Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1902, Page 19

THE OMAHA DAILY, BE SUNDAY JUNE 22, 1902 TRAITS OF GEN, KITCHENER| Oharacteristios of the Man Who Was In at | the Death of the Boer Republics. REMARKABLE GIFT OF SILENCE HIS | An Unlovely Personality, but Wonder- | fully Strong His Record as Soldie This is & peculiar figure that steps for- ward to take its place in the front ranks | the March of the Conquerors. Even now, with the laurels of his achieve ments fresh, men acclalm him not nearly | €0 much for what he did as for the way he | did it | This 1s & conquercr whose men do not o | mad with love and adoration of him when Be rides over the siricken fleld A frightening, silent man-—~well fitted to g0 down in British history as The Silent Destroyer. Less man than soldier, less | man than slayer, less man than machine— | mark him as he moves through the dead routine of fleld survey, the dead routine of | drilling hopeless native troops, the dead routine of a practice march. Iron-jawed, wordless, expressionless, emotionless, mark | him moving living men toward other living | men on the battlefields. Dongola, Atbara, OmAurman! Move after move, check, checkmate! For all that any man knows this man moved other men, discarded them, took them, lost them with as calm method s the chess player loses and takes the chessmen. All the world saw the man, with his un- readable, still face, move to his place om the vast, bloody chessboard of the Trans- vaal—a chessboard from which England’s pleces were being swept fast; all the world saw him move the pleces. All the world #aw the game still wavering, going here and going there, with England's pawns still be- ing swept away. And then! Checkmate! Look back a quarter of a century. In the bible lands of Palestine, in Galilee, is a tall, gaunt, bony subaltern, with a hard face, burned brick red, laying the lines of survey, mapping the country where a figure once went through the Passion for the world. Standing there on storied hills did that young Englishman, looking out over the scenes of the most wonderful history that ever was, see himselt to be one day lord of Khartoum? Who W Het Men who know him as well as he permits men to know him say emphatically, “Yes.” | They say that this man is a man con- | sumed with ambition, consumed the more that he keeps its fires deep pent within him and does not let the world see so much as & gleam of their flames. They say that from his youth he moved steadily, unrest- ingly, never to be turned aside, toward the prize that his ambition had marked out for him. It he did not dream of being lord of Khartoum, be sure he dreamed—nay, knew, that he was to be a lord of men somewhere, somehow. Concerning all which speculation, what reply will you get from Horatlo Herbert Kitchemer? No smile, no frown—nothing but that same level, still, unmoved glance that has been cast over drill grounds in little villages, over battle scenes and over crowds of shouting, enthusiasm-drunken multitudes, striking their ardor cool within them. If any man in England had asked any other well informed man in England twen- ty-five years ago, “Who is Kitchener? the onswer probably would have been a polite shrug of the shoulders. There were ten times ten hundred young Englishmen like him scattered around the world and its seas, and doing the work of the empire well or i1, and In elther case waknown and unheeded, except for the heavy official ma- chine that fed them out and checked them off and kept records of them as they gave bone and sinew and life for the thing that men call a government and & country. His history up to that time was that of most of the other young men' whom England sends away from home to build for her greatness. His father was a sol- dler of no very high rank. He managed to climb to the lleutenant colemcy of a dragoon regiment, the Thirteenth, a good, hard riding, stralght fighting band. Little Kitchener was born in Ireland, but he is more French than Irish, for Lieutenant Colonel Kitchener was a Suffolk man and Mrs. Kitchener was & Oevaller and descended stralght from patrician French Huguenots. The boy grew up ltke all English boys of his class. One day he was sent away from home to learn to be a royal engineer. And an engineer he became and an engl- Beer he remalned and an englneer he is. A ¥reat, steady. unfaltering piston rod of a man this—driving along in absolute con- sonance with the throbbing of the vast machine of fate. What is there in enil- Weering that produces so many fighting men? We have had them here and England ts tull of them there. Certainly there was little In Kitchener's early surroundings to provoke fighting blood. As a royal engineér, he was trotted around to various unendingly peaceable lands to view them through the glass in his theodolite and measure them with the steel tape and otherwise disport himself. So we see him doing in the four years from 1574 to 1578 It is hard to conceive now that much of the togographical knowledge PICTURE are in sical health is restored. 