Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1902, Page 7

THE O FEAST OF THE NEWS VENDORS Eighty Vigorons Appetites Oollide with Turkey, Pie and Other Edibles. ONE SATISFIED, THE OTHER DEMOLISHED No Carrlages, No Flowers, No Swallow Talled Coats, but Fanetion Makes Up in Interest What it Lacks in Style. Eighty of the most prominent and best known young business men of Omaha were banqueted at 6:20 last night at the First Congregational church by courtesy of the women of that congregation and as guests of the three daily newspapers whose edi- tlons they retail. Afterward they were the kuests of Manager Carl Reiter of the Or- pheum theater. The affair at the church was a function of much pomp and circumstance. Hon. Joe Carroll and Hon. Mogy Bernstein, with Captain Crip of the supply station at Six- teenth and Farnam streets, were given the #eats of honor at the east end of the ban- quet hall, facing the profiles of the other Buests, who ranged along the two long ta- bles extending westward. All were in full dress—very full by the time they were through eating. Mr. Joey Newman got his too full and had to be helped out into the alr and revived, All delivered addresses, extemporaneous, but pointed and full of philosophy. Fatty Fisher sald the occasion would re- main Impressed upon both his ¢ ebrum and his cerebellum through all future cpochs and that in the meantime he'd be glad to et another helping of turkey. Mr. Mickey Free expressed an entire concordance with the sentiment of the occasion and wondered 1t he could bé put next to a third slab of the angel food. Mr. Two Sticks declared that the event had finclined him to optimism, notwithstanding he was two feet shorter than he was before he got under the street car. Mr. Jumbo (maiden name “Little Bddy"”) toasted the five volunteer cooks and eleven waiters and immediately there- after’gave them all something to do. It's In the Air. Mr. Cream Saida, real Syrian, and Mr. Nano Pasha, real Turk, spoke of the facility with which one of foreign birth may in- noculate himself with the germ of Yankee strenuosity and incidentally inquired how the celery was holding out. Mr. Shanty Campbell dessertated upon the ‘mmutable 13w of human progross and stated that he limself was getting along very well at that writing. Mr. Goo-Goo Eyes O'Brien de- fended as rightcovs and imperishabl the principle of free speech, but admitted that versonally he was too full for further ut- torance. Mr. Oshy Rosenthal denounced as 1aaliclously and designedly false the derog- ntory rumor that he had surreptitiously ac- quired and sold a ball and chain belonging at the police station and then to prove his #0od inclinations stowed seven pickles away in his right-hand pocket. Mr. Buddy Cramer icenuyted the joys of be .g “off to Call- ‘ornis In a boxcar, but drew the conclu- slon that the mashed potatoes should come his way by expr Mr. Joey Mahan, the ude too proud to hustle, deprecated any manual toll tending to detract from fn- herent da!ntiness, but allowed he could ispose of more jelly without solling his ‘unch hooke. ’ Mr. Izzy, who generally is not where his mother thinks he is, occupled a seat ad- jacent to the base of supplies, having ar- “{ved & half hour earlier than “the bunch™ “or that express purpose, and he was n very busy Izzy through the entire pro- veeditlg, because he sat mext to Mr, Little Shanty, con man, who had successfully gold-bricked a waiter into giving them through service to the ple works. Mr. Hunky Grapenheiser begged to be excused from speaking, because the day's open air meetings had made him husky of voice. Others devoted considerable attention to the provisions of the pure food law. Not Too Proud to Walk. Those who had not their private car- riages had walked to the church from the rendezvous back of The Bee building In a body and left the same way, first pausing to give a Comanche hurrah as an expres- slon of the gratitude they felt. Another hurrah was for Manager Relter and an- other was as encouragement to a Bee staff photographer, who was trying to get them still long emough for a flashlight. This was but one of several apnual din- ners given the newsboys of Omaha, but the guests seemed no less ipterested and pleased with the progress of the meal. There was good order, and somewhere out in this broad universe they had found water and soap enough to reduce their complexion to approximately the normal. This morning, while more fortunate chil- dren slumber peacefully on in cozy beds, these ambitious little business men will bave to tumble out in the semi-darkness to take up & burden Almdst as great as NOBODY 1S EXEMNPT. tion Which Everyome or Later. A New Pre W1Il Need Soo; Almost everybody's digestion is disor- dered more or less, and the commonest thing they do for It is to take some one of the many so-called blood purifiers, which in are merely strong cathartic Such things are not needed. If the organs are in a clogged condition, they need only & little help and they will right themselves. Cathartics irritate the sensitive linings of nd often do more barm than good. Purging 1s not what is needed. The thing to do is to put the food in condition ta be readily digested and assimilated. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do this perfectly. They partly digest what is eaten and give the stomach just the help it needs. They stimulate the secretfon and excretion of the digestive fluids and relieve the congested condition of the glands and membranes. They put the whole digestive system in con- dition to do its work. When that is done you need take no more tablets, unless you eat what does not agree with you. 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I suffered for years from dyspepsia but am now entirely cured and enjoy life as 1 new before. 1 gladly recommend them. It will cost 50c to find out just how much Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets will help you Try them—that's the best way to decide. Mr. | | | their own welght and to toil through. the {day and other meager meals may tollow this one feast of the wholk | irudging year. } NORTHERN MILLIONAIRE HERE Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis Spends more real ; Few Hours in Omaha on | Way West. | ikl | Thomas Lowry, the Minneapolis eapitalist | president of the Soo raliroad and also presi- dent of the Twin City Rapid Transit com- which embraces all reet car lines in Minneapolis, St. Paul, White Bear. Stillwater and the other suburban lines In | that vicinity, was in Omaha several hours | yesterday with Mrs. Lowry on their way to ! Colorado Springs for a holiday visit and to become acquainted with a new granddaugh- | ter whom Mr. Lowry says is his Christmas present. | Mr. Lowry Is making extensive improve- | ments on both his railroad and street car | Mnee. He has already ordered $1,000,0: | worth of new equipment for the Soo road | all of which will be placed in use during the coming year. “The natural increase fn the volume of our traffic, both passenger and freight, has made it necessary for us to Increase our equipment,” sald Mr. Lowry. “The Soo | oad has enjoyed one of the most prosper- ous periods of sts history In the year just closing. We have done considerable build- ing and have matertally added to our equip- ment, but the next year will show more ex- 1 tensive improvements.' Mr. Lowry denied the rumors that he had | been intending to project his line up into DAMAGE CLAIMS NUMEROUS Latest One Puts Oity Claim Agent in Reminisoent Mood, MUNICIPAL PHOTOGRAPHER IS KEPT BUSY Fall the Pletore Man the with Harrien to Scene His Camern. The city clerk has received from Mrs Susfe Cottrell a notification that she pro- poses to demand of the city of Omaha $10,000 for injuries sustained in a fall a | tew weeks ago in tront of 1401 Douglas street. She avers that the sidewalk there was rough and fey, and that the “sald Injury was caused on account of the side- walk being left in such rough and lcy con- | dition.” The injury, she explains, s per- manent, as by falling she broke her coc the lower extremity of the spine. When the communication was mentioned to City Claim Agent George C. Cockrefi, he suid “In view of the fact that every time aug body gets hurt outside his own door yard he generally tries to gei the city to pay for it, 1 expected that this ciaim would | be showing up In due time, and the city 18 tully prepared for it. It happened to ba two city hall men who picked up Mrs. Cot- trell when she sat down that evening, and they mentioned the matter to me. I went down the next morning and had the place | AHA DAILY | Rush for permission to visit Biglow, si BEE DECEMBER 24, I902. WEDNESDAY of the Jacksonian club, but not many were | in attendance. The meeting was for the purpose of taking some action in the inter- est of Albert Lynch, the leader of the Irish commando during the Boer war, who is now under trial for high treason ‘against the British crown It was decided that another meeting be called as soon as possible after Christmas. BIGLOW'S “MOTHER” IS A MAN Lawyer Ascertains that Federal Prise oner Has Been Foollng Him, After a comparison of notes between Attorney McFarland, Judge Munger and others about the federal bullding, a con- | clusion was reached that the