Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1909, Page 2

THE OMAHA BEE goes to the homes—-is read by the women-—egells goods for advertisers. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Raln at night For Jowa-—Cloudy For weather raport see page 3 VOL. XXXIX- —X(; SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. DAY OF GENUINE JOY IN OMAHA Thanksgiving Finds People Healthy and Happy and is Observed with Real Spirit, 140. INSURGENTS ARE GAINING GROUND, Al Passengers Declared Safe Revolutionists in Nicaragua Are in| P“"“::: "tf GA“ ‘F‘“' Cosst |Three Trainmen Killed and Two EPA o fo Others Fatally Injured in Spectacular Wreck. | Train Burns, but MINE IS SEALED TO CHECK FIRE Counci] of Exp;_at Cherry, Ill, Determines Upon This Course After Long Discussion. THAT PLACE CLOSELY BESIEGED General Toledo's Army is Hemmed in | by Land and S¢a. | COAL PILLARS ARE BURNING SPRING-LIKE WEATHER IS A HELP | Through Bright Sky and Warm Air Nature Bestows Smile. |INDOOR AND OUT THE FESTIVAL IS SPOKANE, Wash,, Nov. %.—Thres trainmen dead, two othefs belleved to be fatally injured, five out of six cars on a Great Northern passenger train destroved by fire, but every passenger safe, is the | summing up of a wreck on the Northern | Pacific railroad, about a mile from Lind, | shortly after midnight, due to the collision It May Be Several Weeks Before Shaft Can Be Reopened. WIRES AGAIN FAIL TO WORK WATER FAILS TO REACH FIRE United States Unable to Communicate | with Its Officials. EXECUTIONS NOT State Department ¥ | Cannon and Groce Shon Been Regarded as P oners of War., BULL WASHINGTON, aguan revolutionists are gaining @ according to wdvices recelved here ! the commander of the crulser Des Moines, | now In Nicaraguan waters. The dispatch | adds that Amerfcan Interests are being | vrotected and that the blockade by, the rev- | Nov. 2.—The olutionary forces ls effective. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%.The State and Navy departments got | ntouch with Nicar- agua overnight through the gunboat Des Moines, ‘which has been plylng between Port Limon on the Guif cgast of Costa Rica and Greytown, which is the southern port of Nicaragua, on the same coast. | Captain Shipley, commander of the Des | Moines, reported briefly on the conditions on the emst coast of Nlcaragua, which Is entirely In the possession of the Insurgent forces, with the exception of Greytown proper, where General Toledo of President Zelaya's army Is hemmed in by land and sea by the revolutionist The only American warship on the west const of Nicaragua Is the Vicksburg, ly- ing off Corinto, but no word has come from that ship in the last (wo days, inter- rupted telegraphic communication being the only explanation offered. It has got to be & matter of common note that the telegraph fails in ‘the most perfect weather, when the Unlted States govern- ment tries to communicate with one of its diplomatic or consular agents in time of revolution in Central America. That the explanation to be made by the Nicaraguan government of the conditions under which the two Americans, Groce and Cannon, were executed as forecasted in the news dispatches from Central Amer- fca will be unsatisfactory to the state de- partment 1s probable. From any point the official view s that the men were free from the charge of being sples and were entitled to be regarled as prisoners of war and therefore not subject to that penalty. /85, 1£ they werre eaptured in Costa Ries, as reporied, the act was in clear violation of Costa Rican soverelgn- ity und may easily involve Costa Rica in war 'with the Zelayan government if the American government turns to Costa Rica for redress, Fighting Near Bluefiel MOBILE, Nov. 25.—Officers of the stemmer Bluefields arriving today from Port Limon, Costa Rica, say It was re- ported at Port Limon that fighting was golng on in the rear of Blueflelds, As the Bluefields was leaving, a large American ¢rulser was making into Port Limon. Americans Captured in Battle. COLON, Nov. #%.—It is stated in reliable quarters here that Groce and Cannon, the Americans who were executed recently, were shot and burled by order of President Zelaya. They were with General Cham- orro and were captured during a tight near Colorado Junction. Great Indignation is felt here over the executions, The ecaptain of a boat who pald a visit to President Estranda at Greytown ye: terday says that General Chamorro's block- ade Is effective. A Weavy sea is running, which he says prevents the escape of the Zelayan forces. Greytown is devold of provisions and the Zelayan troops are ex- pected to capitulate shortly. Two hundred deserters from the government forces east of Rama joined General Estrrada yester- day. The men were In a famished condi- tion. Since the announcement was made that the American government had recognized the revolutionists ethusiasm here has, be- come more intense. Volunteers from the plantations and gold mines are eagerly of- fering their services to General Estrada. British Orulser at Bluetie! COLON, Nov. 2%.