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TIIE OMAHA DAILY. BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1002. 10 . a TRAITS OF GEN. KITCHENER Chartcterirticg of the Man Who Wu In at the Death of the Boer Bepublk. HIS REMARKABLE GIFT OF SILENCE An t alovely Personality, wet Wonrr fully lro and f'osapelllaa'. - III, Rrrorl Soldier. Trill li perultsr figure that step for irl to take Its place In th front ranks In the March of th Conquerors. Evti now. with the laurel, of hi achieve ments fresh, men acclaim him not nearly o much for what he did an for the war be did It. Thla la a conqueror whoa men do not go mad with love and adoration of him when he ride over the stricken field. A frightening, silent nran-well fitted to go down In British history as The Silent Pestroyer. Lee, man than aoldier, lea man than slayer, loss man than machine mark? him aa he move through thr dead routine of field aurvey, the dead routine o( drilling hopeless native troopa, the dead routine of a practice march. Iron-Jawed, wordier,, expressionless, emotionless, mark him moving living men toward other living men on the battlefield. Dongola, Athera, Omdurman! Move after move, check, checkmate! For all that any man knows this man moved other men, discarded them, took them, lost them with as calm method ae the cheaa player loses and takes the chessmen. . All the world saw the man, with his un readable, still fare, move to his place oa the vast, bloody chessboard of the Trans vaal a chessboard from which England's piece were being swept fast; all the world saw blm move the pieces. All the world saw the game atlll wavering, going here and going there, with England's pawns still be ing swept away. And then! Checkmate! Look hack a quarter of a century. In the bible lands of Palestine, In Galilee, is tall, gaunt, bony subaltern, with a hard face, burned brick red. laying the lines of survey, mapping the country where a figure once went through the Paaslon for the world. Standing there on storied bill did that young Englishman, looking out over the scenes of the most wonderful history that ever was, see himself to be one day lord of Khartoum T Who Wa He Men who know him as well as he permits men to know him ay emphatically, "Yes." They say that thla man is man con sumed with ambition, consumed the more that he keeps Us fires deep pent within him and dora not let the world see ao much aa a gleam of their flames. They say that from his youth he moved steadily, unrest lngly, never to be turned aside, toward the prize that his ambition had marked out for him. If he did not dream of being lord of Khartoum, be aure he dreamed nay, knew, that he was to be a, lord of men somewhere, aomehow. Concerning all which speculation, what reply will you get from Horatio Herbert Kitchener? No smile, no frown nothing but that same level, atlll, unmoved glance that has been cast over drill grounds In little villages, over battle scenes and over crowds of shouting, enthusiasm-drunken multitudes, striking their ardor cool within them. If any man In England had asked any other well Informed man In England twenty-five years ago, "Who Is Kitchener?" the rnswer probably would have been a polite shrug of the shoulders. There were ten tlroea ten hundred young Englishmen like htm scattered around the world and Its seas, and doing -the work of the empire well or III, and in either case unknown and unheeded, except for the" heavy official ma chine that fed them out and checked them oil and kept records of them aa they gave bone and sinew and life tor the thing that men call a government and a country. His history up to that time was that of most of the other young men' whom England sends away from home to build for her greatness. His father was a sol dler of no very high rank. He managed ta climb to the lieutenant colency of dragoon regiment, the Thirteenth, a good, hard riding, straight fighting band. Little Kitchener was born In Ireland, but he la more French than Irish, for Lieutenant Colunel Kitchener waa Suffolk man and Mrs. Kitchener waa a Ceraller and descended straight from patrician French Huguenots. The boy grew up like all English boys of his class. On day ha waa aent away from home to learn to ba a royal engineer. And an engineer ha became and an engi neer he remained and an' engineer he is. A great, steady, unfaltering piston rod of a man this driving along In absolute con sonance with th throbbing of the vast TrtArhtn n f f.la H'k.t a tha.a I . MU. neerina' that r rrwt ura an manv fl.htln. men? We have had them her and England Is full of them there. Certainly there waa llttl In Kitchener' early surroundings to provoke fighting Clood. As a royal engineer, he was trotted around to varloua unendingly peaceable land, to view them through the glaaa In hi, theodolite and measure them with 4he steel tape and