Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1903, Page 8

PULPIT VIEW OF POLITICS Rev. Hatch Says the Righteous Shenld Be Oampaigners. CANDIDATES OUGHT TO GO ON RECORD Belleves In Having Voters Informed Before They Cast Thelr Ballots— Criticines of Am overnmental Heads ean Citles. the words from the “For we are Taking as his text Epistle to” the Ephesians neighbors one of another,” Rev. Frederick A. Hatch, at Plymouth Congregational church, preached a sermon on the duty of citizens and municipal government, in which he sald in part “The citles are growing faster than the country, And this tendency fs not con- fined to the United States, but is world- wide. While the citles of Europe are growing faster than the country, the in- habitants of those cities are natives, prin- cipally, while our city population is made up of an increasing proportion of persons foreign -to this country, who understand ifttle 1t anything of our method of gov- erniment. “The government of our citles is a won- der to persons from other countries who vieit us, and they shrug their shoulders when they see a system which places at the head of our municipal governments not the best, but frequently the worst ele- mwents of our population. It is different even in Canada, as I know by experience, and it is the duty of the people of the | United States to change this condition ¥ Homelens Clasnen, “We have & large homeless class in our population, not only the homeless poor, who cannot own their homes, but homeless rich, who, owning houses, travel from one resort to another, one country to another, seeking pleasure and recreation, having no home Iite, It is & question as to which of the two homeless classes danger to the country. “In 1840 there was one Protestant church to cach 2,000 of the population of the ountry. In 1900 there was one Protestant ohurch to each 4,206. This either means that Protestantism is not keeping pace with the country or that wo are not using our opportunities as we did. It is the Scan- dinavian element in ouf immigration which to a degree saves us from the effect of the large immigration of the Latins, the Ma- gyar and the Slav, people who are not able to understand and appreclate our institu- tions he man who sells his vote is not al- ways the popr man. There is a con- sciencel trust in every cily, a trust whose emlssaries never forget—It is the breweries and the saloons. There is a trust in vice. How many saloons In this city hre there ‘which are not mortgaged to_or owned by a brewery? This s one body which keeps alive its interests in | politjes from January to December. Corrupting Influences. “But there is one greater danger than all. A young man comes from college and enters business life. place where the Interests of his firm or corporation would be advanced were some city ordinance dlsregarded or repealed. Maybe the manager of the company em- ploys him to secure this object by under- banded methods., The man vho pays the bribe {8 probably worse than the man who sccepta it, but the moral fiber which fs degenerated by this meaus is worse for the Iife of the city than the degeneration ot moral fiber through viclous assoclation, and’ the ‘respectable’ lawbreaker is more uh-amul than the one we call a crim. - “The growth of high ideals in a country must keep pace with its material develop- ment or the country Is doomed, as Rome and Greece testify. To save the city we must. abandon childish partisanship. The apinion of a man to the doctrine of ex- pansion or tariff has no more to do with the administration of city government than his opinjon of the five points of Calvinism. It the virtuous will not work as hard as the viclous in city politics, they have ne reason to complain If they are defeated. It is poor policy to see a man elected without protest and then critfeise him for doing what he might have been expected to do.” Wo must save the cities if we are to save the nation, and candldates for affice In Omaha during the next two moaths must be placed -on record as to their in- tention If elected, and we skould know what we are voting for as well as who we_are voting for. Education should be found in party platforms and in the pulpit.” HILL PREACHES ON OPPORTUNITY, Tells Nis Congregatio ot St. Jo) The cangregation of the First Christian church, not large, not wealthy and tem- porarily housed in a rather barren armory and dancing ball, with a crude stage for a ‘cliolr loft and a plauk platform for pulpit, listened yesterday morning to a message of hope and a plea in exhortation from its pastor, Rev. Harry G. Hill, who found his inspiration in the singularly ap- propriate words which St. Johr was di- rected to write to the chureh in anclent Philadelpbia: “I know thy works: behold, 1 have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name.” The sermon was one of the serles which Rev. Mr. Hill s basing on John's letters to the seven churches of A and he sald. “Perhaps this church at Philadelphia was small and perhaps this little flock had to g6 to some sand pit to worship. But note the message to it, ‘I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it.’ It seems to me the meaning must have been that there had been opened for it a great opportunity. And so it is with us. We sometimes feel that we are & very small band to cope with the 236 saloons in thiscity and with the thousands who are indifferent to Christ. Yet herein God has given us a great opportunity. He made of the Letter SOUND AS A DOLLAR That is the result of a course of treatment with Scott’s Emul- sion. We have special refer- ence to persons with weak lungs and sensitive throats. Scott's Emulsion does some things better than others. This is.one of them. It has a pe- culiar action on the throat and lungs which gives them strengthand makes themtough. That's how Scott’s Emulsion drives out coughs, colds and bronchitis. It keeps them out, oo, 'We'll send you & little to try, if you like. BCOBT & BOWNE, ¢op Peacl suvet, New York 1s the greater | He soon comes to a | | Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morn- | face of the miser, upon whose countenance possible the great convention of last year that might become better known and better understood and He brought about the destruction of our old church that we might more actively work for the new, and in such work gather strength. Every night when I pray for the success of our new church I pray that it may be not simply a comfortable home for us, but a place in which God shall be worshiped by all.” we BEGINS S TALKS ON GARR Mann Gives First of a Series on Abeli Rev, nints. UNION PACIFIC - PENSIONS Rules and Fegulations to Govern the Pay- ment of Sa WHAT. SUPERANNUATED EMPLOYES GET One P'er Cent of the Average Monthly Salary for Ten Years to Be Allowed for Each Year of Serviee, At Unity church Sunday morning Rov. Newton M. Mann gave the first of his lec- tures on the life of Willlam Lloyd Garrison, dealing with the carly half of the aboli- | tlonist's career, “A Perlod of Storm and Stress.” He sald in part ““When Wilberforce was agitatiug against the slave trade in England, and before he had secured any legislation to his enas Garrison was born in America, in New buryport, Conn. That was in 1805, Unlike the Englishman, Garrison was not born in afuence, but rather in poverty, and al- most destitution. His father was a sailor | of unsteady habits, who deserted his wife | when Willlam Lloyd was 3 years of age. There were two other children. The fam- ily atruggled along and when he was 13 Garrison was apprenticed in.a newspaper | office. “This marked the beginning of his career. | It placed him in just the fine he was meant for. He was extremely precoclous, and befors he was 20 had passed through all the stages of apprentice, compositor. foreman, to editorfal «writer. Then he started @ weekly paper of his own and later moved to Boston, where Ben Lundy. the first active abolitionist, was the tause of turning Garrison’s whole life to aboli- tion. He, with Lundy, started the Lib- erator *But at this time northern sentiment in | this country was ail against abolition. Abolitionists were disunionists, just as later the slaveholders were disunionists, after the northern sentiment had changed As late as 1832, when Garrison returned from his visit to England, he was wel- | comed on his native shores by the news- | papers as 4 dangerous fanatic who has | been villitying his country abroad.” Garrison soon came to belleve that Amer- fean Christianity was the mafn pillar of American siavery. This opinion resulted | trom two facts: No church of white people | could be secured for meetings in the cause | of abolition. The Bible soclety refused to sell the American Anti-Slavery soclety Bibles for the use of the slav “It was in 1834, when Garrison was still but 20 years of age, that he was mobbed and thrown Into prison. There his friends, John G. Whittier and A. Bronson Alcott, visited him, and his spirit was shown by the manner in which he jested about his quarters being too cramped to allow him to ask them to remain over night.” Behind the prison bars Rev. Mann left Garrison for the time, and he will continue with bis life from that point next Sunday. AND MAN s ASPIRATIONS. Rev. Clanell Finds