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OUBTLESS no other man ;
^ A In the world has traveled
I j I *o many miles and done so j
1 I 1 large a work for the world j
[// as Rev. Francis E. Clark, j
S D. D., LL. D., founder of
S the Christian Endeavor so- j
ciety and president of the j
World's Christian Endeavor union.
Doctor Clark was bom at Aylmer. |
Que., Canada, September 12, 1851.
Thirty-three years ago Doctor Clark
was pastor of the Willis ton Congrega
tional church of Portland, Me. He was
then a young man just fresh from col
lege and seminary. Williston church
was a typical New England church,
with all of the problems and difficul
ties that those churches bad to meet.
In the winter of 1880-1S81 a series
of special evangelistic services in the
church bad led a great many young
people into church membership. This
wise young pastor realized that if
those young people were to be held for
the church they must be trained for
service, they must have eomething to
do, and they must be shown how to
do it. He called his young people to
gether. end on February 2, 1881. the
first Christian Endeavor society was
formed, the first Christian Endeavor
pledge was signed, and the following
Sunday the first Christian Endeavor
prayer meeting was held.
From that small beginning in Port
land the society has spread and grown,
until today there are more than 80,000
ChristiaU Endeavor societies in the
world, vith more than 4,000,000 mem
bers.
There are Christian Endeavor soci
eties in every country of the world,
and eac** week meetings are conducted
in mor* than eighty different lan
guages; the literature of the society
has been printed in as many tongues.
Something like 1.500 daily, weekly and
monthly periodicals carry Christian
Endeavrt- news; more than 200 peri
odicals are devoted entirely to the
work a' Christian Endeavor. There
are mo*e than 750 different kinds of
books, leaflets, cards, etc., published
for use in the work of the society and
as aids to it. Millions of pages of
special printed matter are issued ev
ery yea'.
From almost the very beginning of
the movement Christian Endeavor has
been iD'erdenominational in its scope
and wo'-k. Though it began in a Con
gregational church, today there are 87
different denominations that take
Christir,n Endeavor as their young
people’!* society. Throughout the world
these «-re probably more Methodist
Christirn Endeavor societies than
those of any other denomination,
though in North America many of the
Methodist churches have a purely de
nominational young people’s society.
On this continent there are more so
cieties in Presbyterian churches than
in those of any other denomination;
the Christian church has the second
largest number of societies, the Con
gregational third, the Baptist fourth.
In England, Burma and India the Bap
tists lead in Christian Endeavor, while
In Australia, Spain, Prance and other
countries the Methodists lead; in Nor
way, Denmark, Germany and Russia
the Lutherans lead; in Italy the Wal
densians, etc.
No agency has done more to bring
the Christian people of all denomina
tions closer together than has this
great society. The present tendency
toward a unity of Christian people and
churches is due, in a large part, to
Christian Endeavor, with its more
than 12.000 union meetings every year,
ranging from local and county Chris
tian Endeavor union gatherings of one
hundred or less to the state, interna
tional and world’s conventions, with
thousands and tens of thousands of
delegates present. Some of the county
conventions in this country are large:
Los Angeles county, Cal., seldom has
fewer than 1,000 at its county conven
tion; Middlesex county. Mass., had
2,406 at its convention this year. The
twenty-seventh international and fifth
world's convention is to he held In
Chicago July 7-12, 1915.
Because this work ie world-wide in
its character the time came when it
was necessary that some one man
should give ail of his time to the work,
traveling from state to state, province
to province and country to country.
There were no funds available for this
work from which to employ a worker;
but twenty-nine years ago Francis E.
Clark gave up the pastorate of the
Phillips Congregational church, Bos
ton, where he had gone from Por'land,
and through all these years he has
given himself to this work, without
one penny of salary from the Chris
tian Endeavor movement. Doctor
Clark has earned his own living by
the use of his pen. the books he has
written, and the special articles for
magazines and newspapers- Not only
has Doctor Clara earned bis own sal
ary thus, but ha has paid practically
; all of his own balary. steamship and
; hotel bills, as ha has traveled in for
eign countries for Christian Endeavor.