4 the ills of women. establ regu- larity, dries weakening drains, heals in- flammation and ulceration, and cures fe- {\"“ . Fu‘nl:l Mscovery ‘and * e whea doctors and For ifteen years | When | commenced veo (14 i i LT | but | will win forgiveness of them all | of which A Marriage of Good Temper It it were necessary as to what is the first and chief constituent of & happy marriage one might besitate tor a moment over the thought of many almost indispensable virtues, and dally over that of absolute trustfulness on both sides but if thinking and weighing delib- erately, would decide vresently that the requisite for happiness in marriage is good nature. Not that a tempeet once in a great while may not be worth while to clear the alr and to show how good the other is, but in the long, round year the sunshine and falr weather is the best What will pardon to a eunny- faced rogue? A man may commit count- less peccadilloes, & thousand offenses agalnst good t even be guilty of sins an unfailing sweetness of disposition A woman may be extravagant, a poor housekeeper, even slatternly, or a provoker of scandal, but there is no disruption in the household he Is mistress as long as with a smile she acknowledges her fault, though her sin is ever before us. A pair of dimples has saved many a little scamp from a whipping; they are just as useful when the ecamp is older and the dimples are slipping into wrinkles. For the dimple is not only evidence of the smile itself, but it stimu- lates the smile of others. to give an oplnion Py real you not Who can. rebuke too sharply or too fre- quently when reproach is always received without retort, without affront? Who is not made to feel upon the spot that good nature {s better than any impeccability? We have, most of us, seen exquisite housekeepers who all but follow the in truder about with a broom, who are ready to dust the chair from, require overshoes to be left outside the door: who, it you take a book from one room and lay jt down, carry it back before your eves; who make more circumstances of broken china than of broken bones. And most of us prefer for a companion the home- body, who makes no fuss about anything but who is tender and caressing and gay end consoling and sympathetic and always sweet tempored, although there be fluff on her floors, and nicks on her dishes, and no meal ready at its appointed hour. And most of us, again, rather than with the petulant and fault-finding man, or with the stern and sour and solemn Incarnation of all the virtues, or with the lofty and su- perfor soul, without whose wisdom and learning the world could not revolve, would choose companionship with the off-hand happy-go-lucky fellow, who, if the dioner is late, says: ‘‘Never mind; it will be all the better when it does come,” or if we ourselves are late for church or theater or outing says: “Well, we will enjoy it all the more when we get there;" or, if the servants are rebellious, condones it by de- claring: “We can't expect perfection for the price we pay.” And this man may have his better faults, he may not be at home as much as you would like, he may be too careful about the spending of his you | Preachment by Mrs. " Harriet \ Spofford. money, he may have various habita un- pleasant to you; but you love him quite aside from them; you regard them as ex- terior affairs for which he is hardly re- sponsible find someone else to be blamed for them, he himself is the sunmy creature who brightens gloom wherever he goes, and of whose love you fesi assured, whether in truth it is yours or mot. And after all the aseurance of love produces happiness. you In fact, good nature Is & charm that never dies. Beauty fades, accomplishments fail, but good nature survives till all elss falls to dust. It blends the opposing and contradictory elements llke a fortunate solvent. It acts precisely as sunshine does, and whero you find it happiness flourishes and life is eoriched. In any individual it declares the existence of a calm and etrong nervous temperament, and nothing lends itselt more to peace and prosperity in a household than that. It is a blessed thing, then, that such a trait can be es- tablished; that repression here and ex- pression there, and determination every- where will make it grow and thrive and be- come a habit. It is the outer embodiment of love, and the man who is seldom with- out it is the one to whom the town turns, on