a Text in the Panlms, Rev. Clyde Clay Clesell preached to a large congregation in the Hanscom Park ing on the subject, “Longing for a Nobler Life.”” The pastor took his text from Psalms 61:11, “Lead me to tho Rock that is higher than 1." . The pastor first sought to show that all humanity had a longing and a desire for a better lite. He s»id that the philosophy of the pessimist set forth that man was eternally happy in a limited life. The Jéss man has the less he mingles, the more superb his happiness. “For this reason,” the pastor sald, “chil- dren are more happy than men, because of the limitations of their life and the restric- tions. This, though, is contrary to the Bible, which holds tkat Christ came to earth that we might have life, and more abundance. “Man has aspirations, the pastor stated, 0 be better; to seek for a more hopeful afid contented feeling. Whea he ceases to have that longing, that desire, he 1s lost.” The lifting power of the aspirations for a better living were also touched upon by the pastor. He sald that man's thoughts and ideals had a reflex action and influence upon himeelf, this fact being portrayed in the is written his life's history, and which is most noticeable to even a child. He also referred to the fact that some of the arti- sans and others who had been called to the battlefleld had developed into the greatest statesmen, through the desire for better manhood. He said that men should develop | this power-making energy that his life may become what he hopes to have it. CHURCH BURNS BONDS TONIGHT. Hanscom FPark Methodists Commem- orate Debt's Cancellation, This evening at 8 o'clock will occur an | event important in the history of the Hanscom Park Methodist Episcopal church Two mortgages, aggregating $8,600, will be consumed by the flames before an audience consisting of the members and attendants of that church. One of the two mortgages whick are to be destroyed Is known as the Sumner mort- gage, which was a debt upon the society for $6,000, and the other is known as the McConnell estate mortgage, its obligation amounting to $2,600. It 1s expected that the remaining $4,700 indebtedness which hangs over the church will be met and canceled before next fall. During the past ten years the church has pald 35,000 interest on the mortgage held against its property, a total of $13,000 that has been raised Ly the Hanscom park people during that perlod SHOULD ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND. Rev. Conley Says Misinterpretations Are Often Di itrous, J. W. Conley, pastor of the First Baptist church, Su morning took his | text frem Matthow, “Cast not your pearls befere swine. After dwelling for some time upon the various interpretations of the Hol criptures by the learned com- mentators, the preacher sald “We always should be careful not. to mis understand the holy word of God. It Is tfery easy to misinterpret the word, and unless we be careful, those very things by which we hope to be saved will be the cause of our ruin. God has committed unto us His holy ordinances. What are we doing with them? Are we using them in accordance with Ged's intention, or are we doing the opposite? “Some preachers tell us only of the me=cy of God, but I tell you that God is mot only mercitul, but He is also ju=~t, and it is to Him we will have to render an account of our stewardehip.” OMAHA SUBURBS. Dundee. Rev Mre_ D. L. Johnson entertained her Sun- day school class last Saturday afternoon. | terms under which | employes to receive pe Mrs, Strafford has been the guest for sev- oral weeks of her parents, Mr. and Mrs Mason. Homer Schearer is considered to be out danger now and will soon be himseif Mrs. Eva Parrolte Sweeney entertained a number Omaha women at luncheon last Saturda The Dundee Woman's club met on Wed- nesday v Mre Wedge, m;’.zl‘re ol works of Addisog being the sul under Wsausann 2 Since the announcement was made some weeks ago that the Union Pacific directors had decided to adopt a pension system for superannuated employes much speculation has been indulged among the men em- ployed by ‘he company as to the exact the system would be inaugurated. Every inquiry at local head- quarters has met with a refusal to disclosd anything more defipite than the mere fact that a pension system has been adopted On other roads elaborate rules and regu- lations for the government of the pension board have been adopted, and it .s pre- sumed that such is the case with the Union Pacific. All efforts to receive any Inkling as to the nature of these rules have fatled. In the last number of the Railway Age of Chicago is published the rules