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FATHER DOWLING EXPLAINS Froident of Oreighten Osllege Talke of Chioago Meeting. NO ATTACK UPON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Genernl DI wion of Catholie Edn, tionnl Institutions is the Main Feature of the Sesston—High There 18 an lmpression that the meet- fng of the presidents of the Catbolic col- leges at Chicago last week was for (he purpose of endeavoring to place the Cath- olic educational lostitutions on a system similar to that of the public schools. Buch un object was far from our Inten- tions, we belleve that In mauy re< #pects we are ahead of auything which that system possesscs,” satd Rev, M. P. Dowling, 8. J., president of Crefghton college, yes terday afternoon. The object of Dowling continued, the same calling together educators of all other echocls and colieges in the country: the same which brought into existence the Na- tiounl Kducational association and similar wocleiies, One of the principal things we discussed was a plan of securing a uniform wtandard for admission to the freshman clusses of the various colleges. At the present time different standards are main- tained. Some of the colleges requiré Greek end Latin, while others are in favor of dropping Greek and permiiting the candi- date for admission to qualify in German or some other modern language other thau Euglish. This question was taken up by the non-Catholic colleges many yvears ago and for a dozen years it has been dis- cussed. We took it up about three years ago and expect to settle it to our satisfac- tion, while it is still being discussed by the other colleges. A committee formu- lated a preliminary report at the last meet- log and it will be submitted to a refer- endum vote of the Catholic colleges of the country and next year a positive rule may be adopted. Catholic High Schools. “One of cur other important eubjects was the establishment of Catholle high schools. At present there is nothing bo- tween the parochial primary school and the college, and for that reason the col- leges have been forced to maintain a pre- paratory course, equivalent to the high school, where puplls could be qualified to enter the college proper. This has been onsidered a burden which the colleges should not bear and we are trying to devise some plan whereby the expénse may be borne by other institutions. In citles like Omaha the parishes might combine to es- tablish a Catholic high school, which could care for the pupils in an adequate manper. In some of the parishes in Chi- cago high schools are maintained now, but they are too expensive for any one parish in Omaha. The colleges need feeders, and the Catholic high school can prepare pupils for entrance Into Catholic colleges far better than can the schools of the state. The convention had no power to establish such schools, so it recommended thelr es- tablishment by the church. The power to do this yests In the bishops. “We also discussed the educational laws mn the several states. In some states the legislatures have, in our opinion, entered a fleld which they should let alone. In New York it is now ordained that mno person sball begin the study of law or medicine until they have completed a hLigh achool oducation and that no degrees shall be &ranted by colleges to persons who. have not mastered certain branches of study. 1llinols proposes to enact a law which will declare that degrees may not be granted by hools not endowed to the amount of at Teast $100,000. This will injure some Catho- e institutions, perhaps, for the reason that we do not require such a large en- downment to accomplish the result of a shmilar non-Catholic school, because we do not have to pay salaries to our in- structors. Assuming Too Mu ““Tho state I8 taking too much upon itselt. The education of a child s a parental right and a parental duty. The state can @ the parent in the exercise of the right or require it to perform the ‘Every child bas a right to an edu you may say, and we respond, “Yes; overy child has a right to an edu- cation and every Christiau child has a right to a Christian education,’ and & par- ent should not be forced to educate & child in something he doesn’t want. “The convention at Chicago intended no Ask Your Physician When a good phy- sician prescribes beer for a patient it is Schlitz beer. A phy- sician knows the val- ue of purity, Ask himhowgerms affect beer and he will tell you that few stomachs can digest them. He will say at once that impure beer is unhealthful. You will know then why we brew as the Father that 18 meeting under such rigid pre- cautions — why we even filter the air that touches it; why we filter the beer, then sterilize every bottle, If you knew what we know and what your physician knows about beer, you, too, would insist on Schlitz, 18, Schlitz, b 8t Omaha, HE BEER HAT MAO¢ MILWALKEE attack upon the public school system of the country, and none was made. We only | discussed the subject incidentally, because we belleve that we have a better system. We do not try to teach all things, but what we do teach, we belicve, we teach beiter than is taught in any public school The reports