TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY REE: MARCH 29. 1908. Nebraska People Who Are Entitled to the Spot Light for the Moment D F ItlDAY, March 30, wu a great day t th Nebraska Wesley an university. For tlia last few weeks a campaign liaa been on to raise an endowment fund of $100,0(10. The special effort at till urn.' was to secure $28,000 that had been offered by Andrew Carnegie, providing the balance of the proposed sum was raised by the achool. Additional lntereat waa aroused over the proposition of Mrs. When a social meeting Is planned or any, meeting that any member thlnka advisable she calls up two memtwrs by 'phone o otherwise and they each call, up two, ana o on In turn until It fs learned !f there ! anything to Interfere with a meeting at a certain time. Thua ft Is a dub In whlcli everyone has an equal voice, and for two years the experiment has proven to be a society wherein perfect harmony has ever prevailed with no stens of evar a break. C. C. White and A. I Johnson to rive the When word reaches the husbands 'that thai laat $10,000, and $20,000 on the second $100,000, women are to attend a party and take with; provided the entire amount was raised by them for exchange the most useless m title March 15. It was generally understood that about her house, they know there Is a the subscription list had reached the mark, equare.'meal in sight, to le enjoyed by th but! no offlclnl notice had been made to the "'do of some other man's beqer half. 9 student body. At the convocation nnrioil ' ! - .1 r, ,. - rmajr, vnanceuor Huntington an nounced that the full amount had been se cured. He then Introduced Rev. J. R. Gettys, erlucntlnnal secretary, who ex plained the real meaning and Importance of this fund to the university, and closed with a rousing speech on the right type of college spirit. At the suggestion of Prof. Alabaster, the students gathered In front of the auditor ium, and, headed by the faculty and mem bers of the band, for an hour marched and countermarched through the streets. A largo blackboard bearing the figures "11,000" waa carried by four students. This was heartily cheered by citizens all along the line of march. College yells, col lege songs and the cheors of citizens mingled In the enthusiastic demonstration. Attention will at once bo riven to Increase the endowment until It reaches ISOO.OnO. Securing this fund Is the cap-aheaf to many recent Wesley an victories. A large attendiince, securing a professor of physical education, success In athletics, debating and oratory, have combined to make this year a memorable one In the history of the Institution. 1'nlqae Woman's Club. One of the most unique women's clubs organized anywhere must be accredited to the little town of Pierce. Neb. For origin ality in Ideas as to Ha organization and how to do charity, entertain and avoid any friction whatsoever, the club la entitled to serious consideration by women's clubs generally. The Idea of forming this up-to-date club originated amorrfe a coterie of women at tendlns n church sewing society at which they had Just experienced a Jar over the election of officers, which almost rent the society asunder. When one of the society of a peaoe-loving disposition exclaimed. i "Oh, for an organization without officers to elect," the remark proved to be the germ that has brought Into existence a most suc cessful organization. That same night a number of women met and Ideas were ex changed. While discussing pla is, one of the ladles suggested refreshments. Ther vas con fusion of an amusing nature, for notwith standing the meeting was being held In one of the most fashionable, residences of Pierce, the culinary department of the household was decidedly at low ebb. Not to be daunted, the ladlea repaired to the kitchen, and there happened to be a large sack of prunes, sufficient to provide a dlrh for each one. and they were hastily pre pared, and from this Incident tho club Is known a the Pierce Prune club! Among the features that have been ma terial In keeping perfect harmony in the club, as well as being the cause of much good, there Is to be mentioned that there are no officers and no specified day or evening for meetings! Anyone con spend as much or little on entertaining and char ity as In her judgment hor purse will allow. No new members can be elected, nor can any member be dropped, except by death. No meet'nga are allowed to