Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1902, Page 7

- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, E 10, 1902 IMPOSSIBLE T0 GET RAILS Reason for Delay in Btrest Railway Extension to Prospect Hill, MANAGER SMITH MAKES A STATEMENT Is Unable to Get Any Positive Prom- we from Rolling M4l and Can't ¥y When Line Wil Be Completed. Residents of the city along the proposed route of the extension of the Harney street cdr line to Prospect Hill may expect to see that line ifi operation some time this sum- mer or fall; but so far as gettinig a definite time fixed by the officlals of the Omaha Street Rallway company they are as much in the dark as ever, for the company has recelved no rails for that extension, and what s more, it has received no positive assurance that it ever will receive them Last winter when we made the contract for the rails we looked up every mill in the country,” said Manager Smith. “The best we could do was to find one which would promise. to make dslivery in March or April, or possibly sooner. We placed the order with thisjcompany and from time to time have reteived assurance that the rails would be delivered. The last letter we received was to the effect that they would be delivered some time in June and with that promise we have to be satis- fled, fot all of the companles are independ- ent, baving orders on ‘hand suffcient to keep their mills busy for twelve months. Cannot Fix a Date, “When we placed the order we expected to have cars running in May, but now we cannot tell whien they will be running The special work. for the line s already here and we cowd-place it In, but what is the use? We gan keep our force at work plac- ing special work on lines now In operation and then have that work in place on the Prospect Hill extenslon by the time it is needed.” i In the meantime the residents along the route are becomiug anxious and a dele- gation recently appeared before the city council asking that body to use its influence with the company to have the line com- pleted before cold weather. The answer » of the company was In line with the state- ment of Mr. Smith given above, and here the matter must rest until a rolling mill in Pennsylvanig reaches the order placed by the company six months ago. “ DRINKING PLACES FOR HORSES Humane Soclety Representatives Fix More Troughs. Major D. H. Wheeler and R. O. Patterson tave a scheme for supplylng watering troughs for horses in the down town dis- iricts, which will involve an outlay of about $2,000. They met yesterday with As- Nstant City Engineer Cralg and decided apon locations for twelve such troughs. A resolution directing the Board of Public Works to have the troughs put in was intro- duced yesterday afternoon .at the meeting o the city council In general committee. The following locations have been se- lected: The southwest corner of Four- teenth and Dodge streets, northwest corner s Fifteenth and Douglas strects, Twenty- second and Farnam streets, southwest cor- ser of Thirteenth and Farnam streets, sortheast corner of Pourteenth and Harney streets, northeast corner of Twelfth and fackson streets, northwest cormer of Four- “teenth and Douglas streefs, northwest cor- uer of Sixteenth and Howard streets, south- West corner of Seventeenth and Farnam dreets, northwest corner of Sixteenth and Dodge streets, southwest corner of Eleventh tnd Howard streets and the northeast cor- der of Tenth and Harney streots. The first cost of the troughs will be $65 fach. ~ They will be of sheet irom, three )ha one-half feet long, and it is proposed . fo keep a continuous stream of water flow= ~ Ing through them. . “There are now forty watering troughs in e city id Major Wheeler, “but they ire all, or nearly all, in the outlylng dis- s ¥icts. Our purpose is to have them lo- . @ted down town, where they will do the toll good. It is a humane measure and ~the troughs should be put in at once, in _yorder to be in working order by the time fhe heated season arrive 1t 1s understood that Mayor Moores is op- josed to the resolution, holding thet there wre already enough public waiering troughs the down town sectica and that horses * wre better o for not drinking too often fn hot wen.ther. READY FOR CRIMINAL CASES Pnited States District Court Will Take Up Alleged Om Next Week. Preparations are being made for the sit- ting of the United States district court and the district attorney’ Mce s pre- paring subpoenas for witn in criminal cases, the trial of which will probably be- Eln mext week In the eircult coure both Judge Munger and Judge McPherson will be ocoupled in the trial of law cases until Thursday, at which time Judge McPherson will probably The Buliet Of the assassin may be more sudden, but it is not more sure than the dire punish- ment meted out to the man who abuses his stomach. No man is stronger than his stomach. Wheg the is dis- eased the whole body is weakened. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures diseases of other organs when it cmt: diseases of the o , on |w ¢ several organs depend for autrition and vitality, conclude his work in this district. Yester- day they sat together ‘in the case of the John §.. Brittain Dry oods company against J. W. Adams, where a motion was being heard involvisg & delicate question of practice UNDERTAKERS ARRIVE IN CITY ¥y Come to Attend Annual Conve tion of Their State Asso- ciation. Members of the Nebraska Undertakers' aesoglation, which will hold its convention in this city this week, begioning this morning, are arriving in the city, and by the time President Harry B. Davis calls the meeting to order at Creighton Medical college at least 200 members will be pres- . i the expectations of the local mem- bers are fulfilled Tuesday, Wedgesddy and Thursday will be devoted to busimess, after an address of welcome by the mayor and a response by & member of the associatiop Tuesday morning. Thursday evening tho members will be the guests of the Knighte of Ak-Sar-Ben at the den. Here extensive preparations will be made for the reception of the large delegation and the. meeting will probably be the largest held by the knights during the year. Friday wirl be devoted to the work of the State Board of Embalmers, and ex- aminations of applicants for licenses will be made. The delegates In the city have already begun te consider the election of officers for the coming year, asll ‘the majority have expressed themselves in favor of the se- lection of Joseph Sondexmann of Grand Island, and the selection- of .that city as the next meeting place. Mr. Sondermann was a candidate for president I but withdrew in favor of Mr. Da It was decided to hold this year's comven- tion in this elty. The local committee. bas . prepared a program for the entertainment of the dele- gates while not busy in the econveation which Is as follow Tuesday, 3 p. inger Art gallery. chants hotel 2:30 p. m. sharp. Wednesday 10 a. .m.—ladles visit public library and museum. Meet in par- lors Merchante hotel, 9:30 a. m. sharp. Wednesday, 2:45 p. m.—All take free trolley ride to Manawa beach, where lunch will be served at 6 p. m. Base ball, bowl- ing, boating, bathing, ewings, band con- cert, etc., can be enjoyed. Car leaves 2:45 p. m. sharp. & Thursday evening—Ladies entertained st Boyd's theater. Meet in pariors Merohants hotel 7:45 p. m. ebarp. Gentlemen enter- talned by Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben at their den. Don't miss it. Meet at Merchants hotel 7:30 p. m. sharp. PUBLISHES FAKE OBITUARY Former Pos ter Razee of Curtis Turns Colnmn Rules of m.—~Ladles visit Lin- Meet In parlors Mer- H. D. Satterfleld, superintendent of the Hector-Ditman cattle ranch of Frontfer county, arrived in this city yesterday to Iay In a stock of supplies for the summer. After dliscussing cheerfully the copious rains that have fallen in his district, insur- ing good grazing for the remainder of the season, he referred to 8. R. Razee, ex-post- master of Curtls, Frontler county, who has recently attracted attentiod to himself as a strategist. count in The Beé of Saturday,” ‘setting forth how Razee had his postoffice advanced from a fourth to a third. class office, and how he inveigled a young woman into marriage with him by pre- tending to be on his deathbed, was all right as far as It went, but it didn't tell all of the story. Here is a chapter of {t that will probably interest your reade “‘Besides owning a controlilng Interest in several farms, a general merchandise store, & jewelry sto nd a drug store, Ras also runs a little ekly paper there in Curtls, 80 you can see that ho s stlll a fairly busy man, even without the post- office. Well, one day after his wife had been gone about