person who passed as ‘the mother of Walter Biglow, the youth convicted of robbing the poste office at Wood River, Neb., was not only not the lad’s mother, but was mot even a woman Biglow is a boy about 22 years old, and was only one of three implicated in the postoffice robbery. Tt s believed that Big- low played the smallest part in the affair and that he was a tool in the hands of professional burglars. The other two men were nover apprehended and Biglow, up to date, is the only one to be punished for the crime. After Biglow was arrested and up to a few days before his trial he appeared to be entirely friendless, and his only visitor was the jaller. Then a person dressed in womans' clothes appeared on the scene and applied to Assistant United States Attorney ing that she was the boy's mother. The alleged mother was referred to United States Attorney Summers, who re- Canada. He sald he had all the territory | be wanted in the United States and would | | confine himself to this domain for a while | at Jeast. He also said that he was not in- | terested In any railroad bullding in Colo- photographed. It was as clear of ice as | u walk could be, and in addition to the evidence of the photograph, I have several | witnesses who will testifv to the mame. | Measure of Self-Protection, rado. Mr. Lowry spoke with zeal of the vast| “Attempts to make the city pay for all improvements being made in the Twin |Accidents of all kinds have become 8o numerous that now we send a photographer | on the run nearly every time we hear of | anybody falling and slipping. It is u| | measure of self-protection for the city that | City Rapid Tranzit company. “We are bullding a central power plant in Minneapolis that will furnish power for our entire street car system and for some other things, too, it It, is required,” smd | WOTe than justifies its slight cost. One| Mr. Lowry. “Wo have been operating our | Who has never had anything to do with | cars with several plants in St. Paul and | the legal department has no idea how Minneapolis, but when this central plant |™any fake claims we have to puncture is completed all thess plants will to|TiEht at the start to save the bother of abandoned and the motive power will all | Deating them In court, nor what a help | tbis photography is. Omaha paid out only $2,540 in settlement of personal inju: claims last year, whereas South Omaha, one-fourth the size, paid out in the nelgh- borhood of $2,200 for the same period. This year our total will run a little higher, but {1 do'not know how much, as the annual | reports are not ready. “The public never hears of some of the claims and requests which are filed, as they are of such trifiing consequence as to receive scarcely more than a laugh and a One man wanted pay for breaking leg of his dog, and explained very come trom this one establishment. We will expend $2,500,000 in the establishment of this plant. The foundation alone, on which | we are now working, will cost §100,000. Tha plant will start with 27,000 horse-power and will be enlarged as occasion demands. We expect to have it {n operation some time in 1904."" Mr. Lowry was a republican candidate for United States senator to succeed the late Cushman K. Davis in the legislature of 1900, when Moses E. Clapp of St. Paul | was elected. When asked if he expected | O to become a candidate for the same office | the again, the folly Seotehman merely smiled | frankly that he himself had sat upon the a8l Sl | dok and caused the tracture. He consid- - Sanbe.t! were wet and siippery at the time, Senator Clapp was elected to fill ont the Held City for His Nose. four years of the unexpired term of Sen- ator Davis. Mr, Lowry made a call on the editor of The Bee while in the city. He and Mre, Lowry proceeded west in their private car over the Unlon Pacific. TO HURRY AUDITORIUM WORK Dircctors Resolve to Levy Additional Al ment of Twenty Pe: Cent. “Another man bumped into a telephone | pole out in the suburbs one dark night | and wanted damages for the resulting frac- ture of his nose. Another fell over a fire bydrant, sprained his wrist and wrote Clty Attorney Connell that he would settle for $30 and a week's board at some asylum. One night last winter an Itallan peanut vender wrenched a wheel off his cart as he was golng over the car tracks and came up to the city hall a day or two after to make us pay for the glass broken and for having a new wheel put on. “But the worst we ever had as a dem- onstration of gall was by an Omzha busi- ness man quite well known out fn the | north part of town. He slipped on the fce or snow in front of his own residence one | evening and