otherwise disport himself. So we see him doing in the four years from 1ST to 1878. It Is hard to conceive now that much of th togograpblcal knowledge A PiGTURE Of health, we ear of a perfectly fcalth ful woman, and it ia a picture c-vyoae love to look upon. All the picture of all toe artists who bare erer painted the glory and beauty of womaubood, are oa) y coptc and imitation of thia ptctore. Never artiat I mixed a coir i hia peiett that can ! with the hues which tiat healthful an'a cheek. Whe ahonld thia charm be sacrificed to sick wees r It need not ba save In rare case. Th gen eral health of woman ia ao hnked with the local woman! r health that wasted cheek and sank en era are in general but evidence of womanly disease. Cure the disease and the phy- ei t a 1 ViMltH ia. w Mnmi. Dr. Pierce's Pa write Preecription enrea the ill of women. It establiab.ee regu- , t i j . I...L . amy, anee weakening uiuua, fUmmation and ulceration, and cure te nule weakness. u u. m r rJ TanM. Gilmer Co. Here', r,orite Frrscripltoii, 'Golden Medical - - ill.. ' tor tkev cured tut kn doctor, and other ' Joe after year, I suttered .moid saurrv. U h I nonmml tkin DC. PlTTC,', Wtrdt- ciuea. I had nm no all boa of ever getting writ I could nut tic (km, W , ead tniag I at would alias cri a .-J k.ri41v walk the roust. I oaly weighed ainetv pewsd I comacoccd Ukiuf thewf medicines ix yoara ago ; now weujkoa, aundred ,nd fail; PJ ua am nana acttcr aeana i 1 . Ky friend, all v they cn aaidly believe that I m the same prraoa ; after being ck o wg I i ckund tu be robuat and ru,- checked Dr. Pierce's pleasant PellcU iaviforaU II A H tnmtrti, uw aa oowcia. A Marriage If It were nereesary o give an opinion as to what Is the first aud chief constituent of a happy marriage one might hesitate for a moment over the thought of many almost Indispensable virtues, and dally over that of absolute trustfulness on both sides, but one. If thinking snd weighing dellb erstelv, would decide trefently that the real requisite for happiness in marriage 1 good nature. Not that a tempest once in a gret while may not be worth while to clear the air aud to show how good th other Is, but In the long, round year the sunshine and fair weather Is the beet. What will you not pardon to a sunny- faced rogue? A man may commit count less peccadilloes, a thousand offense against good taste, even be guilty of sins, but an unfailing sweetness of disposition will win forgiveness of them all. A woman may be extravagant, a poor housekeeper, even slatternly, or a provoker of scandal, but there Is no disruption In the household of which she Is mistress as long as with smile she acknowledges her fault, though her sin is ever before ua. A pair of dimples has saved many a little scamp from a whipping; they are Just as useful when the camp Is older and the dimple are slipping into wrinkles. For the dlmplajs not only evidence of the smile itself, but it stimu lates the smile of others. Who can. rebuke too sharply or too fre quently when reproach la always received without retort, without affront? Who is Sermons by During his farewell visit to his boyhood home at Hannibal. Mix, Mark Twain preached the first sermon in his life in the Baptist church during the regular Sunday service. The church waa crowded, there being at least 1.000 persons In the audience. many of them being friends and compan ions of his youth. Rev. Everett GUI, pas tor of the church, preached a sermon of about fifteen mlnutea. taking a bla text 'Garlands for Ashes." In the course of his remarks he paid an eloquent tribute to Mark Twain by speaking of hia sterling character, the life work of sixty-seven years. On closing he asked the humorist to take the pulpit. Mark Twain, filled with emotion, arose from the pew In which he sat, with all eyes of the Immense audience turned to him. The occasion was a most Impressive one. The veteran writer, with his long white hair hanging in curly lock, was to preach to the people of the city where he had apent hi boyhood day. The theme of his sermon was "The Gospel of Good Cheer." The remarks were listened to with intense interest. "I thank Rev. Dr. GUI for the privilege which, be has offered by permitting me to say -a few words," he said. "I will not take the pulpit, for I should be embar rassed with unsanctlfied tongue If I did. It might be well for me to atand there on a weekday, but on Sunday I think the place for the layman ia in the pew, so with your permission I shall remain here at my seat and tell you what I have to say. Here anyone can talk without reproach. Even here In this humble rapacity I am doing what you are always doing preaching. The art of preaching 1 to Influence you. From the pulpit and from the mouth of all of you the preaching goes on all the time. Our words and acts are not for ourselves, but for others. They are like, the