and regula- tions of the pension department of the Southern Pacific. As that road and the Union Pacific are both owned by the same company It is not at all unlikely that the pension boards of both systems will be governed practically the same. The South- ern Pacific pension rules and regulations are 1. The administration of the pension de- | partment shall be by a board of officers, to be known as the board of pensions, whose office shall be In San Francisco. —Such board ehall, until otherwise ordered, con- sist of the following officers of the com- Assistant to president, manager system, engineer maintenance ot general superintendent motive power, aualtor, chief counsel, chiet surgeon 2 The board of pensions ehall, subject to the approval of the president, have power to make and enforce rules and regulations for the efficient peration of the pensjon department; erinine the eligibiity of sion allowances; to fix the amount of such allowances, and to prescribe the conditions under which such allowances may inure 3. The benefits of the pension system will apply only to those persons who have been required to give their entire time to South- ern Pacific eompany or to that company and some other raiiroad company or com~ pani Jointly. In case of such joint em- ployment the board of pensions ‘shall de- clde the amount of the employe's monthly pay that shall be used in determining the pension allowance. 4. (a) All officers and employes who have attained the age of 70 years shall be re- tired. Such of them as have been twenty years in the service shall be pensioned. (b) Locomotive engineers and firemen, conductors, flagmen and brakemen, train baggagemen, yardmasters, switchmen, bridge foremen, section foremen and road- masters, who have attained the age of 65 years, may be retired. Such of them as have been twenty years Ir‘1 lt:"- service shall be pensioned when re- tire, (c) Officers and employes between 61 and 70 years of age who have been twenty years in"the service and who have become inca- pacitated, may be retired and pensioned. In case an employe between 61 and 70 years of age claims that be is, or should his employing officer consider’ him Inca- pacitated for further service, he may make application or be recommended for retire- ment, and the board of pensions shall de- termine whetaer or not he shall be retired from the service. Physical examination will be made of em- ployes recommended for retirement who are under 70 years of age, and a report thereof with the recommendation of the chief surgeon shall be transmitted to the for consideration in de- termining such cases. 5. setirement shall be made effective from the first day of the calendar month follow- ing that in which the person shall have at. tained the epecified age, or from the first day of a calendar month to be determined by the board of peusions. 6. The terms “service” and “in the sery- tce” will refer to employment upon or in connection with any of the rallwa: ing the Southern Pacific company, service of any emplcye shall be considered as continuous from the date from which he has been continuously employed upon such rallways, whether prior or subsequent to thelr acquisition by the Southern Pacific compan 7. In_computing service it shall be reck- oned from the date since which the person has been continuously in the service, to the date_when ratired, ellminating in the final result any fractional part of a month. Leave of Qbsence, suspension, dismissal followed by reinstatement within one year, or temporary lay-off on account of reduc- tion of force, when unattended by other employment, is not to be considered as a break in the continuity of service. Persons who leave the service thereby re- linquish all claims to the benefits of pen- slon allowances. 8. The pension allowances authorized are upon the following basi: For each year of service, an allowance of 1 per cent of the average regular monthly pay recelved for the ten years preceding retirement. Thus, if an employe has been in the service 1or forty years and his aver- | age salary or wages for the last ten years wae § per month, his pension allowance would be 40 per cent of §i, or 330 per month. 