two weeks his paper comes out with turned column rules, and a big, black headline that eald, ‘Obituar It was an account of the death of the Mrs. Razee. After describing the floral tribntes that had rested upon her coffin as she lay In state at the home of her father in a little coun- try town in Pennsylvania, he dilated elo- quently upon his blighted home, his thwart- ed ambition, and tha loneliness of an old man who has devoted bis life to the ba ren pursuit of sccumulating this wprld' goods. He had sent her to her old home in the Keystone state, he sald, in the hope that she would regain her wasted health, but without avail. He longed for a touch of that vanished hand, and he bowed to the will of Providence. “A few days later a woman friend of the late Mrs. Razee, living In Curtis, recelved a letter from her, bearing the Omaha date lipe. ‘It is all a lle,' wrote the late Mrs. Raz ‘I am not dead, and I never went to Pennsylvania. I've been here in Omaha all the while." . ““The late Mrs. Razee afteryards married a man in Omaha named 'Smith, and she's now living here. Of cdurse she had no trouble in getting a divorce from ber for- mer spoyse. I suppose Razee published the fake story about her death because he didn't want the people of Curtis to think she had deserted him."” American Flag Day. An effort is being made to establish June 14th of each year as’Flag day throughout the country. It was on this date that the thirteen stars and stripes became the na- tional emblem. Persons who suffer from loss of appetite, insomnia, nervousness, in- digestion, dyspepsia, constipation or ma- laria, fever and ague, can date their re- covery from the time they resolve to try Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the world fa- mous remedy for thesé diseases. Try it today. It will surely cure you. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. A. M. Engl M. Kerns, repre- sentative business men of Aurora, were x:- s of friends In the eity over Sun- 3 and Postofice Inspectors Sinclar and Swift returned yesterday from Nebraska City, where they had spent a day or so Ashing. They report fairly good success. The marriage of Mr. Otto J. Bherry and le Cerinda Kaight will occur at §:3 o'clock Wednesday morning at Sacred Heart church. No cards. Mrs. A. U. Mayfield of 8t. Joseph, Mo., arrived in the city oml and will be guest of her brother-in-law, E. O, Mayfield, and family. From here she to visit_her mother. Willlam Barnes Lower, pastor_of Cal- var; Presbyterian __ church. Wyncote, Poiladelphta, and Mrs. " Lower are in Omaha on r wedding trip, which will extend to Yellowstone park and cific coast. Mr. r Is the son of G. W, Lower of 20i2 will go to Den- Lowe: North Nineteenth street this city, with whom he and his bride will visit for two weeks. Nebragkans at the Merchants: H. Gainen, Norh Pladte: W "Wilkox, ok Plafte: W'D, Derby, k rney, Mr. an Mre, M. H. Meirose, Aurora, J. W hart, Coleridge; W. G. .Sears, Dr. W, o runer, Cornelius, Columbus i Mr. and Mrs, M. Lineoln ubuz. M: entertalned h’: Richardeo Keyeor, on South: Thirty-firs s visiting ot cdd A well, clerk of t to whom he gave t that the CONSTABLE GOES TO CIRCUS His Object Was to Berve Twelve Attachments for Employes. SHOW'S LEGAL MAN MAKES CRAFTY MOVE Endeavors to Have Pollee Arrest Whom He Charges with Following the Show for “Graft.” Former Employes, Before the Pan American shows began the afternoon performance yesterday the man- agement bad to give bonds to donfest a claim for back salary which an even dozen of the employes of the show say is due them, for yesterday morning Judge Fawcett fssued a writ of attachment for each of the twelve men. Constable Marrow served the writs before the performance In the afters noon. At an early hour yesterday an attache of the show, who clalmed to represent the legal end of the aggregation, went to the police station and informed Captain Iler that following the show was a crowd of men who made a living stealing from the people and grafting from the unsophisti- cated. He wanted the police to arrest men. The legal man aleo informed tain that the men would llkely say they were connected with the show and that they bad some salary due them. In this latter guees the legal man was correct, for in a very few minutes twelve “hobo’ looking individuals went to the station and inquired of Captain Iler