whom the beggars smile, after whom the children run, whose presence soothes trouble, and whose wife is sure that even it she wears her old bonnet she is’lovely in his eyes. | The Gospel of Good Sermons by Lay Preachers | c it During his farewell visit to his boyhood home at Hannibal, Mo, Mark Twain preached the first sermon in his life in the Baptist church during the regular Sunday service. The church was crowded, there being at least 1,000 persons In the audience, many of them being friends and compan- ions of his youtn. Rev. Everett Gill, pas- tor of the church, preached a sermon of about fifteen minutes, taking as his text “Garlands for Ashes.” In the course of his remarks he pald an eloquent tribute to Mark Twain by speaking of his sterling character, the life work of sixty-seven years. On closing he asked the humorist to take the pulpit. Mark Twain, filled with emotion, arose from the pew in which he sat, with all eyes of the Immense audience turned to him. The occasion was a most impressive one. The veteran writer, with his long white hair hanging in curly locks, was to preach to the people of the city where he had spent his boyhood days. The theme of his sermon was “The Gospel of Good Cheer.” The remarks were listened to with Intense interest. “I thank Rev. Dr. Gill for the privilege which he has offered by permitting me to say & few words" he sald. “I will not take the pulpit, for I should be embar- rassed with unsanctified tongue If T did. It might be well for me to stand there on & weekday, but on Sunday I think the place for the layman is in the pew, so with your permission I shall remain here at my seat and tell you what I have to say. Here anyone can talk without reproach. Even here in this humble capacity I am doing what you are always doing—preaching. The art of preaching is to influence you. From the pulpit and from the mouths of all of you the preaching goes on all the time. Our words and acts are not for purselves, but for others. They are like the tidal waves of the seas that encircle the earth. They are heard about us when they are uttered. We are preaching all the time, even if we do not know it. We forget that we carry Influence. We ought to remem- ber it, however, and make it a constant reminder. We had better see that our con- duct 1s of a favorable nature. “My mother lies buried out in the beau- titul city of the dead, on the hill south of the city overlooking the waters of the mighty Mississippl. At this age of mine she cheers me. She was a support to me during her life. Her preaching did not perieh when she passed away, but goes on and on with me. Although there are many long sllent in the grave they have not ceased to so preach. They did not stop when thelr mouths were closed in death. See that your preaching when alive be of the character that when you are dead others may reap the secondary effort of what you did. Let {t be good, mot bad. Preaching when dead is not lost. Wash- ington died over 100 years ago, but he still preaches. His character, service and words still live. Every day nations striv- ing_for liberty fully appreciate what be dld. Words sometimes perish, but conduct 1s lasting. President Eliot of Harvard college was arguing in favor of education by “showing how,” before a class of kindergartners. He said that he was learning something every day by being “shown how.” He illustrated his point by describing the training of medical students, and concluded by telling of an old friend of his who had suddenly become deaf in one ear “How did this happen?” I asked him. “Well, I was blowing my nose the other day, when I felt something snap in my ear, followed by an aching and dullness. “When the doctor came he said the drum bad split and asked how I did it. ‘I only blew my nose,’ I told the doctor. *“Well, had you opened your mouth when you blew your nose you would not now have a damaged ear drum,’ was the medico’s reply. “You see, my friend had lived seventy years and had never been show how to blow his nose,” concluded President Eliot. Nothing is more beautiful than the old age of a man and wife who have grown dear 1o each other by the manifold experi- ences of life, says the Youth's Companion. So nothing is more grim and hideous than such an old age when the long vears have heaped up bitterness and discord only. In many a country household, where wife- beating would be regarded with horror, there is practised a cruelty no less terrible and even more persistent. An old couple who had been married fifty years finally separated because the man wanted a half-bushel of ashes on the hearth and his wife wanted a peck. They had argued the question unremittingly and sav- agely for forty-nine years and at last ended the