Doctor Clark his gone five times
around the world, and many times to
i Europe and Great Britain. There is
| no country in wh*ch he has not trav
eled and spoken for Christian Em
deavor. It is estimated that he has
traveled at least 825,000 miies—325.000
miles of this by water, 435,000 miles
by rail, and fully 25,000 by wagon,
horseback, camel, in jinrikishas, in
man-carried hammocks, etc. P'e has
addressed at least 2,000.000 peoffle; he
has been in the midst of danger by
land and by se., in religious riots, in
earthquakes, tornadoes, cyclones, bliz
zards, shipwreck, train week and a
score of similar catastrophes.
Doctor Clark has been received by
presidents of the United States, of
Panama, Peru, Argentine, Brasil, the
| kings of Norway, Sweden. Greece, the
mikado of Japan and scores ol other
celebrities. There is no American citi
zen who has beer* more greatly hon
ored, and there is no more ~«odest
citizen anywhere.
Christian Endeavorers have decided
that they wish to build a memorial
for Doctor Clark in appreciation of the
many years of servico for the cause,
and they don't want to wait until he
is dead to do it. They want to bring
roses to him while he is alive. The
matter was fully considered, and it
seemed to all that the wisest and most
substantial thing to do was to erect
a building which shoulo be the inter
national Christian Endeavor headquar
ters. The plan calls for a five-story
building, two stories of which shall be
used for the offices of-tin movement,
and thus save the $5,00) a year that
is now paid in rents for that purpose,
and three stories of the holding vo be
rented to provide an income for the
extension of the movement in this
and other lands. This, with the p -ofits
of the publishing department, vhich
has paid all of the expunges of the
work in North America for more than
twenty-five years, will In sufficient to
permanently finance tba world wide
work of this movement.
This headquarters bv.ldirg :« to
cost, when complete, ind'.dins left and
furnishings, $300,000. Ovu-half of this
amount has been raised, and it la
the purpose of the society to raise the
last $150,000 by November or thl? year.
A continent-wide campaign is hei-ig or
ganized, and will be wsged tint fall.
Every former Endeavomr, as well as
present member of the society, will
be urged to have some i*art i i this
matter, which will mea-i so punch to
the world-wide work of l>is groat so
ciety, and will be a fitting testimonial
of their appreciation of fhs grea work
' leprittvias zr.czjxk.z>.d.z,&)
of Dr. Francis E. Clark, the world's
most traveled man.
Associated.with Doctor Clark in the
direction of the work of Christian
Endeavor in North America is a very
efficient group of executive officers.
The vice-president is Dr. Howard B
Grose, missionary editor of the North
ern Baptist churches. Doctor Grose
has been on the board of trustees of
the United Society of Christian En
deavor for twenty-five years. He de
signed the embleip of the society, a
Christian Endeavor monogram. The
general secretary is Wiliam Shaw.
LL. D., a Massachusetts Endeavorer.
who has served as an officer of the
united society for more than twenty
five years. The treasurer, Hiram N.
Latbrop, is a prominent Boston busi
ness man, who as an unpaid officer
gives a vast amount of time to the
work of Christian Endeavor. Amos R.
Wells, Litt. D„ LL. D„ came from
Ohio; there is no more efficient, elo
quent or prolific pen in the world than
his. Doctor Wells is the editorial sec
retary of the movement. A. J. Shartle,
the publication manager, was field sec
retary of the Pennsylvania Christian
Endeavor union. Under his efficient
management the publication depart
ment has done more for the cause
than ever before; he earns the money
that supports Christian Endeavor on
this continent. Rev. R. P. Anderson,
superintendent of the Builders’ union,
is a Scotchman, who organized the
first Christian Endeavor societies in
Denmark and Norway; he is also asso
ciate editor of the Christian Endeavor
World. Daniel A. Poling is the new
est officer of the united society; he
was field secretary of the Ohio Chris
tian Endeavor union, and is now presi
dent's associate and citizenship super
intendent. He is leading the campaign
for “a saloonlees nation by 1929.”
Karl Lehmann, formerly field secre
tary of the Colorado and New Mexico
Christian Endeavor unions, is the field
secretary of the united society.