a way to collect back salary. Story of the Ci imants. The spokesman of the crowd was a col- ored man, whose hands had long ago hardened from driving stakes. He told the captain that he and about twenty-five more employes of the show company had been discharged and the management had refused to pay them the money due. They were discharged just before reaching Omaha and the men had coming to them, said the spokesman, from $2 to $5 each. The management allowed them the munifi- cent salary of $2.50 per week besides their board. A majority of them had recelved no pay for two weeks, he said. When told what the legal end of the show had sald about them, the spokesman sald that thie procedure was a customary one with the show. “It was the intention of the management,” he said, “to have us arrested and locked up while the show got out of town.” Captain Iler advised the men to to a justice of the peace and attach the show. The writs were served and the circus people gave bonds amounting to $61, prepa- tory to contesting the claims. Good appetite and cheerfulness follows the use of Prickly Ash Bitters. It purifies the blood, liver and bowels and makes life worth living. STRAWBERRY SEASON SHORT Oregon Berries Will Nuw Appear at Twenty-Five Cents Per Quart. Last week saw practically the last of the Missouri strawberries on the Omaha mar- ket, although a few cases will be recelved for a day or two from the northern part ate, The strawberry season this been short and very unsatistactory to the dealers and the people generally. The total recelpts in this eity this sea son have been approximately fifty carloa some. of these cars being small, Last year the total recelpts were much nearer 150 than fifty. As & result of this prices have never reached the low level of last year, the average being about 100 per cent higher, Wednesday will see the first of the Wood River berries on the market. Contrary to the conditions prevalling over the coun- try generally Oregon will have a large berry crop, and while Omsha handled not more than four cars of the Wood River berries t season, this year it may take more than twice as many. But the price will be high. The first purchase makes the open- ing price to retall dealers $4 per crate, which will mean 25 cents a box to the con- sumer If the retaller is to receive any profit. Texas cantaloupes are now regularly upon the Omaha market, selling at $1 per basket, which contains on an average seventeen melons. The melons are good, but small, and sell readily. With the local gardeners the season is not as good as last year. The crops are generally larger, but the prices are off so much that 1t barely pays to harvest certain vegetables. Lettuce, which sold a year ago at 25 to 35 cents a dozen heads, drags on the market at 10 to 12 cents & dozen. Radishes sell at 6 to 10 cents a dozen bunches, whero last year they sold at 10 to 20 cents. Potatoes are much lower, but still give a fair per cent of profit. A few native string beans being offered for s: find buyers readlly at $1 per balf-bushel basket. Peas of local production old at $1 per bushel, but constantly vary in price, SHOCKS THE LICENSE CLERK Vincene Stehno Calls for Papers to Wed Second Time in Three Weeks, Vincene Stehno, a South Omahan, who looks like his name and talks like he looks, was at the county judg: office May 1§ long enough to secure a license to marry & girl of the packing metropolis. Yesterday moroing Viocene called again and asked Clerk Harry Morrill for a license to marry a different girl. Mr. Morrill was scandal- 1zed. ““Hoot mon,” he sald, with his best golf accent, “1 dinna ken the meanin' o' this. Are you starting in to marry the town The applicant disavowed all such inten- tions. He said one wife w; 11 he wanted at a time. “Well its too short a time," said the licen: dispenser. “It hasn't been three weeks ago since you married that other girl and they wouldn't stand for such light- ning changes as this, even In Dakota.” Then Vincene went into particulars. He explained that he had never married the first girl because after he secured the license, but before the ceremony, he dis- ocovered that she wasn't up to his desired rm"w“ Il -2t A very nutritious food with a dainty, nut flavor, containing four times the food elements of beef. A scientific mingling of heat di- gested cereals with the