bitter sport by a stormy parting. There is a grim humor in many of the countryman’s expressions of his domestic irritation and discomfort, but they are none the less significant of untold suffering. One night a country doctor was detained at a farmhouse, where husband and wite were notoriously incompatible. From the “kitchen bedroom™ where he was installed he was forced to hcar every word of a tirade, which,the woman poured upon the head of her husband. The victtm bore it without & word. At last, the doctor re- lates, the farmer rose to go to the for his nightly visit to “the critters.” With his hand on the latch of the door, he flung back over his shoulder ““Waal, Salrey;, there's that In ye that nothin’ but the ground'll ever take out!" An old blacksmith drove home from the tuneral of his wife with a lifelong friend. As they rode slowly through a winter twi- light the widower half soliloquized: “She was a good cook an' a first-rate housekeeper. She was savin'. She allers kep' me well mended up. But I never liked her!" The grotesqueness of the incidents does not conceal their tragedy. That might be made the text of a sermon on self-control, cheerfulness, lovingness and the other homely, useful domestic virtues. These €ame virtues must be planted and culti- vated in the boy and the girl it marriage is to be aught, but an intolerable slavery for the man and the woman. of the Holy Land that is possessed by the world today, is owing to the work of the man who since then has been depicted in European prints as a hanger of men, a slayer of babes and a scourger of womes. In Cyprus. In 1878 England, in the methodical move- ment of her red tape machine, sent him to Cyprus, where he did “something or an- other” about the organization of the land courts. England had only just them ac- quired Cyprus, and there was lots of dull, deadly, monotonous work to do. He re- mained there, off and on, until 1883, Imagine the man who was to be My Lord Khartoum, sitting fn his hot office in that year, listening to the drone of a sleepy complainant and a still more sleepy de- fendant, both quarreling about a matter concerning which truth lay at the bottom of a well far too deep for human sounding— and pot three hundred miles away British guns roaring and British shells thundering at Alexandria, and young Condor Beresford Iying under fire and “‘having the time of his life"" and big history making all around’ Now it is almost an established fact that one Kitchener did witness the bombardment of Alexandria. It is a completely estab- lished fact that there is no official record giving any Kitchener leave to go away trom Cyprus. But Cyprus did not suffer, nor did the bombardment. Then things began to happen fast and turious in Egypt. And then did a certaln brick red, bony and almost unpleasantly sllent youth rage in bigh quarters against law courts and civil organization and office work in Cyprus, where a man had to wear & dress sult at dinmer every night and do other things equally futile, Dress suits thereupon became things of the past with Kitchener. After Tel-el Kebir saw the breaking of Arabl's mad might, England bad to take in hand the reorganization of the Egyptian army, so called by courtesy. Sir Evelyn Wood was appointed eirdar (commander) He de- manded twenty-five British officers for the wotk. Belng about as hopeless and un- pleasant and unprofitable and unpromising a job as ever faced white men, there was a rush of young Britons. Kitchener was among them. He became an officer in the glorious army of the khedive—one of that curfous corps who worked loyally for the little brown ruler and were ready at any moment to knock his head off if they or dear old England didn't Itke anything that he did. A Hopeless Army. The Egyptian army was a band of under- pald, underfed, undertreated and under- mined fellaheen. It was an army without stomach, without heart and without back- bone. It went forth to war only with a view to retreating at the earllest possible ‘moment It slouched and loafed and did mot wash. It could not shoot. And Kitchener worked over those helpless reeds of broken natives and gripped them and squeezed them, and, being a map himself, found the man in the weak-kneed levies before him. . He made such men out of them that In 1857 they made him commander in Suakin, and there are rempants of desert hordes yet who remember certain ensuing lean years. They remember yet how the gaunt man stepped calmly into their camp one night, unarmed and alone, and cheerfully flicked thelr sacred chief Into the face with s riding whip in the midst of his spear bearers and gun carriers, because sacred chief was just preparing to execute a British soldier who had been caught that