The official organ of the society is
the Christian Endeavor World, pub
lished at Boston. Dr. Francis E. Clark
is the editor-in-chief. Amos R. Wells
is managing editor. Arthur W. Kelly
and Rev. R. P. Anderson are the asso
ciate editors.
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Reconstructing Delinquents.
Duluth is one American city that
has learned to treat petty offenders
with some degree of humanity and
with the view to helping them by
punishment rather than to make them
worse. A work farm has been estab
lished, and there men who have been
arrested for drunkenness and the nu
merous offenses to which reckless and
unfortunate men are prone, are sent
there to work in the fields or in a
sawmill, and under the eyes of hu
mane guards. There is every indica
tion that the treatment is being ap
preciated and that the prisoners are
being helped. It is to be hoped that
the Fame plan may be successfully
worked out for this city. On a larger*
scale. Cleveland is doing it with con
spicuously good effect, and of still
greater magnitude will be the new
Ohio penitentiary, in Madison county,
which is one of the great reforms of
the present state administration.—
Dayton News.
Slums at Sea.
Many will be surprised to read of
slums at sea, and yet, as the London
Times says, the statistics of mortality
in the British mercantile marine give
a very clear indication of the unsani
tary conditions prevailing L. many
slums at sea.
The death rate per 1,000 from dis
ease during the last 20 years has been
consistently higher than that in the
navy and army, and among the male
civil population between the ages of
twenty-three and forty-five years.
Even during the South African war,
with the exception of one year from
July 1. 1899. to June 30, 1900. the
death rate in the mercantile marine
exceeded that in the army. The most
significant figures are those which
show that during the last ten years
the death rate in the mercantile ma
rine per 1,000 has been considerably
higher than that from all causes in i
the navy, and very much the same as
| that from all causes in the army.
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NOBODY WANTS THIS DEVICE
Rumo- of a New Telephone Invention
Give* the World a Chill—Condi
tions Bad Enough.
Once more that insidious rumor bobs
ap. We refer to the statement that a
device has been perfected whereby we
can fee each other over the tele
phone.
But Isn’t this about the last thing
we desire to do? Imagine the case of
the woman who sits down at the party
line phone Monday mor>i**g to '-are a
nice visit with the woman three Rouses
up the street. Would ahe want even
her dearest friend to t-ee her in her
uncombed dishabille? .Not perceptibly.
Think of the fU3sv little man who
rips and rants at the pbjne because
he can’t get a discontinued number.
Would he want even a telephone girl
to giggle at his inflamed fa-e. his pop
ping eyes, his sandy wisps of whisk
ers? Surely not
Would it add to the comfort of a ,
nagging wife to glance through the |
tell-tale wire and get a look at the
powdery peachiness of hubby's stenog
rapher? Don't think it
And when the sentimental man
hears the beautiful voice over the
phone and builds romantic bungalows
around it and paints, in fancy, the
charms that might be supposed to go
with it, would it do him any good to
discover the exquisite voice was In
close company with a squint and ex
tra-size freckles?
If mental ignorance Is bliss, optical
ignorance is no less so.
Not Rich Under $5tVODtM>00.
Of rich men there is no end. They
who started with nothing and have ac
cumulated millions are almost as nu
merous as the member* of the L W.
W\, who hate them. In writing of rich
men. however, it will be found that as
soon as you discover one who is worth
less $50,000,000 yon promptly
lose interest in him. In our million
sire set he is only a piker. Yet there
Is romance of a fascinating sort in the
story of every one of them, particular
ly those who. like Astor, Guggenheim,
Weyerhaeuser, and several others,1
came up the channel of New York har
bor In the boats that brought them to
this country and gaaeO upon the
twinkling lights of the city with awe
and fear, mixed with the ambition in
stilled by an introduction to a new
country and new opportunities.
She Should Worry.
“Oh. dear, daughter! Here comes
the telegraph boy up to the house!"
“Don’t worry, mother. Perhaps It’s
not coming ‘collect’ ”
A Lawyer’s Bill.
