The Omaha Sunday Bee
EDITORIAL, SECTION.
PAGES 1 TO 8.
ESTABLISH KD .JUNK 10, 1871.
OMAHA. SUNDAY MOIiNINO, AUdl'ST C, 1D05.
SINOLi: COPY, 1'lVi: CENTS.
MILLINERY! MILLINERY!
PIANOS PIANOS
Piano Department Sorting? Up.
Ten Beautiful Upright Pianos
MUST GO AT ONCE.
Bnrne have neverhen used, but are slightly shopworn. Bom have been used a, little.
ALL ARE IN FIR5T-CLA 5i CONDITION.
Your Choice of These High tirade Pianos at the Price of Cheap Ones.
Our Eastern Commissionaire is on
the hustle and nearly every rliiy some
thing quite nobhv in NKW FALL MIL
LI NICKY MAKES ITS DEBIT.
Moinlnv we make some special offer
ings lu EARLY FALL MODES.
(Curios lit the present stage-but
itnudards in the coming weeks.)
Small nobby fltfcln are lecllvelr
In the lead, entnlill'lilns: the permen
rnry of the popular Polo and Its
Modification.
Among other novelties of on untune
oort we are showing a YKHY SMART
COMBINATION FOR MISSES. A
COMBINATION OF STITCHED
FELT AND PATENT LEATHER -not
irltiimlnv of wing ami TO
ribbons, prices run from $3 s.t J
PATENT LEATHER J1ILLINERY
The Latest Fad
Polo, wine ami pigeon trimmed, 1 QQ
natty and fashionable. to..IU
PATENT LEATHER CONTINEN
TALS In pon-pon or wins; trimming,
suitable for Missis and Ladies, a
most charming hat, $.1.4ft -
and 1&J
PATENT LEATHER TAM 'O SIIAN
TERS for Misses and Children some
with white trimming, others all pat
ent leather, jour choice, AQ
Monday t J
STORE CLOSES EVERY EVENING except V. J J
Satu.dat) AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
$ 1 .50 down, and 1 .50 a week
THIRD
FLOOR
PIFRNF
V II
Monday Doings in Dry Goods
BIS EMBROIDERY SALE
We have just roroivod from a big em
broidery manufacturer several thousand
yards of fine embroideries, in pretty new
patterns, very fine and on extra quality of
bands and insertions. Tliey run from 3 to
15 inches wide, and are worth up to 75c a
yd. We divide them in 11 lots Monday
..-Scj'lUOcjXlSc
GREAT MUSLIN UNDERWEAR SALE
AT 50c THE GARMENT
500 sample pieces of Ladies' Muslin Un
derwear in chemise, drawers, corset
covers, long and full length; skirts,
very prettily trimmed. This is a great
opportunity to buy undergarments
cheap. They are worth 75c to C
1.75 each Monday only 3UC
New Fall Dress Goods
BO pieces of new nil wool Shirt Waist Suitings, In
fancy Panamas and fancy Molialr Melanges
first shipment of new fall Kt.vlos, especially
adapted for smart shirt wnist suits, in all the
new fall shades 4l indies wide OO
on salt; Monday at, a yard J LC
25 pieces of 54 in. Mohair Sicilian, best
wearing value for skirts and shirt
waist suits absolutely dust-proof
comes in all shades, including black
our regular SI. on quality ou sule pn
Monday at, a yard '. OJC
Great Black Dress Goods Sale
60 pieces all wool Black Dress Goods, popular
weaves, such as fancy Melrose, (iranitcs, Serges,
Arniure, Mohair, Nun's Veiling, Voile. Alba
tross and Henrietta all worth up to
8Tc a yard Monday at, yard
50c
New Fall Silks for Suits
Just received. BO pieces of new Italian Taffeta,
especially made for smart silk suits for fall wear
comes in all the new plain shades, including
black. The wear of this silk is positively guar
anteed -full 27 inches wide worth $1.39 Q Q
on sale Monday at, yard J DC
Clothing Section
!
White China Silks
50c a Yard
10 pieces of 36-in.