sent by the press dis patches were neither accurate nor complete The full report will be published in book form skortly and those interested in the subject tan learn all that was done." vsse South Omaha New out A meeting ot tne city council will be held tonight and it is possible that Mayor Kelly may name two members of the council to Al the existing vacamcies. It was re- ported last week that the two appointees bad been agreed upou and that there would be no trouble about confirmation. Rumor has it that N. B. Mead s slated for one of the places and Ed Johnston for the other Members of the ¢ government are anxious to have the vacancies filled so that considerable business which has been hang ing fire may be disposed of. Onc of the matters of greatest importance is the taking care of the $70,000 refunding bond issue. This issue was authorized on November 1 and has been hanging fire ever since. The bonds when put up for bids were awarded to C. R. Hannan of Council Bluffs, who bid $2.400 premium. At the time the bid was accepted by the council a check for $1,000 was put up by Hannan as a forfeit. Investigation shows that the check cannot be used by the city on ac- count of the conditions written on the back. According to the agreement between the council and the purchaser the bonds were purchasod subject to the opinion of Mr. Hanman's attorneys. The attorneys have turned the {ssue down, and as these conditions were written on the back of the check, the city has no recourse. Fiis- torfes of the issue have been went by Mr Hannan to two or three different firms of municipal bond attoraeys and the reply has been invariably the same—that the fssue is not & good investment. The sewer bonds for districts 108, 109 and 110 are in the same boat. It 1s understood to be the intention of the council to submit a bond proposition to the people. By voting general indebted- ness bonds at a low rate of Interest, say 4 per cent, the district bonds which bear ¢ per cent can be taken up and thus a saving in Interest made. If there was an lssue of $125,000 in general indebtedness bonds most it not all of the outstanding district In- debtedness which has been declared void by the courts can be taken up at a low rate of interest and the city saved from turther litigation. Again, by doing this the credit of the city can be firmly established and a good premium will doubtless be paid for such an issue. The semi-annual interest on the $70,000 issue falls due on May 1 and there Is no money on hand to meet the payments, so it is essentlal that the council get together and take steps to arrange for a new issue as soon as possible An adjourned meeting of the Board of Fducation s to be held tonight. Reports from committees on the High school proo- osttion will be made most likely and the question as to whether it Is advisable to purchase more ground will be discussed. The suggestion has been made that the two lots on the north of the Hoctor site be bought by the board in order that there may be plenty of room for the proposed High school. At the last meeting of the board this question was up and a com- mittes was instructed to inquirs Into the price of the lota. When this question is settled there will doubtless be a decision as to the date of commencement of the structure. The newly elected members of the board, Loechner, Kubat and Murphy, will not take their seats until the first meeting fn May, at which time the board will meet and organize. Planning for Re-Asseasment. An ordinance will be introduced into the council very shortly making a re-assess- ment of the special taxes for the pavement of Twenty-fourth street and also some cther paving districts which have been declared {llegal by the courts. The procedure will be the same as if the pavement was new and after the ordinance has been published the council will sl a board of equaliza- tion. Those who have pald all of the or- iginal tax will not be assessed again and those who have pald part will be assessed for nce due. A full assessment will be made against the property which has not pald any portion of this tax. In this way It 18 expected that the city will recover quite a sum of money due and at the same time place itself in a good financial posi- tion. This re-assessment provision is one of the Important features of the new charter, n e are now watching the yards between here and Omaba day and night for the purpose of catching thieves who have been stealing brass fittings from cars. During the last month at least $50 worth of brass fittings have been stolen from cars standing on the tracks between here and Sheely. These fttings bave been sold to junk dealers for from 5 to 10 cents apiece, It is the inten- tion of the detectives to prosecute every person caught stealing brass fittings from cars. Magic City Goasip. Druggists must take out liquor llcenses this ve W. H. Cressey of the Joint Car Inspec- tion’ bureau I8 on the sick ist. Chief of Police Mitchell is expected home froin his southern trip today. A series of revival services commenced at the Methodist church yesterday. Willlam Glichrist of Toronto, Ont., has decided to make South Omaha his home. 1t 18 