afternoon. Osman Digoa's men who still are alive re- member him, for be ok bis Egyptisn that | S Toaiosi 1hia ! Hanauh t s day. The great | bearded Emirs and the savage, hairy, fight- | ing men laughed through their teeth when they saw him come. They bad made the poor rice eaters of Egypt run too often to | dream of anything elee except an easy slaughter. But this time the men whom | Kitchener had found in the fellaheen were behind those brown skins, in which once | there had been room for nothing but quak- | | ing bearts. And Emirs and bairy fighting men snapped their teeth in the dust in dying and spearmen fell to rise no more. The troops were beaten oft at last, but Kitchener, although defeated in this his first real battle, had broken his Egyptian soldiery to fighting and killing as eports- | men “blood” a deerhound. He got a bullet in the face as a souvenir of the occasion. | A tew years ago, while he was eating at a table, the bullet suddenly worked its way j out and fell into his plate. He lifted it out | With his fork, stared in disapproval at his | servant, who had too lively an expression of surprise on his face, and went on eating without saying a word. Revenge for H Within & year after Handub he led a | brigade of Soudanese over the trenches at | Gemaizeh and incidentally over Osman's men, who had incautiously occupled them. In 1889 he again commanded a brigade. All this time he was gazing at the Soudan, studying it, laying his plans to subdue it. | He had profited by all the experiences of | others. As intelligence officer with Stew- art's ill-starred desert column, he had noted | for tuture use the breakdown of the system of communications. It was Kitchener who plunged into the | Korosko desert and In less than three weeks came out not only alive (then a feat In it- elf), but with the Information that he |bad succeeded in establishing a chain of |outposts extending to the Red sea and guarded by 2,000 friendly Arabs. | 1t was Kitchener whose native cavalry | sent the Dervishes in rout across the desert |and stopped all Arab invasion for a year. And it was Kitchener who, in 1850, was appointed Sirdar. And In 1898 the Soudan wae conquered Before he could move to conquer the | Soudan he bad 'o conquer the khedive. He |@1d. The khedive sald something insulting about British officers. Kitchener rode up close to him asnd—the khedive issued a general order praising the army and par- ticularly its British officers. Queen Vic- toria made Kitchener a K. C. M. G. that time. Then began the game of war. passionless, uncommunicative, drillmaster, tarrier, commissary and railroad engineer by turns, the silent man made plans and laid them to converge on ome point. Many thousand instruments, bent by his supreme will, tolled blindly for him, not knowing whether they were working for a hope- lessly stupld victim of dull red tape or a man with & collossal scheme, and, what is more, not daring to try to know. A year passed by and still the army drilled aud the engineers planned, and in stead of gun firing and sword clashing the blows of pickaxes and the scraping of | spades made monotonous music day after | day. Foot by foot, mile by mile, a raflroad began to crawl away from camp into the {dim desert, sacred till them to Mahdist raids and retaliatory expeditions by British soldiers that were little more effective than raids | There were to be no raids with Kitchener. He meant to take np army out and bring a cut-up, starviag, panic-stricken remnant back. He meant Lo sead 5o columas wind- Impassive, ing for miles through gorges, while at their rear the shouting followers of the Prophet were cutting out the wagon trains of sup- plies and ammunition. He meant to have Do rushed camps, no sniping, no desultory, heart-breaking fighting. The march began. Day after day, week | after week, month after month, the slow progress went on. Men worked all day to move trains and barges; they slept all | night as securely as If they were in the | heart of friendly country. | Ing for glorious deeds this wi To a world wait- gall and wormwood. Kitchener became a byword for something that defied patience. This was not war. This was shopkeeping, farming, land-measuring, anything but war. And Kitchener, the unlovely, who they say never looked at woman with tenderness or senti- ment, heard the talk of the world as it drifted to him In his Nile camps. He listened to it with that level, unspeaking glance and sent war correspondents back bome with scant courtesy and less waste of time. That was his answer. In it no word was wasted. And the Omdurm And one morning, on September 2, 1898, something happened in a far place called Omdurman, where there were gathered great hosts of brave Emirs and