WHITE CHINA
SILK worth 85c
a yard Monday,
at, a yard
50c
Fancy Ribbon Sale
1,000 yarda tine
Moueseline fancy
and plain ribbons
for belts and neck
wear, 4 to 6 inches
wide, worth 65c a
yard Mon- C
day, a yd..UC
Bargain Sale of
Skirts -2d Floor
Ladies' nnd Misses' all
wool Skirts, In plain
and fancy serges new
mannish mixtures and
a lot of fancy Mohairs
all the latest styles
extra special g m
for Monday J
Ladies' Suits
50 odd Suits in
etamines, mohairs
and fancy mix
tures grays,
browns, blues,
black and tau
long and short
9.90
coats
'extra
epeclal .
Cravenette Coats
Ladles' and Misses'
Cravenette Coats, for
outing and traveling,
very stylish, mnke pretty
colors wurth J 2.60; Mon
day,
7.95
White Bed Spreads
200 White Crochet Bed
Spreads, Marseilles pat
terns, fringed all around
extra large size; worth
S2.0O; Monday,
1.25
Turkish evid
Huck Towel Sale
Extra havy nnd "big
size" Towels, worth 23c
eacbj Monday, each.
15c
Bleached Sheeting
Extra fine quality of
bleached sheeting, 81
In. wide, worth 27c a
yd.r Monday, yard,
21c
Wash Waists
About 5 0 left, all
whites, mostly all sizes,
worth up to $1.50; Mon
day, each,
39c
W&.sh Suits
About 23 pretty Wash
Stilts, mostly .light col
ors, that sold up to
$4.50; Monday,
1.19
Big Cleanup Sale of Wash Goods
AH of our floral Lawns and pretty Kuicker Suit
ings, worth up to ISc a yard; only, in
a yard JC
All of our Imported Silk Organdies, Eoleones and
Imported dress nets, worth up to ft. 23
a yard; Monday, u yard
25c
CHOICE OF NORFOLKS, DOUBLE
BREASTED AND THREE-PIECE
SUITS AGES 3 TO 16 YEARS
OUR REGULAR $2.45 SUITS
NOW
CHINA DEPARTMENT
The Finest China. Display West of Chicago Choicest
things produced and every new thing that is good shown
here first.
FINEST CUT GLASS No pressed blanks Colonial Baccarat, .Rock
Crystal, Glass China from Wedgewood, Coalport, Addlery, Ilavlland & Co.,
J. Pouyat etc. Prices moderate.
CUT TTIMKLrcrtR Verv finest rrvstal. one ineli (A
T " Tr'i ; X'' J ". S fluted bottoms, Monday, each llC
ui i rsi au i cauiLiKUH ana jugs to matcn, uen t nu
shape goods, set of six tumblers and jugs. ... J Q
Japnnese China Sugars and Creams, at pair. SI. PA
lit "WTfc ill if Wc, 75c and JUli
l"fcV,' AlWi Twentv Green Tradlnc? Stnains with nnv nip.-e f
fck'&M&jA of Japanese China un from Z.DC
Wih-''a lot of 011 ha"r8 n White porcelain. We f
must clear these out. Be Values Monday, each.... 1C
' " T Wi' L'hii 1 . . 1 1. 111. l I
J-X 'y Ay uo uuru i luii ui tifrrjr ujDUfH wiui cneiry aero-
j IUUUU9, .HUUUilV J E-i
SECOND FLOOH.
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Thre Remarkable Bed Values
Popular designs taken from our regular
stock, fitted with spring and mattress, and
marked for a rapid clearance.
$8.50 Outfit at $4.95
Enameled iron bed, brass trimmed; woven
wire spring, close mesh; fabric soft top mat
tress, fancy stripe ticking.
$14.50 Outfit at $9.95
Continuous post iron bed, heavy close fill
ing, steel frame, woven wire spring, three
rows springs supporting center: mattress in
extra quality ticking, heavy layers, cotton top
and bottom.
$22.00 Outfit nt $14.95
Continuous post iron bed, beautiful design, brass
spindles, hend and fixit. steel frame; double cable woven
wire springs; mattress made by layer process, rattan
center, heavy layers, elastic felt top, bottom and sides,
in best hair ticking.
NO C. O. D. OKDKHS. THIUI) FLOOK.
SUMMER.
READING
49c Books
"The Sky Pilot," by Connor; "Monsieur Peu
caire," by Tarkington; "Call of the Wild,"
by Loudon; "The Virginian," by Wister;
"Uaflles," by Hornung; "IJewsher's Mil
lions," by McCutcheon; "King of Diamonds,"
by Tjracy; "The Filigree Hall," Jfc
by Green, and hundreds of dJr H
other $1.50 copyright books. ...
