nearly one- half of the flooring is loose and many of the planks are warped all out of shape and are from two to six inches above the roadbed at the loose ends. It {s a wonder that horses crossing In the night have not stumbled and fell before this. Councilman Mies said yes- terday that below the rotten plank which is exposed the timber supports are rotten, and the whole bridge needs immediate atten- tion. The L street bridge is in better shape than the other, but needs some repairs before win- ter sets in. School Property for Postoffice Site, At a special meeting of the Board of Edu- catlon held Saturday evening it was decided to dig the old well at the east Albright school deeper and try to get along this winter with the supply a deeper well would furnish. A contract was let for the work, the contractor agreeing to dig until he struck water or no pay. Messrs. Cheek, Talbot and Slate were ap- pointed a committee to draft a bid for the sale of the school property at Twenty-sixth and M streets to the government for a post- office site. The board is very anxious to dis- nose of this property, as by so doing the running expenses of the schools could be paid without additional taxation and a nest egg for a new High school building be secured. Magice City Gossip. A number of South Omaha people will go out to Papillion today to attend the McCarty trial. Jack Hughes fell last night on Twenty- fourth street and broke his left leg just above te ankle. At the First Methodist church yesterday forencon the newly appointed pastor, Rev. Winship, preached his introductory sermon. Mr. and Mre. B. E. Hawley have returned from their wedding trip and have moved in a pretty cottage at 735 North Twenty-fifth street. Miss Jessle Brown Crommett will give a recital at the First Methodist church this evening, which will be fo'lowed by a musical program. Chief Brennan yesterday ordered the front doors of saloons to be kept closed and locked. The thirsty were, however, permitted to enter a side or rear door. A large number of Omaha and Council Bluffs Germans were present at last evening to witness the pres the ‘“Daughter of the Regiment talent. Rev. David R. Kerr, president of the Belle- vue college, delivered a sermon at the First Presbyterian church yesterday forenoon. In the evening the pastor, Rev. Dr. Wheeler, preached on “For Me to Live Is Christ. —_—— HOME OMAHA. BUILDING I Number of Pretty H Er i In spite of the dull times a large number of attractive and substantial houses are being bullt in Omaha to be occupied by the owners. While a number of these residences are being erected in the north and west parts of the city, the building is more particularly noticed on the south side. There are no less than seven fine residences in course of erection between Harney street and Hanscom park. One of the most expensive is that of Mr. Fred Metz on Twenty-eighth street near Howard, the inside finish being as fine as in any residence in the city. Much less pre- tentious, but even more artistic, is the cot- tage being built on the corner of Twenty- seventh and Howard by Mr. H. H. Harder, in the building of which Mr. Harder has in- corporated a number of ideas obtained during the summer from photographs and personal inspection of the newer seashore cottages. The interior finish is quarter sawed white oak, while nearly the whole of the exterior will be covered with shingle stain. A little further south on Georgla avenue is nearing completion the beautiful $10,000 residence of Mr. John Knox. Mr. Knox has spared no money to make his home substan- tial and comfortable, and withal it is exceed- ingly attractive. Mr. Johnson is erecting a home immediately north of Mr. Knox, which, while not o expensive as that of the latter, will be a credit to Georgia avenue, that street of pretty homes. About a block further north, on Park ave- nue, is the still incompleted home of Mr. Draper Smith. Mr. Smith's location Is most fortunate because of its elevation and sur- roundings, while the house gives every evi- dence of first class construction and arrange- ment. Mr. Allee, assitant auditor of the Burling- ton, is building among the trees on Thirtieth avenue, within a stone's throw of Hanscom park. This house will,cost about $4,000, and for tastefulness in arrangement as well as in cutside elevations can scarcely be equaled in Omaba for the money. A beautiful residence site is that selected by John Forbes for his home at the northwest corner of Hanscom park. Mr. Forbes is com- pleting a beautiful cottage home. Sl That Joyful Feellng With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength and internal cleanliness, which follows the use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old time medicines and the cheap substi- tutes sometimes offered but mever accepted by