tall desert fighters and women of the harem and much treasure. And when the something had done happening the fleld was “white with Jibbah clad corpses, like a meadow dotted with snowdrifts.” Khalifa Abdullah, who had boasted that morning that Kitchener's head chould roll before night where the brave Gordon's head rolled, was hiding The fierce Osman Digna, the Sword of the Soudan, was fleelng with a handful of sur- vivors. Along the river mounted British troops were cantering and spearing the Dervishes who had escaped the bath of fire. The despised Egyptians troops, those same men who once had been sheep before the Dervish wolves, were guarding 15,000 sullen desert dwellers, whose deserts were never to know their flerce forays again. And that night Sirdar Kitchener rode through the camp and he looked around him as he had looked around him at drlil many years before. In that hard, unmoved face was slgn of meither triumph or elation or reliet or weariness. His men cheered when they saw him, but even as the cheers rang out they would die away, for this grim, changeless, passionless creature was not one to arouse wild bursts. And 5o he passed through the crowds of England when he returned home. He had aged a bit. Twenty-five years in Egypt beaten by sands that cut the faces of the pyramids, will mark even the face of a Kitchener. But in all else, in expression, in manner, in attitude, he was the Kitch- ener who, as a subaltern, set forth to measure the land of Canaan; and he re- ceived the plaudits of a nation as he might bave received the terse, perfunctory com- mendation of the official to whom he pre- sented his maps of survey. 80, 100, be went to South Africa. But there he met new men, men who wore uni- forms for “fun” went to the fromt for “fun,” talked of fighting as “fun.” Now, if bard, earnest, stiff fighting soldiers do not love Kitchener and enthuse over him it hardly was to be expected that dandies would. They didn't. Neither did Kitch- ener over them. 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Japanese Cre, yard, while It lasts, only 56 per yard: i Now 1s 8c up to %. ends, e 15¢ quality for 10c. inches wide, worth 15 | Special Notic During the month of July and August we Jo.;e Saturéla;)g at 1 o’clod‘ai Kitchener answered with—Silence. It was poted that the wails grew less, however.! But that was mainly because the wallers were being sent home as fast as ships could carry them. Some of them were sent to | less comfortable places by the grim, homely sidar, They were sent to battle. Many of them dled. He never showed by’ any sign that he was sorry or glad or re- lieved or indifferent. Just that level glance and that entire silence. *Kitchener | is making a failure of it rang the dis- | patches. Silence. “Kitchener ie despair-| ing of winning out.” Silence. “Another appalling defeat for our arms.” Silence. | Once he broke that eilence. He sent a dispatch—"'Send me more men.” It was the march on Omdurman over | again. Silence and work and eilence—and then—the end. Reporters and Humorists. New York Weekly: is a reporter? Father—A reporter is a man who writes up an Irish parade as if he were an Irish- man, and then turns about and writes up an English celebration as if he were an Englishman. Boy—What is a humorist? Father—A humorist is a man who writes up an Irish parade as if he were an Eng- lishman, and an English celebration as it he were an Irishman. RELIGIOU Inquiring Boy—What John 8. Huyler of New York has given $15,000 to promote the work of the Chris- tian assoclations of Syracuse university. Rev. Dr. Willlam Barroll Frisby, one of the most eloquent ministers in the Protes- tant Episcopal church, has just dled at Boston. Rey. Charles T. Olmstead of Syracuse, N. Y. has_been named_coadjutor bishop to Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington of the central New York diocese. Dr. M. E. Koonce, & missionary at Ram- part, Alaska, drove 120 miles in a dog sled on his way to attend the Presbyterian anniversaries held in New York recently. The Episcopal church in this country has nine chaplaincles in Europe. These "have Tofuited In Parls, Rome, Dresden and else- where in the ri ing of beautiful churches. The late Archbishop Corrigan_ of New York had 1,200,000 communicants, 71 priests and 216 churches under his jurisdiction. He also exercised jurisdiction over churches in the Bahama islands. Rev. Delno C. Henshaw of Chicago preached a memorial sermon at the grave of his father, burfed in the cemtery at Kalamazoo, Mich., on June 10. 