wanted the city to pay him | u for the time he was laid up with a sprained Tesoment o oy ‘ret—That an additlonal 8" | ynkle. I told nim 1f he ever made such #tock of the company, payable on or before | & proposition again we would have him January 6, 1903 Second—That Immedlate | arrosted and fined for maintaining n BCHon b, taken, to colleot il overdue sub- | 1isance, endangering public safety and conspiring against the city.” This recommendation s made for the rea- |HOCTOR REFUSES THE PLACE son that it is the sense of the committee that the work of buflding the auditorium Amnounces that He Will Not Aecept Position in County Auditing At a special meeting of the Board of Di- rectors of the Auditorfum company held yesterday at the office of F. A. Nash the ex- ccutive committee submitted a report as tellows: ‘The executive committee respectf: ly should be pushed with all possible diligence and dispatch. This report was signed by all members of the committee and after brief discussion the board unanimously adopted the following resolutions: Resolved, That an additional assessment | of 20 per cent on the stock of the Omaha | Department. Thomas Hoctor gave it out cold and flat Auditorium company be and Is hereb; o L January 5, 1904, | in South Omaba yesterday that he will mot nndfl(ho sto«‘rvlrhrv ::4 directed to notify sub- ser: as deputy in the county auditing | scribers accordingly. | ofice, for which place he was named a Resolved, That all overdue subscriptions | ° °% p le to the stock of the Omaha Auditorium com. | Month ago when the deputy county clerk- | pany, be’collected withoa(" further delay, | ship was given to A. J. Webb, then serving | and that fmmediate notice be given sub’|in the place to which Hoctor was ap- | cribe e | soribers of the passage of this résolution. | 510009, " Hootor sald that he “had never worked under a boss and doesn't propese to commence now." | A year ago he retired from the office of | county commissioner with the consent of | a majority of the democrats of his terri- tory, and thereafter remained in the con- | struction contracting business and in in- | nocuous desuetude until the death of County - Clerk Miller, when he promptly bobbed up as a candidate for Miller's office. | He lost to John C. Drexel, but upon the latter there was imposed the condition that Hoctor be made deputy clerk. When | it came to a “show-down” this was aban- | JACKSONIANS WANT ORATORS Anxlously Await Replies to Invita- tlons Sent to Coler and Watterson. The committee which has In charge the matter of providing speakers for the annual | banquet of the Jacksonlan club, to be held | Thursday, January §, is anxiously awaiting replies to Invitations sent to Bird S. Coler, late candidate for governor of New York, and Henry Watterson of Louisville. Congresman Shallenberger has promised | 49u¢d_snd Hoctor sidetracked into the the club that he will secure the services | 2uditor's office. This he appeared to ac- | of one sengtor or congressman for the ban- | Pt but now turns down. quet, but 80 far has not produced his man, Senator Patterson of Colorado has been in- vited to be present. IMPOSES ON OMAHA CHARITY | Among the persons who will be present Yutan Citizen Sends Sick Relative | are W. H. Thompson of Grand Island and Heve fov Free Hespital J. Ham Lewls of Chicago, who formerly Treatment. represented the state of Washington in con- gress, W, J. Bryan has given & provisional promise to attend, saying that if he can return to the state in time he will be here, he will accept no other engagement for that night. He s now in the south and may not be able to return in time. Mary Jordan, who claims that she Is a resident of Yutan, Neb., was taken to police | headquarters from the Union depot Monday evening, just after she had arrived in the | city to recelve treatment at a hospital. She | claimed that a relative placed her on board BUSINESS CHANGES HANDS |the train. telling her that she could re- Irmw free treatment here. She is under | . the matron’s care at the jail and appears to a G and Patnt C | Midlan OWPARY | be slightly demented. Surgeon Mick is in | Sells Out to Pittsburg consultation with the County hospital au- Corperation. | thorities and the patient may be taken Arrangements have been completed | Bere, though she is not a resident of Doug- whereby the stockholders of the Afidland | 148 county. The authoritics claim that they Glass and Paint company have disposed |have had several such cases recently from of thelr holdings to the Pittsburg Plate | UP the state, where people are sent to Glass compgny and that company will take | Omaba with the understanding that