be held at a time to Interfere with meals at homes and here the club waa foreslghted enongh to avoid friction between wives and husbands. I.leatennnt Commander KsTaasia, Lieutenant Commander Arthur O. Kav anagh, a Nebraska product, who Is a great credit to the state, la visiting for a short time at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mr. John Kavanagh, In Tecumseh. Lieu tenant Kavanagh waa born on a Johnson county farm. He graduated from the Te cumseh High school and received an ap pointment to Annapolis. He graduated from that Institution, standing at the head of his class. For two years he was at the head of the foot ball squad of Annapolis, being a great athlete. At the close of school the lieutenant entered navy life. His advancement waa rapid, and he enjoys the distinction of having been an ensign on Dewejr'i ship in the famous engage ment of Manila bay. He received a medal for valiant service rendered during that engagement. A few months following the Manila engagement and after the fle"t had returned to America, Lieutenant Kav anagh came to visit his old home town. A crowd of admiring friends met him at the depot with a band, and, being escorted up town, he was presented with a handsome sword. Lieutenant Commander Kavanagh has Just enjoyed a trip from the east, around Cape Horn to Paciflo waters, sail ing on the Tennessee with a fleet In com mand of Admiral Slgsbee. This fleet pre ceded the great fleet now in Pacific waters under command of Rear Admiral Evans., For a short time the lieutenant engaged. In target practice from the Tennessee tm Magdelena bay. He has been ordered to) report at Washington, D. C, for a new assignment of work and secured a few days' furlough to visit his parents et route. He will go on to Washington In few days. ' : ' .', I f' , m- : , , " , , . ' .... 'i j.y: U:..'f - . i r J - f $ I -HI : "-'l - ' " A ,'- r, ..... - v , '. .... '-: .,-,- ;.l...i ,..- SrT..ii. i ,. .... , fc. , ,-. -l?-i.i . ... . . V i 1 . v.-ewf ... m.i.L . a . r. . S7 jKSurxiK umvEascd fiTxrmm?ra 1 INO TITE3 ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HUNDRED THOUSAND POLIAR ENDOWMENT FUND. Sidney Woman ' Milker. While inventors In different states are perfecting their various milking machines, Mrs. Do a Rains of Sidney, la., has onsj on exhibition which Is a brilliant and un qualified tmccess. It Is shown In the ac companying out. The advantages of this) "milker" are manifest and manifold. 1$ saves the expense of buying pails. If the cow kicks she cannot spill the milk. II does away with the labor of milking am) also of feeding the pig. It compiles wltbj all the requirements of the pure food law, and Is good for the pig. I Weds en Time. Deserted by one man three days bofore) the data set for their naarlage. Miss Iva L, IKudd, of Merlden, not to disappoint the) ceremony guests, went through the cere mony with the deserter's rival and ap parently Is a happy leap-year bride. ! I.IIhs Rudd was to be the wife of Harold Church. Her trousseau waa complete and ' the wedding preparations made, when Mrs, C. A. Rudd, mother of the bride-elect, un dertook to advise Church on husbandly duties. He left town the next day, saying he could not get along with his prospective, mother-in-law. Mlaa Rudd sent for George I Stone and gave to him the hand which he had sought long and persistently. The wedding wag held Saturday evening of laat week. .... :'-.. I : - ": . . . .,. , . : ' ' ' , ' " ) " 1 " '' LIEUTENANT COMMAND TOR KAVANAGH. U. S. N Recent and Progressiye Events in Field of Electricity The Trolley ud tfca Farsua. machine and the motors are so simple that In these 'days of the later '60s. however, the diftorent colored lights and make the HE lnteruban trolley, which has anyone can run them. electric anaesthesia was clumsy and un- whole the nearest substitute for sunlight. done so much for the farmer ? workable, it gave no good results while The fact that most of the luminosity cornea from the crater explains why the llgh does not appear - equal in all direction It Is brightest from that point of view which shows the largest portion of thai crater. It Is often noticed that when Inueeta I I flurrying his produce to mar- itswumi ivtuty, ohloroform appeared so perfect a drug that i in ni.Aim him in a toe iTouoy exDresa oecomes me coi- ... A . h. ..i.. communication with the cltie leotor -nd distributer of freight for the cipi. that underlies the new method em and larger towns, now volun.