A lawyer’s bill, like the plumber's,
is full of detail I have just seen a
specimen sent to a business friend of
mine. who. anxious to settle up his
account, telephoned to his lawyers.
The bill came in with elaborate de
tail and the last item was. “To at
tending' you on the telephone in an
swer to your request few Mil 3 shill
ings « pence.” My friend vowed
he would see them in—chancery be
fore he paid that, and struck it ouL_
London Chronicle.
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AMENDMENTS 1 L
THREE PROPOSITIONS FAVORED
BY VOTERS OF STATE.
FIRST RELATES TO TAXATION
Second Permiti Jury in Civil Case*
to Return Verdict.—Third Raises
Officers' Salaries.
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Lincoln.—All three of the constitu
tional amendments carried at the last
primary and they are made the party
proposition of all the parties and will
be entitled to the benefit of all
straight party ballots, so that the vot
er who does not vote either way on
the proposition or makes a cross in
the party circle votes for them.
Amendment No. 1 is a proposition
to get a more adequate system of
taxation for Nebraska and carries by
a vote of 54,597 for to 25,725 against.
The second proposition gives a jury
the right to return a verdict in civil
cases, five-sixths of the jury being
only necessary instead of the entire
Jury governing the verdict.
The third proposition is the one of
raising the • salaries of etate officers.
There has long been a contention that
Nebraska had outgrown the point
where it should pay the meager sal
aries to its state officers that it has
done for so many years and the last
legislature provided for a change if
the people so desired. The proposi
tion calls for the raising of salaries of
state officers as follows:
New Old
Salary Salary
Governor .$5,000 $2,500
Attorney general .. 4,000 2,000
State treasurer .... 3,000 2,500
State auditor . 2,500 2,5d0
Secretary of state.. 2,500 2,000
State ^sup’t . 2,500 2.000
Land commissioner. 2,500 2,000
The proposition provides that there
shall be no allowance for clerk hire
in the offices of the state superintend
ent and attorney general.
The proposition carried at the
primary by a vote of 45,230 for and
29,752 against. ,
Railroad Tax Statement.
E. M. Polleys, tax commissioner of
the Minneapolis & Omaha railroad,
has prepared a statement showing the
true or sale value of lands in counties
through which his road operates, the
assessed valuation this year and the
amount of the tax per acre. He also
shows the proportion of taxes borne
by personal property:
True or sale Assessed Taxes, per
Co. val. for 1914. for 1914. acre, cts.
Stanton ...<105.50 $62.70 46.38
Wayne . 121.50 72.25 48.85
Thurston .. 98.00 66.90 71.50
Washington 132.00 79.05 67.03
Dixon . 103.50 50.70 47.63
Madison ... 103.00 58210 48.84
Knox . 66.50 31.45 36.91
Burt . 125.50 78.80 72.65
Cedar . 99.25 59.75 42.71
Cuming ... 135.00 77.30 58.40
Dakota .... 107.75 60.00 47.86
A table showing the proportion ot
taxes borne by personal property and
showing also the 1913 increase over
the total 1912 taxes is given in per
centage by Mr. Polley’s in his paper.
These are as follows for the same
counties:
Proportion of total
taxes born by per- 1913 increase
sonal property. over 1912.
Dakota .15.9 34.0
Cuming .16.1 18.C
Cedar .19.1 2.i
Burt .16.0 30.3
Knox .19.2 16.5
Madison .17.3 22.7
Dixon .19.7 3.2
Washington .22.6 16.4
Thurston .16.4 18.3
Wayne .16.4 1.7
Stanton .14.6 12.5
Milford Well Under Way.
The state board of control has
chosen Joseph Burns to complete the
well, already under way, at the Mil
ford old soldiers home. The well is be
ing drilled eighteen feet, in diameter
pnd five feet of water-bearing sand
has been struck. The trouble has been
encountered in walling in this sand,
so that the work can' be completed to
the bed rock below. This is the task
Mr. Burns is to tackle for $8 per day.
The well is being drilled by the state,
which is its own contractor in this in
stance.
Copies of Rate Schedule Ready.