1t was the 100th anniversary of his father's birth. James N. Rogers, prominent in Baptist circles in Sallinas, Cal., has after much Study and correspondence with learned Mosiems embraced Mohammedanism. He says he expects nothing but ostracism as & consequence of his change of faith In St. Margaret's, Westminster, London, is a pew with the American flag under a glass cover. The pew bears a plate marked, Reserved for the American visitors.” The w 18 one of the best in the church, being mmediately behind those reserved for the House of Commions. - President Roosevelt in his message to the Sunday school children of Brookiyn said: “1 am glad to have a chance to express to the ehfidren of the Sunday School union how giad | am that they are fittl selves to become in the future citizens of this great republic. “This s not & theater,” said Father Ed- ward J. Duffy of Bt. Mary's church, Islip, Long lsland, as he ordered two women to iéave the church because they did not wear their hats. They were summer visitors from New York and had stepped from their hotel across the street to attend the funeral of a poor person in whom the were fnterested. Nhey left the chure highly indignant at the clergyman’'s man- ner and remarks. In a talk to workingmen the other day Bishop Ingram of London said: “Human nature always reminds me of the story of the two frogs that fell into a pot of cream. One of them s0on gave up the struggle as a bad job and without much ado sank to the bottom. The other, striking out with all his legs and persevering eventually found himself resting upon a pat of butter churned by his own efforts to_get his: head above the level of the cream. Archdeacon Kirby of New York, who has recently celebrated his golden 'wedding, was the first missionary to penetrate within the American Agctic eircle. He the Rocky mountains on foot to it the In- dlans of Alaska. He translated the New festament, the prayer book. a hymnal and other books into Chippew; his e ng them- hristian twenty-five years of missionary service hy bullt six churches. 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The Bee Building is the only building baving all night and all day Sunday elevator service. The Bee Building furniehes electric light and water without ade ditional cost. The Bee Bullding is kept clean, not some uf the time, but all of the time. RUPTURE -- PILES Keep these polnts in mind when looking for an office, and y ) you will take one those listed below, if you are wise. b List of vacant rooms in The Bee Building Ground Floor. Rentay (100M H: 15x03 feet. Faces Sevenicenth street ani has windows uon:"t:“.. flley. This is & large, light room, a<d the rental price inciddes = beaty light, water and jai service. It has an entr Bee Bullding Court and Seventee st reet . g oSt B o T?Pno. 600 ¢ First Floor. JUITE 1014 There is no finer office sulte in Omaha than this one. locatea just on the right fand of ihe Ereat maibie Stairway ane has oo ge windows looking upon the froni entrance way of the buil gronts on Farnam stieel. Une room is 171y 4nd tha other sxib 11 fas s burglar-proof vault, marble mantel- piece, hardwood floors, and will be woon' S50, Lo sult tenant . 5+ Price $T.00 1041 ‘This room is Just ai the bead of the main staiFway on (he Arst foor. It would be a very ‘desirabie ofiice for some real man - FACIOR. The HOOF PACE L LUXLS £00Essrssresserermereme o = . Third Floor. ROOM 308: This room is Z1x$ feet and is very convenlently ::\-mn A sign on the door can be readlly seen in siep located near the ping off the eleva~ This room 18 1ixi2 feet and will be divided o suit tenan Tfartioutarly wuapled for some T conbern. Hesciak Lavpe e Space and 18 4 decidediy handsome office, haviug an entrance facing Lhe gourt and windows looking out upon Beventeenth strect. It har o Vel large burglar-proof vault, hard wood floors and is one of the cholcest of ces iu the building. Price 0.1 Fourth Floor. ROOM 401: 15x13 feet. This room is next to the elevator and faces court bas a large burglar-proof vault and is well ventilated. Has 'Mplfll': + seenesl nra aad for tie price furnishes first-ciass accommodations. Fifth Floor. & very large room, 11x& feeL It faces w ventiated. It is very seldom that space o?hu'é:u'fl Bee Building. It could be used to aavantage by some firm ¢ mumber of clerks, or requiring large foor ~space—a . OF manufacturers agent, who would like to be in & ing, or it will be divided to suit the tenant...... Price faces the court and is 15xl4 feet. It has a mnu—rool‘- ith & and as it is near the telegraph office and on the same foor Bumber of it would be o2y STaia Srma, it wi 85 particularly good room for s m-’. Sixth Floor. This consists of two rooms, both 15ix1li Each has urglar-proof vault, have been net‘l?‘ B % "A’u" rooms where any business or professional man may be comfortable. Price for the two 536 04 R. C. PETERS & CO., Rental Agents. Ground Floor, Bee Building