tidal wave of the aea that encircle the earth. They are heard about ua when they are uttered. We are preaching all the time. even if we do not know it. We forget that we carry Influence. We ought to remem ber it, however, and make it a constant reminder. We had better see that our con of the Holy Land that is possessed by the world today, is owing to the work of the man who since then has been depicted in European print a a hanger of men, a layer of babe, and a acourger of womea. Ia Cypres. In 1STS England, in the methodical move ment of her red tape machine, sent him to Cyprus, where he did "something or an other" about the organization of the land court. England had only Just then ac quired Cyprus, and there was lots of dull. deadly, monotonous work to do. He re mained there, off and on, until 1883. Imagine the man who waa to be My Lord Khartoum, sitting in his hot office in that year, listening to the drone of a sleepy complainant and a atlll more aleepy de fendant, both quarreling about a matter concerning which truth lay at the bottom of a well far too deep for human aoundlng and not three hundred mile away British guns roaring and British shells thundering at Alexandria, and young Condor Beresford lying under Dre and "having the time of hi life" and big history making all around' Now It la almost an established fact that one Kitchener did witneaa the bombardment of Alexandria. It la a completely estab lished fact that there 1 no official record giving any Kitchener leave to go away from Cyprus. But Cyprus did not suffer, nor did the bombardment. Then things began to happen fast and furious In Egypt. And then did a certain brick red, bony and almost unpleasantly allent youth rage In high quarters against law courts and civil organization and office work In Cyprus, where a man had to wear a dress suit at dinner every night and do other things equally futile. Dres utt thereupon became thing of th past with Kitchener. After Tel-el- Keblr aaw the breaking of Arabl', mad might, England had to take in hand tha reorganization of the Egyptian army, o called by eourteay. Sir Evelyn Wood waa appointed sirdar (commander). He de manded twenty-five British officer for the work. Being about as hopeless and un pleasant and unprofitable and unpromlaing a Job a ever tared white men. tber waa a rush of young Britons. Kitchener waa among them. He became an officer in the glorious army of th khedlve on of that curious corp who worked loyally for the little brown ruler and were ready at any moment to knock hla head off if tbey or dear old England didn't like anything that h did. A Heweless A may. The Egyptian army waa a band of under paid, underfed, under treated and under mined fellaheen. It waa an army without stomach, without heart and without back bone. It went forth to war only with a view to retreating at the earliest possible moment. It slouched and loafed and did not wash. It could not shoot. And Kitchener worked over those helpless reeds ef broken natives and gripped them and aqueezed them, and, being a man himself. found the man in the weak-kneed levlea before him. He mad such men out of them that tn 1SS7 they mad him commander In Suakln, and there are remnant of desert hordes yet who remember carta la ensuing lean year. They remember yet how the gaunt man stepped calmly Into their camp one night, unarmed and alona. and cheerfully flicked their sacred chief Into the face with riding whip in the midst of hla apear bearer and gun carrier,, because that sacred chief waa Just preparing to axeeut a British aoldier who had been raught that afternoon. Oamaa Dlgna' men who still are alive re snamlmr him, for he took; his Es-jpUaa of Good Temper not made to feel upon the spot that good nature Is better than any impeccability? We have, most of us, seen exquisite housekeepers who all but follow the in truder about with a broom, who are ready to dust the chair you rise from, require overshoes to be left outside the door: who, if you take a book from one room and lay It down, carry it back before your eyes; who make more circumstances of broken china than of broken bones. And most of us prefer for a companion the home body, who make no fus about anything, but who ia tender and caressing and gay and consoling and sympathetic and always sweet tempered, although there be fluff on her floors, and nicks on her dishes, and no meal ready at it appointed hour. And most of us, again, rather than with the petulant and fault-finding man. or with the stern and sour and solemn Incarnation of all the virtue, or with the lofty and su perior soul, without whose wisdom and learning the world could not revolve, would choore companionship with the off-band, happy-go-lucky fellow, who. If the dinner is late, says: "Never mind; it will be all the better when It does come," or tf we ourselves are late for