—A wireless dispatch from Bluefields, Nicaragua, dated Novem- ber M, recelved today, sayi “The British cruiser Scylla arrived here Sunday and leaves today. “Commander Bertram . Thesiger of the rulser made an officlal visit to Provisional President Estrada Tuesday.” WASHINGTON, Nov. %.—The visit of the British cruiser Scylla to Bluefields, Nica- ragua, and the call of its commander, Bertram S! Thesiger, on Senor Estrada, the provisional president, is not understood at the British embassy. Inquiry there to- night met with the statement that no ad- vices of the warship's call had been re- eelved, and In the absence of such advices it s conjectured that the vessel put in merely to dlscover whether British inter- ests were in jeopardy Engaged to Two; Kills Himself Iow/n Man Commits Suicide Because of Threatened Breach of Promise Suit. INTON, Ia, Nov. %.—(Special)—Har- Assed with (hreats of breach of promis sults, and fearing lest he would be prose- cuted by two youns women whom, It is alleged, he had become engaged to, Alva Jewell, Mving five miles north of here, commiitéd suiclde some time this after- noon by shooting himself. His body was found in an outbullding, and when dis- covered was still warm. The young man left the house in the morning, saying thet he was going rabbit hunting, Because of his moroseness during recent days, when he did mot return for dinner 'the family started a search for him. It i sald that Jewell had made love nd been aceepted by two young women Urbana, both of whom, when they found | & “helper’ edgine. |Court Prevents between Great Northern Train No. 4 and The dead include Engineer L. Reaman, Fireman Jacob Spangler and Pllot Tyler of the passenger train The engineer and firemen on the “helper” engine are believed to be fatally hurt. The aceldent occurred either through misunderstanding or disregard of orders. The Great Northern passenger train from 1e const was traveling over the Northern cific track on account of floods and shouts on the Great Northern line. ‘was due In Lind shortly after 1 o'clock a8 morning. The “wild” engine started west, and no sooner had it left the station than the operator knew a terrible mistake had been made, but had no means of cor- recting it. About a mile from Lind the engine and the passenger came in collision. According to Engineer Rush, who had pulled the train to Prosper, but who was riding on the train from that point as a passenger, every passenger escaped except one, who was only slightly Injured. Third Marriage of Ohio Girl Mrs, Larcum, 19 Years Old, Divorced Monday, Planned Wedding for Thanksgiving. DEFIANCE, O., Nov. %.—Too much pub- licity spoiled for the present the plans for the’ marriage of Mrs. Bessle Sheck-Wil- llams-Larcum, aged 19, an Intended Thanksgiving event. The girl was divorced Monday in probase court from her second husband, Edward Larcum, and through a newspaper reporter confided to the public that she intended to be married at once to Benjamin Hill, who had been a boarder at her parents’ home and had advanced money to pay for the divorce proceedings. When Hill applied yesterday to the same court for a marriage license it was re- | fused, and he was informed that the for- mal decree of divorce would be withheld while the court looked further into the clrcumstances. ‘The girl was first married at the age of 16 to Perey Willame.eof Cincinnati, and after a divorce married Edward J. Larcum of Despler n January last. Hunter Killed Aiding Friend John Krenzer Tries to Pull William Gift Out of Mud with Gun Barrel. While holding the barrel of a gun in the hands of Willlam Gift of 165 North Seventeenth street, who was stuck In the mud in a slough near the Illinols.Central railroad tracks in East Omaha, John H. Krenzer of 1207 North Twenty-firat street was shot through the heart by the acel- dental discharge of the gun. Krenzer is 17 years of age. He and his younger brother, Tommy Krenzer, aged 13; Willlam Gift and Leonard Neauman were | out hunting. They left thelr homes at 10 o'clock In the morning and were on their way back. While wading through the | slough Gift Gift got stuck In the mud. He | asked for assistance, which was offered | by John Krenzer. Krenzer could not quite reach Gift, so held out the end of his gun barrel that Krenzer might jpull him out, Krenzer took hold and began pulling, when the gun was accidentally discharged. | The shot struck Krenzer In