- iong-o.isianca ateam lines, tiandllng not ployed by Dr. Leduc The doctor Is tho teers to furnish the residents of the coun- onljr Product ot the factory and the firsit to admit that his "electric sleep" is trv livina. inno- it. lin with nr. uht "00u of wholesaler, but also the farm- little more than in Its Infancy, and though and heat. It Is true that this movement n nas suojeccea nimaeir to tne process ,,utter about Brc ip, attracted by tha has but Just started In this country but tha r16! t"Tejr wlH b mnr with complete success, and without any brllllant 11(fhti their ihadow, on the ground posMlbllitles are such as cannot fall to ap peal to every trolley road in the country which passes through a farming section and has the necessary current to spare. And the farmers, recognizing the value of electricity In their work and home lives, will welcome with one accord the chanoe of tha eleotrio express line. The trackless trolley In appearance Is a combination of a motor truck and a trolley car, says the American Magaslne. It has 'wheels tha tread of which la un usually wide and with Just sufficient con- evil results he does not as yet feel in a position to recommend .Its use for hospital or private practice. In detail, the expori ment Is as follows: Tho electric current is furnished by accumulutori, and Is led off through measuring and controlling lnstru- and neighboring walla appear gigantic dls pite the fact that they are very near th light. The reason for this is that the llg'it of the crater is concentrated in a point smaller than the bodies of the Insects and the shadows consequently grow larger as the distance Increases. As the carbon in the arc lamp burns away cavity to hold them on the rails, so that ments to an lnterruptor, which renders the while thev can be ODerated on the ordinal flow of the current intermittent. It Is then to substitute tha. mystlo powers Of alec- track thev can be run also on navementa taken to a natch of skin above the anl- triclty for the grumbling and . uncertain unloved highways without Injury. The mal's spine, from which the hair has been carbon rods becomes shorter. After a hired tnan. 1 trkl... tmii. r. h. .av. carefuUv shaved. It nassea throurh the while the distance between the two elec- The Aurora, Elgin Sc Chicago railway tags of being 'able to run out along the spinal cord and brain, and emerges by a was one of the first to start a campaign tracks .in any Industrial community, gath- similar patch on the animal's forehead, for new business among the farmers and erlng power Into Its storage batteries from In th experiment I saw the animal se small consumers along its line. This road the feed wire as It .runs, and at any lected was a rabbit. It was In no way runs through some of the best farm land point it can turn off Into th highway to fastened, but was seated on the table. A In the country and the farmers in that run alongside the loading platform of a verlr feebla current was at first applied, section have proven the value of electricity manufacturing plant or down an alley to Ther w slight tremor, a look, of sur as applied to farm work and many of them collect freight direct from th doors of a P',S8- twitching of the ears and are now using motors for threshing, grind- warehouse, returning In th same way to cratchlng of th feet. Gradually the cur ing feed. DiimDlng water and a dozen and th central freight station. Th storara rent w increased, until eventually It ap- one other Jobs. So successful has this batteries, when fully charged, will carry company been In disposing of its surplus the car twenty-five miles, so that It can current at a fair price that other railways cover a considerable range of territory Independently of tracks and wires. From this point It will be but a step to the handling of all trucking business trary to the prophesies of many an en- ' r'u"" one. stood on and a. soon aa the aooaratu. the farmer proved such an excellent th. consolidated transportation system, as wag Mmoved u walkln)f about tlla trodes would become too great for the aro and the light would go out. To remedy this defect the rods are governed by a magnetlo duvlce which keeps them always the proncr distance apart until the carbons are burned away so they have to be replaced. are rapidly following Its example. Trolley lines were first extended Into the country