9. The sum of $100,000 {s hereby set apart as a pension fund; In addition to which the company will in each year make a fur- ther appropriation, if necessary, of an amount not to exceed $9,000 in payment of pension allowances for such year. Whenever it shall be found that the basis of pension allowances shall create-demands in excess of interest on the X100,000 and an annual appropriation of $%,000, and as of as such condition may arise, in the ab. sence of any action by the board of direc- tors increasing the yearly amount usable for pensions, a new basis ratably redu the pension allowances may be establish o bring the expenditures within the limit of the fund, and the decision of the baard of directors In establishing such new basis shall be absolutely conclisive. Notice of any such change of rate shall be given before the beginning of the fiscal year in which the change shall become ef- tective. 10. When pension allowances shall be au- thorized, pursuant to these regulations, they shall be pald monthly during the lite of the beneficlary: Provided, however, that the company may withhold its allowance in all cases of gross misconduct 11. In payment of pension aliowances a payroll showing the names of those to whom allowances have been made, and the amount of such allowances, shali be pre- pared at the close of each month by the secretary of the board of pensions, certi- fled to by him and approved by the chair- man of the board, then forwarded to the auditor, who will, after verification ana registry, send it through the usual chan- nels for payment 1. shall be the duty of every employ- ing officer, to report at once to the secre- tary of the board of pensions all employes who in January, February and March, 198, shall have attaihed the zge of 70 years, and of those employes specified in rule 4, see- tion (b), who shall have attained the age of € yvears: and thereafter, at least thiee months in advance of the date of retire- ment, all employes about to attain the requisite age for consideration for pension allowance. 13 The secretary of the board of pensions ust keep himself advised of the where- abouts of pensioned employes, and shall require satisfactory evidence from each of such employes, at least once a year and oftener if necessary, showing that he is en- titled to the pension allowance. It shall \so be the duty of any official who may notice or re 1y advice of gross mi conduct on the part of any pensioned em- ploye to promptly notify the secretary of the board of pensions in relation thereto, who will report the circumstances to' the board of pensions. 14. In order to preserve direct relations between the company and its re- tired employes, and that they may con- tinue to enjoy the benefit of ‘the pension system. no assignment of pensions will be d or recognized cceptance of a pension allow- bar a retired employe from ny other business which is not 1al to the interests of this company, cannot re-enter the service of the personal inexperienced in rallway work over 15 years of age, and no experi- d_person over 45 years of age, shall ereafier Lo tuken into the service: - {ded, however, that, In the discretion of the asslstant to president, persons may |-m|»(vrar\|)"l>- m'ken ‘“:“l’od‘h' service ir- « of aye for & period not exceedin, andthat this pericd may be ex: necessury, to complete the work s3ld persons were originally em- ploved: Provided, also, that, with the ap- proval of the board of directors. persons may be employed indefinitely, i ective of ago Lmit, where the serviss to be ren- uires professional or other special qualifications. 17 Nelther the action of the bdard of m of pen directors {n_establishing a sys slons, nor any other action now or here- after' taken by them or by the board of pensious In the inauguration and operation of a pension department, shall be constru as glving to any officer, agent or employe of the company a right to be retained in its service or any right or clalm to any pension allowance; and the company expressly eee serves Its right and privilege to discharge at any time any officer, agent or employe when the Interest of the company, in its udgment, may so require without ilability or any clatm for pension or other allow- ance than salary or-wages due and unpaid. 18. These rules and regulations shall take effect on January 1, 190, MANY FINE HOMES GO UP Elght New Resldences Being Bullt and Five Are Sold in West Farnam Street. Since last fall $100,000 has been ex- pended by Omaha citizens in the construc- tlon of new residences In the West Far- nam street district and $52,000 has changed hands as the result of residences in that vicinity sold. This latter amount repre- sents the exchange of five handsome build- ings near Thirtieth and Farnam within the last three weeks. The $100,000 has been or is being expended In the erection of eight commodious dwellings In that sec- tion of the city. Within the last three weeks the elegant residence of A. B. Smith at Thirty-eighth and Howard streets was sold to General C. F. Manderson for $11,000. Arthur Rem- | ington