the well informed sew In Course of CHEAP RA SOUTH Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta Tickets now on sale through Chicago via Pennsylvania Short Line. Ask agents sell- ing to Chicago for tickets over this through rcute, via Cincinnatl and Chattancoga, or apply to Dering, 248 South Clark st., Chicago. et boys' race Saturday at Council Bluffs, and as usual came out first. The popular West- ern Unlon messenger, Ralph Brown, was the boy who rede it. —_— Dr, Balley, dentist, Paxton block. Columbla Metal Polish, Cross Gun Co, There was only one National wheel in the | OCTOBER 1 MEETING 0% SWITCHME First Annual Gathering of the New Organ- ization Today. RULES AND POLICY ABETO BE DETERMINED Gratifylng Grewth of the Union in the Laxt YenwsOwer One Hundred Delegntes Expected—Grand Master Sweeney Talks, The first annual convention of the Switchmen's Unfon of North America will be held in Creighton hall in this city, be- glnning today. As much of the future suc- cess of the organization will depend on the results of this convention, its proceedings will be watched with more than the ordinary interest by the railroad workers, and espe- clally the switchmen of the United States and Canada, The Switchmen's unfon is yet a young or- ganization. When the gavel of Grand Master Sweeney falls at Creighton hall this morning it will mark the first anniversary of its ex- istence and inaugurate the proceedings which are to determine the lines the union is to follow. When the old Switchmen's Mutual Ald association was disbanded a year ago last July the switchmen of this continent were left without that thorough and enthusi- astic organization which hud always taken the lead in the effort to advance the interests of railroad employes. But it was but a few months before the most prominent and con- servative elements of the old assocfation met in Kansas City and proceeded to form the nucleus of a new organization. This was mainly founded on the same principles which had guided the old union, but there was added an element of conscrvatism which was the product of the experience of the former organization. GROWTH OF A YEAR, In the single year that has lapsed since this reorganization the Switchmen’s union has attained a prominence which promises to equal if not surpass the prestige of the old Mutual Aid. The beginning at Kansas City has spread into an organization which covers nearly all the principal cities of the United States and Canada. There are now sevent five lodges, with a total membership of 5,000 switchmen, and Secretary Dougherty has now in his possession the applications of 100 other cities where lodges will be formed as soon as the reports which will be rendered to the present convention signify that the new organization has come to stay. Just low long the delegates will be occupled iu Omaba is a matter of conjecture. There is much important business to be accomplished. It is expected that the convention will be in s:ssion for the greater part of the week, and it may require ten days to satisfactorily ad- Just all the questions that demand consider- ation. The most important matter that will come before the convention will be the movement to include an Insurance system in the features of the arganization. The old asso- ciation was an insunance organization, but when the union was organized last year the leaders felt that it would not be wise to at- tempt too much the first year. Consequently the matter of Insurance was left for future consideration. It is believed that the general sentiment of the delegates wlll be in favor of insurance. Whether It is to be optional or compulsory will depend on the views which will be represented by the delegates. These are all instructed by their lodges and the future policy of the union in this respect will be moulded by ine opinions of a ma- jority of its members as presented by their elegates. Most of the delegates came in on yester- day's traine, but quite a number are not ex- pected until some time today. It is expected that there will be about 125 delegates in all. The headquarters of the general officers is at the Millard hotel, where nearly all of them are registered. by present oflicers of the union are: Grand master, D. D. Sweeney, Jersey City, N. J.; vice grand master, M. R. Conlan, Kansas Cily, Kan.; secretary and treasurer, John Dougherly, Kansas City, Mo. The board of directors consists of F. D. Mar- tinbee, La Crosse, Wis., chairman; H. C. Nelson, Kansas City, Mo, secretary, and M. R. Weich, Omaha, GRAND MASTER IS SANGUINE. Grand Master Sweeney was among the officlals who arrived yesterday. He is en- thusiastic over the success which had marked the first year of the new organization and believes that the Switchmen's union will de- velop into a greater power than the old or- ganization. “It