reported here that the southwestern cattle ranges are in flne condition now. Tux Commissioner Fitagerald will assume the duties of hix office today or tomorrow Chief Etter of the fire department will be on duty again today after a few days iliness. reparations are belng made to put elec- tric lghta in the Albright Methodist Epls- copal church. Liquor dealers will be tirged by the city councll to file their apMications for yer- mits at once. City Treasurer Koutsky s stiil those who are behind in the personal taxes. Fred Meicher, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A Melcher, Twenty-third and I* streets, s il with brain tever. ,The class for confirmation met at the l‘filmnul rectory at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon for fnatruction Editor J. M. Tanner of the Tribune cele- brated his fortleth birthday in an appropri. ate manner Saturday night. Seryices were held at 8t. Edward's mis- slon, Tienty-sixth and Adama uiteets, Tast evening Rev. Irving P. Johnson The funeral of Mrs. Hentz, mother of . Frank Spear. was held at the First othodist Episcopal church yesterday aft- ernoon. ““A Christian Conversation” was the topic af ‘an interesting sermon de'ivered e lerday morning at 8t Murtlns Kpiscopal churc) y Rev. Irving Johnson he vested cholr repeated the Euster music. ‘The annual mgeting of the woman's auxillary of the Young Men's C| soclation will held She, o the_esuing Secretary Willls ot 11 address will after yment of v afternoon. year wi'l be elected. the Ommudn-?.« meetin he served resulting from k of la grippe or heavy cold, must yield to the wonderful healing properties of Foley's Honey and Tar, which streagthens (he lungs and makes thew soucd. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MONDAY APRIL 1 MELLOWEST OF THE BUNCR] Thrilling Meledrama, "'The Eleventh Hour," Evokes Bhouts of Delight. HERO DIGS OUT OF A DARK DUNGEON Boy Who Tarns the Mill Wheel Earns » Money = fting Scene In the Block Tower, “The Eleventh Hou lowest of Lincoln J. Carter's melodramas, has come and gone. Sunday afternoon and evening the Boyd stage was {lluminated by the flash of it blank cartridges and the glint of its tin daggers, but now this arsenal of properties is on its way to spread nervous prostration elsewhere and the theater supes are clensing the boards of red aniline blood and the atmosphere of caleium. “The FEleventh Hour” is a good name, but ““The 11:55 P. M."" would be more exact, as in each one of its five acts a calamity is averted by the arrival of the hero in the nick of time. It is a matter of seconds, not hours. Each onc of the male players is knocked on the head at least once dur- ing the course of the play. One of the women is choked by the villian and dragged off the siage by her hair. The sheriff Is rendered hors de combat by means of drugged whisky. An attempt to wreck u train is frustrated and the hero-in-chief {s kidnaped and imorisoned in a dungeon under the Chicago river. When the Trouble Starts. These are a few of the situations in the play, the principal scene of which s laid in DeKalb county, Illinois. Old Samuel Hackett, who has just inherited $1,000,000, 15 & miller and lives by the mill, though what stream there is in DeKalb county to turn his wheel does not appear on the map. It is true there is Kishwaukee creek, but it fsn't moist enough to dampen a spon Still, these are trifiing matters, which in no way embarrass the melodramatist or the play actors who intrepret him, espec- ially when a boy can be hired at 15 cents & night to turn the wheel. An especially thrilling scene that causes one to wonder who has been careless enough to leave a window open was pulled off in the interior of the block tower. A block tower is a kind of a look-out station beside a railroad switch and is equipped with levers, the manipulation of which opens and closes the switches and discloses the white and red lights. In the third act Fritz Peltz and Kittie Manley, his flancee, drop in to pay their respects to Mike O'Brien, the watchman. Fritz has over- beard a plot between the villians to wreck the Northwestern train, on which rides the hero with $150,000 in crisp new bills, 5o he plans to thwart them. While they are waiting for the villians to arrive O'Brien explains the mechanism of the levers. Villlany Do Their Work. Finally the heads of the villlans appear stealthily above the bhatch. For a moment it looks as if O'Brien is going to preside at a plok tea In the block tower, and then the villians draw their billies and make a mess of it all by knocking O'Brien and Peltz on the head. For several seconds the rumble of the approaching train has been heard. Every instant it draws closer. Somebody back in the flles blows on a syren whistle and clangs a dinner bell. It 1s clear to all that the train is a few sec- onds late, for the villlans have already thrown the lever so as to switch the train onto the side track, where it will bump into & line of box cars, and now they have nothing to do. There would have been an awkward pause if the watchman and Peltz hadn’t come to life opportunely and given the villlans a chance to knock them out again. Then there is a