district in New England and con trary I glneer customer that the electric lines of every city began to reach out for the rural trade. proached the six-hundredth part of that used for an electric light, and the animal fell over on Its side. It was passive and powerless. Incapable of feeling pleasure or pain. In a state similar to that of patients prepared for operation In a hospital. The current was switched oft'. The rabbit at Working the IJot Air Pipe Is now done In England. There Is no question that with the mechanical Im- lahoratory floor, apparently in no way inconvenienced or distressed by the experl- In the middle-west, where the trolley finds provements certain to be realized within enc H had underKone- Its greatest field for lnterurban activity, tompanu.i i- umuuiii mo electric roads were rapidly constructed until ceneral use of motor trucks. It will be Productloa of As Light, today the middle states are a net work of P",bl tor th transportation companies a great deal has been said and written trolley lines. The benefits of this movement to P1-0 this eervlc more cheaply than about the lights but In almost every in to the farmers and residents of small coun. lt now ion by eParate trucking con- stance such articles were couched In lan- "Fln day," observed the sallow passen ger with the eye glasses. "Huh?" "I say It's a fine day." "O, yes," answered the man who was try ing to read a newspaper. "Be a lot of trouble with the fruit, though, when the cold weafheh comes along next month "Huh?" "I say there'll be a lot of trouble Willi the fruit when the cold weather" "O, yes." 'It's all right, thotiKh, I guess. What- try villages were legion. With th coming or th manufacturers themselves. -,ua(,e whlch couM onlj be understood by ever ,iappens is all right. of the trolley tha farmer had a ready market to the nearest city for his small produce. As If by roaglo ha could order things from town by telephone or letter and the 'trolley brought them to his door a few hours later. With his family ha could Elrtre A.aehe.ta. m P""' loemcian. in one arc ligm "i'h-huh." At Pr Ledue's laboratory at Nantea a brllIlttnt Illumination Is formed by the oId Jak. Bchaefer beat the young rertes of striking experiments hav taken eIectrl current v the gap be- fMlow ,aat n,sht ... rlace recently, which should have a far- tween two crbon rod- n9 of these car-, ..p.8t j.im?" rmehinr lmoortance to medicine, com merce. and the world of science. A rab- ther the negaUve electrode, and the cur- visit th city snd distant friends and rela- bit was anaesthetized by a weak electrio Knt passes from the former to the latter, tives at will without at long and irksom current, a dog was killed absolutely pain- When the current Is turned on the carbons Journey behind th "team." It bettered lesaly by a similar method, and the electrio are together and current passes through the mall survlc; made him Independent of current was used for the administration of a little magnet coil in the lamp which draws tha "nearest" railroad station, except for a drug. In the light of these experiments, them apart. The current hold across the the shipment of large produce, and for the one can look forward to a time when the gap between th two carbons. Tills arc first time In his lif th resident of the administration of anaesthetics will be a consumes energy; this energy takes the country felt as though he was not Isolated nechanical process, when th slaughtering form of heat so Intense as to make th entirely from th busy world. of ,ne nl'"' required for food will be air or gases between the ends of the car- Thls disposal of electrical current Is. per- accomplished entirely without pain, and bon, incandescent, producing a bri'llant hats. the greatest helD to the farmer, in ,n" . - usht. Particle of carbon are carrle,' from v) "J ,v iff I , .,-. ,' & x 7 : If 17 HP l M ' f i'. " 4SV ' ' jf 3 IT t-.S'Vi-. ..... -V ' " - Reading From Left to Right: Btandlngt-Mrs. M. Inhelder, Mrs. Georg Storey, Mrs. T. A. Pohlmann, Mrs. IT. M. Wellmann, Mrs. H. H. Mohr. Mrs. L). R. Duff, Mm. A. L. Brande. Mrs. Douglass Cones, Mrs. U R. Pheasant. Bltting-Mrs. Ed Jen'. Mrs. A. O. Brnnrle, Mrs. S. D Berg, Mrs. J. B. Davis, Mrs. J. H. Van Wogenen. Mrs. C. E. Staley, Mrs. Fred Btorey. Mrs. John Leo, Mrs. C. E. Hutton. PRUNE CLUB OF PIERCE, NEB. . .. ,i i 5i lil - ... i : ) , 9i : :mYry 4ym::M .... i ' ' & . J i - - , . .,: U ., .i . ' r i i - t .