Beiiett's Big
Grocery
Diamond "C" Soap, 10
bars
Table Syrup. 2'a pound
can
Castile Soap,
cake
Star Lye,
can
Topper Sauce,
bottle
Pickles, assorted,
bottle
Oil Sardines,
can
Potted Ham,
25c
10c
2ic
..4c
..7c
,...8c
..4c
...4c
can Diamond
Fruits . .
S"
Twenty Green Trading Stamps with
pound fresh roasted Golden "Jig
Santos Coffee Uv
Twenty Green Trailing Stamps with
28c
Ten Green Trading Stamps with quart
bottle Diamond "S" l
Catsup J
Fifty Green Trading Stamps TC.
with tlve pounds Tapioca.. . . tJJ
Ten Green Trading Stamps with two
cans fancy Hed
Salmon
Ten Green Trading Staujps with two
cans Imported C.
Sardines f
Ten Green Trading Stamps with oue
gallon special pickling
Vinegar
Optical
NOTHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT
OUIt OPTICAL WORK.
We give you honest work at honest
prices we cut the "luxury" clean out
of exclusive optician's charges. They
glve-yc-H-plaln work for fancy prices,
we give you fancy work for plain
prices. Seel Try us and see!
Gold filled Spectacles and Eye Glasses
regular $5.00 value, PA
Monday J. D U
Rimless Eye Glasses reg- f M Q
ular $2 ."0 seller, Monday l.T'O
riatlna Spectacles or Eye Glasses
regular at f3.00, 11
Monday sD
MAIN FLOOR.
Special in Hardware Monday
PRESERVING KETTLES
Regular B and 8 qunrt sizes, usually sell at W)c and 65c,
Monday with Twenty Green Trading Stamps,
at
Ton Green Trading Stamps with nickel plate Iflf
Soap Dish or Toptn Brush Holder 1UV
ONE QUART TIN TOMATO CANS.
W TER DOZEN, FORTY CENTS.
Ten Green Trading Stamps with best Knife 10
Sharpener
Ten Green Trading Stamps with nest Mop 1ft
stick IWt
Twenty Green Trading Stamps with Mrs. Vroo- f
man's Sink Strainer
Twenty Green Trading Stamps with best wood 'XQ,
Well Buckets JJK
BASEMENT
KITCHENER WINS IN F1CHI
Carries II is Point in Spite of Opposition of
Civil Administration.
REACHES UNDERSTANDING WITH CURZON
VV KIrat Tim J m Slnsli Member
Carries Through rians Upposeit
hr All of lll Co!.
Iravnrn.
BIMI.A. Aug. 5. (Special Cablegram to
The Bee.) ThoUKO there Is considerable
satisfaction here In India over the fact that
Lord Cuiion and Lord Kitchener huve
agreed In certain recommendations tor the
modification of the new scheme of army ad
ministration, and though the homo govern
ment has given genera approval to the ar
rangements which they have suggested, the
newspapers of India generallr condemn the
orders at first passed by the secretary of
state on the great question of the adminis
tration of the Indian army and there ap
pears to be the feeling that the present
movement la only the entering wedge w hich
will make the government of India more
military than civil. All the loading Journals
ses In the orders of the secretary of state
what the viceroy foresaw, the riveting on
the government of India of the yoke of a
military autocracy, against which. In the
absence of a more or less independent mili
tary adviser, the civilian element must he
powerless. Though the crisis In Indian af
fairs may be said to have passed with thr
getlng together of Lord Curson and Lord
Kitchener It Is by no means certain that
the trouble may not be renewed any day.
since It arUea from fundamental differ
ences of points of view. Amongst the
Anglo-Indian newspapers the Times of
India, the Pioneer, the Englishman, the
Madras Mull and the Statesman must be
counted in the ranks of the opposition, and
the Indian Lilly Telegraph alone Is quoted
an taking a less derided view. Of purely
Indian papers the Jam-I-Jam-shed and the
Hindu condemn the original arrangements
in the strongest terms. The Jujar-t Punch
Is almost equally decided, whilst the Indian
Spectator thlnl that though Lord Kitch
ener will have a freer hand than before he
ineU not ho allowed to be a despot.
Wil Over All Opposition.