they charge of the business of the local concern | Will Fecelve free treatment at the hospitals. about the first of the coming year. Frank W. Judson, who has been the secrotary of | it 4 the Midland Glass and Paint company, will | ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Governor Odell become resident manager for the Pittsburg | has telegraphed to Secretary of Agriculture coneern. The offices and warerooms of | Wilson a protest against the removal of the the company will be removed from their | QUarantine against Counecticut, which has present quarters to the rooms now occupied | been imposed owing :o the prevalence of | by the Marks Harness and Saddlery com- |hoof and mouth disease among cattle in New York Governor P otests. pany in the Nash bullding. The Pitts- [ New England | burg Plate Glass company is ome of the | 4o ican Venture Cor Tneorporated. | otrongest conosras I tNe omatry, . Jt|T iU NN UTR® e has a capital stock of §$10,000,000. {Jumn' was filed today by the American enture company (mines) of New York, | Preparin capital $260,000. The directors are Auguste Nathe of Denver, Juan G Yesterday elght mechanics, the advance | N Goldman of Me guard of the force which will remodel the | City. J. L. Leiter of Chicago and ¢ Stage of the Boyd theater for the produc- | Huthaway, W. J. Arkell W.'K. Gillet and tion of “Ben Hur élur'xln. ‘(he weel .n.,I D. F. Wing, all of New York City | New Year's, reached the eity. ey wil :a";ne preliminary work, and will be rein- | Jeffries Would Retrieve Himself. forced next Monday by another detachment. | g{iPTE, Mont., Dec 2. —Clark Ball, man- | ager of J.'J. Jeffries, today posted a_for- felt of $1.000, which he will pay Jack Mun- roe. amaieur champlon heavyweight of the Pacific coast, If he can again stay four rounds vith' Jeffries In a battle for a knockout. The bout may be pulled off this wee 1t s necessary to bulld s stage on top of the one now in use at the Boyd, in order 1o install the machinery incidenfal to the production of the piece. 1n all other theaters where this spectacle has been put on it has been found practicable to remove a portion of the stage and thus secure Sufhcient room for the operation of the machinery. So solld is the construetion of - the Boyd this method had to be sbandoned and the false stage. was adopled as the i only solutior Led Meeting. { A meeting of the Transvaal league was called for yesterday evening in the rooms | #ing a song written for the occasion 14id’ the work, ferred her to Judge Munger, who granted her permission to visit the prisoner. This she did and then she called upon J, M. Mo Tarland end engaged him as attorney to defend Biglow. She hinted that the boy came of good family and that she wished to work as much In secret as possible. After the boy was convicted she disap- peared. It is thought that the person was one of the men guilty with Biglow of the robbery and that he appeared on the scene to look after his own interests and avoid being implicated. Judge Munger yesterday afternoon sen- tenced Biglow to three years' fmprisonment at Sloux Falls TO CONSIDER CITY CHARTER Commerelal Club Names Committee to Co-Operate with Real Ex- tate Exchange. At the meeting of the executive commit- tee of the Commercial club yesterday W. §. Poppleton brought up the subject of amend- ments to the city charter. He sald the members of the Douglas county delegation to the legislature are preparing bills af- fecting the charter, and desired to consult representative citizens on the subject; that | to that end the Real Estate cxchange had appointed a ccmmittee which thought the Commercial club should co-operate by ap- pointing a simllar committee, joint meet- ings to be held with the Douglas county delegation and a number of citizens who may be especlally interested in matters under discussion. Upon his motion the chairman, H. S. Weller, appointed as such committee W. S. Poppleton, Euclid Mar- tin, John Steel, J. H. Dumont and E. E. Bruce. The preparation for the annual election of directors was placed in the hands of committee, consisting of C. H. Picken: G. H. Lee and F. E. Sanborn, who will make up a list of 120 names, from which the directory of sixty will be elected. It was decided to give a dinner to the Nebraska delegation jn. the next federal congress during theimenth of January. MAKES LOCAL COLOR YELLOW Morning Paper Garbles Telegraphic Report to J. C Annoyance of Root. By transplanting the date line of a dis- patch from Fort Smith, Ark., and garbling its contents, a local yellow journal has made J. C. Root of this city, the sovereign commander of the Woodmen of the World, the