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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE : MONDAY , MAHCH 8 , 1807. COUNCIL BLUFFS DEPARTMENT MIAOU MtlVIIOV. " * * The "Now Og'lfn" hotel has alec reom to let. Wanted-A man with senffal acquaintance In Cou.ioll Illuffs , to canv.us for aftell known Omaha establishment. State experi ence and references. Address , F 51 , Omaha Dee Omaha. While all oycs arf tt.rr.cd toward Washing ton during Inauguration week , you should not overlook the fact that the "i : Blo" continue * to furnish the finest laucdry work In th'.eu parts , 724 Dro.idv.ay. , . The Xrvv Ogden feeds more peoph than any Bother hotel In the city. The Graham Harlo compiny opctu tonight In Oliver Ujron'n comedy , "Tho Incldc Track. " Tha drama Is one the inctiopolltan prore pronounced a literary gem. It abounds with sensational climaxes and hearty tun , Introduces plenty of specialties' and ono of the greatest fire section ever staged. Ladles' compllmcntarlm have Icon Issued and a crowd In teamed. The ledge Light Guards came perilously near breaking the Sabbath yesterday In their anxiety to prepare for the first annual state Inspection that will occur tonight In their new armory. The Inspection will bo made by Major Davidson , quartermaster gencial ot Iowa , mid Captain Olmslcad of the Ninth cavalry , regular army. Thu bojs lounged oround tholr gunu and accoutrements all day yesterday and occasionally gave them a nur- roplltloti < < rub. The Inspection tonight will bo public , The "New Ogden" has mido n eporlal rote of $1.60 per day to all commercial trade. C. n. Vlnvl Company , fpmalo remedy. Medical consultation free Wednesday. Health book furnished. 809 Morrlam block. N. Y. Plumbing company. Tel. 250. Knriit For lowest rates on good farm loans call at the omen of D. W. Otis. No. 133 Pearl street. Council Bluffs. Money ready and loans closed without delay. Siinilitj'fi Death Itotl. August LnvcnburK , n well known nnd wcaltby tannery died yesterday at his homo in dnrner townMilp after an Illness of a week , from pneumonia. Mr. LavenbtirK vvns Jif > ycam old and more than tvienty-fivo years of Ills llfo have been spent in tills vicinity , llovns born In Som erset , O. , December 17 , 18U , and moved with hla parents to UmlliiKton , In. , In 1813. AVlieu lie vvns 17 years of ago ho vvcnl vvcat , and during the vvnr nerved v\Ith onu of thu Oregon cavahy regiments. He was an cxtcn- eUo land owner and. one of the progrcmive and enterprising farmers In the county , and vvaa well Itnoun na a stock raiser , buyer and shipper. llo leaves a wife and live chil dren , the youngest a boy ! ) years old , nnd the eldest a daughter , Mrs. J. L. Ellsworth of this city. The eldest son Is located in Sin Franc'sco ' , and when his father was found to bo dangeiously III lie was communi cated with by who. Ho started homo Irn- tnediatUy and will arrive bore tod.iy. The funcial will take place tomoriovv afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence In Garner town ship. The body will bo brought to this city and burled In Kali-view cemetery. John P. Cochinn died yesterday afternoon at the residence , 902 Avenue r , nftur an lllncsa of three years' duration from paraly- e'a. Ho was D6 years old and leaves a ) wife and family. Ho was n member of. the Mac cabees boclcty , and his funeral , which will occur on Tucadny nt 'i o'clock , will 1m looked after by the society. Tlic body will be burled In Walnut Hill cemetery. Mrs. Eleanor Powell , wife of John Powell , died at the residence , In Bcomcr township , jcotcrday after an Illness of two months from cancer of the stomach. She was 48 yesis old. The remains will bo Interred this afternoon at 1 o'clock In Grange cemetery in Doomer township. She was a member of the Latter Day Saints church. J. H. Love died , suddenly nt C o'clock last oienlng of heart dlaease at his residence , 114 Mill street. Ho was 08 years old nnd leaves a family. Mr. Love vvna born In Man chester , England. Ho has lived in Iowa a number of years , nnd for the last eleven years hna been ono of the well known car penters of Council Blurts. The arrangements for the funeral have not been completed. Ho was connected with the First Presbyte rian church , and Itov. W. S. Darnes will ofllclato nt the funeral. Hany carriages the finest line n the city. Durfeo Furniture Co School nivetioii Today. The school election will occur today , and the voting In nil of the precincts will be done at the same placet ) where the polls were located for the city election last Monday. There IB no particular reason why It should bo so , but there Is a great deal moro feeling engendered In the contest for two membjrs of the school board , than there was for four members of the council. Charges and counter charges were being made last evening and when the fight closes tonight thcro will be the usual number of charges of fraud nnd bribery , The members ot the Hoard of Edu cation do not get a cnt for tholr services for the two years for which they nro elected , and the anxiety to escape defeat Is scarcely in keeping with tribulations of the office. The chlsf thing that makes the fight of Interest - terest Is the belief that if the democrats sue- . . cced In getting In their men the bitter fight * ' over the supcrlntendency of the city schools , which toro up the whole town last summer , will bo reopened. Tliero Is some doubt about this being the caps , but tlio fear that It will bo so will bring out a heavy republican vote. The chief fight Is being made upon Dr. Snyder , rcnomlnated by the republicans. He was prominent In the fight last eummor and made some bitter enemies , who will take nd- vantngo of the opportunity to try to turn him down. His friends claim that these men are trading with the democrats and making a V combination that will elect William Moors , \ the democratic candidate , and Jacob Sims , the , republican nominee. Whether this Is true or not , Snydor's friends will make an extra effort to carry him through. Llttlo printed ballots will bo ussd instead ot the regulation Australian affair , and It was lull- muled