THE OMAHA SUNDAY DEE: NOVEMBER 24, 1907.
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HELD CLUB MAY FIGHT LAW
jDisppsed to Continue Buffet Regard
of Official Dictum.
ELKS WILL ABIDE BY THE ORDER
Sentiment Prevails that Lealtlmata
Clobs Tfeea If License t Mala
tU Private Their
Sideboards.
The action of the Bike- clnb in voting
Friday night not to take cut license to
11 liquor may or may not mean that the
rlub will be "dry" next year. While
there la no difference of opinion aa to the
desirability of taking out a licenae If this
U necessary, there Is a decided division as
to whether or not the courts would sustain
the flro and police board In Its demand
that clubs dispensing liquor should pay the
license fee.
The members of the club voted unani
mously Friday night that If It la necosaary
to take out a license In order to run a side
board, then the sideboard shall be abol
ished. There Is a disposition on the part
of some of the members to test the legal
ity of the board's order In the courts, bjt
whether any such step will be taken or
not haa not been decided.
The Omaha club haa already decided to
take out a license If the fire and police
board enforces Its order against all clubs.
Victor B. Caldwell, president of the club,
ays the club will not fight the order In
court, but will comply with It.
The Field club, on the other hand, has
practically determined to continue the sale
of liquor after January 1, and let the tire
and police board or anyone else who cares
to go Into court and test the legality of
the license ordsr. '
Submitted It to Committee.
The Field club, a short time ago, sub
mitted the legality of the board's order to
a committee consisting of George W,
Shields and I. J. Dunn. This committee re
turned an opinion exactly the opposite of
the Elks' club committee, to the effect that
no license could be required. The club has
practically decided to stand by the report
of the committee and allow the question to
lie tested In the oourts In case the board or
any other person cares to take the matter
up.
The Klkn' club committee, consisting of
Frank T. Ransom, W. t. McHugh and A.
H. Burnett, after considering the matter,
reached the conclusion the fire and police
board was right and that clubs could be
forced to take out licenses. While the
meeting of the Klks Friday night woe se
fft, It la known that there was considerable
difference of, opinion as to the right of the
board to require a license, but there was
no division on the subject that the club
would not take out a license If one Is re
quired.
License Not Necessary.
Lysle I. Abbott, whose address before the
Elks' club Friday night Is said to have
hypnotized the members and to have car
rled the day unanimously for no license. Is
himself of the opinion no license can be
required.
"There Is no question In my mind," he
aid, "that the law In this state does not
require a bona fide club, organised for
social purposes, to take out a license to dls
pense liquors to its members. The supreme
court decided this In the case of the State
against Bothman from Merrick county
Bothman was running a club in Chapman,
a dry town, and the evidence disclosed he
was running It for the purpose of evading
the liquor law. The trial Judge charged the
ury that If his club was organized for the
. purpose of allowing his patrons to get a
drink ' whenever they wanted It, he w
operating In violation of law. If his club
was formed for other legitimate purposes
and dispensed drinks aa an Incidental mat
ter, then he had a right to keep the liquor
on hand. The supreme court sustained this
Instruction. I don't know what the su
preme would do again, but under this de
rision It la certainly th law that a legiti
mate club need not take ou a license. If
the fire and police board will not recognize
the law, they are anarchists."
Members and officers of the Elks' club
said they did not know when It would be
decided whether the sideboard would close
January 1 or not.
In his study at I o'clock, but we might
expect no less of this strenuous and active
monarch. The beloved Wllhelmlna, queen
of Holland, like her mother, arises at 7
and at the same hour the dowager queen
of Bpaln may be seen on her way to mass.
The king of Italy leaves his bed at
o'clock In the morning, summer and win
ter alike. The attendants about the palace
think this habit of early rising Is an en
tirely unnecessary thing on the part of his
majesty. It pulls them out of bed at a
time when they would rather sleep. Chi
cago Tribune.
RIVAL ENGINEERS IN ROW
foa-aarloaa Throttle Pullers Fla-ht
Duel with Locomotives for
Weapons.
A select few of the cttlsens that happened
at the time to be lounging or engaged In
business about the depot In Wreston, Wis.,
In the middle of the afternoon were treated
to the unusual spectacle of two enraged
locomotive engineers fighting each other
with their respective engines.
Freight trains Nos. 38 and 11 were at the
depot at the same time, and both out on
sidings to permit the afternoon passenger
train. No. 6, going south, to pass.