leading figure in a court scene at El Paso, Tex., in which he had no part what- | ever, being safely here in Omaha, hundreds of miles away. The dispatch purported to be an account sent to a St. Louls paper of | an outbreak by Mies Alice Frizzel, plaintift in a slander suit against A. C. Root, inter- rupting the trial by firing a revolver and | driving the defendant out of the court room, The Fort Smith Root has no relationship to J. C. Root of this city, and the only local feature of the case arises from the fact that Miss Frizzel was plaintiff in a spectacular damage sult against the Omaha Street Rall- way company recently. The distortion of the report has naturally caused some an- noyance to Mr. Root as a case in which the zeal of an imaginative reporter has overs shot his discretion. GIVE INSTEAD OF RECEIVE et Sunday School Children Will Obsery Christmas Wwith a Dona- tion Party. The Sunday school of the Central United Presbyterfan church, Twenty-fourth and { Dodge streets, will have a Christmas ob- servance out of the ordinary. There will be no Christmas tree, nor Santa Claus, nor treat, the school complylng with the sug. gestion of the Sunday School Times and the growing practice of the leading schools of the country by giving Instead of recelv- fug. Each class will bring an offering for the needy, either presenting it in appropri- ate costume or with a suitable exercise One class, for instance, rice, will be dressed as Japanese; another, bringlhg several bushels of potatoes, will A com- mitte with the pastor, Rev. John M. Ross, at its head, Ir seeking worthy persons who need the offerings. There will be an ap- propriate program, and the interest in the affalr promises to fill the Sunday school rooms on Christmas eve. STRANGER DIES 1N HOTEL His Name s Frank Koza and Probably is ¥ Neb, He om Dodge, uka, Frank Koza, probubly trom Dodge, Neb., dled yesterday morning at the Prague hotel The stranger had been critically 1il at the hotel for the last four days and Monday evening the management asked the police department to remove him to the city jail. This the uight captain refused to do, as the patient was too ill to withstand the shock. Koza was about 50 years of age The body is being held by Coroner Brailey until word is recelved from the dead man's relatives On Nature's Plan. Colds are quickly cured by Chamber- lain's Cough Remedy. It acts on nature's plan, loosens the cough, relieves the lungs and opens the secretions, effecting a per- manent cure. It counteracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia. It is pleasant to take, both adults and children like it. Price 25c; large size. Soc. Small Ralse for Chr Burglars broke Into the office of C. W Hull & Co.. 815 Ncrth Twenty-fourth street, A stcle 2 cents. The poiice think boys bringing tea and | | | | | “Flap Jack "—lucky sinner— Has apple pie for dinner. Joy is yours when the pie is made from the magical (Better than flour) Presto does it—not the cook. (Horaby's) | Outment | The H-O Company AMONG THE RECENT BOOKS “Shadow of the Ogar’ Deals with One Phase of Russian Life. TRAGIC TALE OF LOYE AND INTRIGUE Romance Deals with the Fate of a Beautiful Maiden Who fis in the Power of a Greek Priest, ““The Shadow ot the Czar,” by John R. Carling, is one of the late publications of Little, Brown & Co. While in Dalmatia on & short furlough Paul Cressingham, the bero, chances to meet with a beautiful maiden who has escaped from a convent. She tells Paul that her hame Is Barbara, but that she knows nothing more about herself further than that Cardinal Ravenna is her guardian and jailer, for to all in- tents and purposes she has been a pris- oner at the convent. Paul finds an anclent castle near at hand which is occupled by an old Greek servant named Lambro and his wife, Jacintha, an English woman. They refuse admittance to the castle at first, but under pressure finally allow the wan- derers to enter. In the morning Barbara is found to have contracted a fever, and #0 she and Paul are compelled to remaln the guests of the strange couple for two months. That they should fall in love 15 inevitable. On the last day of thelr stay they visit an island which s a jmile or so from the main land. While there Barbara is retaken by emissaries of Rav- enna, and Paul is left on the island with- out means of escape, as his boat is set adrift by the captors. An earthquake com- ing at this juncture complicates matters, for, though both soldier and maiden es- cape, each thinks the other lost. Two years after he learns accidentally that Cardinal Ravenna was not killed In the earthquake, and that he has been appointed archbishop