last night that these ballots had been Tailored nil over town by both parties. The Interest awakened by the factional fights may v bu the , iman i of calling out a heavier vote * than v < Db polled at the city election. Prop ositions to vote school bonds will be submitted to thp voters. . Hiilinc Children In Trouble. Two lllllo children , n girl of 13 and a boy f 11 , members of Ihe Hahno family , on South Third slrcet , nro under suspicion nnd will probably bo arrested today upon the charga of stealing a pockotbook. The chil dren were In a grocery store on Broadway Saturday afternoon ordering groceries for tl-o family. While they were In the store Mrs. A. ( lusta'veon , the wife of an employe of the Milwaukee Railroad company , living in Marshall county , Iowa , canto Into the ztoro to Jo some trading before taking the train for her home. For a moment she laid her ( lockctbook on the counter and left It. When Hie- returned for It It was gone. The children were alto noticed hurriedly leav ing the store at the same time , but they got out of eight before the theft was discovered , The purse contained J5 In cash , eame pen nies and an annual railway paw belonging to MnGuatavaon. . The police were notified end an olllcer reached the Hahno homo before the children arrived , 'He ' had acquainted tholr mother with the situation , and when the children came they at once admitted to her that they had a pockctbook In their potecsslon which they claimed to have found , on the street corner. The purse proved to V. be the mltslng one. U contained the $5 , \ but the railway pass was gone. Another child who had been with them on the street told the police ho had seen the little girl take a paper from the pur o on the corner of Uroadwjy and Sixteenth street and tear It up , He also ealil they had dropped all of the pennies and email change Into elot machines along Main street as they went home , and had secured various little ar ticles , some ot which were found Ju the puree A search In the vicinity of Bcott , and Droaduay resulted In finding the pieces A. ot the torn-tip railway pass. Mn. Oustavton refuted to remain in the city and proaecute the children. Southwestern Part of the City Cries fo Immediate Belief ! FIRE PROTECTION NOT THE ONLY ISSUE Mnnv IliiiiicH nxpnxcil mul People Forced ( o Unc AVnlcr from Coiilnm- Inntcil Wc'llx , the CM } ' * Health. The agitation of the subject of the increase of the flro department by the addition of an other company and the location of a new plant in the southern part ot the city has practically ceased , The more the project Is discussed the greater the opposition to 1 becomes. The proposition that met the approval o qulto n number ot the aldermen called for the purchase of a combination chemical ma tnlno that would carry & > 0 feet ot rcguli tlon hose and a complement of hooks am ladders In addition to the chemical cylln drra. The specification Included two cjlln dcrs of thlrty-flve-gallon capacity or ono o fifty. Such a machine might bo desirable under some circumstances , but the moro the aldermen thought about It the less dc elrablo It appeared for the work It wouh have to do. It would necessarily weigh be tween two and three tons , and In the part o the city where It wae io be used most there Is no paving. On a dirt road in muddy weather the thing could not be pullol will Icvs than four horses. Then tbo llmltei capacity of the chemical apparatus defeatet the very object sought to bo attained. The chemical machine In No. 3 ho.sc house has two fifty-gallon cylinders and they are fre quently exhausted In holding a flro In chccl until the hose companies could lay llnca am get the water. Thfro Is a disposition on the part of al of the aldermen , including Alderman Ca.iper to glvo the icsldcnts In the southwestern portion of the city adequate flrc protection but there IK no disposition to waste a largo amount of money nt this tlmo and cntal n , continuously heavy expense for yeais to conic. The now flrc company and Its equip mcnt will cert not less than $4,000 nt the start , .and $2 000 a year to maintain It Is n low Cfltlmato made by the most conserva tive of Its ndvocatta. The plan that now meets the approval of the aldermen Is to make an agrcnmont with the water com pany for the extension of Its water mains south of Nineteenth avenue on Eighth -u , > 3 ot [ ) joj i > o ) < ! cpB } soq soaaE Ninth and Tenth streets , or other crnl distribution and attach A least ten additional flro hydrants. This plan suits 'Alderman Brougli , whose Flftl war ! constituents are the people most clam orous for the protection. o SITUATION IN THAT SECTION. Speaking about the matter yesterday Mr Biough said : "All wo want Js the best pro tection the city can glvo us , so we may fee sure that If a file breaks out all of our homes are not endangered. At the present time If a flro should bleak out in the northwest cor ner of the settlement of hou.'cs In the vi cinity of the Twentieth avenue pchnol a strong wind might carry It over the whole settlement and distroy 500 or GOO houses Wo have been paving our proportion of the water tax for years , und receiving abso lutely no benefit from It , but now we have grown so rapidly down there that the protec tion asked for is a public necessity. Ten hydiants will only cost $7CO a year , and ) the water tax for the protection of property in other parts of the city exceeds that many fold. "In addition to the question of fire pro tection , the question of health has now come to be a serious one. There are between COO and 1.000 families in that portion of the city who are obliged to live as primitively as the people In other parts of town did forty years ago. They must provide them selves with water for all purposes by digging wells or cisterns. At the present time a majority of these wells contain water that Is unfit to bo used. The trend of all the sewage of the city Is In that direction , and all of the sewers discharge Into Indian creak at points above this locality. The soil must necessarily become more or less Impregnated , contaminating all of the water. This la borne out by the facts. For