Probably for the first time In the history
of India the extraordinary spectacle is wit
nessed of a single member of the supreme
government currying through scliuint
unanimously oppesed by every one of his
colloagues, Including 'he viceroy and the
military member of the council. Even when
Lord Lytten in the exercise of his statu
ary overruled the majority of his coun.il
la the matter of Imjxirt duties on Kngitoh
cotton goods, he could claim the support
if the most powerful, and perhaps the
ablest, of his colleagues, Sir John atrachey.
In the present case Lord Kitchener stooj
absolutely alone. Even where there Is a
tendency on the part of the Indian press to
admit that he may possibly be right, it Is
urged opr-nly that the decUlon has been
i rived at not so much on the merits of
te uosUou as ou uoiisldeiaUona of the
military reputation of the. author of the
proposals, and of the possible results In
England from a party point of view, of
bis resignation in consequence of defeat.
Or, Mr. MroUrick personally the lash fulls
with sp'ecial force, and the uncompromising
terms in which he has seen nt to overrule
the government of India In favor of the
commander-in-chief ure unsparingly con
demned. Mr. Brodrlck's previous unfortu
nate treatment of Sir F. Younghusband is
naturally recalled. In Simla itscl' where
criticism is more guarded than elsewhere
there seems to be a general feeling of dls
satlHfactlon among all parties, except that
surrounding army headquarters, where, of
course, there is a sense of satisfaction at
Lord Kitchener's victory in the great bat
tle. Amongst others than those who think
solely of the military side of the question,
grave doubts are felt as to the propriety
of the settlement. Lord Curxon's minute,
the general moderation of which cannot
but be admitted. Is held to speak not only
for himself whose tenure of office has but
a few more months to run, but for his
succehsors in the high office which he has
held with such success. However much he
may bewail the position of a viceroy face to
face with an imperious soldier as sole ad
vl.ser regarding military schemes originated
by himself. Lord Curxon might be trusted
to rely upon his own Judgment, fortified
by six years' experience in India.
Politics Plays Urge Part.
With others It may be different, especially
when the viceroy Is newer to the country
thun the commander-in-chief. There is
hardly any question, military or civil, in
lndl in which political considerations do
not play a large part. The necehsity for
mdian experience always exists, even In
! dealing with questions which on the face
of them appear to be purely military. Writ
ing on this question of the viceroy's depri
vation, under the new scheme of a mili
tary advl. er Independent of the commander
lnhief, and on tae future position of the
Indian service the Pioneer, a paper which
has frequently criticised Lord Curxon with
a freedom unusual in the Anglo-Indian
oress, says:
If a future commander-in-chief were to
order the Sikh regiments to have their hair
cut there is apparently no one who can say
him nay. The inrtrests of the officers, so
religiously respected for a century past,
are now left without protection or guaran
tee. Of course It will be mid that officers
of Indlnn experience will be employed
round the chief in subordinate capacities,
but while thn military uplrit is what it Is
while It is felt as an offense that a junior
ottlter III a department should write a note
upon a proposal that Is supMsed to come
from the commander-in-chief tan experi
ence which happens any day in the course
of business to the governor of Bombay or
the lieutenant governor of Bengali while
this spirit exists It Is Idle to repoxe much
faith in the iower of check residing in
sulHjidinale officers.
The suppositious case of the Sikhs does
not seem extravagant when It la remem
bered thut Lord Kitchener would but for
the opposition of the viceroy and the mili
tary member, have reverted to the old sys
tem of making native troops build their
own huts. In Sir E. Elle's minutes there is
also a reference to the influence of his de
partment in Inauclng the commander-in-chief
to withdraw a proposal to form native
field batteries.
Grave Resalts May follow.
It has been recognised, of course, here In
India that tha great baltie fought Velaten
the government and the commander-in-
chief has resulted in the victory of the
military party. As an example of the
manner. In which the Issue of the day and
Its possible consequences are summed up
another passage from the Pioneer may be
quoted in conclusion:
It Is not for us today to attemnt to eatl-
mate In detail the consequences thnt will
follow from the issue of this notable en
counter, but It may be said at once that all
inn grounu mat lmt curzon has gained by
his reconstltution 'and extension of the
council Is of much kss consequence than
that which he has lost In this collision. It
Is Idle to minimize this situation. The gov
ernment has brought up Its last reserves
against the commander-in-chief's proposals.
In language of the strongest conviction It
has called them subversive, unconstitutional
and dangerous. Nevertheless It has been
overborne, and from a defeat so decisive it
is obvious that grave results must follow.
Probubly the army will find them very dif
ferent in the long run from hat In the
moment of triumph it Jubilantly expects.