of the firm of Remington & Kessler recently bought the Dr. F. Austin house at Fortieth and Harney for $8,000, Thomas Kilpatrick has secured possessfon of the Garneau residence at Thirty-first and Chi- cago streets for a consideration of $20,000 Charles G, McDonald, attorney, has bought | the former home of Captain Lawrence near Dodge on Thirty-eighth avenue for $7,300 The A. L. Reed house at Thirty-sixth and Harney has passed into the hands of Byron Smith of the firm of Willlams & Smith | for the sum of $5,000. The builders of new houses are: Robert Howe, manager for the Armour Packing company, in the West Farnam strect df trict, at a cost of $25,000; Fred A. Nash, Thirty-third and Farnam, $20,000; C. W. | Partridge, Thirty-second, between Farnam and Dodge, $6,000; E. F. Riley of Riley Bros., on West Farnam street, $12,000; T. | J. Mahoney, Thirty-seventh, near Farnam, $15,000; Dr. Robert S. Anglin, Thirty-ninth | and Dodge, $8,000, TALKS OF LABOR® REWARD| Gilbert M. Hitcheock Addresses Sun- day Meeting of the Philosoph- ' feal Soclety. l Congressman-eleot Gilbert M. Hitchoock addressed the Omaha Philosophical soctety | Sunday = afternoon on' the topic, “The | Laborer s Worthy of His Hire.” His dis- cussiofh was not, as the theme might indi- | cate, confined to the wage question, the | speaker stating that the meaning of this phrase when originally used was broader. The thought advanced was that any man or woman engaged in an occupation should | enjoy the fair fruits of that labor. Tn thle country,” sald Mr. Hitchcock, “the | tendency is to make this impossible, be- | cause there has been permitted such an enormous accumblation of wealth in the hands of & few people. Wealth thus ac cumulated in excess of reason and right is necessarily taken away from others. Jf this was regulated by law, not only would | the laboring classes fare better both as to hours and wages,'But 80 would the trades- men, the merchant§’hud the clerks as well. The condition, ot ‘KIt “would be eased and that ‘of mose Wouldl'be deteriorated. HOSPITAL OPENS THIS WEEK Presbyterians Perfect Plans for Con- ucting Wptter I ution Than Before. much | . The Presbyterian :hospital, Twenty-sixth and Marcy streets, after standing idle since | last September, will be reopened this week s the outcome of a legal contest, under 3 new management. Dr. Esther A. Ryerson | | wiil be manager and house physiclan and | will have a staff of eighteen nurses. Be- side doing regular hospital work the insti- tution will conduct & nurses' training school, with a two' years’ course. Dr. Ry>r- | son 1s credited with a high reputation for successtul hospital work and under her | rpecial direction the hospital, with all new turnishings and equipment, is expected to achieve eplendid results. ! The institution, as before, will be under the management of the Presbyterian gen- eral assembly, which has secured a five- year lease on the property. Pneumo This 'is one of the most dangerous and | often fatal diseases. It always results | from a cold or from an attack of the grip. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy quickly cures these diseases and counteracts any tendency toward pneumonia. It s made especially for these and similar allments and can al- | ways be depended upon. Announcements of the Theaters. Tickets may ‘be had at Beaton & Me- Gion's and Myer & Dillon's drug store for the Elks' entertainment and masque rade to be given at the Ak-Sar-Ben den Monday, February 2. Admission to the dancing floor will only be glven on invita- tion. It is the purpose of the Elks to make this affair the equal of any social event ever held in Omaha. For the maskers who show the most original costumes and for those who eclipse their fellows as to grace of movements costly prizes will be given. In the miguet, to be danced by twelve couples, some of the most promi- nent people in the city will take part. The appearance of Josephine Florence, | only daughter of the late W. J. Florence, | affectionately remembered Billy" (and | in his time the most popular comedian on | the stage), at the Boyd Tuesday aud | Wednesday in suppor! of 8. Miller Kent in “The Cowboy and the Lady,” will no doubt | create considerable interest among the i nobles of ‘the ancient Arablc order of this | eity. Just thirty-one years ago Billy Florence and Lr. Walter M. Fleming, who were both active thirty-third degree Ma- sons, brought the order to this country, and on June 16, 187!, they conferred the order upon eleven nobles In New York City, and the first temple, “Mecca,” was started. Today there are many temples, with & membership of over 100,000 through- out America. To become a member one must have recelved the thirty-second de- gree in Masonry. e mply Pertect. New Life Pills are prompt, , gentle and always Satisfy or no pay. Best for stomach and liver. 