emulsified oll of nuts by & new process. The ideal combination of na- ture's food elements for the invalid who would secure strength; the stroug who would remain robust. Bold by grocers everywhere. Made by American Pure Food Co., Ltd, Battle Creek, Mich. L e e standard. Since May 15 he has forsaken his old fiancee, selected a new candidate, wooed her, won her, and has her ready for the wedding service Vincene, you are at least no procrastina- tor,” sald Mr. Morrill—and he made out & second license. ROBBERS TAKE BIG RAKE-OFF They Relleve Farmer from lowa of Roll of Two Hundr nd Forty Dollars, Axel Bunderson, a tlller of the soll from over in Iowa, was robbed of §240 by two men who shared a room with him at the Chicago lodging house on Bouth Twelfth street Saturday night. Bumderson reported the theft to the police and Detective Dunn found the robbers in Counell Bluffs. They were arrested and the money found on them. The men gave the names of Charles Parker and John Miller, and refused to return here without requisition papers. They will be brought back as soon as the papers are made out. Burglars did a )ittle business in a small way the same night. Bntrance was made into the building occupied by A. L. Under- 1and, 1516 Dodge street, and $21 taken from the cash register. -Nothing else in the building was disturbed. W. E. Coleman of the Richelieu hotel re- ported that someone eutered his room and stole a suit of clothes valued at $7. At Stroud & Co., Fourteenth and Nicholas streets, nothing but brass was taken. The robbers took the lubricating cups from the engine and got sevéral brass oll cans. Roy B. Wolken was the only one of the small thieves arrested, and he was brought in for stealing cherries from the yard of Charles H. Klopp, 7 Webster street. RIVER IS DOING BUSINESS Water is Rising, but Gives No Indica- tion of Reacbing Dan- ®er Line. Just to let the public know that it is still on the map the Missouri river started a boom In water. Yesterday a report from Sfoux City sald the river had risen 3.1 feet in the preceding twenty-four hours, and at Omaha at the same time the rise was 1.9 feet. “I don't think that the river will get over the twelve-foot mark,” eald Forecaster Weleh of the Weather bureau. “It will probably continue to rise today and the crest will reach this city Tuesday grad- ually."” The danger line at Omaha is elghteen feet, and the water now registers 11.8 feet. Ratlway Notes and Persona W. M. Frants, traveling freight agent for the Tilinols Central railroad, {s in Omaha. Samuel North, traveling passenger for the lilinols Central rallroad, Omaha. Thomas _Hughes, traveling pa agent of the Missourl Pacific rallway, o travell ssenger Anders F. Maren, traveling pa agent of the Dominlon Line at Chicago, is in Omaha. i John Mellen, travellng passenger or the Chicago & Northwestern railw etermert ] 1t er agent Herbert Howell, traveling passenger a for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, is.in Omaha. Altred Darlow, advertising agent for the Unlon_Pacific rallway, has returned ffom a week's trip over the line. A circular just received at local Rock Island headquarters announces the appoint- ment of rren of the Jersey Cen: gent ¥, 18 tral raflroad assistant to President Leeds. Edward Mullen, form Burlln.lfln.lhl-n‘d l;:lle;lf[flc l!e::m'darl . last osition a few months re: is last ago, is now located in Butts; Mont. ——e— You will never have the gout if you stick to Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Champagne. It 1s made of the pure juice from: grapes. — LOCAL BREVITIES. for divorce from pEls, Green petitions for, divorc s, whom she married in Council Blifls fen years ago. Bhe alleges non- ek ls_is suing the Omaha M. Nichols is suing the Oma Bglr.gomplny for $5.000 bed se the fore- finger of his left hand was caught in cogwheels Of & Press”iasi UCwwel Rud crushed. In the United States circuit court the jury in the case of Ulysses G. Mason against Robert M. Faddls returned a ver- aftt "Yor the plainiift for 3234665, in an ac- tion growing out of a cattle deal. A, D. Brandeis has bought the Will Mil- lard farm at Calhoun, considered one of the finest in the state, and expects to make it a summer home, moving his family to it @t once. There are 12 acres in the place and an elegant house. ek In Judge Slabaugh's court there is being heard the