to a small independent state on the borders of Russia. He goes there to learn of Barbara's fate and finds her the princess of Czernova with Ravenna still her confessor. In “Mary Had a Little Lamb" Fannie M. Dickerson tells the true story of the real Mary and the real lamb for the benefit of the little ones. It includes a portralt of Mary in her old age, a lovely old lady, Mery Sawyer Tyler, and other attractive illustrations by Herbert A. Owens. It s an interesting little book, not only for the children, but for those who are older. Published by Frederick A. Stokes & Co. “Jesus' Way,” by President William De Witt Hyde of Bowdoin college, attempts to show what Christianity was as Jesus taught it to his disciples, when it wi known simply as “the way,” before it had been cast into a theolpgy by the person- ality of Paul, or expanded into a philosophy by the writer of the Fourth fosoel, or stereotyped into an Institution by Catholic symbols, or reduced to a system by Protes- tant creeds. The essentials of practical Christianity are presented in so simple and compact a form that the busy man may he should live. Published by Houghton, Miffin & Co. In “Tolstol as Man and Artist” we have a study of the great Russian writer from the pen of Dmitr| Merejkowskl, a country- man and himself an author of repute. Merejkowski treats the subject from & chologlical point of view, analyzing everal traits of Tolstol's character, tracing the growth of character, tive, the varying methods and indicating his shortcomings, Intellectually, and point- ing out wherein lles the peculiar greatness of the man. To accentuate these things he coutrasts Tolstol with Destolevskl, his an- tithesis in nearly every respect. The two men are typical Russians; Tolstoi “is lord of the present,” Destoleviki's fame, the writer belleves, is of the future. He says the nearer Tolstol {s to the body, the animally primitive ‘“natural” man, the more faithful and profound is his psycho- physiology—for he denles him acute psy- In proportion as Tolstol | | | | chological powers. leaves this field for that of spirituality, un- counected with the body, leaving the pa elons of the heart for the passions cf the mind, his psychology becomes doubttul, while his rival, Destolevski, become: greater. Merejkowski calls Tolstol *‘the language, the first to strip the human trame of all soclal and historical wraj ping, and again entertain the Aryan idea Criticism and critical apaylsis go hand In hand in this work, which deals {mpartially and justly with the suthors of “the two greatest works of the European literatyre of today, “Anna Karenina” and “The Brothers Karamazov.” Published by G. P, Putnam Sous The above books are for Megeath Stationery Co. by 1308 Farnam St the Mins r Amal Stana, FR. HOLD. N. J.. Dec. 28.—The takin, of testimony in the Biggar trial Was con clearly what sort of a life Jesus meant that ' the mo- | greatest portrayer of the human animal in | Presto JPRESTO Apple-pie with mouth-melting crust (not even by chance can it be soggy) browned to a turn is sure to come right every time. cluded and the lawyers for hoth sides be- gan summing up. Miss Biggar again went on the stand today. Son contradicted the testimony given by Josie Lane and her former maid, Mollfe Deskin, to the effoct that Miss Biggar had maintained {mproper relations with other men during Benneit's life. Dr. Hendricks denled the statement Miss Blggar. MEN ANXIOUS BUT FIRM Strikers Out on System Are Still De- términed, Says Viee Presi- dent Mulberry. Third Vice President Mulberry of the In- ternational Association of Machinlsts, who has been an active leader in the Union Pa- cific strike, returned to Omaha yesterday from the west after ‘spending several weeks out on the system. He left Cheyenne Thursday on the Union Pacific, but was de- layed on account of the snow blockade. He says that the snow was not as deep as first reported. He says the rotary plow, pushed by nine Luge engines, did some effective work, but was stalled in the deepest of the blockade. Mr. Mulberry will proceed to Chicago. He says there fs great anxlety over the system over the prospects of a tlement, but that it the negotlatio all the men will be more determined than ever and will not flag in thelr fight. No further mews has come from Presi- dent Burt, and, therefore, no developments have taken place. Mr. Burt is not ex- pected home until Friday. WRECK ON THE UNION PACIFIC Two Freight Trains Collide at Rogers, but No Lives Are Lost. Two Unlon Pacific freight trains, Nos. 11 and 26, collided near Rogers at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Reports of the wreck are