The State Railway commission has
received the first copies of the new
freight schedule promulgated in order
No. 19. The copies are to be sold
for $1.75 each, about the cost of prim
ing. The Burlington railroad has
taken 400 copies, the Union Pacific !
200, The Northwestern 175 and the
Rock Island 75. The Missouri Pacific
will prepare its own schedules.
State Aid Bridges.
State Engineer D. D. Price has gone
to Lexington to assist the county
board in awarding contracts for a
bridge at Overton and another at Lex
ington, both over the Platte river.
Each bridge will cost about $75,000,
and the state wlli pay half the cost
under the state aid bridge law. Two
types of concrete bridges have been
provided for in the plans of the state
engineer, one a girder bridge and tbe
other an arch bridge. Each will be $00
feet long.
New Machinery Installed.
Machinery is being installed in the
state penitentiary carpenter shop so
that furniture can be made on a larger
scale than heretofore. Warden Pen
ton* has planned for some time to in
crease the facilities of the shop so
that most of the furniture required by
all state institutions can be made at
the prison. At present the prison
shop has an order for fifty rocking
chairs and thirty-five chiffoniers for
the school for the blind at Nebraska
City. Convict Snow will direct the
work of the carpenter shop.
DESTRUCTION IN WAKE OF GERMAN TROOPS
Blackened ruins of a burned farm house near Liege, destroyed by the German troops. This was but one of
thousands of dwellings thus wrecked by the kaiser’s soldiers.
ON THE FIRING LINE NEAR TIRLEMONT
Remarkable photograph of Belgians on the firing line close to Tlrlemont, taken during the heat of battle.
HURRIED TRAINING OF ENGLISH RECRUITS
Realizing the need of a great many more troops in the field, the British military authorities are hurriedly get
ting the recruits into shape. A detachment of them is shown here being trained in Hyde park.
BELGIAN RAILROAD DYNAMITED
In the effort to check the German advance the Belgians destroyed long
stretches of railroad. Inset is a portrait of Prosper, a private, who nearly lost
h*s life In blowing upa railroad tunnel at Dolham.
SHARPSHOOTERS IN FORT TREIENG TRENCHES
Sharpshooters in the outer trenches of a Belgian fort sending their com
pliments to the enemy. '
NEW PICTURE OF THE KAISER
This is a new photograph of the
emperor of Germany in fall
Give Jewels to Red Cross.
London.—A SL Petersburg dispatch
to Reuter's Telegram company says
that in response to an appeal by the
dowager empress, who is playing a
prominent part in the organisation ot
a relief fund to which she says an*
offering, great or small, will be equal
in the sight of God, jewelry of all kinds
is being sent to the Red Cross society.
Wedding and other rings, watches,
bracelets, gold and silver purses, or
ders of all kinds and silver utensUs
are arriving by every post.
Grand Duke Constantine, one of the
first subscribers, sent three rings, one
containing a relic of St. Barbara, the
patroness of warriors.
BOMBARDMENT OF CITIES FROM SKY SHOCKS HUMANITY
Warfare in the air b so new that
few rules hare been laid down for the
guidance of combatants, says the Chi
cago News. Whether one believes
that the crew of the German Zeppelin
which dropped deadly bombs upon
Antwerp by night violated existing
term* of The Hague convention de
pends perhaps upon whether one sym
pathizes, with the Germans or with
the allies. Humanity, however, re
volts at the thought of high explosives
being thrown into the residential parts
of a sleeping city. The feat of the
Zeppelin at Antwerp can scarcely fail
to injure Germany’s cause in the eyes
of the world.
It Is bad entfagh that men must face
bullets and cold steel and that forti
fied cities must be shelled to reduce
the fortifications, but it is unspeak
ably shocking that women and chil
dren. wounded and noncoin batants In
the heart of a city should be subjected
to Indiscriminate bombardment from
the sky. Antwerp is the last strong
hold of a nation whose neutrality was
violated by Germany.
• The tendency of modern warfare has
been to limit death and destruction as
nearly as possible to fighting men.
Humanity will not tolerate the exten
sion of war in its most terrifying form
to the homes of the innocent. Any
country that defies the world con
science by overstepping the bounds es
tablished by humanity will injure it
self profoundly.