is only a question of time,” said Mr. Sweeney, “when we will regain all the prestige that perished with the old asso- ciation a year and a half ago. We have been recognized by many of the leading rail- roads and have already won some great vie- tories for our members. As soon as the switchmen of the country become satisfied that we mean business and that we are suc- cessful they will all hasten to join us, and I look for a tremendous gain during the com- Ing year. The fact that we have progressed as we have in a year when many switchmen have been out of employment and the burden of the hard times has been felt on overy hand, and by the railroads and their employes most of all, is sufficient gratification. I an- ticipate a ‘very Interesting convention, al- though this is at a season when it is difficult to obtain a full representation of delegates. The crops are beginning to move and the rail- roads need every switchman in their employ. It has been almost impossible for the dele- gates to get away, but we count on a fairly full representation of the lodges in this coun- try. It is doubtful whether the Canadian delegates will be able to come in any number.” Grand Master Sweeney is proud of the fact that the new union has not yet had a strike. He says that It proceeds on the principle that more is to be gained by arbitration than by striking, and the experience of the first year has tended to confirm that opinion. In cases where there were differences between the railroad companies and the union the watter was arbitrated, and in every case so far the switchmen have In the end obtained all they demanded. Mr. Sweeney s of the opin- fon’ that a law will be passed at the coming session of the national legisiature which will compel the corporations to submit all differ- ences between themselves and their employes to arbitration, and that the day of strikes with their disastrous consequences, both to employer and employed, is practically over, b il A Silent Appeal for Help. When your kidneys and bladder are inac- tive they are making a silent appeal for help. Don't disregard it, but with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters safely impel them to activity. They are in immediate danger, and it is fool- hardiness to shut one's eyes to the fact. Be wise in time, too, If you experience mani- festations of dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatism, constipation or merve trouble. ~The Bitters before a meal adds zest. to it. Young Men's dnstitute Socinls, Carroll council Na. 141, Young Men's In- stitute, Is bestirring. itselt and planning a variety of entertalmment for members during the lengthening evenings of fall and winter. A musical smoker' is on the card for next Tuesday evening, and on October 23 the sec- ond of its series of limvitation soclals will be given at Crelghten hall. # The district deputy of the Young Men's Institute visited Linceln a week ago yester- day at the requestcof the local Catholic club to explain the principles and purposes of the Young Men's Institute, The Lincoln club de- sires to afliate with a national club and 1n likely to bécome a council of the Young Men's Institute, —— Scarlet Fever Signs Up, The prevalence of scarlet fever or any other contaglous disease need not alarm you it you use Allen's Hygienlc Fluid. It s the ideal preventive medicine—cleansing, purifying and healing. No household should be without it, - Walking for a Wager PAWTUCKET, R. I, Oct. 13.—William P, Donnelly of this city started to walk from here to Sacramento, Cal, a distance of 3,000 miles, at 12:30 o'clock. The start was made from the city hall, and the distance ‘must be covered within eighty-two days, on a wager of $1,00 made with a Providénce newspaper. The conditions also include that he shall trundle a wheelbarrow the cntire distance. He expects to reach his destina- tion before Christmus. — - For beauty, for comfort, for improven,ent of the complexion. use only Pozzonl's Pow- der; there is nthing to equal it. ARTEMUS WARD'S YOUTH, The Part He Took In Disew Norway Lycenm. Some new yarns come down from Oxtord county, relates the Lewlston (Me) Jour- nal, concerning the gentle and whimsical showman, Artemus Ward, whose life was an exemplification of his pet motto: P, 8.