church or theater or outing says: "Well, we will enjoy it all the more when we get there;" or. If the servants are rebellious, condone. It by de claring: "We can't expect perfection for the price we pay." And this man may have his better faults, he may not be at home as much sa you would like, he may be too careful about the spending of his Lay Preachers SXZZLXS duct Is of a favorable nature. "My mother Ilea burled out In the beau tiful city of the dead, on the hill aottth of the city overlooking the waters of tha mighty Mississippi. At thla age of mine ahe cheers me. She wa, a support to ma during her life. Her preaching did not perish when she passed away, but goes on and on with me. Although there are many long silent In the grave they have not ceased to so preach. They did not stop when their mouths were closed in death. See that your preaching when alive be of the character that when you are dead others may reap the secondary effort of what you did. Let It be good, not bad. Preaching when dead is not lost. Wash ington died over 100 year ago, but he still preache. His character, service and worda still live. Every day nation trlv ing.for liberty fully appreciate what he did. Words sometimes perish, but conduct is lasting." President Eliot of Harvard college was arguing in favor of education by "showing how," before a claas of kindergartners. He said that he was learning something every day by being "shown how." He illustrated his point by describing the training of medical students, and concluded by telling of an old friend of hla who had suddenly becomo deaf in one ear. "How did this happen?" I asked him. "Well, I was blowing my nose the other day, when I felt something snap In my ear, followed by an aching and dullness. "When the doctor came he said the drum had split and asked how I did it. " 'I only blew my nose, I told the doctor. " 'Well, had you opened your mouth when you blew your nose you would not now have a damaged ear drum,' was the medico' reply. "You see, my friend had lived aeventy years and bad never been show how to blow his nose," concluded President Eliot. Nothing ia more beautiful than the old age of a man and wife who have grown dear to each other by the manifold experi levies Into Handuh one day. The great bearded Emir and the savage, hairy, fight ing men laughed through their teeth when they saw htm come. They had made the poor rice eaters of Egypt run too often to dream of anything else except an easy laughter. But thla time the men whom Kitchener had found in the fellaheen were behind thoae brown aklns, in which one there had been room for nothing but quak ing hearts. And Emirs and hairy fighting men snapped their teeth in the dust In dying and spearmen fell to rise no more. The troops were beaten oft at last, but Kitchener, although defeated in this his first real battle, had broken his Egyptian aoldiery to fighting and killing a aporta men "blood" a deerhound. He got a bullet In the face as a souvenir of the occasion. A few years ago, while he was eating at a table, the bullet suddenly worked tts way out and fell into bis plate. He lifted it out with bla fork, stared in disapproval at his servant, who had too lively an expression of surprise on his face, and went on eating without saying a word. Reeaae for H4,k. Within a year after Handub he led a brigade of Soudanese over the trenche at Gemaizeh and Incidentally over Osman' men, who had incautiously occupied them. In 1889 h again commanded a brigade. All thla time he was gazing at th Soudan, studying it, laying his plana to subdue it. He had profited by all the experiences of others. As intelligence officer with Stew art's Ill-starred desert column, he had noted for future use the breakdown of th system of communications. It waa Kitchener who plunged Into the Korosko desert and in less than three week cam out not only alive (then a feat in It self), but with th Information that he had succeeded in establishing a chain of outpost extending to the Red aea and guarded by 1.000 friendly Arab. It was Kitchener whose native cavalry aent the Dervisbe in rout across th desert and atopped all Arab invaalon for a year. And it was Kitchener who, In 18&0, was appointed Sirdar. And In 1898 the Soudan was conquered. Before be could move to conquer the Soudan he had o conquer the khedive. He did. The khedive said something Insulting about British officers. Kitchener rode up close to htm and the khedive Issued a general order praising the army and par ticularly ita British officers. Queen Vic toria mad Kitchener a K. C. M. G. that time. Then began the game of war. Impassive, passionless, uncommunicative, drlllmaster. farrier, commissary and railroad engineer by turns, the silent man made -plana and laid them to converge on one point. Many thouaand instruments, bent by his supreme will, tolled blindly for