the heart. He| died instantly and fell in his tracks. | Gift, who was holding the muszle of the | gun, was more than horrified. With ex- treme exertion he got out of the mud and helped carry his vietim to dry land. The Krenzer boys are well known in Omaha. Their father, John B. Krenzer, has been employed as a mechanic in the Union Paclfic shops for a number of yea: Gift lives with his parents at 1564 North Seventeenth strest and the other youth, Leonard Neauman, lives at 150 North Seventeenth street. The body was turned over to the coroner | of Councll Bluffs. Krenzer's parents were completely grief-stricken when they learned of the sudden death of their son. SPEECH GONE TWO MONTHS Operation Restores Power to Talk to Man Who Was & ST. LOUIS, Nov. %.—His tongue unfet- | tered after a two-months silence, Monroe | Prits talked as cheerfully as a child in telling today for the first time of the as- sault which, resulting in'a skull fractur had robbed him of speech. In a road house mear East St. Louls, | Prics was struck with a billlazd cue by a | man who was angry because he had acted |as & peacemaker in a fight. There was no witness to the encounter and his friends, finding him unable to tell them anything | about the occurence were at a loss to ac- | count for his injury. | A trephining operation was performed at the city hospital here which at once re- | ileved the pressure on the braln and re- stored the ower of speech. {DE ARMOND FIRE COMES FROM DEFECTIVE WIRE BUTLER, Mo., Nov. %.—It is now be- Meved the fire which eaused the death of Congressman David A. De Armond and his €-year-old grandson, David A. De Armond, Jr., last Tuesday, started in the attic of the Do Armond home and avas caused by defective electric wiring. At first it ir lover was bethrothed to another, & lawyer and threatened to sue. gt seemed probable that the fire originated In the room in which the congressman and the little boy were siecplng |area marines who were to be carrfed by | |ready to transport marines to the Isthmus Officials Find that Its Only Effect is to Fill Lower Level. NO MORE BODIES ARE FOUND Generally Comceded that No Chance ot in the Now Living Men Being St. Paul Mine Exists, CHERRY, 1., Nov. %.—Detalls of a meeting held here early today between the entire state mining board, Battalion Chief | McDonald of the Chicago fire department | and W. W. Taylor, general suuperintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul company’s mines, were made known this afternoon Battalion Chlef McDonald, after an in- | spection of the work being accomplished by his men who had been throwing water in the east bottom of the mine for more than a week, advised the state mine In- spectors and the representatives of the coal company that the water being thrown into the mine was not reaching the fire and that he saw np use of throwing in any more water, as it was merely filiing up the third vein. Bodies of the known dead in that vein are already inaccessible owing to the quantity of water already thrown into the mine and to increase this amount of water, McDonald sald, would delay recovery of bodies indifeinitely. Mr. Willlams of the Urbana rescue sta- tion, who had been keeping careful note of the gases formed in the mine, reported that the fire had extended to the coal plllars and was forming dangerous gases and making it perilous for rescuers to continue at work. After considerable discussion and a care- ful going over of all phases of the situa- tion it was unanimously agreed by the meeting that the only thing that would make possible ultimate recovery of the! bodles in the mine was to seal up both | the main shaft and the air shaft and keep them sealed untll the cutting off of the alr smothred the fire. The shafts were theéreupon sealed. Bat(g with Fire. After more than 150 bodies had been Qiscovered In the mine, early yesterday ef- forts to carry them to the surface were abandoned while a battie was begun to cheok a fire which again threatened the malni shaft. Yesterday flames from fire in the second vein, 310 feet below the surface, hhd swept fifty‘feet up the main shaft. Then the fire was forced back. Mine Manager Taylor declared that the destruction of the maln shatft is at all times imminent, and with it will go the only possivility of removing bodies. That no men survive In the mine now Is generally conceded, even by the most optimistic. The only part of the mine as yet unex- plored and in which living men possibly could be found is the east warking of the second veln, at the entrance to which the fire 1s burning flercely. Twice rescuing parties that have ventured past the fire area have been temporarily cut off by these flames and rescued with difficulty. No further attempt to venture into it will be made until the fire is extinguished, which may be a work of days. May Amend Mining Laws. SPRINGFIELD, Iil., Nov. 24.