- f 1 'h- foi ii m i 1 '.v-k: 'siu!-:f.r- IOWA MAN'S DUPLEX MILKER. Gossip and Stories About Noted People tlu-s days of trouble to seour aompetent monPlacf dJu"c' dmlnl8,rUoI of the positive alectrod unUl IU end Incomes president T "Yes; playing billiarda, you know." "I'h-huh." "I don't know anything about billiards myself, but I am told it's a finu game." "So?" "Yes. But I'd rather sue a good gunie of base ball. Wouldn't you?" "I'h-huh." "Don't you think Tatt stands a good chanoe of getting the nomination next June on the first ballytT" "Uh-huh." "Who do you think will be put up for vice fium labor, sine th Invention of th harvesting maohtn. Electricity Is th most flexible power tn th world and there for th bust adapted for th multitudinous Job about th farm, ti will run th dip pers for clipping th horses or press th hay with equal facility. The new Induction drugs. And what Is. perhaps, mora Inter- cupBhap,a. This littl cup is called th ung 10 me my reaaer, n same laoor- orat-r ad (rom th,, cnUer fouI flfth, f th(J atory animals have been restored to life w,w, emitte(L y. n61faUv, elec, by electric mean. " o minutes trod doei othr after they have ceased to breathe. Around ... ., . ..... , . . , . . ,. . .. v Between the two carbons a little cloud of the laboratory were the results of other , . . , . work vaporized carbon Is formed from the crater Th Idea of electric anaesthesia is not a whlch U L,Mktkd to brUllant Inoandsnc motors, which on of th many geniuses ntw ona ,ay, th, Boston Transcript. It an4 lv toT vHd11 y,Ikw Bgnt, Th of th aneral Electrlq company recently wa, suggested, and even tried In th early "ht from th oraUr proper has a violet developed ar spark less and therefore ab- days of electricity, but the discovery of tinge owing to th lncandssosat partloles solutely saf about th farm buildlnga th anaesthetic properties of laughing gas, ' Mlla carbon. Tb are of light Heading They ar made In all slsea from a twn- chloroform, and ether attracted the atten- from one electrode to th other has an tloth of a horsepower to $.000 horsepower, tion of the medical world, so that th very axels of violet color which I Its most bril- Electrlc powsc la easily attached te any Idea of electrio anawathesla waa forgotten. Uaut part Ail this balsa t Bu trails i "Vb-huh." "Think It'll be Hughes?" "I-'h-huh." "Or mayb It'll be La Follette''' "Uh-huh." "An j Uilng new In tho paper this morn IngT" "Yea. Man killed In an elevated train." "How?" "II was talked to death." Th sallow faued pasngr with the eye glasses gulped one or twice and breathed hard, but had nothing further to offer. Chicago Trlbun. ICdTrln llooth In London. N HER story of life on the stage, now running In Mc Clure's Magazine, Mlaa Ellen Terry tells the following inci dent of Edwin Booth's appear ance In London: "The grtat American actor, through much domes lo trouble and bereavement, had more or lets 'given up things' and his upirit could not 'combat such treatment as he received at the I'rinccsa, where the pieces in which he appeared were 'thrown' on the stage with every mark of assumption . that he was not going to be a success. . "Yet. although ho accepted with grati tude Henry Irving s suggestion that he should ' migrate from the Princess to the Lyceum and appear there three times a week as Othello, with thq Lyceum company and its marage.-' to support him, I cannot be sure that Booth's pride was not mire hurt by this magnificent hospitality than lt ever could have been by disaster. It is always more difficult to receive than to give. "Few people thought of this, I suppoo. I did, becauso 1 could Imagine Henry Irving In America tn the same situation accepting the hospitality of Booth. Would not he, too, have been melancholy, quiol, unassertive, almost uninteresting and un interested, a Booth waa? "1 saw him first at a benefit performance att Drury Lane. I came to the dour of the room where Henry was dressing, and Booth was sitting there with his buck to me. " 'Here's Miss Terry,' said Henry, as I came 'round the door. "Booth looked up at me swiftly. I have never, In any face. In any country, seen such wonderful eyes. There was a mys tery about his appearance and his man ner a sort of pride which seemed to say: 'Don't try to know me, for I am not what I have been.' He seemed broken and de void of ambition." ! Espial uln: Ills Lead. While Henry Labouchere was an attach