htm, not knowing whether they were working for a hope lessly stuptd victim of dull red tape or a man with a colloaaal acheme, and, what la more, not daring to try to know. A year paeaed by and still the army drilled aud the engineer planned, and in stead of gun firing and sword clashing the blow of pickaxe and the acraplng of spade made monotonous music day after day. Foot by foot, mil by mile, a railroad began to crawl away from camp into th dim desert, sacred till then to Mahdist ralda and retaliatory expeditions by British soldier that wer llttl, mor effective than I raid. There wer to be no raid with Kitchener. He meant to take no army out and bring a rut-up, etarriug. paalc-atrirkea remnaat back. H meant to scad no column wiad- Preachment by Mrs. Harriet Prctcott Spofford. money, he may have various habit an pleasant to you; but you lov him quit asile from them; yon regard them as ex terior affairs for which he is hardly re sponsible; you find someone else to be blamed for them, be himself Is the sunny creature who brightens gloom wherever he goes, and of whose love you feei assured, whether In truth It Is yours or not. And after all the assurance of lov produce happiness. In fact, good nature is a charm that never dies. Beauty fades, accomplishments fall, but good nature survive till all else falls to dust. It blends the oppoalng and contradictory elements like a fortunate solvent. It act precisely as sunshine does, and where you find It happiness flourishes and life Is enriched. In any individual it declares the existence of a calm and etrong nervous temperament, and nothing lends lwelf more to peace and prosperity in a household than that. It la a blessed thing, then, that such a trait can be es tablished; that represaion here, and ex pression there, and determination every where will make it grow and thrive and be come a habit. It is the outer embodiment of love, and the man who is seldom with out it is the one to whom the town turns, on whom the beggars smile, after whom the children run, whose presence soothes trouble, and whose wifa is aure that even if she wears her old bonnet she Is 'lovely in hla eye. ences of life, says the Youth' Companion. So nothing is more grim and hideous than such an old age when the long years have heaped up bitterness and discord only. In many a country household, where wife- beating would be regarded with horror, there is practised a cruelty no less terrible and even more persistent. An old couple who had been married fifty years finally separated because the man wanted a half-bushel of ashes on the hearth and his wife wanted a peck. They had argued the question unremittingly and sav agely for forty-nine years and at last ended the bitter sport by a stormy parting. There is a grim humor in many of the countryman's expressions of his domestic irritation and discomfort, but they are none the less significant of untold suffering. One night a country doctor was detained at a farmhouse, where husband and wife were notoriously Incompatible. From the "kitchen bedroom" where he waa Installed he was forced to hear every word of a tirade, which; the woman poured upon the head of her husband. The victim bore it without a word. At last, the doctor re lates, the farmer rose to go to the barn for bis nightly visit to "the critters." With his hand on the latch of the door, he flung back over hla ahoulder: "Waal. Salrey, there's that In ye that nothin' but the ground'U ever take out!" An old blacksmith drove borne from the funeral of his wife with a lifelong friend. As they rode slowly through a winter twi light the widower half soliloquized: "She was a good cook an" a first-rate housekeeper. She . was savin. She alter kep' me well mended up. But I never liked her!" The grotesqueness of the incidents doe not conceal their tragedy. That might be made the text of a sermon on self-control, cheerfulness, loviogness and the other homely, useful domestic virtues. These same virtues must be planted and culti vated In the bojr and (he girl If marriage is to be augbt, but an intolerable slavery for the man and the woman. ing for miles through gorge, while at their rear the shouting followers of the Prophet were cutting out the wagon trains of sup plies and ammunition. He meant to bavo no rushed camps, no sniping, no desultory, heart-breaking fighting. The march began. Day after day, week after week, month after month, the slow progress went on. Men worked all day to move trains and barges; they slept all night as securely as If they were In the heart of friendly country. To a world wait ing for glorious deeds this was gall .and wormwood. Kitchener became a byword for something that defied patience. Thl was not war. Thl wa ahopkeeplng, farming, land-measuring, anrthlnr but war. Ani Kitchener, the unlovely, who they say never looked at woman with tenderness