25c. For sale by Kuhn & Co. | KNOX—Henry Massengale, aged 26, beloved husband of Laura McNair Knox and son of John 8 and Lurs M. Knox, Saturday evening, February 1. | soft-hearted old | rence gives an excellent | motherly Mrs. Berry, snd the rest of the | The present bill is a very credi‘able one, | ttortous. { Tannen gives ! “Shore Acres” at the Boyd. James A. Hern Shore Acres, compa s American play of with many of the original in the following cast Nathaniel Berry, keeper of Berry lighthouse ..Jam Galloway Martin Berry, keeper of the Berry iight- house Joel Gates, grass widower. Charles £ Fisher Blake, postmaster and_store- keeper ... . Willlam D. Burton Sam Warren, a young physiclan. .. . .... Bert Flansburg Captain “Ben” Futchins, skipper of the “Liddy Ann" . James Burrows Dr. Leonard P Squire Andrews Tim Hays Young Nate Berry Bteve Baily “Bob" Berry Malldriver Ann Berry, Helen Ber: Josiah Whittemore R. 8. Wilson Thomas Conly .. Allen Crolius Willlam Rergen Master James T. Galloway Burt _Jackeon Martin's wife...Belle Theodcre , Martin's daughter........ . Mabel Wright Gertrude Doherty Mrs, Andrews Mattie St. John Mrs. Leonard s Estelle Bryen | Perley, Mrs. Berry's hired girl.......... Ao vioes Badie Cullen Millfe Berry | i ... Alice Bryen “Mandy"’ Gates . . Vivian Bryen It's hardly accurate to call “Shore Acres & pastoral play, nor would it be fair to do 80, for that would confound the pretty | plece with a number of productions that are salling under that designation, in whose company a self-respecting play would | blush to be seen. Nor is it accurate to call it an American home play, as the bill does; | for the average American home fsn't quite | like that of the Berrys. Just about enough | Martin Berrys can be found by the cen- sus taker to make the rest of us glad that no more of him exist, and if there were more Uncle Nats fooling around the kitchen | and bossing the cooking the woman's ward | of the insane hospital would have to be made bigger. But such people do exist. In fact, every character of the piece is taken from life, and the pictures are true as photo- graphs. Mr, Herne drew with broad strokes, but with the fidelity of a minfa- ture painter, and he had no need to cari- cature anyone, for the humor of his figures arises spontaneously from their likeness to nature. The story of “Shore Acres” {s too well known to need repetition or analysis in Omaha. Suffice it to say that the turkey was carved, and the light was trimmed in Berry lighthouse, and the Lyddy Ann sailed safely by the reef to the intense satisfaction of two big audiences at the Boyd yesterday. Not a feature of the play has been slighted since the death of Mr. Herne. It is given yet with the same painstaking care he bestowed upon it, and 1s still in a class by itselt in the lst of the American dramas that depend on “heart interest.” Many of the present cast have been iden- tified with “Shore Acres” since its first presentation. Mr. James T. Galloway makes a well-nigh perfect Uncle Nat, the “hen hussy who finally asserts his manhood and brings hls pig- headed brother to his senses. Atkins Law- presentation of the character of the selfish, obstinate man who Js willing to sacrifice the happiness ot everybody around him to have his own way, and who “didn’t know nothin' and didn’t want his daughter taught anything he didn’t know.” Bert Flansburg is manly as Sam Warren and Mabel Wright does very well as the warm-hearted, high- spirited Helen Berry. Belle Theodore is a Liady Ann Nye cast is weli suited in the parts. The en- gagement closes with this evening's per- formance. Vaudeville at the Creighton-Orpheum. Two very large audiences attended the matinee and evening performances at the Creighton-Orpheum yesterday, the bill for the week belng the Orpheum Road show. This company has been specially selected by Mr. Martin Beck, the general manager of the Orpheum circult, for pre- sentation of vaudeville features in cities where there {8 no theater devoted to that sort of entertainment. Naturally it is made up of excellent acts, for the reputation of the Orpheum circuit depends to a large extent on its road show, at least in cities where the company controls no house. being sufficiently diversified, to please all and containing nothing but what is mer- Melntyre and Heath are with the company. They need neither introduction or commendation loclly, for they are de- servedly