GIVES ORDERS IN "HUNGARIAN
Noncommissioned Officer Caases
Trouble for Himself and Others
t Vienna.
VIENNA. Aug. 8. (Special Cablegram to
The Bee.) A noncommissioned o nicer when
passing his lieutenant with a file of sol
diers gave the order In the Hungarian
tongue to render the usual salute. The
Introduction of the word of command In
Hungarian forms one of the chief demands
of the coalition which has been In a ma
jority since the last general election. This
has always been refused on the ground that
similar words of command throughout the
entlte Austro-Hungarlan army are indis
pensable. The noncommissioned officer who thus
took upon himself the responsibility of set
tling for the moment this vexed question
la named., strange to say, Benedek the
name of the general who commanded the
Austrian fercca In the war with Prussia.
He was immediately placed under arrest
and will be brought before court-martial.
In military circles the incident has made
a painful impression and ehows how deeply
the agitation has affected the masses of
the Hungarian people.
AFRICAN VlTlYEg AUB RISING
German Governor Reports Trouble
with Aborigines.
BERLIN. Aug. E. The governor of East
Africa telegraphed today to the Colonial
bureau of the Foreign office that the na.
tives In the Vlaturbl mountains, north of
Kllwa, have arisen; also that there has
been an outbreak on the coast at Smauga.
during which several warehouses were
burned. The causes of the discontent ap
pear to be unexplained. '
While rebellious are la progress In other
German African Colonies, East Africa
hitherto has been quiet. The outbreak,
therefore, causes some concern. The gov
ernment Is thoroughly tired of these col
onial wars. In which considerable sums of
money have been sunk without bringing
either profit or glory.
' Iowa Statesmen Hrtara.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. l.-Among the
passengers on the American line steamer
St, I-ouls. which sailed for New York today,
were Vnlted Slates Senator William B Alli
son and Congressman Robert O. Cousins of
Iowa.
' Q'JR LETTER BOX.
Death of Mrs. Charlotte K. Turner.
OMAHA, Aug. 6.-TO the Editor of The
Bee: The death of Mrs. Turner at her
residence In this city last Tuesday night
at the ripo age of nearly 81 years was as
sudden as it was peaceful and painless.
For her It was only a short step across the
dark river. She sleeps the long sleep In a
beautiful spot at Forest Lawn by, the side
of her beloved son, Curtis C. Turner, whose
tragic death from a snowsllde at White
Pass in the Klondike region In 1807 brought
upon her heart and home a heavy weight
of sorrow.
For more than forty-eight years Mrs.
Turner has been a conspicuous representa
tive of all that is purest and best In the
higher womanhood and motherhood of
Omaha, and she is followed to her grave
by the deep regrets of a very wide circle
of friends In whose homes and walks her
name has been as a household word for
all these years She distinctively belonged
to that small group of noble women, dead
and living, who braved the pioneer life, and
who, In their own worth and way, were the
real founders of all that was strong and
good and indestructible In the foundations
of Omaha.
Charlotte Keqnedy Turner was born at
Bolton, Vt., October S, 1821. She was a
daughter of Samuel Barnett Kennedy and
Hannah Mosely Morse. She was married
at Waterbury, Vt., January 14, 1857, to
Charles Turner, and came to Omaha early
In October of the same year. Miss Han
nah Elizabeth Turner, who has been a
member of the family for many years, la
her sister, and Hon. B. E. B. Kennedy Is
her brother. Miss Mary P. Turner Is the
only surviving child. It was of her. In
the hour of his own great bereavement
that her father said to the writer of this,
"I am now going to live for her."
On their arrival In Omaha in 1867 Mr.
and Mrs. Turner found Omaha a straggling
and struggling frontier hamlet of a few
hundred people. Their firet home was a
frail little two-room cabin on Sixteenth
street, north of Nicholas; later on they
lived on Douglas street, between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets, and In 1S60
they built and occupied a small house on
Sixteenth and Howard, which was still
standing only a few days ago. next to
the brick one erected In 18S1, both having
Just gone out of the sight of men to make
room for the commercial advance of
Omaha. From this Howard street resi
dence they removed to the present attract
ive mansion on Farnam street In 191.