or senti ment, beard the talk of the world as It drifted to him In hi Nile camps. He listened to It with that level, unanesklnv glance and sent war correspondent back noma with acant courtesy and less waste of time. That wa his answer. In it no word was wasted. Ana the Osndaranaa. And one morning, on September i, 1898. sometnmg happened in a far place called Omdurman, where there were gathered great hosts of brave Emirs and tall desert lighter and women of the harem and much treasure. And when the something had aone nappenlng the field was "white with Jlbbah clad corpses, like a meadow dotted with anowdrlfts." Khalifa Abdullah, who had boasted that morning that Kitchener's head chould roll before night where the brave Gordon' head rolled, was hiding The fierce Osman Dlgna, the Sword of the Soudan, was fleeing with a handful of sur vivor,. Along the river mounted British troop were cantering and spearing the Dervishes who had escaped the bath ef fire. The despised Egyptian troop,, thoie same men who once had been sheep before the Dervish wolves, were guarding 15.000 sullen desert dweller, whose desert were never to know their fierce forays again. And that night Sirdar Kitchener rode through the camp and he looked around him as he had looked around him at drill many years before. In that hard., unmoved face was sign of neither triumph or elation or relief or weariness. His men cheered when they saw him, but even the cheer rang out they would die away, for this grim, changeless, passionless creature wa not one to arouse wild bursts. And so be passed through the crowds of England when be returned home. He had aged a bit. Twenty-five years In Egypt, beaten by sand that rut th face of the pyramids, will mark even the face of a Kitchener. But in all else, in expression la manner, in attitude, he wa th Kitch ener who, aa a subaltern, set forth . to meaaure th land of Canaan; and h re ceived th plaudit of a nation a he might have received the terse, perfunctory com mendatton of the official to whom he pre sented hi map of aurvey. So, too, he went to South Africa. But there ha met new men, men who wore uni form for "fun," went to th front tor "fun." talked of fighting as "fun." Now, if hard, earneat. atiff fighting aoldier do not lov Kitchener and eat bus over htm it hardly wa to be expected that dandle would. They didn't. Neither did Kltch ner aver thm. Within a month England waa Hooded with letter that conveyed wail, of dlagust. "Kitchener ia acting Ilk aa overbearing bully." "Kitchener is maktn himself hated ' everywhere." "Kitchener haa offended every woman la Capetown. "Kitchener la Insulting volunteer officer of &oU birth dally." 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"Kitchener Is making a failure of It," rang the dis patches. Silence. "Kitchener is despair ing of winning out." Silence. "Another appalling defeat for our arms." 6ilence. Once he broke that silence. He aent a dispatch "Send me more men." It was the march on Omdurman over again. Silence and work and silence and then the end. Reporters and Humorists. New York Weekly: Inquiring Boy What is a reporter? Father A reporter is a man who write tip an Irish parade as if he were an Irish man, and then turns about and writes up an English celebration as If he were an Englishman. Boy Wbat Is a humorist? Father A humorist is a man who writes up an Irish parade as if he were an Eng lishman, and an English celebration a If he were an Irishman. RELIUIOIS. John Huvler of New York has given $15,000 to promote the work of the Chris tian associations of Syracuse university. nv rr William Barroll Frisby. one of the most eloquent ministers in the Protes tant Episcopal church, has Just died at Boston. Rv Charles T. Olmstead of Syracuse, N Y., has been named coadjutor bishop tn Btshou Frederic Dan Huntington of the central New York diocee. fir M E. K nonce, a missionary at Ram part, Alaska, drove 1.2"J miles In a dog sled on hi, way to attend the Presbyterian annlvereartes held in New York recently. The Kniseona! church in this country has nin. u nla i nries In Euroiaj. These have ru."ulted in Paris, Rome, Dresden and else, where In the rearing of beautiful churches. TV 1st ArchblshoD Corrlsan of New York had 1.2"0.ouo communicants, 714 priests and 2T6 churches under his Jurisdiction. He alao exercised Jurisdiction over churches in the Bahama islands. Rev Delno C. Henshaw of Chicago preached a memorial sermon at the grave of his father, burled In the cemtery at Kalamasoo, Mich., on June 10. It was the lti'th anniversary of his father's birth. James N. Rogers, prominent in Baptist circles In Sallinas, ( al.. has after mucn study and correspondence with learned Moslems emoracea Mitnammensiiisra. n ays he expects nothing but o.