popular in Omaha. Nat M. Willis comes under this head, too. He is as funny and as original as ever, and has a lot of new “junk” in his act, some of his “wheezes,” as he calls the joker he springs, both funny enough to make & mourner laugh. His songs are new and good. Rawson and Jume offer the moveity of the bill. They are boomerang throwers, spear jugglers and marksmen with bow and arrow. Much amusement was afforded those In a safe place yesterday by watch- | ing the others duck when the heavy boom- erang was hurled out over the audience. As o matter of fact, no one s in danger, for the boomerang fellows its fixed law and returns to the thrower every time. | Nick Long and Idalene Cotton have a | sketch that gets the laugh, and Jullus M. imitations of well known ctors responding to curtain calls in a/ way so clever that he had to bow several calls himself. Mignette Kokin fr a grace- ful dancer and sings well, and the Melal trio turnishes some high class music, both vocal and instrumental, They are labeled comedy singers, but as their songs are in Itallan altogether, it is doubtful if many | who attended yesterday kmew they were comic, except as the singers themselves laughed. MeIntyre and Heath will put on their famous “Georgla Minstrels” for the last half of the week. Held on 8 Charles Kaufman was arrested yesterday evening by Detective Fisk and charged with being drunk and a suspiclous charac- Ter." KKaufman is said to have baen at one time & minister of the gospel. He goes about to the houses of the wealthy Ger- mans in the city where he happens to be and asks for alms, saying that he is a preacher without a charge. If a contribu- | ton is refused he berates the hard-hearted | householder. Yesterday evening he entered The value is in the Soap—use and save your C]()" Nevor mind the wrappers Made by Swift & Company New Orleaqs, La. WHAT MARDI GRAS IS, (Continued from Yesterday's Issue.) No. 1. At ita conclusion masks and costumes disappear and the general dancing begins. Sueh, in rough outlide, is the New Orleans Mardl Gras. Of its many festures of sparkling warmth and beauty, however, due consideration must also be given to the fact that it takes place in & semi-tropical clime at a season of the year that is Its spring-time. Hence, to the unique festivities are added the charms of a balmy alr, the fragrance of roses, the notes of the song bird and the cheering infiuence of & bright, sunlit sky. They say It never rains in New Orleans on a Mardl Gras day, which, possibly, may be accounted for by the clause in the proclamation of Rex—''His Majesty has further most graciously ordained that the best of weather shall prevail. $29.5 Omaha to New Orleans and Return, Long limit and stopovers allowed. Copy of Mardi Gras booklet at 1402 Farnam St., or write, ‘W. H. BRILL, Dist. Pass. Agt., Illinols Central Rallroad, Omaha, Neb. Now is the time to plan your trip West if you want to take adr vantage of the low Colonist rates in effect Feb, 15.t0 April 30. $25 to Pacific coast and still lower to Utah and ecastern Wash- ington, Tourist cars daily to Seattle and Loa Angeles. Personally conducted excursions tc California three times a week. ‘Write for folder telling all about these low rates and why you should use the Buriington Route. The folder is free. COLONIST RATES WEST ‘Bu'rfingftnn | TICKETS: 1502 Farpam St. J. B. Reynolds, City Ticket Agent. Route FOR COUGHS, COLDS, SORE THROAT and HOARSENESS—TAKE Ask your druggist or send 25 cents to Howell Drug Co, Omaha, Neb. OWELL'S ANTI-KAWF lvery concelvable Mcggéw I V’aiiniln;i to Burn the house of Detective Fisk at 1700 Jackson streets and refused to leave the premises | when ordered to. This lead to his arrest LOCAL BREVITIES. Henry Knox, 2 yea>s old, son of John S. | Knox, died at his home in this city at ]u.lwl Saturday night. He had been an invaild for three years. Tonight at Metropolitan hall the Ne- | braska Life Underwriters’ assoclation will | ive its annual banquet to the wives and 53\1(])(?{;& of the members. As usual the program of literary and sical selections which will follow the dinmer has been made | up of contributions of persons In the eo- | ety and the occasion promises to be one | of x‘m most pleasant of the annual “ladles’ nights'’ given by the orgaunization. May Gocke was married Saturday night to Thomas Windward by Justice Altstadt Windward is the teamsier residing at | Seventeenth and Nicholas whom John | Gocke accused of undue intimacy with hiy daughter May and thereby caused the girl to prefer against him (the father) a charge | of incest. 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