suit of V. B. Walker aeainat the Storz Brewing company damages, alleged to haye been ained by reason of a breach of contract s not p{llcln[ {lllm in charge at the Midway oon on a salary. Arrangements are being made for the o anization of & South Side independent po itical club. The first meeting was held Bouth Side Turner hall Sunday. Another meeting will be held on the evening of June 21 at the sume place to perfect the organization and elect officers. The contest case of Isaac J. Copenharve for the ecat of Willlam Broderick in the Bouth Omaha council is to be taken up in county court Tuesday morning, the at- torneys agreeing to rest afler counting the ballots cast in the Third and Fourth wards. Patrick Brodenvlr‘( a youth of auriole tinting, is being tried for an alleged as- sault Upon Annle Wessenburg in Bouth Omaha after a dance one night last August, There is supposed to have been a crowd of boys particlpating iu the crime and John Giilin has been tried on the game charge and found not gullty. The Monday club held fts regular meet- ing in the Commerclal club rooms yester- day, 'the feature of the occasion being & paper by Rev, Hill of the First Christlan church on “The New Testament and Money.” At the meeting next Monday Judge Slabaugh will deliver an address on “Christian Evidences from a Lawyers Standpoint." The Thomas Davis Real Estate company has decided to appeal from the decision of Judge Munger in the cage brought by it agafnat the Chicago, St Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha railroad to restrain’the laying of track on Eighth street. The judge de- cided that the real estate company had a ( right of action at law and dismissed the bill in equity. Two hundred and sixty-elght new re- funding bonds with a face value of $1,000 each are being signed by Peter Hofeldt, as chairman of the Board of County Com- missloners, and by Harty C. Miller, as county clerk, for the Kelly & Kelly com- pany, which’ expects to dispose of most of them to the state. The new bonds bear 3§ per cent interest; the old ones bore & per cent. H. D. Christensen, who married 14-year- old Ada Frane without the coneent of her mother, has resumed his work at the cigar factory Seventeenth 4 8t Mary's avenue, and the is at the home of her parents, 1710 Willlam street Christensen says he does not fear he will be arrested for perjury for saying that the irl was 18 years of age and he expects to eep right on at his work. “I expect to get my wite. but just how 1 do not now now. 1 will do nothing contrary to law, however.” The county attorney said thaf none of the girl's relatives had been to see him In regard to the perjury charge. An_examination for teachers' certificates for Douglas county will be held in room 31, High school bullding, June 15, 2 and 21. The Ak-Sar-Ben hustling committee met 8t Balduff's vesterday afternoon and made Teport on the condition of membership in the order since its last meeting, the mem- bers tufning over a large number of appli- cations. It was decided to make this a speclal week and to hustle with renewed vigor untl Thursday, when another meet- ing of the committes will be heid and an effort made previous to that time to have large class for enroliment with the unde ers who are to come In at a special meeting Thursday evening. In the suit of the First National Bank of Denver against R, Becker, aurice Degen, Louts Becker, Abe Beck d 8ol L. n for 330,00, ‘alleged to hav n paid Abe Becker, for the company, all the defendants except cker have filed Figures that Don’t Lie Prove that Nebraska Official Statement of Total Taxable Values Returned by States Con- tiguous to Nebraska, Together with Comparison of Taxable Issued U * RAILROADS ASSESSED HIGHER HERE Roads Pay More Taxes Than Those of Other States. Values Returned on Lands, Live Stock and Railroads Total Total Per Cent BTATE. Taxable Ruilrond —TAXABLE VALUES Returned. 1 s Hr's Nebraska Towa ... Wyoming . M Montana . Oregon North Dakota Property. Lands, T 084 191 2.13 887 o 18 In determining the values of lands in the foregoing statement, In those states where they have been separated the improved from the unimproved lands, we have added them together in this anner, taking the state of Nebraska for instance: Improved Land ...... 17445819 $60,450.4 Unimproved Land . 