the last flve years there has boon more sickness in that portion tion of the city than In any other * and the ratio of mortality there has been the great est in the city. Typhoid fevers and diph theritic diseases have been most prevalent there , and in the opinion of the best phy sicians In the city this Is directly attribu table to the Impure well water the people are obliged to use. In this matter I am moving only for the general good of the city , and while demanding protection and the proper safeguards for the homes of iny con stituents , I am only advancing the general Interests of all citizens. This locality , slmetlmcs known as Danetown , Is Inhabited ' by laboring men , iwh'o are home-builders. In no other portion of the city are there so tow rental houses. Fully 90 per cent of the men own tholr own homes. Many of them are fine residences and all of them arc com fortable cottages. I am not working for popular favor , but for justice , and I do not Intend to let up until I get It. " , , IllilN for Sfliool UnnilH. Treasurer Haverstock opened the bids Saturday evening for 4'Xs per cent school re funding bonds amounting' to ? 25,000. There were a number of applications from eastern money loaners , who wcro anxious to make the Investment , and the bids ranged fully as high as the most sanguine members of the board anticipated. Tbo bonds are to bo dated March 15 , 1S97 , and there was no accrued Interest to bo taken Into consider ation. The bonds run ten years , and maybe bo paid at the option of the board after flvo years. The best bid was received from N , W. Harris & Co. of Chicago , who offered to take the block , and pay a premium of ? 90 for the privilege. This Is better than any offer that was received for the block of $40- 000 sold a year or two ago. The finance committee of the board will order the bonds to be printed at once and the transfers will ho made within a few weeks. The follow ing were the bids received. | N. W. Harris & Co. Chicago $9003 J. W. Longstreet & Co. , Cleveland 87 50 Dutz , Dcnnlson & 1'ror , Cleveland. COCO Cook , II. L. & G. association , COCO Fnrson. Le.icli K. Co. , Chicago " 7 03 Lnmprecht & Co , Cleveland , 1700 C. H. White & Co , New York C5 00 E. U. Rolltnu & Co , Boston 87 CO Trowbrldgo & Co. , Chicago 81 00 H , U. Kean & Co , , Cnlcago Par. Strul from HHITM | til ClinrU- . The police wcro notified last evening that the roildcnco of the elsters engaged in teach ing the Catholic school nean the German Catliollo church on Bluff street had been entered by burglars and thoroughly ran sacked , and $10 In money and a lot of sacred relics taken. The burglary was committed between 7:30 : and 8:30 : o'clock , while the sisters were away attending church. The money was found In ono of the sister's purses , The rollca consisted of St. .Benedict medals , made of copper and of no value to the thieves. A silver thimble upon which was engraved the naino of Sister Edith was not overlooked , The Bisters bellovo that the burglary wau committed by a couple of trampa who ap plied to them for something to eat about 7 j'clock last evening , and who must have seen them leave the building shortly afterward. Qood descriptions of thceo men wcro JL'ir- nUhed the police and it Is scarcely likely that they will succeed In getting out of town bcforo being caught. Saturday at Drl.oiiK'n School. Thuro Mere ICO little girls In attendance it DeLongB Industrial school on Saturday. There were twenty-five women to Instruct them and about seventy visitors to look on and marvel at the extraordinary spectacle. This cession of the school has. given the ; > ubllc the most favorable ImprVsslon of tbo : haracter , scope and alms of tbo school , md was really a revelation to the majority ot the visitors. The crowd mode It neces sary to use nearly tall of the room in the Elseman building , where tbo school now meets. Rev. Henry DeLong desires to thank the people who so generously accepted his In vitation to fut him In the way of receiving a portion of the waste that fails from their tables. Ho appealed to them through The Dee last Thursday and on Friday and Sat urday received enough food to feed the nearly 1DO hungry men , women and chil dren. The calls upon him have been far greater than ho could meet. One mornIng - Ing last week there "were twenty women and little children at his door bcforo break fast begging for food and showing In their pinched faces that they wcro sadly In need of It. Mr. DeLong's appeal to the public Is to send him the soup bones that the butcher is required to cut from the costly roasts ordered by hundreds ot families every day and to let the butcher add a nickel's worth of meat. "I can feed all of the hungry people In the city on what Is wasted , " ho sa > s , "It I can only get hold of It. " HAY OP Itr.ST I-'OIl PUGILISTS. Col-licit PnN In ( he Morning ; I.oallnpri Kitsr. Sliootx a lluiill. CARSON , Nov. , March 7. The good little boys and the good young men ot Carson City and vicinity , who as a usual thing spend their Sundays In church and Sunday school , for the larger part played hookey today and made formal calls upon the famous puglllats at Shaw's Springs and Cook's ranch. The weather was bad and the roads worse than the weather , but In ppltc of nil that the Nevada natives splashed through the EluMi and braved the gale that came sweeping down from the mountains , for the purpose of seeing the most famous punch ° rs In the world. They could do nothing but stand around and look on , but they did that to per fection. They came early In the morning , but they remained late in the evening. They were In stronger force at Corbett's than at Cook's ranch , becausa Corbett's quartern are moro easy of ncccw , and there Is a certain air of unpopularity attaching to Fltz's big dog that Is calculated to discourage miscel laneous calling. Corbett spent his time between breakfast and noon doing as near nothing as he pos sibly could and he came very near to doing the Job to perfection. Shortly after lunch ho took up the nma ? ot letters that comcu to him dally and , with "Kid" Egan to read tha freak letters , he