imperfect, but it 1s said that both engines | are badly demolished and that there wero some serious casualties. This report comes | through sources outside of the Union Pa- | eific general offices. At headquarters the | statement 1s made that the wreck was a | very inconsequential affair, that the en- | gines were somewhat damaged, but not de- | molished, and that while two or three per- sons suffered slight injuries there were no | serious casualtics. The statement also was made that no live stock was on either train. The cause of the head-on collision is sup- | posed to be disclosed in the statement ot | the engineer on train No. 11, who says he could not see the flagman for the steam of his engine. It is said that neither train | was running at a full speed. As soon as | reports of the wreck reached headquarters | two company physiclans were sent to the | scene of the accident. [PRINTERS WANT MORE PAY Ask for n Employes of Job Houses Flat Rate of Eight Dol The job printers of the city, through a committee of seven taken from the em- ployes of the seven largest job houses, are holding conference with the employers looking to an increase in wages to a flat rate of §18 per week, with fifty ee hours to constitute a week's work. At the pre: ent time ffty-four hours constitute a week's work and the wages are $17.20 per week | |ODELL WANTS (UARANTIN Protests Ageiust Order Removing Restrio- tions on Connecticut Cattle, made by Josle Lane as to his relations with | | NEW YORK WILL KEEP BARRIERS UP ecretary Wilson Claims that No Dane ger Exists, as Stock in Ques- tion Never Had Foot and | Mouth Disease, ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Governor Odell has telegraphed to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson @ protest against the removal of the quarantine against Connecticut, which has been imposed owing to the prevalence of foot and mouth disease among cattle in New England. HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 23.—Regarding the announcement from Albany that the New York authorities will malntain a quar- antine against cattle trom Connecticut in spite of the removal of the embargo by the Agricultural department, Cattle Commis- sioner Aver sald that such action was en- tirely uncalled for. There was not a single case of the disease in the state and never had been. Ho added: As far as the importation of cattle from Massachpsetts and Rhode Island Is con- cerned, the quarantine regulations which have been In force to prevent cattle be- Ing brought across the Connecticut border will be continued. W Denies Danger. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Secretary Wil- son received a telegram this afternoon from Governor Odell saying that the New York authorities wished to act in harmony with the national government, but would be obliged to quarantine everything coming into New York state unless absolutely as- sured of protection by the federal govern- ment. Secretary Wilson wired reply: There {s no disease In Connecticut. The federal quarantine remains on Vermont, | Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The state of Connecticut h gid quaran- tine against Massac and ' Rhode Island. "1 do not think removal of quaran- | tine_from Connecticut Increases danger to your state. Shall do everything possible to confine d Work of killing effected herds well advanced. Dr. Salmon reached here today. He will return to New England on Friday. He said the total number of cattle slaughtered on account of the disease was about 1,000, of | which 761 were destroyed in Massachusetts, where most of the cases had been found. He belleved the danger of any spread of the disease would be passed in another week. Practically Stamped Out. ITHACA, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Prof. James Law, director of the Cornell Veterinary college, who has spert some time in con- junction with tbe federal authorities in- | vestigating the foot-and-mouth disease, | stated today that the dlease was now prac- | tically stamped out. the following Canada Southern Dividend. NEW YORK, Dec. 23—The Canada South- ern rallway has declared a dividend of 1 BET S50t for the haif year ending December This is & reduction of one-half of 1 j cent from the dividend declared per last De- cember, i Big JACK RAYMOXD, by Volnich CRISIS, by Churchill ........ . We have numerous othier books best In the west. , STATIONERS. 1308 Always Something New to 8how You. Book Prices that Talk for Themselves Reduction in $1.50 Fiction RALPH MARLOWE, by Haylor ..... SIGN OF THE PROPHET, by Haylor. CAPT. 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