218 per acre. The rate of tax pald per mile is taken from the report of the Inter-State Com- merce Commission for the year 1900, and the figures are therefore officlal. The State of Nebraska has assessed rail- road property at the highest comporative figure of any of the states mamed. If you take the state of Missourl (which bad the nder the Authority of the Railroads of Nebraska. A RETURNED— Cattle Mules. Sheep. H 2400 96 | 2 reportied — —— 18.00 | 1.7 yalue of land is taken in conjunction with the valuation of rallroad property, it would figuro in this wi As 7.75 18 to 2.13, 80 s 11,600 to 3,158, or in case the value of cattle was equated in the same manner, it would make tht equation A8 14.14 18 to 4.66, 80 1 11,600 to 3,822 By averaging these two determinations, 1t would make the railroad valuation in the state of Nebraska 8,510, instead of 4,679, and it is evident that on a comparison of values of taxes in Missourl and Nebraska, the raflroads of Nebraska have been as- sessed for $1,169 more per mile than they should be. In other words, the rallroads have been paying 25 per cent more tax for the past ten years than they should hava paid, were the rallroads located in the stats of Missourt Miles Tax Paid Rail road. 2,008 CHILDREN'S DAY AT CHURCH Little Ohristian Workers Demonstrate Their Ospability to Elders, SPECIAL PROGRAMS BY SUNDAY SCHOOLS Purpose of the Day to Ralse E tional Fund, Foster Interest in Schools and Show Prog- ress of Childrem. ca~ In many Omaha churches Sunday the pulplt orators were the children. It was their own day, Children's day, with its -fold purpose of raising funds for ed- onal work, fostering their own in- terest and their schools’ and demonstrat- ing to the adult public the things of which they are capable. The exercises in the different churche were not wholly identical, but in general the plan was the same. There was the Coronation hymn, or some other equally familiar; there was pra; scripture.read- ing, remarks by the superintendent or dig- nitary of the church and baptism of chil- dren. But more especially there were many songs, recitations or cl exerclses by the children alone. At one church thirty-two girle, ranging in age from 8 to 17 years, gave their processional, which proved an unusually pleasing feature. At the Knox Presbyterian the pastor spoke expressly to and for the children in the morning and they e thelr exerices in the evening. Among those which decided on the morn- ing hours as the time of the exercises were the Cherry Hill Congregational, the Bed- ford Place Presbyterian, the First Chris- tian, the Calvary Baptist, the Walnut Hill Methodist Hplscop the Westminster Presbyterian, the United Evangelical, the Pligrim Congregutional, the Hanscom Park Methodist, the Seward BStreet Methodlst, the First Baptist and the First Congrega- tional. Those who decided to vary the rule and have the exercises in the evening were the Kpox Presbyterian, the People’s and the Southwest Presbyterian. The First Presbyterian postponed the exercises until next Sunday. Although this list indicates that the ob- servance of the day is general, the Metho- dists lay claim to the honor of having in- trodu the custom back in the 'T0s. An Omaba pastor sald yesterday that educa- tional work in the Sunday school was sys- timatized practically in 1873, and that Children’s day, or Educational day, came to be known soon after that, its purpose being not only the promotion of interest in the general work, but the taking of a special offering to ald poor students to the education that they had not means to buy. The money collected in Omaba yesterday at the Children's day exercises In the Methodlst churches, he sald, goes to the church board of education in New York City and is by it distributed wherever there seems a proper place. The board now has an income of $100 per day from former borrowers who are repaying. Other churches take the offering and devote it to much the same purpose. MT. PELEE SHOWS OUR KING'S MIGHT Rev. Groh Compares it with Man's Boasted Works. Rev. Dr. Groh of St. Mark’s Lutheran cburch finds in the Martinique catastrophe epother evidence of Almighty God's power immortal. Taking for his text Ephesians 1, 19, “The exceeding greatness of His power,” he compared that might with the weakness of man, saying: highest valuation on raliroad property in 1900 of any state west of the Mississippl) as