— U skratch mi back & flo skratch ures.” Dr. 0. N. Bradbury of Norway in hunting among his papers recently discovered the manu- script of an article that was contributed to the Cartharian Rill, a Norway Lyceum paper, by Charles Farrar Brown (Artemus Ward). He was at that time a student at the Nor- way Liberal institute, eking out his scanty means by working in the Advertiser office. The sketch in Dr. Bradbury's possession 1s a mock advertisement, and it Is undoubt- edly Artemus Ward's first humorous contri- bution to any publication. The young stu- dent had two small rooms back of the large room used by the Advertiser. These rooms were poorly finished and poorly furnished, being quite guiltless of paint and without carpets. The windows were covered with old newspapers for curtains, and upright boards matched together took the place of lathing and plastering. A small second- hand cook stove, a rude affair of an uncer- taln age, was used for warming purposes and also for cooking in a modest way, a part of the time at least. He saved expens:s, as many other country boys did at that time, by boarding himself. One leg of the stove had been broken, but was carefully supplemented by pieces of brick. This arrangement of surroundings appeared to satisfy the student quite well. It made little difference to him, as his old schoolmates will remember, whether the legs of his trousers were outside of his boots or in them. Tipped well back in his chair, with his boots on the table, was the favorite attitude, and he always appeared quite ob- livious of his surrounding: He had an easy, happy-go-lucky way, and a drawl in speaking that were inimitable. If he spoke on the question in lyceums he was quite sure to take a humorous view of the subject and was original in his method of conducting the argument. Young Brown had participated in these debates only a short time when his humorous methods of discussing the question and the unexpected fanciful turns he often gave the debates were 8o appreciated by the citizens of Nor- way that large audiences assembled when Charlie Brown was announced as one of the debaters. On the evenings when the debates were held he would lounge into the hall quite early, and after greeting his more intimate friends, take one of the thres wooden-hot- tomed chairs, and placing it upon the raised platform, which extended along the north end of the hall, sit down. In a short time he would tip his chair so as to balance it upon the hind legs, with his shoulders against the partition, and with his left foot on the tront round of the chair, his right leg crossed over his left knee, and ‘arms folded upon his breast, sit almost motionless during the cvening, except when called upon to partici- pate in the debate. As no other student except the president sat on this platform, this pecullarity of Charlie Brown was quite noticeable. The more mischievous students often tried schemes with strings and wires to tip over his chair, but they never caught him napping. When his turn came to speak he would lounge out to the middle of the platform, where he would face his audience and in his peculiar, easy, careless manner begin his argument. The other students stood between the aisles among their audlences when speaking, so that Charlie Brown's more conspicuous posi- tion on the raised platform was another no- ticeable oddity. De Mr. H. A of the death of his fath his home In nton, Pa ing. Deceased was well kr this city, where he resi any months of late vears. He was over years of age, and celebrated his golden wedding in Omaha four years ago. Opening of Y. M. A. Night School. This evening William E. Chancellor, pres- ident of the Lincoln Polytechnic Institute, delivers the addr at the opening of the night echool of the Young Men's Christian lation, he High School Mandolin and suitar club will play, Miss Mae Robinson will sing and the instructors will be pre- sented to the students. The public is invited to attend. PERSONAL H. Doud, at Saturday even- own to many tn with his son for ARAG RAPHS. Dell Akin of Atkinson is at the Mer- chants Mr. C. E. Wilkins, Philadelphia, Pa., s a Barker guest. S. Finnell, Hamburg, Ia., cattle dealer, is at the Paxton, F. H. Gilcrest, lumber merchant of Kear- ney, is at the Paxton. J. A. Harris, banker of Broken Bow, is registered at the Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. Charle: are guests at the Arcs S. P. Broughton, staie grain inspector, St Joseph, is a Murray guest. John Sparks, cattle shipper and capitalist, Reno, Nev., Is at the Paxton. J. G. Oxnard of the Oxnard beet sugar fac- tory, Norfolk, Is at the Millard. Daniel F. Angleme, U. S. A, Angleme are guests at the Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brodie and George W. Sammis, manager, are at the Murray. Thirteen members of the ““On the Bow- ery” company are domiciled at the Barker. John C. Fox and John H. Conroy and two members of their company are at the Del- lone. G. W. Hull, Pullman conductor on the Burlington from Omaha to Denver, i at the Dellone. George W, Gray of the firm of G. W. Gray & Co., Chicago, undertakers' goods, is a Murray guest. Ben B. Bryan of the grain firm of Logan & Co., Chlcago, formerly an Omaha broker, is at the Murray. W. L. May of the State Fish commission, accompanied by Mrs. May, left yesterday for a ten days’ trip