—As a result of the mine fire at Cherry, Governor De- neen may Incorporate in his call for a spe- clal session of the legislature, to be held in December, a request that the state min- ing laws be amanded to provide that fire- proof mine shafts be buflt in all mines. The tentative plan would call for shafts bullt of concrete and steel instead of tim- ber, and the removal of all mine stables from underground to the surface. Governor Deneen today told a delegation of officers of the State Federation of La- bor and of the United Mine Workers of America that he would submit their de- mands for greater safety In mines to the newly appolnted State Mining commission. He added that if the commission could formulate specific amendments to the min- ing laws that would be desirable, he would incorporate the recommendations in his call for the special session of the legisla- ture. Cruiser Ready to Sail for the South Four Hundred Marines Prepared to | Go to Nicaragua on Short Notice. | PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2%5.—With its hold | stored with provisions and ammunition the United States cruiser Prairie lles at the | Philadelphia navy yard today ready to | sall for Panama or Nicaragua. Four hun- | thle cruiser to Caribbean waters are await- | ing the signal to start Several weeks ago orders were received at the navy yard from the Navy depart- ment at Washington to have the Prairle of Panama in December. aguan ineldent, were shot, ‘Washington and the Saturday. | Meanwhile preparations are being made | at the navy yard for a review of sallors | and marines by Seoretary of the Navy Meyer. The secretary will arrive here to- morrow and the review will be held in the afterncon. The marine band will come from Washington to take part in the re- view. After the Nicar- | in which two Americans orders were recelved from to advance the sailing time cruiser probably will leave on Les Broken in Twelve Places. YANKTON, Nov. 2%.—(Speclal)~Charlvs Jackson, whose home is at Hydro, Okla., and who travels for thy Enid Nursery com- pany, Oklahoma, is In the hospital with his right leg fractured In twelve places, the result of a bad fall on an icy walk. Jackson is over 0 years of age and the physiclans consider his case a very serious one indeed. Litte hope is enter- tained of the patidmt ever using the lmb again. CURZON NOT |H undreds Trapped | K1tk cAle From the Minneapolis Journal: DEB Former Viceroy of India Attack Sudden Iliness. LORD ASHBOURNE IN HIS Noted Unionist Makes Attack Budget and Defends Right Lords te Withhold Their . Consent. LONDON, Nov. %.—Although thi the fourth day of the budget deba the absence of Lord Curzon, who a sudden indisposition was to hav tinued the unionist attack upon the measure, detracted somewhat from t| ular interest, there was little falling| the attendance when the House of, met this afternoon. The benches again' were crowd peers, members of the House of Co were gathered about the throne, ai esses, diplomats and other distiny persons filled the galleries. The extension of the time for deb give opportunity for more of the ords to be heard and many maiden speeches will be made. Lord Revelstoke, who has been a member of the second chamber for twelve yeers, made his first speech in the House of Lords this week. Lord Ashbourne, who has been a mem- ber of several unionist cabinets, took Lord Curzon's place In reopening the debate, and while many were disappolated at the failure of the former viceroy of Indla to speak, the visitors heard an orator almost equally notable. Lords aud Hiktory. Lord Ashbourne contgnded there was no authority on constitutionat history that dis- puted the right of the lords to act accord- ing to their -discretion in accepting the budget. This year's budget, by presenting a va- riety of bills within Its covers, sought for the first time in the history of the budgets to go far beyond the scope of providing revenue to meet the annual expenditures, he sald. He declared the government had performed an unconstitutional act n tacking on the budget bill a measure for the taxa- tion of undeveloped land. Against the licensing clauses, which, after the rejection of the licensing bill, appeared here in a worse form, he also held was obvious tack- ing. He added that evidences of the unrest caused by the budget blll were everywhere. Consols had dropped, he sald, and untold millions of capital had been driven abroad. Of what u he asked, was the House of Lords, if, when the time for aetion came, it could not act?" Lord Balfour of Burleigh, a unionist free trader and member