at Frankfort, relates th Rambler, he was) once playing whist against a very high Oe r man functionary, sitting on his luff. Mr. Labouchere led a small card. Th lead turned out so wall that b won th rest of the tricks. The minister said: "Weil, Mr. Labouchere, you won the game by leading that card, but there was no earthly reason, according to the rules of the game, why you should have done so. You have, there fore, won the rubber by accident." - Mr. Labouchere said: "I had a very good reason for leading that card." The min ister asked what it was. "We will have a bet," said Mr. Labouchere, "that my rea son was a good one." The bet was, there fore, made. "Now, Mr, Labouchere, what was your reason?" He replied: "I had seen your hand.'1 Gladstone's Chars. Of all the statesmen I have met, relates Idy Randolph Churchill in the Century, I think the lute Lord Salisbury and Mr. Oladstone were the pleasanlest comiwnloris at dinner. Both had the happy knack of seeming vastly Interested In one's conver sation, whatever the subject, or however frivolous. There, was no condescension or "tempering of the wind to the shorn lamb" about it. At the same time, I must own that any feeling of elation for having had, as one considered, a success was speedily destroyed; for the next woman, whoever she might be, who had tha privilege of sitting beside either of these great men, would receive exactly the same corteoua attention. As for Mr. Gladstone, having once started him on his subject, an Intelli gent "Yes" or "No" was all that was le quired. But If you ventured a remark Ho' which he listened in grave alienee), he had a disconcerting way of turning sharply round, bis piercing eye fixed inquiringly upon you, and his hand to his ear, with th gesture so well known to the House of Commons. His old world manner was very attractive, and his urbanity outside the house remarkable. On the one occasion I had been at the houae hearing Randolph make one of his fiery attacks on him. which he answered with equal heat and Indignation. The hour was late and Ran dolph and I bad Just time to rush home and dress to dine at Bpencer house with Lord and Lady Spencer. The first person I met as I went in was Mr. Gladstone, who at once cam up and said: "I hope Lord Randolph is not too tired after his mag nlfioent effort. " What an ,bjut lsa to those foreign politicians who would look upon It as an Insult to be asked to meet In the same house! Bout Champ Clark Starles. One of tho most popular speakers In ongregs Is Champ Clark of Missouri. ' Whether It be to address his party on po litical subjects or a swing around the Chau tauqua circle or Just a plain after-dinner speech or a speech on the floor of th house, Mr. Clark always commands atten tion by his witty application of th princi ples of common sense in getting at th root of things. Speaking of some of his expert, ences In spec-chmukliig recently, Mr. Clark suld: ' "This grip epidemic reminds m of a speech 1 once made In Philadelphia. Tha day before the speechmaking cam off I caught a heavy cold and could not speak above a whisper. My doctor suggested a , red-hot mustard plaster for my chest and 1 put it on. W ben I Tot on that stag In Philadelphia I think I displayed th great est range of voice ever Inflicted on a long suffering public. In spite of all I could da 1 would begin words of more than on syllable in a basso profundo and finish in an operatic soprano. "Another funny experience I had speach making out In Missouri, although this n came near having a serious ending. It went to show, however, that even a plat form cannot always stand th strain of heavy forensic artillery. William Jennings Bryan, Senator Stone and I were booked to address a great democratic gathering and when w reached the spot th stand was surrounded by a crowd of 30,000 per sons. Bo restless did they become at their liability to hear th speaker that w de termined we would all speak at one. Mr. Bryan took the center of the stage on on aide, while Benator Htone and I took oppo site tornirs on the other side of th plat form and all begun. Just as each of us had reached the climax of our speeches and 'were sawing the air for dear lif th platform collapsed In the middle and all ' of us. Including the local committea, fell Into th hopper. It was a grand finale, all right, and you can Imagin th consterna tion of th crowd when, ail Uks ra.Urrt Ais appeased at aaaaV. V