made rapid progress with the large amount of correspondence. Corbett makes It a rule to answer all letters unless they are of too freaky a nature to call for a reply. Ho Is fond of amusing lettern and puts in ail the tlmo he can at the work without detracting from his other duties. Shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon Corbett donned his long bath robe and hurried Into the woodshed , where he tolled away at the little wlmlliiw , with which he develops his strength In the hands and forearm ? , and then punched the bag for twenty minutes. This work over , he sprinted for the hand ball court , and spent three-quarters of an hour In the hardest kind ot work , all gone through without the slightest rest. Ho flrat went at Jeffreys and waded Into htm in a manner that made that gentleman a trifle ncrvoua. Then he took onEdgren _ for a round , then McVey came out "to ba knocked around the hand ball court In the liveliest kind ot a manner for three minutes of wrestling. WOODS' AIR CUSHIONS. Billy Woods , with h'a air cushions , waste to have closed up the series of workers. Jim seems to have an especial d'slllte for the paraphernalia In which Woods encases him self , and he loses no time In showing it. The other day as soon as Woods put up hia hando Corbott swung : hard on his left pneu matic ear muff with a force that sent Woods staggering across the roam and created a puncture In the air cushion tha ornamented the side of Mr. Woods' carmuff Mr. Woods la a good-natured man In the main , but all this liberty with bio wind pro lectors docs not suit him at all , and he waded Into Corbett as hard ao'he could , bul ho did not wade extremely far. Corbett kept out of his way easily , and now and then pal In a left arm poke Just to keep Woods stirred up. Woods did not like it , and so ho was not working today. He will bo on hand to morrow. After he had gone through with his train ers four times each , Hampton and Joe Cor bett played hand .ball with him , several games being reeled off In rapid succession. All told , Corbett worked two and a halt hours and finished in excellent shape , not In the least distressed. His endurance Is certainly remarkable and no man In the prime of condition could begin to go through with It. His fall of last night turned out to be of no consequence whatever and the champion scoffed at the Idea that ho would be Injured by such a thing as the "splits. " There was nothing new at Cook'n ranch today , except a brand new dream that Filtz turned out. This is the third or fourth dream Fltz has had bearing 0 % the result of the fight and they have all tended In one direction toward the everlasting annihila tion of James J. Corbett. If a man could be dreamed down Into utter defeat and com plete obliteration there Is no doubt that Corbett would have succumbed long ago. If F1U has had any dreams foreshadowing his own defeat ho has kept them to himself. Up to date he has lost no more battles In his sleep than toe has lost in the ring , since he landed on the Pacific coast for the first tlmo. This dream was that Fltz had won the fight In the fifth round and Fltz declared that it was so "blamed vivid and distinct like , , understand what I mean , " that there Is no possibility of It going wrong with him on March. 17 , FITZ KILLS A "QUAIL. " Fltz did most of his vvcrk In the , morn- ng today , but as a usual thing ho does ess on Sunday than on. week days. His work this morning varied In no way from the other work ho has done during the last : en days , save that ho did lesa of It. Ho shouldered a shotgun and for a tlmo ramped through the sago brush bombarding the llttlo birds and big rabbits with a net result of ono small feathered specimen , which ho called a "quail , " and others famll- ar to the locality termed a "yellow tailed snipe. " "It may be a quail or a snlpo for all I jaro , " said Fltz. "It Is not big enough to irguo about. Ho was bigger than that when [ met him , but I drove him out of Nevada. " This afternoon Fltz spent his tlmo In quar ters , playing cards and checkers with his trainers. Charley White , the Corbett trainer , said oday that ho confidently expected his mane o win lusido of twelve rounds. "That is in outsldo figure , " said White , "for I really hlnk Jim will win in less time than that. : simply say twelve so that I can be on the safe aldo of the question. " Corbett will do no mord road work , no ho das given up all hope of the roads becoming [ lassablo by the time eet for the fight. If .hey do become fit for running It will not jo long enough In advance of the fight to endcr tha work of much benefit. George Green , "Young Corbett , " who Is to light Mysterious Hilly Smith , had a narrow : capo from drowning this afternoon , while boatridlng on the Carson river near Empire , llo and bio trainer , llob McArthur , were In the boat , the latter being at the oars. Mc- \rthur attempted , to grab a email object floating in the water and failed to touch t. Green made a long reach for It and eaned too far over the sldo , upsetting the joat. Green Is a good swimmer , but ho waa akcn with a slight cramp and but for Mc- \rtliur'a aid must have gone down. Both nenftero exhausted when the ahore was reached and were chilled through. Qreon ild tonight that ho was feeling all right md would feel no evil effects from hU icy uath. i Everybody should know what a good mcdl- Ino Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is ; It has urcd many thousands and will cure * you , lloliltcr Piillit Douil When Ciiuirlit. NEW YORK , March 7. Late Saturday light , while Herman Goldstein , a hatter , vus entering the door of his home on East Sixteenth direct , lie was felled by blows rein a sandbag In the hands of a man who luddenly vprung from a hallway. Goldstein Ihouled lustily. The sundbuggcr lied , but vus captured by two men und brought jack. Suddenly the prisoner became nalld md sank down from apparent Illness. I ) - ore medical help could be summoned he lied. The dead man bun not yet been Iclen- llled. lie wan about 30 years old. tail und .ark and looked like a Spaniard. ANSWER TO SOMF/MIR1T1CS Eor , Dr. Newtjn M , Manrclellrer3 His Final Disconreo on UnimliSiiism. CAUSTIC REPLY TO ADVERSE'COMMENTS ' Church \o ( ( ilvrn < o of flonilVnrlt , Wlillo'fifi * MlnnUm Work l Performed''A'A ' llcnlhcn nt H < i'I.'ict At Unity church > csterday morning Hcv Newton M. Mann delivered what he says le his last discourse In the present controversy choosing as his subject "An Answer to My Critics. " Ho took for his texl James 111 , 5 ( Nojcs1 version ) : "Behold how great a for est a little fire klndlcthl" The grcatncre of the conflagration a spark will cause depends on the condition of the combustible material. If the trees ot the forest arc sapless , the ground thickly strewn with withered leaves , and all dry as dust , a big nro It Imminent. Ono would think from the noise that has been made that Instead of giving sever Icon reason for being a Unitarian , I had commit ted seventeen crimes. A volco from Clifton Hill declares that we cannot bcllovc In the brotherhood of man since wo do not main tain Unitarian hospitals. So , I suppose , we do not bellovo In education , because wo have no Unitarian parish schools or colleges If my ft lend on the hill will look Into the mat ter ho will find that Unitarians arc not be hind others In their i.ihllanthroples. The method of crowding all one's good works through the sectarian popgun for the sake of the louder report Is repugnant to them. Another critic takes up the skeleton of m > reasons Ecrlatum , and summarily disposer of them by a test of reasonableness he claims to have which h higher { Inn reason. I have always noticed that this higher test whlih such people talk about and dignify by the namci of "the supernatural. " Is noth ing else than their own ptejudlces and pre possessions. Of course , there U no use ol arguing with them. They will escape from any lire behind this rampart. Convincing uroof gees for nothing with one who , "convinced , against his will , Is of the flame opinion still. " The rector of St. Harnabas * has split con siderable Ink of late wilting about UnitarianIsm - Ism for ono who knows no moro about the ( subject than he docs. It would take too long to point out nil the mlsstatements ha has made In his several published letters , and might be ns wearisome as the letters thcnisehcs ; but some of them I must call attention to. He charges that Unltarianlrm has become In New Cnglnnd more or less generally a "cultus of Buddhism , " whatever that may be obviously from the connection something pretty bad. In point of fact , there Is no moro likeness or affinity between our church , in New England , or ail } where else , and Buddhism , than there Is bstwcen the Episcopal -and the Mormon churches , nor half as much. * * ' UNITARIAN IDEA OP dOD. He Is equally wide of thcLmark , when he undertaken tn tell what la he Unltailan Idea of God. No Unitarian .preacher en the face of the earth has any kuch .Idea as he credits us with. Who ovcjf heard one of us spjak of God as sitting ! In Iflnely gran deur apart trom all creplloti ? This Is merely a fancy the orthodox liavc conjured up about us. It Is what Jliey-think that we think. It ii born of theiro\jji thought ; for. In their theory , God stoOd'.aloof from this world almost altogcthertuntll ( He ap peared In the person of Jesus of Nazareth , and then retired away again when the people ple had kllleJ Him , to return In some shad owy form In the perron ( Ofr the holy ghost. We have no such notlo i of a God coming and golrt . Our Gp/tjsfajs. He Is inseparable fromIIIs creation ; , yo is In us , and in all things. The universe is the vJnlble. garment in whjch Ho wraps Himself ; there we seo'lhe outgoings of Tils power. , As the supreme goodness and truth , He is to be seen , not In one man only , but In all the good and true. God is love ; God Is loveliness nessor beauty ; God Is truth ; and our con stant teaching is that whoever looking Into things , or looking into a brother's face , has seen these lights has seen God. Our one point of emphasis In this matter Is the near- ueDs , the Imminence of the divine ; the In timacy , the oneness , If jou please , of God and man. With much insistence Father Williams contenda that Unltarlansm ( s "sterile. " We lon't do anything ; don't produce an > thing. It Is not for mo to boast about what we Jo , but It needs to remind some people that It is possible to do a good work through 3ther than ecclesiastical channels. Wo slm- ily have a horror of building up sectarian in stitutions. Our people have given millions tor undenominational objects which are a alesslng to mankind , when they would not tovo given a cent for these objects had they jcen specifically Unitarian. Sectarian zealots : annot understand this and attribute it to 3vcry cause but the right one , ending with .ho oracular announcement that our faith s sterile. MISSION WORK AT HOMD. The statement is made and insisted on .hat wo have done nothing In the way of 'orclga missions ; that wo have "never sought to teach a savage the alphabet ; " lover tried to "win a savage or barbarous latlon or trlbo to a better humanity ; " that , vo have not a single missionary In all icathendom. Wo have done nothing , I admit , ilong these lines to brag of ; wo have never naJo any pretense of being a missionary : hurch , believing that our work Is best put n among the heathen at homo ; but we bad 'or ' a long tlmo a most devoted missionary n India , who gave his whole life to the up- Iftlng of the Hindus ; wo have a mission- iry station of considerable Importance In Inpan. where several of our ministers have jecn laboring for many years : wo have done > ur llttlo part in the work of educating Vracrlcan Indians , tbo first minister of this rery church and a number of others having icon engaged In the work on the reserva- lons. It would have been exact to say .hat In tbeso fields wo are not doing very uuch. Unltarlanlsm , wo are told , produces noth- ng. la It possible that our critic has no iyo to perceive the things oft most value In his world ? What are thcso most valuable hlngs ? They are men , and they are Ideas. Numerically small as wo ar.e , we are not ishamcd