of the former unionist cabinet, after attacking the budget, ad- mitted, that while the lords had never In 50 many words surrendered their right of interference, usage had established that the House of mmons was supreme in matters of finan Mrs. Roosevelt 1s Back from Europe| Accompanied by Miss Ethel She Goes at Once to Oyster Bay. NEW YORK, Nov. Roosevelt and her daughter, Miss Ethel, returned today from Furope. Mrs. Roose- | velt's step-daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Long- | worth, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson and Collector of the Port Willlam Loeb, ir., met the tiavelers at the pler. They will go from here to the Roosevelt | residence at Oyster Bay. 25.—Mrs. Theodore in Japanese Mine| Heavy Loss of Life Feared as Re-| sult of Explosion in a Coal Shaft. TOKIO, Nov. %.—Heavy loss of life is feared as the result of an explosion today | in & ccal mine at Onoura, Eukoko province Fifteen men. are known to have perished, | while 228 miners are entombed in the workings. OIL OPERATORS WANT RELIEF | of Leases with In- Owing to Decrease Ask Modification dlan PAWN Okl., %.—O1l operators of Osage, Washington and Tulsa countles at a conference here yesterday with the government Indian commissioner de- manded amendments to the leasing regula- tions of the interior department, which will remove the condition that requires that they pay §1 an acre annually leased lands not developed The operators asked for permanent -re- Mef from paying royalties to the Indians on the basis of 41 cents a barrel for oil, because they asserted the market price for oll had been reduced to 35 cents & barrel. on| | =Prot. Kills Himsel “Goodby,” He Cries to Roommate and Leaps from Third-Story Window, CHICAGO, Nov. %.—Eluding his room- mate and shouting a frantic “goodbye, Willlam J. McCormick, - 81 years old, a student. at the Moody Biblical inatitute here jumped from & third story window of the institute dormitory today and died while being taken to a hospital. Strange actions on the young man's part for some days had been noticed, and his room mate, J. L. Osborne, had been asked by ‘the school authorities to watch him. MeCormick reitred late and Osborne seeing his asleep, layed down beside him, only to | be awakened by the shouted farewell -as the student plunged from the window to his death. Close Guard for Cook’s Records Secretary Lonsdale Sails for Copen- hagen with Bulky Package of Documents. NEW YORK, Nov. 2%5.—Anotner chapter In the North pole controversy was begun today with the departure of the data and reports which Dr. Frederick A. Cook com- plled in the arctic, for Denmark, where they will be submitted to the University of Copenhagen as proof of Dr. Cook's assertion that he reached the north pole on April 21, 1908. The records were taken abroad by Walter | Lonsdale, private secretary of the explorer, who sailed on the steamship United States for Copenhagen. The documents bulked large and Mr. Lonsdale sald that heé would keep them under careful guard until they | were placed in the hands of Dr. Torp, rector of the Copenhagen university. The records and reports contain nhou!‘ 30,000 words and the university authorities | probably will be several weeks going over | them. | CHILE THREATENS BOYCOTT | May Refuse to Buy American Goods | Unless Alsop Clalm is With- drawn. | SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 25.—The attitude | of the United States government in the matter of the Alsop claim held by the United States against Chile is producing an effect upon the business of the country. Chilean buyers are cancelling orders for American products pending a. decision In | the case IQUIQUE, teeling he: United Stat public Saturday boyeott Chile, Nov. %—The popular | is that the Alsop claim of the | against Chile 1s unjust. A | meeting will be held probably on at which it will be proposed to | American products unless the | United States desists from pressing the | claim. | | Colonel looking for & hall full of “gentlemen who | DINNER BIC AFFAIR oth Turkey, 'Possum and Pie on the Menu. AMERICAN SERVICES HELD Viee President and Other les Attend Specinl Exer- at St. Patrick's tholle Church, ASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Presideht Taft his family had a genuine Thanks- \g dinner today. In addition to the nmoth turkey which had been sent to White House by Horace Vose of Wes- 1 A by the bakers of New York Cl was a twenty-six-pound “billy 'pos- said to be the largest and plumpest trapped In the Georgia woods, on able at the White House dining room. the president's family except Robert, 1s at school at New Haven, dined him. pan-American Thanksglving thi8 morning in St. Patrick's Roman Catho- llc church was