Whst Mrs. Turner was to the earlier Ufa
of Omaha car. only be Known to those who
were living witnesses and beneficiaries of
her remarkable qualities and character as
wife, mother, neighbor and friend. As has
been already said, she was one of the
strongest of a small group of notable
women to whom she held the relation of a
constant counsellor, guide and monitor, a
never-ending help In those trying days. She
was not merely a supremely kind and good
woman In every relation to her home and
to society. Mrs. Turner was all this, as
everybody knows, but she was much more
than thls-sus wag a very nice aad a very
strong woman. In the later days of death
and sickness and sorrow In that home, her
courage In supporting her own grief and
that of others, and her tireless devotion to
her stricken husband, would have long since
shattered the strength, and terminated the
life, of any ordinary woman. From which
it may be said with perfect truth, that In
all the severe tests and trials of her lon
life, she was never found wanting. Wholly
domestic In her tastes and life, her royal
kingdom was her home, however humble,
and she reigned over it like a very queen.
In Charlotte Kennedy Turner the simple
life of the. home of other days found a
beautiful and Inspiring example, and loss
to kindred and friends and society can not
be measured In words.
! GEORGE L. MILLER.
Not a Scottish Order.
OMAHA. Aug. 5. To the Editor of The
Bee: I very much deplore the fact that
In Inst night's Bee the fraternal order
Royal Highlanders was spoken of as a
Scottish order.- The "Royal Highlanders"
was raised upon a rotten foundation, start
ed by people who knew nothing of Scot
land and had no connection with It, but
took for their title a noble Scottish name,
made up the ritual ofvall the best parts
of Scottish history, and made It seem
as much Scottish as possible. They called
their lodges by names of Scottish castles
(sometimes badly spelled), adopted a non
descript kind of dress In Imitation of the
kilt, the ancient dress of the Caledonian,
and In every way tried to induce people
to Join by misrepresentation, if not stated,
at least implied.
I presume I was the first man spoken
to In Omaha for the purpose of taking up
this work. Mr. Sharp and his deputy
made me a very flattering offer to accept
a position with their order, but as It was
not Scottish, and took Into membership all
nationalities of whatever clime, under
name of Royal Highlanders, I would have
nothing to do with It, and stated that the
adoption of such a name by a mixed society
who tried to uppear Scots was very much
like the story In the school books of the
Jackdaws wljo looked from their nest In
the barn and saw the peacocks spreading
their beautiful tails on the lawn, begun to
be envious, and during the night came out.
picked up some of the peacock's cast-off
feathers, stuck them In their stunted tails
and Imagined themselves lovely. Moral:
They spoiled themselves as Jackdaws, and
certainly could not make peacocks of them
selves. The Royal Highlanders have nothing to
do with the Order of ScotUsh Clans are
not Scottish In any manner but name. No
right-thinking Scot would tie identified with
such an organization, as one thing the
Scot will always set his face against, that
Is misrepresentation.
. JAMES C. LINPSAT,
Secretary Clan Gordon No. 63, Order of
Scottish Clans.
Hayes Cooatr ( ereal Aerraae.
HAYES CENTER. Neb., Aug 6To the
Editor of The Bee: I notice that In yes
terday's paper, under the heading of
"Acreage of Cereals for 1j6," In giving the
acreage of corn In Hayes county you give
It as 4.327, when as a matter of fact it
should be 43. Ill Germanvllle precinct alone
has 1.645 acres, nearly as much as the
whole county la given credit for. WU1 you
please mnke this correction so thiy an In
justice will not be done the county?
C. A. READY.
Proposed Enlargement of. ntvrrvlew.
HOT SPRINGS, S. D.. Aug. S.-To the
Editor of The Bee: I have read with much
Interest an article In your paper headed.
"Cornish Begs for Pumont." Many state
ments In It are so much at variance with
the facts that I ask you to publish the
following:
The land referred to Is high bottom land,
and Instead of being "virtually a big
mud hole" has no standing water upon
it nor any swamp land. The river did not
overflow any part of It In July of this
year, when the water was high enough
to make a "heap of trouble" In tho north
rart of the city and In East Omaha. Tho
river has made but one serious cut along
the front of this tract In the lust twenty
years, and the land lien so It can be pro
tected and a large acreage reclaimed from
the river by the expenditure of a small
amount of money.
More than two-thirds of the land Is
covered with trees, many of which are two
to three feet in diameter, and almost the
entire tract Is covered with blue grass
which, when I last saw It the first part
of July, was twelve to eighteen Inches
high.