Engineer Dempsey of No. 28. with his big
engine, K8, and Engineer Culhane of No.
11, with his big engine. 1112, happened. In
the course of their switching, to be on the
sidetrack furthest west at the same time,
Dempsey with one box car and one flat car
behind him, and Culhane with three coal
cars.
The first outsiders knew of the difficulty
was when they heard Dempsey shout to
Culhane, "Oct off that track, you Irishman!
What are you doing there?"
"Irishman yourself," Culhane Immediately
yelled back In reply.
"Get your old kettle out of the way or
I'll smash It for you."
"Smash nothln', " Dempsey shouted, and
In a moment more both engines were started
slowly forward and began to approach
each other, the engineers leaning out of the
windows and yelling defiance at each other,
while the firemen, evidently knowing some
thing of the tempers of their respective
superiors, Jumped to the ground and ran
one side.
Almost Immediately afterward the huge
machines came together with a crash that
could be heard a quarter of a mile away,
but without Injury to either, and no sooner
had they touched noses than both engineers
turned on all steam and began a pushing
match extraordinary. The gigantic drive
wheels of both engines slipped on the track
and flew around at a furious rate, while the
black smoko and the steam from the ex
haust rolled up like clouds.
At first there was no motion either way,
but soon Culhane's No. 1122 began to give
way, and, fighting every Inch, was slowly,
but surely, driven back down the side
track and across the switch, and titers
Dempsey left it and started up the side
track again.
The moment he started away Culhane
shut off steam, and. Jumping to ths ground,
uncoupled the cars, and mounting the en
gine again, threw the lever forward and
dashed recklessly up the sidetrack toward
the other engine. Dempsey had not been
watching him, but some of the bystanders
had, and shouted to Dempsey to look out.
Dempsey took one glance at the approach
ing engine, and then put on all steam aid
sent 898 up the sidetrack with all speed.
Culhane pursued him and In a very short
time the pace became terrific, and pur
suer and pursued vanished In a great cloud
of dust out Into the level prairie llBe In the
direction of Mercedale. With Dempsey only
a short distance ahead they went past the
elevator at Croton, two miles up the track,
at a speed which the men there said must
have exceeded a hundred miles an hour,
but Just beyond that point, on a sharp
Curve, both of Dempsey's cars left the
track and tumbled off down a steep bank,
without, however, causing the engine to
leave the rails, and this occurence seemed
to bring Culhano to his senses, for he shut
off steam and then reversed his engine and
went back to Wreston, followed at a re
spectable distance by 898.
The . two ditched cars are complete
wrecks, but the company will retain both
men In their service, changing Culhane,
however, to a local run away out on the
western division. They don't care to have
any more trials of either strength or speed
for the entertainment of favored spectators.
Milwaukee Free Press.
CHANCE FOR AN ARGUMENT
STAY !N BED IF YOU LIKE
Aa lajanrtlon llnsed on the Proposi
tion that Ton Can Afford
the l.nxorr.
It Is not necessary to get up before day
light to win success. "Early to bed and
early to rise" as a success hint has been
dlsproven so often that It Is not quoted
as much as formerly, and children of this
generation are prone to point out the fact
that bankers get to business much later
than laboring men. It Is not always true
that the men who work the longest and
hardest get the least pay, but It must be
lonfeased that Is the general rula.
S. R. Crockett, the English novelist. Is
ne of the earliest risers among the emi
nent men of this generation, and he sets
an example for his literary brothers which
few of them show any anxiety to emulate.
Mr. Crockett tumbles out of bed. winter
and summer alike, at 6 o'clock. Before (
be Is hard at work, and by breakfant time
he has turned out three or four thousand
words of one of his novels. This Is twice
aa much aa Hall Calne will write In a
whole day.
Mark Twain, on the other -hand, never
gets up as long as he can He In bed. and
"never goes to bed as long as there Is
anybody to sit up with,'" according to his
own confession. The great humorist has
his breakfast of coffee and rolls In bed
about I o'clock, and then dictates to a
stenographer for a while, rarely dressing
before noon. Tet. Mark Twain Is TO odd.
and "healthy and wealthy and wise." If
he had to go to bed with the sun and get
up with the lark In order to succeed. It Is
probable that he would give success the
go-by.