to Chicago and vicinity. M. T. Jaquth, interested in immigration and frrigation enterprises in western Col- Milligan of Lincoln and Mrs, orado, Grand Junction, Colo.,, is a Paxton Buest, Mrs. P. H. Cook, wife of the chief bill clerk of the Unfon Pacific freight office, and his mother, have returned home after a de lightful trip to Colorado. Mr. Manly Phillips, manager and treasurer of the Conroy & Fox company, and eleven members of “O'Flarity's Vacation,” are muk- ing the Barker their headquarters, T, W. Blackburn returned yesterday from a six weeks' trip to California, called there by the illness of his wife, Mrs. Blackburn is much improved in heglth, but will be obliged to remain at Pasadena, the prettiest suburb of Los Angeles, until spring. Nebraskuns at the Hotels. At_the Dellone—R. M. Nesbit, Oakdale; Ed F. Gallagher, O'Neill; Arthur Brown, Jullan, At the Merchants—J. A. T W. 8. Jackson, Joseph H, P. Carroll, Stanton, At the Paxton—T. B. Hord, Central City; Charles J. Grable' Crawford; I. Tierney and daughter, Broken Botw. | At the Barker—Henry Levi, Howard Pike, | l?l‘ul’se B. Balston, E. 8. Branch, Lincoin} F. B. McGinnis, ' Hastin Jolin_Dixon, | Kearney: Willlam R. Cahill, o E Balrd, nd Island, J Awarded ‘ Highest Honors—World’s Fair, ‘DR rger, Rushville east, Valentine; MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Fiee {rom Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. ELEVEN DOLLARS On a half dozen of tables on the main floor lay 8 kinds of beautiful men's suits at $11.00. Unfortunately we haven't more space for each, than a complete line of sizes; otherwise we could crowd a dozen tables with the amount that lay in the storeroom above. . Jach suit is entirely foreign to the next as far as color, style, pat- tern, trimming and cloth is concerned. Bach passed through a different manufacturer, and each witnessed a battle between our big-brained buyer and the one who offered it for sale, No one ever saw a better one for $20.00, this season or any season previous, and there never has been a season thus far when we could offer as good a sult for $11.00; as good in cloth, in lining, in trimming, In tailoring. Aund here is the list of variety, suitable even for the most fastidi- ous. A black serge, square cut sack, satin striped lining, satin piping, artistically draped. A unique w e In cheviot (curly), of chocolate brown, sack fash- fon, satin piping, fancily arranged-3 button cutaway, long sack. A pinchecked (hue background) worsted, excellently draped, taflgr fashion, 4 button cutaway sack- A Dbrown real Scotch eheviot, Ttalian lining. . An unfinished worsted (black), satin breasted. roof’ And other prettily designed material, with trimmings to harmon!; A prettier collection of suits never kept company beneath any sheltering a clothing store, and $20.00 never bought a better suit. But the mighty and mysterious Nebraska sells them at $11.00, and you save $0.00 or more. \ke @ peep at ‘em, LOr DOUGLAS & 14+ ORGHARD HOMES NO PLACE ON EARTH Offers greater advantages to the Intelligent settler. One-halt the work you now do here will give four times the resuits in this wonderfully pro- uctive country. Twenty to forty acres in this land of pleny is enough to work and is éure to make you money Dg the work and the results are secured; there Is no such thing as failure, “The people are frjéndly; schools charches newspapers, are plenty; railrcad facilities fine und a soll whose richness Is unsurpassed, all invite the enterprising man who wants to bet- ter his own condition and that of his family. Two and Three Crops Can be Successfully Grown the Yame Year Timber {s abundant—Lumber {s cheap—Fuel costs nothing—Cattle are easily raised and fattened—Grazing 1s fine all the year. CLIMATE Is healthy and delightful; land and sea breezes and cool nights. temperature is 42 to 66 degrees. Tho average rainfall is 66 Inches, extreme of heat or cold; sufficlent rain for all cropa. 20 TO 40 ACRES roperly worked nakes you more money and makes It easler than tho best 60-acre farm in the west. Garden products are a wonderful yield and all ring DiE prices. | Strawberries, peachos plumg, - upricows, krapes, vears figs, early apples, In fuct all small frults, 'are sure and profitable crops. “The mean No NO DROUTHS, NO FLOOD, NO HOT WINDS, NO HEATED TERMS, NO BLIZZARDS, NO CULD SNAPS, NO LONG COLD WINTERS. NO CROP FAILURES. The great fruit growing and vegetablo ralsing district of the South. A soll that raises anything that grows and a location from which you reach the markets of the whole country. Your fruits and garden truck sold on the ground and placed in Chicago, St. Louls and New Orleans markets In 12 to 24 hours.—In this garden spot of America. The Most Equable Climate in America. 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