attended by President Taft, Vice President Sherman and several m-m- bers of the cabinet. Cardinal Gibbons and Mgr. Falconlo. apostolic delegate to the United States, were present. The members of the cabinet spent the day quietly here. : Throughout the city the day is being ob- served in the customary way. All the de- partments of the government, the banks and pragtically all of the stores in the city are closed. Dinner for Former Prisoners. That Captain Joseph F. Bhipp, former sheriff of Chattanooga, and his compan- fons, who are serving jall sentences in- flicted by the supreme court of the United States for contempt of that high tribunal, have a legion of friends in their Tennessee home was attested today. Thege friends saw to It that the former sherlff and his fellow Tennessceans w.re provided with a turkey dinner of lavish proportions. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Nov. 2.—Salva- tion Army workers today found the wife and children of Henry H. Padgett in destl- tute circumstances. Padgett is one of the codefendants with Captain Shipp, now con- fined in the District of Columbla jall on a contempt crarge. Mrs. Padgett and her children were dependent for a limited Thanksgiving dinner on the bounty of a rearby grocery and the Salvation Army Las started & fund to keep the family in tread until the husband completes his sen- tence. Frankfurters is 0ld Tom ST. LOUIS, Nov. 25.—Frankfurters and sauerkraut accompanied by boiled cabbage and potatoes defeated turkey and cran- berry sauce In a referendum vote at the St. Louls workhouse today. As.a conse- quence ‘the toothsome American bird was not in evidence at dinner. In contrast to the workhouse was the quarantine station. Here an average of twenty-five pounds of turkey was served to each inmate, there being only ot them—Mong Wing, a leper. He is the only leper In this part of the world and there- fore perforce dined alone. He had also the usual “trimmings” and some celery, which he had planted and cultivated him- self. The 700 insane asylum patients ate spring lamb. Half Million Turkeys in Gotham. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—More than 500,00 Thanksgiving turkeys were sizzling today in the ovens of as many homes, while hotels, restaurants and charitable institu tions wero packed with holiday diners. The Salvation Army announced through Willlam A. MclIntyre that it was have not off the water only stepped | wagon, but have lost all hope of regaining a meat thereon.” The Bowery mission chose today its regular 1 o'clock-in-the-morning winter bread line and gave a dinner 10"1,000 waits of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Astor estate gave a dinner to 600 newsboys Many brokerage and banking houses sent | out brealkfasts to the poc ‘Berwyn Aviator Takes Wife; Quits Airship for Fireside P BROKEN BOW, Neb., Nov. Ulrich Sorenson, of aeroplane fame, | —(Speclal.) whose remarkable drop through the air of | 3500 feet will bé remembered, has given up aerial navigation and, after Thanksgiving, | will settle on earth for an indefinite per- fod and become a humble tiller of the soil The cause of this change became ap- parent at the court house yesterday, when the professor was caught red-handed in the act of taking out a marriage license | for himselt and Miss Cora Talbot of | Berwyn. | The wedding ceremony was quietly per- | formed at the residence of the bride's people Thanksglving morning the young couple will on and | take & short | | trip before settling on their farm near Berwyn. As the aviator carefully placed the license inside of his coat pocket, he remarked “Yes, I'm going to quit exploring the for a time, at least. It wouldn't be square to the little girl if 1 didn’t cut it out and take to something on a safer Und: stand, 1 don’t mean to say I am through with it for good; if J could afford to put the right kind of a motor in my machin 1 would undoubtedly take another whirl at the game, as the danger In that case would be reduced toa ranimum. But good motors, such as I want, and it will basis | probably be some time before I am able thoroughly own lines.” to equip an aeropiane on my and the fifty-pound mince ple | v | | | | service | to open | |Bvie, Devout Give Thanks in Religious Observance of the Day. ¥ VIGOROUS YOUTH RUNS AND PLAYS en the Pork on the - Block and Fat Give Forth the Cheer- Poultry to Season, It was a day of ger Omaha. And busy comm it. The weather 16 thanksgiving In ce paused to ob- spring-like In its clear atmosphere-stoned the spirits key and the Great Human Fam- or that portion of It in this eity, partook ar od in devout partieipated in out-of-door » with a vim and vigor characteris- a healthy, happy people. Thanksgiving itselt 18 