. Since the Park board filed Us request
with the city council that this land be
condemned, I have sold this entire tract
of land at the 'game price at which I offered
It to the city, and, except as a citizen of
Omaha, I have no further Interest In what
the city may do n respect to this mat
ter. I do not want the readers of your
paper, however, to believe, as they cer
tainly would if they acceded as true the
J statements made by Councilman Back, that
I have attempted to "unload" upon the
city such a piece of land as be has de
scribed In his interview.
I sincerely hope that the sale of this
property will not prevent the city from
acquiring it for an addition to Rlvervlew
purk. as I believe that Mr. Cornish Is
right In his view of the matter and that
the city ought to have this property.
J. H. DUMONT.
Is Zionism Frenzied f
OMAHA. Aug. l.-To the Editor of The
Bee: Your article. "Frenzied Zionism," In
last Sunday's Issue attracted my attention.
The reading of It aroused and Intensified
old-time feelings of pity, sympathy and
hope pity for those who are so stubbornly
set against the idea of divine intervention
In human affairs, sympathy with those
Israelites who, despite the centuries of op
pression and wrong, still aeep alive their
faith In an ultimate destiny toward which
they believe they ere steadily moving.
Their exhibition of faith In the divine la
to me sublime, and, together with the
promise on which thy rely, adds new
strength to my own hope: that It may be
In my own time I shall see their faith
honored, their hope realized and the na
tional entity of the Israel of God and of
prophecy fully established, and that, too,
In the dear old land of scattered Israel s
desire.
One promise alone is to me sufficiently
clear and explicit as to leave no room for
doubt as to the divine Intention albeit the
time seems long In our reckoning that leads
to its fulfillment. Hut, as the day of the
Lord Is as a thousands years, our con-copta-af
time must be broadened and we
should not throw faith to tho winds be
cause of the slowness of fulfillment.
The word of God In Jeremiah reads:
"Therefore, behold the days come, saith the
Lord, that they shall no more say the Lord
liveth which brought up the children of
Israel out of the Land of Egypt: but the
Lord liveth which brought up and which
led the seed of the house "of Israel out of
the north country, and from all countries
whither I had driven them, and they shall
dwell in their own land." That promise Is
still unkept, but to me there Is nothing
more certain than that It shall be, and I
am only one of many thousands who so
believe.
Another point upon which we need broad
ening of vision Is the land of promise Itself.
We must not bound It by Jordan on the
east and otherwise, as ordinary maps do.
The land of promise extends from the
Euphrates to the river of Egypt and em
braces within Its area the most central
and as a 'consequence the most valuable
of tho land surface of the globe.
It Is not mere sentiment for so-called
holy places that Is the motive back of Eu
ropean nations' desire for control. Modem
peoples have learned to set value upon
places for other than sentimental reasons,
and Jerusalem, In the hands of a commer
cial and progressive people, would soon be
come a rival of London as a trade center
and a clearing house for the world..
Zionism is not frenzied. It Is rather the
focusing of faith, the persistence of hope,
that will, sooner thun we expected, V'rhape,
be crowned with a glorious realization.
II. R, B.
DR. GORDON FEARS NOTORIETY
Refuses Collection of Antiques Nnid to
litre Recn Collected by
Occult Method.
SAN FRANHISCO, Aug. 6. -The Examiner
says that Thomas Welton Stanford of Mel
bourne, brother of the late Senator Stan
ford, has offered to donate to Stanford
university an almost priceless collection of
antiques, which he says were collected for
him front Egyptian tombs by the astral
body of a blacksmith myBtlc, who took but
twenty seconds for the round trip from
Egypt to Australia. The name of the black
smith medium or mahatma Is C. Bulley,
and it is said that some of the leading
scientists of the world bellvo In his work
as. a cummuner with the Inhabitants of the
astral world, and his ability to perform
seeming miracles.
Dr. Jordan, however, has mada It clear
that this collection, the list of which In
cludes many articles of great value as anll
qultlea, will not be accepted, busl.., his
objection ou the openly avowed method by
which it was collected.
A iirave Fight
against stomach, liver and kidney trouble.
Is always successful, If carried on by
means of Electric Bitters. 5"c. For sale
by Sherman A MoConnell Drug Co.
Refuse to Talk or Arrests.
CLEVElANI, O.. Aug. a The polloe
officials here refused to tliMcu.is the arrest
of Harry Parker and Harry Johnson today,
but Uitlmaated that a sensational story of
crime would be doveluuud as like losuil of
the uricsu.