Perhaps inventors and engineers are the
lightest sleepers and the earliest risers
pie great men of our time. 8ometlmes
Thomas A. Edison does not go to bed at
, all. He wilt work for thirty-six hours at a
stretch, and on occasion he haa spjrnt a
whole week In his clothes, snatching a
few minutes' sleep when exhausted nature
proved too strong for him. '
It Is not an enforced Industry with Mr.
Bdlson. He simply has so much Interest
In his work that hs cannot leave It. He
will pore over a problem or tinker with a
machine all day and all night for the aame
-cdsun that another Infatuated man will
fit for twenty or thirty hours and play
'poker or bridge whist. Work Is not work
for htm. It Is fun, and hs grudges ths
hours It Is necessary for him to spend at
the dining table or la bed.
Many great statesmen have been early
tsars. Von Moltke and Bismarck, la ths
' lays of their activity, rose aa early and
worked as bard as any peasant In Ger
many. There are few earlier risers than the
kings and queens cf Europe. There Is
nobody to mske them get up and go to
work, and therefore the contrariness of
luruaa nature, which works In royalty
as sains as In the case of common people,
lrlvF them out of bed at aa early hour
srhen aioat of their subjects prefer to
fletS.
Ui nnaa emperor U usually at work
LOST EYESIGHT RETURNS AGAIN
Joyful Experience of a Woman
Emrrdnf from Darkness to
Light.
Miss Monah McKenzle of Chicago knows
now the blackness of despair which the
blind carry with them through life. She
knows also the miracle of sight restored
and she believed last night that these Im
pressions were the profoundest which she
Is ever destined to know.
For nine days Miss McKenzle was abso
lutely blind. Bho could not tell daylight
from darkness. The nerves of the eyes
registered not a single Impression. And
then, as by a miracle, her sight was re
stored, arvt she was able to resume the life
which her temporary blindness had Inter
rupted. "I never realized before what a beautiful
thing Is the mere light of the sun," said
Miss McKenzle. "I shall never forget the
horror of those nine days. It will rest like
a shadow on my spirit always, but it will
be mingled with the unrpeakable gladness
of my escape."
Miss McKenzle's sight left her ten days
ago, while she was at work In the plant of
Bears, Roebuck & Co. Bince then she has
been constantly under the care of oculists.
They found her case difficult to diagnose.
They were at a loss to explain the reason
for her sudden affliction, and only one gave
her cause for hope. He told her that her
sight might be restored as suddenly as It
had been taken.
At first, she said, she scarcely realized
her position. Bhe had never been troubled
with her eyes and the thought of blindness
hsd never come to her. As the days went
by and no relief came she sank Into a state
of depression from which her family found
it Impossible to rouse her. Fhe had begun
to despair when the shadow of blindness
was suddenly brushed aside.
When Mrs. McKenzle entered her daugh
ter's rooln to raise the blinds the girl com
plained of pain In her eyes. Bhe asked to
have the curtains lowered. As the mother
stood hesitating, her daughter suddenly
cried out:
"I can see, you, mother! I can see you!"
In another moment she had leaped from
the bed where she was lying and clasped
her mother In her arms. Chicago Record-Herald.
Policyholders Say They Send Pay
ment and Get No Reply.
SECRETARY SAYS NO FEES COME
Concent Is Provident Accident Asa
elation. Which Insurance Coat
mleeloaer Says Became De
funct Several Moatha Ago.
A complaint has been received from the
postmaster at Leavenworth, by Postmaster
Palmer of Omaha that certain policy hold
ers of the Provident Accident association
have been rending their assessment remit
tances to that concern In Omaha, but have
been unable to secure any receipt or re
plies to their letters of Inquiry and they
want to know what Is the matter.
The letter was referred to the Nebraska
deputy commissioner of Insurance and a
reply has been received from him, which
Indicates that the company Is defunct and
has been so for several months
Under date of November 22, Deputy In
surance Commissioner J. L. Pierce wrote
Captain Palmer that the Provident Acci
dent association was organized In 1904, was
licensed to do business that year but has
not since been rellcensed because the com
pany failed to comply with the Insurance
laws of Nebraska. The affairs of the com
pany were shown, upon Investigation, to
be In bad shape with over ttiOO Indebtedness
and no resources. The letter further says
the company had no right to make assess
ments and any money the former secre
tary of the company, George H. Anglln
had received since January 1, 1907, should
be returned.
Anglln Gives Ilia Version.