-t racism as consequence or nia mange oi nan. tn sr Margaret's. Westminster. T.ondon. i new with the American flaa- under a glasa cover. The pew bears a plate marked. Reserved for the American visitors." The pew Is one of the best in the church, being Immediately behind those reserved for the House of commons. President Roosevelt In his message to tha Sunday school children of Brooklyn said: "I am Ktao to nave a cnance to exprea, to the children of the Sunday School union how glad 1 am mat tbey are ntllng them kelves to become in the future Christian citizens of this great republic." "This is not a theater." aald Father Ed ward J. Duffy of St. Mary church. IhIid. I j,nir Island, as he ordered two women to leave the church because they did not wear their hats. They were summer visitor, from New York and had alepped from their hotel across the street to attend the funeral of a poor person in whom they were interested. They left the church highly inaignani at uw clergyman a man. ner and remarks. In a talk to workjngmen tha other day Bishop Ingram of lxndon said: "Human nature always reminds me of the story of the two frogs that fell into a pot of cream One of them soon gave up the struggle as a bad Job and without much ado sank to th bottom. The other, striking out with all his legs and persevering eventually found himself resting upon a pat of butter churned by hi, own efforts to get hi head above the level ot me cream. - Archdeacon Klrby of New York, who has recently celebrated his golden wedding, was the first missionary to penetrate within th, American Arctic circle. He crossed tha Ricky mountains on foot to visit th In diana of Alaska. He translated tha New Teatament. the prayer book, a hymnal and other book into Chippewa. During but twenty-live years of missionary servU e he built six churches. The most eastern of these is separated from tha moat western y I, ooo miles. BARGAIN WEEK June Selling, and its well to tale advantage of our ojftrs to special prices prevail while the stock is full and fresh, Conu this store leals the selling that values offered here are out-oj Fancy Chairs, Rockers and Odd Pieces A vast array of special value il'.irlng this1 June learanre Sale. Ijiree are rocker. H'i'i finish, veneer wihhI seat. Special June 81 price, 11.50. Other speclnl roeker values. l.S, U. Ti, W.74. U, that are exceptional value. J? VT O Til O.ir lot nf ro. urnt wiring rnclwi, fu my a'l nicely gold t . m finithf'h n'f(infiniy c"ntrctrd of hard vxd, tnrral pattern, ally) in one lot at one price, rur'i, 5S cents. , !9 mahognny parlor chair, handsomely carved and upholstered, special at 113.75 ti.ii mahogany fum y parlor rliair. ru h'v upholstered, special til So. IJ;t() solid mahogany parlor chair, special. 119 Ta. 91 4. 75 mahogany finished divan, special. Ill ! I." in' mahogany parlor divan, hamisome grained mahogany, special, 18 30. fc.i.t solid mahogany paiior chair, handsome design, special, lii.otX 8? hi mahogany parlor chair, upholstered seat, 8. .". l'J.!"l mahogany parlor chair, uth"fstered seat. WW. 811. TO mahogany par'.or chair, upholstered seat and back, special, 87 15. Pperlal June Clearance prices prevail In our entire parlor good, section. Kxtraordlnary values on high griul good await you. Couches Special price on all couchee. 87 40 for 8U.50 couch. 8U.75 for 8H.O" couch. 816 75 for 824.00 couch. 875.10 Pavenjiort, Turkish Sofa, at half pri.-e, 8-T7.50. 8100.00 solid mahogany Inlaid Sofa, at Just exactly half price, 850.00. rn it lire In this Special June rnitlire values to offer you in Dining Chairs 'II In shape wood seat, golden finished, special at 70c. 75c, 90c and $l.on. An extra special value is our leather eat dining chair, full post, box seat design, special at $2.11. 84.(10 box seat dining chair, handsome design, spec lal. 82.75. T&urtains urtains In this department special June Clearance 8fle prices prevail and Vie valws offered are exceptional for ths new, briijht fresh grtdi. Tuc prices quoted herein are evidence of th enving to you by buying during this si.de. Brussels Curtaius $6no Brussels, per pair. $3 50 7.50 Brussels, per pair.. 4 So 8.75 Brussels, per pair.. 6. ia 15. 00 Brussels, per pair.. 9 50 I.oo Saxony, per pair Y.0 25.00 Saxony, per pair. .. .17. 5o 30.00 Saxony, per pair 22.50 Window Shades A good shade, 3x6. in four colors, only 19r each. Novelty stripe tor summer curtains, 'worth up to TGo yard, all go at 60c. , Snow Flake Curtains, the Ideal summer curtains. Hammocks Now Is the time to buy your hammoks, complete line from Sjc up to $5.00. All colors. h Cretonne. 15c quality for loc 25c quality for 15o. Japanese Crepe, Inches wide, worth loc yard, while It lasts, only 6c per yard? ends, each i0O. Vel- yards long, each 9"c. each $1.25. the month of July and August we RUPTURE -PILES We cure Rupture perfectly and permanently without the use of th kntf or other urglcal measures throw your painful truss away. We cure Pile and all Rectal Diseases without the use of the knife m -' ,r,C?UB,lc ,ur method 18 Painless, bloodless, safe and certain. li t.111 not detain you from your business. Every case treated under a posltlr Iuar.nte.