rush of wheels, a wall from the siren whistle, a shower of sparks and the villians politely turn their backs while Miss Manley steps up and throws the switch back in place. Goen to a Beer Garden. After this act the audience is transported from DeKalb county to Chicago, the county seat of Cook county, and {s treated to a realistic beer-drinking scene in a suburban garden. The hero digs way out of the dungeon and appears just in time to thwart a marriage between the hero and the vil- lian-in-chief, and finally the curtain goes down a0 a grand furniiur--snashing, free- for-all fight. It was in the play to smash the chandeller among other things, but as the box receipts weren't very large, this was spared to do service another time, probably the mel- Orphenm— The week's vaudeville program given Its initial presentation Sunday aftetnoon comes well up to the standard of excellence set by the management of this theater earlier in the sea: It can hardly be called the best one of the year, but for the provocation of mirth it will rank alongside of any, with possibly one exception, furnished during tke season. It was witnessed by the usual large afternoon and evening audiences. Stuart Robson, the well known comedian, ‘who passed Sunday in Omaha, together with his mapager and other members of his company, occupled a box at the evening performance, and no one in the audience laughed more heartlly or seemed more amused than Mr. Robson. McIntyre and Heath, blackface entertain- ers, whose famous old Georgia minstrels wil be remembered by veteran theater-goers, justly occupy the head- Mne position on the bill. They offer a new act, “The Man from Montana,” which is an absurdity brimming over with humorous dialogue, made addi- tionally laughable by the personality of these two comedians. Adgie, lion tamer, offers an act decidedly the most dangerous upon the program. She puts two full grown lionesses and one mon- ster llon through a drill that so tries the temper of the ferocious beasts that the woman is kept constantly on the alert to avoid the clumsy paws that are thrust at ber frequently. Miss St. George is a vocal artist of un- common abllity as well as a splendid harp- ist. The Rosinos offer an acrobatic turn that is clever. Maude Meclntyre is a fair dialect singer and monologue artist. Harris and Walters kept the audience in an uproar for half an hour with their comedy, A Dark-Eyed Widow.” The kinodrome, as usual, shows & number of new motion pic- tures, among which are several of the in- auguration of President McKinley in Wash- ington this spring. The president is of course the central figure in all of the pic- tures, which are remarkably clear and good, Mince's Trocadero— The Gay Masqueraders opened the week at Miaco's Trocadero with a sprightly pro- gram, full of ginger and laughs. “The Snap fhot,” a lively skit in which the full force of the company is employed, intro- duced the bill, followed by various speclal- ties, all good, and several of them con- siderably above the average. Kessner and Reid appeared in a potpourri of songs and acrobatic dances. The versatile artisis, Swift and Huber, did a clever turn, as did the comle musical entertaimers, Sullivan |and Pasqueling, and John R. and Lillian Hoover. Charles and Minnie Savan and Harry Smirl, acrobatle dancers and tum- Vlers, did something entirely unique in their line and elicited a continuous torrent of applause. The burlesqie was well up to the standard maintained by the house, the handsome chorus girls comprising it showing to the best advantage in the col- ored caleium lights projected upon them fron. the balcony. The house crowded for boib afternoon aud wight. \ The California Prune If wheat made as good candy as bread, then which the prune can be put, Simple prunes conta with cream will sustain healthful life longer than bread and cream, Prune has a universal use as a confection, served by itself as a fig or chocolate cream, whit less delicious. Let the children have free access to a box of prunes instead of_ cand ffect of the prune makes growing children’s Ask your physician about the hygienic value acked and inspected. Fruit Association, as displayed below, candy, and the gentle ef and their eyes bright. There is only one prune on the market carefully grown, you are getting this prune is the brand of the Cali which is now placed o rune is, if it is in a X be sure that you get from a box on which you STUFFED PRUNES Try this recipe for Stuffed Prunes which won third prize In California Prize Prune Cooking Contest a few weeks “*@oak the prunes In watér for about an hour, then pit them and Vill cach prune with a quarter of a teaspoonful of powdered sugar, some nicely chopped walnuts and h 8hape the prunes nicely and sprinkle with gran Theee are richer If loft a week without oating th i n all of the Association’s goods. box on which you find this brand it is safe. health fornia Cure: see this brand. ou would have an illustration of the wide uses to more nutritive value than wheat, Stewed and the present-day Call Yrunes fornia and not 2 They will like it as well as perfect, their cheeks rosy of prunes for child or aduit. The proof that It makes no difference what the name of the But if you do not purchase by the Be sure and send for book contalning 100 re= GALIFORNy CURED_FRUIT AssoGiaTIoN free on reque: RETURN FIRE IS FATAL Deputy Sberiff Williams Kills Jack Pewall, Would-Be Assassin, SEQUEL TO ABOLITION OF MARTIAL LAW Idaho Despera: After Revenge on Oficers Who Served While It Force in Sho- hone Couuty. WALLACE, Idaho, April 14.