basls of equalization of values, if the by the report of t! Commission proves Railroad valuation in Missouri, $11,600; tax paid by railroads par mile in Mis. souri, $174.90. braska, $198.86. Railroad valuation in Nebraska, $4,679; tax paid per mile in No- Averoge tax per mile in seven states, $163.69 @ rm e —— o — e | “Man boasts often; feels strong. Look at St. Plerre and be humble. Martinique is an object lesson. Our theme finds numer- ous illustrations. Man has harnessed the lightning and Niagara, has exhumed the ‘villalnous saltpeter,’ combined it into des- perate explosives and says behold my power. What a glorification there was n New York In 1876, when Hell Gate was blasted. It was the perflous ridge of sharp rocks in the East river, between Manhattan and Long island. Several years were re- quired to prepare the mines. It cost an enormous sum. The place was tunneled and 4,600 holes, each nine feet deep and three and a balf inches in dlameter, were drilled in the roof, bottom and sides of the tunnel. To load them all required twenty- six tons of dynamite. All were connected with a battery. The tunnel was filled with wal All was touched off. It was a great success, Sheets of water and rock flew mightlly, “Several hundred feet of rock was cleared away. Ships have passed there ever eince in perfect safety. Houses a block away were hardly shaken. Compare this marvel of power and boast of man to Pelee last month, or Lisbon in 1756, and it is only & toy play by children. Mt. Peles had omin- ous rumblings. Ex-Mayor Clerc, the mil- lonaire, warned his friends, hastened away with his family, An hour later the erup- tlon, In three minutes the stream had rushed from the crater to the sea, five miles and 40,000 people were dead. The shock at Lisbon in 1755 was felt in Canada and Fin- land, thousands of miles apart. It killed 60,000 people. Such are the powers in the earth. Our earth is but very small in the solar system. The sun is 1,200,000 times larger, There are two smaller, five much larger planets and 200 planetolds in our em. All these are but a very small part of the univer God guides and moves all with perfect precision. None ever varies a minute. The whole is bewildering to the imagination. “This Almighty God {s ours. Well may we say: ‘What is man, that thou art mind- ful of him? Who Is so great as our God.' St. Plerre and Lisbon are but & little out play of His power on earth—itself only one stone in His creation. Happlly, we weak mortals, He says: ‘I am your My sons and daughters. care for you.'! We are the king's children. TEAM STARTS ON A LONG TRIP Gordon and Dolan Remain at Home Till After the Des Mot Series. The Omaha base ball club left at 7 o'clock yesterday morning over the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rallroad for Des Moines, where a game was scheduled for yester- day. Joe Dolan and Eddle Gordon did not &0 with the team. Dolan has a lame back, and Poter Burg, who joined the Omahas again Sunday morning, will play shortstop till Joe recovers. Gordon did not go be- cause there are just four games to play in Des Moines, and the other four twirle: will piteh them. He will rejoin the ti bere on its way through to Denver. Notes from Army Headquarters, Major Krauthoff arrived in Omaha Sat- urday to inspect meat for the commissary department. Saturday evening Lleutenant John Me- Clintock' ‘gave a dinner at the Country club to a party from Fort Crook cons ing of Major Straub, Captains Newell and Bridges, Lieutenants' Stone, Neeley, Gregg, The rate per mile paid in money as shown he Interstate Commerce this to be a fact. ' ‘recognised as the STANDARD HAIR COLORING wy or ‘hod Mair, S S S p and Mustachs. ONE MONTHS. Imperial Chemical C 3 m"!‘m‘ LASTS (;0LORAD() The way to get the best ace commodations s via the GREAT Rock ISLAND ROUTE WHY? Itis the only direct line to T Ak i has the best Dining Car Service, It has the finest equipment and gives choice of three fast daily mn:? to Colorado. Rocky Mountain Limited leaves Omaha 6.50 a. m., arrives Den- ’ lmporlal Halr Ba(onmldt It leaves Omaha 1.30 p. m., arrives Den- ver 7.45 a. m., Springs (Man-, itou) 7.35 a. Pueblo §.10a. m. Colorado Fiyer leaves Omabha 5.20 p. m., arrives Den- ver 11.00 a. m., Colorado Springs (Man- itou) 10.35 a. m., Pueblo 11.50 a. m. 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