-TOC do not pay ONE CENT until YOU are CURED. Coneu u! ---"""""u .icb. neierences OMAHA RUPTURE AND Box ,07 Office J0-J7 Dourlas Block. If You Want the Best Ia looking at offices In different buildings, the greatest praise the owner "S"" n 1V n m 7 that it ia "as good as an office In The B,a Building." It may be In soaia respects, but It can not be in every respect. The Bee Building Is one of the only two absolutely fireproof office building la Omaha. The Bee Building is the only building having all night and all day Sunday elevator service. The Bee Building furnishes electric light and water without ad. dltlonal cost, The Bee Building is kept clean, not com of tha time, but alt of tha time. Keep these points In mind when looking for an office, and you will tak on ot those listed below. If you are wise. List of vacant rooms in The Bee B Ground flOOM Hi Ux4I feet. Face Seventeenth street ani haa window alona tht alley. Xtoi. ia a large, ligot room, at d th r.ntaT price Tncl due, lJ llchi. water and limmr It ka. - . L u T "T1- . mu micumuui at First ItlTB lOli There I ao flnr office suite tn Omaha than thl one. It la locatari lust oa U rl-dl nand of ta great majoio suurway. ana has unusual!? large window, looiuiig upon the front entrance way of the bulldlna. it troDls on amain aueeu one room la llxln and the other ixl it haa a burgiar-prool vault, marble mantel- piece, hardwood floor, and will be frescoed to suit tenant Price 17&.0I ROOM lo4i 'J-his room is jiut at in. head ot tae main atainar oVt&'&ret floor It would be a very dsalrab.e otboe for ome rva tale mjT ueclor. lu floor Kc. W iwO leet .,. Third Floor. ROOM SOSi Thla room Is 11x8 feet and la elevator. A siu on tha duor can be lor ' ROOM Batti This room la 17x22 fest and - m' w i aau Thia room u'vart'Ouiariy atiapted tor pav. auu ta a uec.acu.y nanusom, omce, naviL( an euLraace taiioa Lbe euurt and windowa looking out uyoa bcvenUcath street. li hex a very Urge burglar-proof vault, hard wood floors and Is oca of the choicest ottl ces la the bunding kricaT Its l ROOM 401i lixll feet. This room Is next - w iiwi and tor me price furnishes flrst-cta Fifth 1 1 ITS S14I This la a vary larg room. 17s 41 feet. It face wet, hot a wen tight and wU veotiiated. li la very seldom that space of this sU ia of fered ia The Bee Building. It could be used to advantage by eoma fix employing a large auoaoer of clerks, or requiring large floor ,paoe a wholesale Jeweler, or manufacturer s agent, who would like to be la a flre-prouf building, or it will be divided to suit th tenant Prlo 5s. a) MOM svan This room face the court and is Uxlt feet. It has a burglar-proof vault, and aa It la neex the telegraph office and on the same flour with a aumber of grala Anna, it would be a particularly good room fur a grain Arm dealrlnaT Arst-oea acconunodatlun fno $30.01 Sixth Floor. LITE aii Thi consists of two rooms, both UHxllH. Each ef them has a large burglar-proof vault, have bee a newly decorated and are rooma - - i - - l" the two tt. C. PETERS & CO., Rental AfenU. Dressers TA'e feel that we cannot say too much of our dresser values. Thev are In every snse of the word special. Ar thoroughly constructed of s"Ml o;ik, ntceiy finished, large bevel mirror and a; the eial June Clearance Sale prices are being sold at 87.75. ta. r. 46. Ill 65. 812.50. 81S.75. 815. 817io-values that are out of tho ordinary and that you can better appreciate when you see the goods. Clearance Sale we have many dining room pieces. Special June Sale Prices prevail on Iron and brass beds, folding beds, chiffoniers, combination book rase, summer furniture and in fact furniture of ever description through out our hous "from the cheapest that good to the beet that' made." Dining- Tables Soll.l oak dining tables in thi sale 8t.35 $7..5, 8S.35, 810.75 and up. Shades ouch ov-hadesgaouchers Arabian Curtains Frenrh ami Domestic. J'.Tj Domestic Arabian, pair $4.T 12.50 Domestic Arabian, pair 7.50 12.50 French Arabian, pair... 8.75 2"J French Arabliui, pair. .12.50 3o.oo French Arabian, pair. .22.50 close Saturdays at 1 o'clock QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY given upon request. Address, PILE CURE COMPANY, Opposite Haydens. Omaha, Neb. ot uilding Floor. Rental. Per Month, i mm I ....... .Price MC.0 Floor. very conveniently located near tha readily seen lu aieppm- off toe elevaJ l-rtce IU.0I will be divided to ,,ti ik.'...... mm w uiviueu LU SUil UL tanant- some concern neeuiug irae floor Cured Fourth Floor. ta I h. .mvim. mA . . w.ii v.nuiaiea. ua good llch L. aa accommodations trice 7.M Floor. m.u tvmiurnuil. I I ici lor i Wat Ground Floor Bee BuMaf