—Jack Powell was shot and killed at Mullen last night by Deputy Sherift Willlams. Three men fired from ambush at Deputy Sheriffs James Rose and Williams about midnight, wounding Rose twice in the right arm and once in the right thigh. Deputy Wil- Mlams fired six or seven shots in the direc- tion of the flashes and fatally wounded Jack Powell. Powell was seen running away after the shooting and his body was not found until this morniug. Martial law, which has been in force in Shoshome county since the Bunker Hill and Sulltvan concentrator was blown up on April 29, 1899, was abolished last Thursday by Governor Hunt. Threats had been made that with the abolition of martial law ail who served as officers under it would be “done up,” and it is sald these officers never went out alone after dark. i — PYTHIANS HEAR A SERMON Special Services for the Knights at the Church of St. Philip the Deacon. The amnual sermon before the colored Knights of Pythias was preached yesterday afternoon by Rev. J. A. Willlams at the church of St. Philip the Deacon, the knights attending the vesper service in a body. The Easter music was repeated in connection | with the presentation of the full choral song. In bis sermon Rev. Willlams spoke of the duties of the true knight and his characteristic fidelity and self-sacrifice. In giving the definition of & knight, he #ald he is one who serves. “‘True service calls for self-sacrifice. All such socleties as the Knights of Pythias are founded on altruistio principles; those lald down by Christ. The measure of true service is ex- emplified by Christ and if the order would be true to the intention of its founders it should stand for those principles and should be composed of true knights. “When knighthood was in flower it gave itself to the protection of the weak; to the guardianship of womanhood: to the maintainance of manly honor and to the defense of religion. A knight in those days of old was a synonym of honor, honesty and sobrioty; knighthood was a synonym of manly purity, virile strengih aund courage, stern aceticlsm, self-mastery and strict temperance.' He then asked the members of the Pythlan order before him if their lodge stood for such principles. He urged them to undergo a self-examination. He urged that they should not be satisfied with play- ing as knights, with gay trappings and a name, but that they should strive to stand for all that is meant by that name. RED LIQUOR FOR RED MEN Asent Mathewson Says Whisky Sell- ing on Reservation is Giving Ofiicers Some Trouble. Charles P. Mathewson, Indian agent at the Omaha and Winnebago reservation, was in the city Sunday. Mr. Mathewson says that the smallpox has been eradicated from the reservations with the exception of one or two isolated cases, which are very mild. The greatest trouble at the agemcy is mow caused by the ‘bootleggers” who are selling liquor In greater quantities than usual. They were not prosecuted at the last term in the federal court because the judge would mot permit the necessary witnesses o lcave the reservation om ac- count of smallpox. The “bootleggers’ took this to mean that the government would be lenlent with the violators of the law, and now the government has to be doubly rigor- ous to inspire the lawbreakers with a wholesome fear which will restrain the the Paper wi Them, This paper might be filled with items like the following, and every ome be the abso- Jute truth: I had rheumatism for years and tried almost everything, but got no permanent reliet until T used Chamberlain's Pain Balm, three bottles of which have cured me. It is the best medicine I ever used.”—Philip E. Rhoads, Pennville, Mo. Paln Balm is for sale by all druggista. LOCAL BREVITIES. The annual gulld meeting of the church of St. Philip the Deacon will be in the Guild hall on North Twenty-first streot Thurs- day evening. The commissary department of the TUnited States army this morning adver- tisen for fresh beef for all of the posta in the Department of the Missouri for the six months ending December 1, 1801 The amount required will approximate 500,000 pounds, —————————————————————————————————— f you want to know about a doctor, ask some of his patients. If yon want to know abont an office building, tenants. ask its You will find the tenants of the Bee Building enthusiastic in its praises, particularly if they formeriy officed in other buildings. If you wish to inspect the few handsome offices which are vacant, call on us, R. C. Peters & Co., Rental Agents, Ground Floor Bee Bldg. 08 in every way, which th & “Prune Primer,” which will delight the little folks, will be sent Address CALIFORNIA CURED FRUIT ASSOCIATION, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. 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