Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1902, Page 29

Photographs Taken by The'Bee Staff Artist at Council Bluffs Scenes at Commercial Travelers’ Picni CLERKS OF THE COURSE LOOKING FOR STARTERS UNDER THE TREES WHILE OTHERS “SPORTED 9 i L Y — FAT MAN'S RACE Jl BEFORE THE F INISH WHEN THE MARRIED WOMEN TOED THE SCRATCH START OF THE GIRLS' FOOT RACE Standing—C. L. Discon, Sheldon, Ia.; A. E. Bray, Council Council Bluffs; A. V. Weldel, Sioux City; L. Zurmuehlen, Council loo; W. N. Garretson, Mason City. Sitting—H. H. Smith, Des Moines, grand sentinel; M. J. Brazzell, Sheldon, grand conductor; C. R, Olmstead, 8ioux City, grand secretary: J. R. Greanor, Mason City, grand councilor; J. T. Helwig, Council Bluffs, grand past councllor; M. A. Struble, grand junior councilor ™ "o n AN * S . 3 OFFICERS AND DELEGATES IOWA COUNCIL U. C. T. START OF THE MEN'S 100-YARD DASH When Men of the Cloth Are in the Merry Mood N old Scottish minister gave up tions that strike some people as odd are raphcrs, but the one employed by Dr. Bar- where—perhaps promoted by female cur- was imbued with the idea that he must T. B. Simme, Sioux City; Clay B. Platner, W. A. Gray, Des Moines; C. R. Rohde, Water- e his toddy for the sake of ex generally based upon sound common sens rows was especially comely josity—she waited while Dr larrows speak to everyone on the subject of religion ample The doctor said this One of his pet aversions is the bestowal of The doctor fitted up a workroom on the opened his valentine and read in his wife's He was especially moved one day while change was bad for him, and sug- long names upon children third floor of his home, where he and the handwriting raveling to address a somewhat auster gested his taking a dose surrep- “I don't believe in them,” he says. “They stenographer toiled hard day after day, “Please kiss the bearer.” individual seated just in front of him titiously whenever he sent for his shaving make me tired. Sometimes people come undisturbed by callers and well away from Here is where Dr. Barrows always cut Touching him on the shoulder, he put th water. Some time after the doctor called here with a baby to be christened. 1 take the noises of the streets the story off usual question ‘My brother, are you a again, and the old servant met him with it in my arms and ask: ‘What is her name The work of preparing for the congress o>— Christian?" teare in her eyes. “Oh, doctor, doctor!" to be? was still going forward on February 14, Maine furnishes a story that illustrat Sir," was the reply nd perhaps with she exclaimed, ‘‘the meenister's gane clean “‘Amelia Ella Martha Washington Jones,' when the doctor's little son became ex- the grotesque character of some prayers a shade of impatience “I'm a professor daft, clean daft! He's sending for bis they answer cited over the sending and receiving of Which are offered in entire good faith. Some in a theological seminary shaving wather frae mornin' tae nicht! “Then I look at them in a way they valentines The boy had been running time ago an earnest prohibitionist came un But this only seemed to call for renewed —_—— don't understand and 1 ask ‘What are about the neighborhood handing love tokens awares on a lone fisherman, who happened effort, and the young man was ecqual to “My brethren,” said the old colored Yyou going to call her when you want her to the children he knew and many had @t the moment to be quictly drinking some- it. “My dear brother,” he said, “as you preacher, “it was this way When the to stop playing with the matches and go to come to him when he remembered that he thing from a black bottle. He was so much value your soul, don’t let a thing like that Israelites passed over it was early iu the bed? had a father up on the third floor, in ad- scandalized by the sight that at the prayer ind between you and the Lord morning, while it was cold and the ice was ‘Ella,’ they answer dition (0 the One in heaven. Going to his meeting that evening he referred to th z strong enough so that they went over all “And I go on with the service and chris- mother, he proposed that they send up a incident as follow l,()“]tcd l’il "agra pll.\ right; but when the Egyptians came along ten the child Ella. I wouldn't load the lit- valentine O Lord, we k Thee to turn from hi it was in the middle of the day, and the tle things down with any such burden as Well,"” said Mrs. Barrows, “it is very ¢Vil ways the poor besotted sinner 1 seen Chicago New An irresistible impulse i sun had thawed the ice so that it gave Amelia Ella Martha Washington. The nice of you to remember your father. How th fternocs ding rum from a black one we yearn to follow way under them and they were drowned parents think she's been christened that, would it do for me to write a valentine ! le against the peace and good order of When a man is short he naturally more At this a young man in the congregation, and if it's any comfort to them I'm satis- for him and let you take it up?”’ the state.” or less crust who had been away to school and had come fied. It's their fault and I didn't have any The boy was delighted at the idea and It o happened that the sinner referred Only a great man can successfully dodge home, rose and said “I don't see how band in it.” his mother wrote upon a sheet of paper: '0 was present at the meeting, and at the erved glory that explanation can be right, parson. The —— Plezse kiss the bearer.' con on of the prayer arose and offerald onomy is the foundation en which ali geography that I've been studying tells us The late Rev. Dr. John Henry Barrows This she placed in an envelope, which the following petition = fortunss ave built that ice never forms under the equator, President of Oberlin college, and formerly was properly sealed and addressed to th ‘O Lord, Thou knowest that when the O A R e Pl T R P Y and the Red Sea is nearly under the bastor of a Chicago congregation, uscd to doctor. The boy started upstairs with his brother scen me I was not drinking rum, as hope of reforming him equator.”” “There, now,” said the old tell a little story concerning an experien valentine, but he had been running around ! don’t like it, but Scotch whisky, which . ¢ preacher, “that's all right I'se been ©Of his own that may be worth passing ;00d deal during the morning and his 'he doctor ordered me to take to keep away Little mice gnaw at a big cheese and it h ' s tle 28 gnaw at a great virtue that Dr. Barrows legs were weary. When he had reached 'heumatiz, and Thine be the glory forever. 1€ Vices gnaw at a grea rtu for the holding the second floor he met the pretty stenog- Amen r, who had started out after postage 0 'spectin’ some of you smart Alecks would along. It was at the time be askin’' jest some such fool question. Was making arrangement The time I was talkin' about was before ©f the great congress of religions in Chl- raj If the evil in man is visible it is an easy matter to overlook all the good they had any jogafries or 'quators, either.”” ¢2g0. He had an immen correspondence ps or something, and asked if she Will Moody, son and successor at North The more mistakes a man makes the — to take care of and found it necessary to wouldn't be kind enough to hand the note field ¢f the late Dwight L. Moody, tells the ¢asier it is for him to invent excuses Rev. Charles Dalmer, pastor of Holy Cross employ a stenographer. The young woman to his father following story, apr ¢ recent theolog If the Creator ever made a failure it wa Catholic church a¢ Baitimore, is a man of was pretty. It is not to be inferred that She took the envelope, gave the child a ical events, about young convert in the probably due to an attempt to make a man peculiarities in many things, but his no- there are any but pretty women stenog- pat on the cheek and ran back upstalrs, Salvation Army, who, earnest and zealous, who could please his neighbors