A reporter for The Bee called upon Mr,
Anglln at hla, office at Farnam and Twen
tieth streets to get his "erslon of the mat
ter. Mr. Anglln, who la president of tlr
Anglln-Bancker subscription book concern
said: "There must be some mistake about
the matter of the company receiving assess
ments during the present year. At least I
have not received any from Leavenworth
or elsewhere since January. The company
has closed Its business since that time,
There was one claim against It and one
only, I believe. What money has been re
ceived from policy holders since we quit
business haa been returned to them. I was
secretary and agent of the company. We
did some business the first year or two,
but did not renew our license the second
year. The concern was not a paying propo
sition. We maintained an office here and
went to some expense employing a stenog
rapher or two at a small salary. With my
book business I did not have time to give
the matter tho attention It required and It
was difficult to secure competent solicitors,
so for that reason the company went out of
existence. I have not yet heard from the
Insurance commissioner In reference to tho
matter. I can say positively, however,
that we have not received any money from
assessments or otherwise since the com
pany went cut of business. What little did
come In shortly thereafter we promptly re
turned to the senders."
PUTTING A TAX ON BILLBOARDS
Rental of Property for Advertising;
Purposes a Damage to the
Neighborhood.
The Society for Beautifying Buffalo Is
preparing to fight for the taxation of bill
boards and the large advertising signs
which deface the city. In every city there
are similar disgraceful defacements, erected
by selfish and unpatriotic property owners.
who seek to secure an Income from their
unimproved property, without regard to
the damage that may be done their neigh
bors or the city at large. It Is not diffi
cult to estimate In dollars ard cents the
damage that can be done to a residence or
business street, when some vacant corner
lot la covered with billboards. On many
of the main thoroughfares offensive bill
boards still remain, a nuisance to the
neighborhood, an offense to the public, and
a blot on the Improvement of the entire
section of the city.
It Is not surprising that the public has
little sympathy with the desire of property
owners to obtain a slight rental from va
cant property at such a heavy expense to
the neighborhood In which the nuisance la
permitted. But the old idea has long pre
vailed that a man could do what he wished
with his own property, and that while the
offense against public decency was obvious,
there was no adequate legal remedy. In
recent years the growth of hideous adver
tising signs on the tops of buildings, spoil
ing the sky lines of beautiful streets, has
been rapid.
The plan proposed by the Buffalo society
Is legal. Moral suasion will not be con
tinued as a weapon; the parties who are
guilty of offenses against the public of this
nature have no morals or civic pride to
which an appeal can be taken. It la pro
posed to fight the billboards and signs by
taxing them out of existence through the
city assessor's office. It will be remembered
that Assemblyman Hart of t'tlca had a
hill In the last legislature, proposing to
tax billboards and signs. The bill was not
given serious attention, but It started a
general discuslon, and the Idea will be util
ized by the Buffalo society and other so
cieties throughout the state that have been
organized for the laudable purpose of sup
pressing nuisances of this sort.
The State Tax hoard of New Jersey haa
sustained the proposed assessment of 11,000
on a sign In one of the suburbs of Jersey
City. The rartles maintaining the sign put
In the defense that such an assessment was
confiscatory, and. If upheld, would compel
the removal of the sign. The State com
mission took the public spirited ground that
while the tax was levied simply as a matter
of revenue, If It served to compel the re
moval of the sign, a great many people
would be benefited, and such benefit wa
sufficient to Justify the assessment. Thl
decision of the State hoard, while It ha
received much commendation, rests upon
very doubtful legal foundation.
There la no doubt, however, of the right
to assess at reasonable rates all billboard'
and signs as personal property, baslnz
, such assessment on the full proportionate
' amount of the Income received from- such
advertising.
The suggestion that a uniform scale of
aasessment might be adopted, the larger
boards paying a greater proportionate tax.
I has been made. This would tend to reduce
the size of the boards and discourage big
1 signs, without violating letter or spirit of
I the law.-Rocheater (N. T.) Herald.
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Mffl iVI
hristmas exposition wee!; begins December Secon
All the merchants of Omaha will display
their new holiday goods in their stores.
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You will find the most varied and beautiful displays of holiday wares on exhibition a
vertible exposition of the choice selections from the markets of every country on the globe
will be shown in our Omaha stores. There is no admission charge to this exposition,
which begins December second. You should not miss seeing Omaha Stores in holiday array
will be easier and more satisfactory to make v
your Christmas selections from the complete stocks
before the big holiday rush begins
Visit the Omalia stores Christmas exposition week
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