to compare our output of these iroducts with that of any one of the great iccts. Among the most Illustrious men and voraen of the ago wo can i > ont/to ) an array if names at which toma pqoplomlght open heir eyes -In astonishment. No.army of mis. ilonarlea In heathen landslWbX. ( It Is worth nero , It Is a greater service to | ho world , to iavo produced three men-iolilfQ Channlng. Smorson and Lowell thana ( hnyo converted ill Africa. Ono Florence Nightingale , ono .lary . Carpenter , ono Dorothea. , Dlx , out- alucs a cathedral In every cl y < of China. The rector of All Saints' has. Uken up this ubject on two succossIvqBmidays. How llfferent the tone of that pulpit ! There la . soul Into whoso composition , has gene no Irop of bitterness , and iig/pr\e \ who knows ilm wonders that his friend are legion , lo has publicly numberodjmo , a.mong them ; hope it will do him no , Jiafrn for mo to ay I am moro than friend , ) , "Tho friend , uncertain , comes and goes , The lover , rooted , stays. , " j n LOVD FOR OND HECTOR. I love him as I used to love Humes Piee- ian Clarke , whom Oio has been quoting gainst me ; for ho scums to have caught the plrlt of Dr. Clarke , whose gracious lips ever Inflicted a needless wound. It Is all Ight to quote ono Unitarian against another , ut It should bo remembered that In this onnectlou wo do not even pretend to hold D ono confession of faith. Dr , Clarke was o more of a trlnltarlan than I am , but o had a way of minimizing distinctions , lilch I have not. Ho honored me with hl ilenduhlp , and never manifested the ellght- st displeasure when I failed to agree- with 1m. Mr. Mackny hag jiousht ( o 'how how ir I nm from that dUtlDKuUhel leader of ur faith ; I teg gently to remind him that o is about a thousand time ? as far from ao rector ot St. Barnabas , for spiritual dls- mco Is determined not BO much by dl- crgenco of thought aa by divergence of Plrlt. My critics all around have mistaken tbo tain point of my contention. It la not the bscure , metaphjslcal question of Divine nlty ot tri-pertonallty ; It U tbo right and the duty of applying re a to rellglot Make the trinity reasonable , make the atone ment reasonable , make any doctrlno reason able , and all objection to It Vitnlshc.i. Som things are beyond the reach of reason , am surely such things there Is no use In talk Ing about , Every sensible pereo'i must com to this at last , that the subjects mcs worthy ot Attention nro the subjects tha are within our grasp , pro-eralnently the con cerns ot our dally life , how to bo In rlgh relations ono with another , how to meet th requirements ot our natures , physical , mora and spiritual. That is for cac'i ' person th best religion which best dlrect and support him along these lines whoto direction am support are ot the most net. XATUIlll .NOT AS C30U UUSIMM' ! ! 11 Knrlh Mont Ilcnullful H eei > t t'omimrcil to tlic llcutcux. Rov. Fr. Epplnger of St. John's Collegiate church spoke last night to. a large congrega tlon upon the subject of "The Natural an the Supernatural. " "A child's first view of the ocean Is ao- companled with wonder and awe as It fdll to grasp the magnitude ot the vast cxpans of tumbling waters. So , too , the mind n mankind groups In amazement when It seek to comprehend the magnitude ot the occai of God's religion , " eald the speaker. "I callu forth a thousand questions. The broai flow of the waters which dash and cparkle upon the shore servo but to Increase hi mystification , and thus bejond the crisis o their foamy ridges wo gaze into tbo super natural. To hear the breakers thundsr upo the strand gives our senses the evidence that there must bo some grand force , omnlp otcnt , nil pervading , a silent force whlcl commands our respect and which , thougl unseen , we still know must cxlpt. "Then the question comes , What Is the supernatural ? It Is that realm Into whlc the eje cannot travel , that which the mint cannot grasp , yet we know It exists In al Its mystic lovollncBa. Tbnt which exist around us wo call nature , vet how vile th earth appears when we gaze Into ths blu of the heavens. Nature as wo know It 1 God's nature , not as ho designed it , bu nature vitiated and degraded by the fall o man. From n knowledgs of the wondcro o nature even In Its degraded state , we maj form n slight Idea of the beauties ot th supernatural. Nature may be divided Into two phases , that which would have cxIiHci had God's Intent been carried out as life wa. planned In Hio Garden of EJcn , and tha which exists today , duo to man's fall. Th flrat li ! pure and unatloved , the second a mined and despoiled condition which man' waywardness and Inclination to sin has brought about. There might have been a state ot natuio which Included all that Is good and pure. There Is a condition of na turc which contains much of what Is evil. MAN'S CONTACT WITH NATURE. "That which God creates is unalloyed with evil , vet man's contact with nature has brought It to the condition in which , v\e now find It , The associations ot man's own mind creates the evil and his actions follow the dictates of his mind. What It Is to en jo ; a pure mind those only who commune will him through his church appreciate. After man has passed through the brlsf period o life allotted to him upon this earth , he wll then see the works of the supreme ruler His birthright to the mipcruatural will have been realized. Hs will realize that mucl which he regarded as Infinite upon the earth will prove to bo Unite. H'a should prepare himself for the enjoyment of thesa finite pleasures which the opportunities of cartl place within his grasp. "Of the supernatural God exists as ono person , which Is comprehended In nature In the holy trinity. Should nature have continued In the Etate It was originally de signed by God , man's destiny would have bsn vv oiked out for him. He might never have takch his position with the gods , vet his existence would have been surrounded with more pure InJlueacEs than at present. In the fall , however , wo have the oppor tunity to recover our right to a future ex istence which will place v.