Omaha, 1 chu of praise and gratitudo services were particularly im- those denominations to means much in an historical there was opportunity for all like observing the day In other stronomienl way, act sermon with partieu the history and day was delivered | pastor of st tional church « serve balmy to a high 1y | ot fostal feasts eng worship exerct tic of That aspect which the not lgnored holding servic and these pressive whom th way. But who felt than a & One of name n s from was | day Ived among as b to re ce to meaning of Thankseiving by Rev. L. O. Balrd, Mary's Avenue reg who occupled the pulpit at ace Lutheran chureh, where one of sev- eral union services of the day was held, “As Christmas Ie the feast of the nativity of Christ,”” sald Dr. Baird, *“and the Fourth of July s the birthday celebration of the American Thanksgiving day is the birthday holiday of Puritanism, I am here to ®ome words concerning Puritanism and the Puritan, So with All Great Events, as at the birth of Christ, thers | the wise men who rejoiced and the | people who wondered and the Herod who ecoffed, so it has been with other great events and facts at their inception and afterwards, “It has become the fashion to Indulge n much easy abuse of the Puritan. To ecall a thing ‘puritanical’ Is to damn it; to call & statute a blue law' I8 to kill it. And all this abuse, all this unfounded criticlsm is entirely unjustifiable, 3 “I do not want tg return to witch hang- |ings—there never were any witeh burnings i New aind. Nor do 1 wish to return {to the Intolierance which exlled Roger Wii- {llams; nor to the fake blue laws which are much talked of, but most of which as ex- ampled were never In any statute book. “These references as commonly made are the exaggerations of carlcature. And what basis they have In face were the excesses necessary to primal state. It is true that their were rigorous, but thelr hearts were stupendous. The easy golng ated In his armchalr under sm clectrlc Iight in & steam heated flat seems to forget the drapery of these rugged men was cut from the cloth of their day. “Do you judge a school by Its dunces or by its wise pupils? | “Do you rate men at thelr best or their | worst aver Shall we dlscount Peter after Peutecost because he had lied once and kworn once?" Con nation, so say | “Just were | wayd {eritic s Dr. ¥ lof the tans In New witch burning, cated never n went on {0 analyze many ges against the Puri- England. He referred to now well known by the to have occurred In Amer popular lca. “There were all told thirty-one executions New England,” sa'd e, but tn the fury of the de swept from the old to the Ma sachuset's ou broak 30,00 put to death In England, 100,000 in Franc:-all for for witeheraf “and this was lusion which world. Prior there were 5,000 in the same caus: | “Da you ever hear anything about witch craft in Do you ever hear about it in Germany? In France? “Four years later we land the whole eommunity esslon of humility ated with Rev. Mr sermon were Rev. W. B { Presbyterian church, M {chureh in which the s IDr. Ball of the Parkvale and W Fulton of the Westminster Presbyterian, Members of the Hanscom Park Methodist ul church al-o took part in the Lcross | see In New Eng- Join in a public and penitence." Baird before Todd of the Third L. Mellek of the vices were held, Congregational the service. | CHRISTIANITY AMERICA’S HOPE | Itn | Influe M Union Thank the Fir | First Ba church, Rev. J preach, |ot ¥i from t by R Memortal “The ings Sine Qua Nom of I Civilian tig ng service Kountze at the enty-ninth and of the were held by Memoria® and First Baptist Harney streets, Iirst Christian J. W. Conley seripture lesson prayer Hummon ot the Dptist 1% P J R sermon. Rev aead the alm and was led Kountze fe day Appor 1a Dr Hector onquered essential Elv thi | the civilization « | that of | vietorious | ture of that \ttox our Tranks- we live in rather than “Achil’es, dragged the dead foe thrice ] 3,000 later, the benediction tlon to go and re stated homes and join effacing the vestiges ation of a Christian etterment of humans on his of to the conquered Lee Christlan efvil thelr de victors v vody of the wall Tr aat eark gav | of | nabitate | with the | of war clviliz i glor and the . t s for such possibilities that we should o thankful. We 1A be further thank- that the ch 15 not losing its grip God's world sty may Thé ehureh stronger 1 befe shiping century n ospel of rld the has a than nity today 1thg im er 100,000,000 Ch are nth s than in nturies th en to the we for God. In the ninete people prec sus Chr We prosperity Omaha became Christiar the Je eding ¢ t was gi 1 be thankful of our beautiful hom. We 4 be thankful the chief book of all sho Wt city of for the the world,