-o who strive against the temptations of earth upon an equal footing with the gods which live above. "Would heaven be 'attained should we live upon the earth In a perfect state of nature ? I think not. Man was made for a lilgher and nobler end. That end he must attain by showing his earthly worth. Na ture upon earth Is that which may be analyzed by the scientist , jet what scientist will attempt to analyze the spirit merged Into the body of a man ? Humanity Is de signed for a supernatural existence and the spirit which holds him to his mold of clay Is as far beyond the comprehension of the scientist as the heavens which throw : helr expanse over his head. PRAYER THE SUPETINATURAL AGENT. "We live In a condition of fallen nature , that state Into which the perverse character of man has plunged him. How may wo ittaln the supernatural ? Is asked , and the inswer is by making use ot the natural means of good which have still been left ivithln our grasp. Prayer , we realize , Is the great supernatural agent , and by means Df It we shall be called to that state of cxlst- snce for which God Intended ua. Without > raver. however , wo have but llttlo with which to combat the evil which Is caused by the warring of the flesh against the spirit. The natural Is opposed to the supernatural , is St. Paul says , 'The flesh lusteth against ho spirit. ' "Tho theories of the rationalist and atheist ire absurd. Suicides , death , oblivion are jngcndcred. Their theories are the curse jf the nineteenth century and the vespers Df these faiths are tocard In the thud of the clod upon the lids of Us follows. They ire death , and all of the horrors which the mind of man conjures are embodied In them. Faith and dally communion with the kind , ; rand Master Is the only true principle of Ife , and It Is that which will lead him In the end to his birthright In. the tupernat- aral. " South Omaha News At an early hour Sunday morning South Dmaha waa visited with the most disastrous Ire which has occurred hero In many months , [ ho Pioneer block , on N street , near Twenty- ilxth , barely escaped being totally destroyed. \n it was the loss will be quite heavy and > nly partially co\crcd by insurance. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning Harry Lau- 'cnbcrg , who Is the owner of the building , ivent to the engine room to take a look at the Ires and found everything apparently all Ight. Just half an hour later occupants of : ho second floor wcro awakened from a sound ilecp by the smell of smoke. An alarm was illicitly turned in over the lines of the \morlcan District Telegraph flro alarm icrvlco and the two hose companies. Inclini ng Chief Smith and Assistant Chief Hol- and , were on tha ground in a very few noments. Smoke was pouring from the base. nent windows in such volume that It was llfllcult for a tlmo to locate the seat of the Ire. After enough water had ben poured nto the coal holes at the front of the build- ng to float a ship , It was found that the seat > f the flames was In the engine room in the jouthwest corner of the building. Lines of lose were then laid in. from the rear until n all five streams were In service. In spite > f the efforts of the firemen the flames ate hrough the timbers supporting the floor of [ askalck's cigar store and factory , letting he floor fall Into the baucment. Everything in this room Is a perfect wreck , he place being completely gutted. Adjoining ho cigar store on the west sldo was the mrber shop of Itosccrans & Simmons , This > lace was also ruined by flro and water , bough the floor did not fall , To the cast of the cigar Btoro was tbo ifllco of the Dally Tribune , owned by Den- tott and Tanner , which was damaged to the xtcnt of { 300 by smoke and water. L. Kuppo occupies tha east store room In Dr. Lyon's PERFECT Tooth Powder AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY. Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century. ttio building on the ground floor xtllh ft tnllor shop. The nro Jlcl not get Into this room , but WAtcr and smoke damaged Kuppc's stock considerably , nil ot the stock ot cloth * on hand being bnclly conked , Kuppc's loss is fully covered by Insurance. Vr'llhln A rcmnrknbly short spnco ot time the flames made their way to the second story of the building , which Is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. LAufcnberg nnd several Inw offices. Mr. Laufcnbcrg's rooms wcro smoked up considerably , while cmoko and water damaged the office ot Lane & Murdock. Mr. Lnno , liowe\er , carries sufficient Insurance to coicr his loss. The office of Den S. Adams was nho damaged , with no Insurance , A private poker room In the front of the build ing was wrecked by smoke and water , the floor covering and furniture being worth less now. Itosccrans & Simmons , the barbers , were damaged to the extent of about $500 , with an Insurance of $210. The building Is Insured for $6,000 , and the repairs necessary will cost In the neighborhood of $600. Jacob JnsKnlck la the heaviest loser , ho having recently laid In n largo stock ot leaf tobacco , which was placed tu the stoic room In the basement. Mr. Jaskalck places his loss nl $3,000 , nbout half covered by Insurance. When the last spark had been extinguished water stood In the basement to the depth of three nnd one-half feet. Before going homo the firemen opened n sewer and al lowed this water to escape. 4t is not known how the nro started , as Mr. Laufcnbcrg Is sure everything was nil light at 3 o'clock. I.cuiltni ; Sltccti Mni-kot. Some Idea of the growth of tlio South Omaha sheep market may be gained from the receipts for January and February , 1SD7 , a total of 02.U3 against 20,090 for the same months of 1S9G , an Increase of C0.047 head. Receipts for thu first six dajs of March this y ar were 10,201 head as compared with 1.SS3 for the same period of 1SD6. The reason for this great Increase Is the enlargement of the killing capacity at nil of the packing houses hero nnd thn extra Inducements offered by the yard company for tlio satisfactory , handling of all arrivals , and also the good prices paid. Added to the good local demand the market has received another Impetus by reason of Armour & Co. of Chicago placing Joseph Murphy herewith with open orders to buy sheep and lambs. Mr. Murphy will make a specialty of export grades. This addition to the local demand gives South Omaha , the best sheep market in the west. Only recently a large sheep barn was erected , but the stock jarils com pany realizes that another similar structure ulll have to bo built to handle the Increased shipments. Ground has already been broken for the now barn , which will bo a duplicate of the ono erected last jear. The yarding capacity will , when this new barn la com pleted , Increase the jardlng capacity to 16- 000 head. Work on the structure will be pushed as rapidly as possible and Its early completion Is an arsurcd fact. 1'ntlriit IlciiKU oil to < lic Jnll. George W. Mundy has been a patient nt the hospital for some time , whcro ho has been undergoing treatment for crjslpclas. Saturday night ho became delirious and left Ms couch clad only In his underclothing. The nurse at the hospital nt once notified Dr. White , who has charge of the case , and Captain McDonough of the night police force. McDonough started In search ot the patient and found him walking along on K street. Ho was at once taken back to the hospital and placed under restraint. The hospital authorities refused to keep Mundy there last night and a place at police headquarters was arranged for him. According to the doctor tn charge , Mundy has been drinking heavily ot late and shortly after entering the hospital had a touch of the trcmcns. nrjslpelas settled iln his face nnd every bit of the skin peeled off. Mundy has a brother In the east , who , directed that his relative be looked niter , but after learning the prob- xblo cost ot a course of treatment lost all ntcrcst In the matter. During the after noon Mundy became unmanageable and It was necessary for the police to remove him to a cell in the city jail. MnKlc City ( iOHNli. A meeting of the city council is booked for this evening. Frank Taylor has returned from a busi ness trip to David City. o IT STANDS THE TEST. the Jtnm of Umvortlty Prep * nrntlnn * There In One Hint Stnmlrt I'rc-rnilncnt , i i , It Is a well known fncl that n largo per contact * -whiskies upon the market and In use today are simply cheap adulterations. They bo called " " may "straight goods , "blends" or any other nnmo that an un scrupulous manufacturer or dealer chooses , but the fact remains that they arc simply concoctions and adulterations which arc In * Jurlous to any ono who uses them. In the midst of this mass of unhealthtul whiskies there stands ono bright exception. It has stood out clearly before the public for twenty years. Its purity Is guaranteed by the best phjslclnns In the land , and tt has done moro to preserve health than all the other whiskies combined. It Is Duffy's pure malt whiskey. It has a reputation estab lished by twenty years of use , and It has that reputation to sustain. It Is always uniform In quality , o\cry bottle Is precisely nllkc. Its very purity renders It valuable , but It POSSWHCS In addition thereto mndlcl- nnl qualities known to no other whiskey. You make no mistake In buying Duffy's pure malt , butou make an egregious error If you allow nny unscrupulous dealer for a moment to nrgtto with you that any ono ot the cheap adulterated whiskies that are on the market Is as good ns Duffy's. It Is false. DOCTOR Searles & Seavlea SPECIALISTS 14 Nervous , Clironio and Private Discm WEftTMEM BEXUA1.UI. All 1'iUulo lUa i l nrtUlnorJon of H Treatment b > mall SYPHILIS Cund for Ufa Alld. th8 r > ul nr ttio > ou hlf cl n od from tb tyUtm. I'H.rs. FISTULA an RKCTAt , ULCERS. HYDnOCCUES ANO VATUCOCELB p rmnnfnlly end iuociiifullf eurad. Method new and unfaUtnr. STRICTURE AND GLEET Br n w method without rain or cutting. Call on or Rddrtii with itump. Dt Seailes & Searlei "Sii'ffitt. Council Bluffs , Iowa. CAPITAL , . . . 5100,000 \VH SOLICIT YOUIl \vn DCSIHE vuun COLLECTIONS. ONE OK TIIH OLDEST HANKS IN IOWA. C I' 1C It CENT PAID ON TIMC 1)1:1' OS ITS. DALE * AND HEB US OU WHITE. * % \/V\/VN VxyWN/VrWW\XV/NXW\ * * % SPECIAL NOTICES ] COUNCIL BLUFFS WANTS DWELLINGS , rnUlT. 1'AHM AND OA11DHN landB ( or talc or rent. Day & Hess , 3D 1'cnrl street. J. P. O'KnCm KBAL ESTATE AND INSUIU nncc. Moved to room 5. Everett block TOK SALR-IJAHOAIN ; MY SIODI3RN I1RICJC residence , 025 Ctli av o , on motor line , near Slstc.ru' school ; also other bargains. J. H. Davidson. On SALE , CHEAP TOR CASH , MY RKHI. ilcncc property , 725 Madleon avc. Q. C. Tu > lor. AMU8BSICNTS. DOHANY THEATER I E.VNT M03RE AND LIVINGS TON CO. Closes Us encasement Sunday Nleht with LOST PARADISE. " Saturday Night , "MICHAEL STROGOFF. " ' Saturday Afternoon Grand Mntince. Mat- Ireo price lOc. Bicycle given away. Seata on sale at Seller's drug store. 1'rlco lOo and 20c. " A Great California Story by Bret Harte. THREE PARTNERS ; OR THE BIG STRIKE ON HEAVY TREE HILL" A COMPANION TO "THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP" AND OTHER FAMOUS MINING TALES. BEGINS PUBLICATION APRIL 4 IN THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE , PARTNERS" is a story ot early mining days in California. In it Bret Harte returns to his old style the virile , sympathetic style which made his fame. His characters are miners , and , although the tides of varying fortunes float them out into the wider world , they come back to California in the end as managers . " " who made the gers of large enterprisss. The "partners" 'big strike" are Jim Stacy , shrewd and stern ; George Baker , boyish and loveable ; and Philip Demorest , dreamy and generous , Mixed up in the ingenious web of the story are a number of Western studies. Our old friend , Jack Hamlin , the gambler , makes a brief but picturesque appear . " Dick" Hall the villainous ance. Then there are "Whiskey ; ous prospector , Steptoe ; and the cunning Belgian , Paul Van Loo. The love element of the story is furnished by the beautiful Mrs. Horncastle and the fair , but heartless , Kitty Baker. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE WATCH FOR IT ! READ IT !