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TIIK HKK: OMAHA, KIM PAY, AUGUST 1, 15)13.
BILLY SUNDAY'S
UAMGER IS HERE
Comet to Freptre for the Prelim
intry Work in Connection with
the Campaign.
TELLS OF SOME OF THE PLANS
Sweeney Tractor at the Demonstration
Rv. John Wallace Welsh, adrance
crKtnlier of. the "Billy" 8undar cam
paign, has arrived In Omaha and will
remain until the campaign 1 ell
i-nder war. " '
He had luncheon at the Young
Men's Christian association with Rer.
I. T. Rouxe, Re. A. C. Douglass and
Rer. H .B. Bpeer, where preliminary
plans for organisation of active head
quarters were talked over '
Xtr. Welsh aculn an advisory capacity
with th chairmen of th various com
mittees, particularly the having to do
with the choir, the prayer meetings, ths
personal workers and ths ushers.
"A Hilly Bunday campalsn means far
mors than the tabernacle meetings," ha
mU, "It has Its ramifications and Its In
fluence extending to ths homes, atores,
factories and offices of ths city.
Flfty-Ftr Meetlncs la Day.
. In Philadelphia, for axampls, ths Sun
day party held fifty-five meetings In on
day. Mrs. William Asher oonducts ths
personal work among women. Miss Fran
ces Miller will hold Bible claws at
luncheons for women In the downtown
district three days a week from II to I
o'clock. Miss Alice Oamlln will hav
chargs of the work among boys and girls.
And se oit.
"George Sunday, Mr. Sunday's son, will
arrtva In Omaha In a day or two from
his home In Winona and will taks active
charge of the office end of the work."
Mr. Welsh has been with the Sunday
party about on year. He cams to Omaha
from hl home In Frankfort, Mich. He
was formerly a minister at Mason City,
la., and later had ths pastorate of ths
Mg California Avenue Congregational
church In Chicago.
eH ssys "Billy" Sunday Is In excel
lent health and Is living on hi llttls
fruit ranch at Red River, Ore., gathering
strength for a strenuous campaign. He
wllf spend on day at ths Winona Bible
conference before his arrival In Omaha,
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ONE OF THE INTERESTING EXHIBITS OF POWER APPLIED TO PLOWING.
Uproar Over Billy Sunday in 'Frisco;
Dr. Aked's Reasons for Withdrawing
Rer. "Billy" Sunday's coming to Omaha is a definite fixture, but it is
not generally known that his engagement here has been held despite power
ful pressure from San Francisco to extend his time there, as an outgrowth
of the fracas created by the withdrawal from the committee there of Rer.
Charles F. Aked, one of the leading pastors of Ban Francisco, in protest
of the so-called "Billy" Sunday methods. In this connection. Dr. Aked's
reasons for his action, given in the San Francisco Chronicle, will interest
Omaha people looking forward toe Sunday revival here:
"If their boys bring this language Into
ths home, they fathers and mothers
War of the Nations "
to Be Shown Near"
; Krug Park Tuesday
Th Thearle-Psln Fireworks "company
has thrilled th American public with
such gorgeous productions as "The Open
ing of the Panama Canal," "The Last
Isys of Pompeii" and "Vesuvius," but
th famou firm never brought tout such
a wonderfulty aborat spectacle as
"The War of the Nations," which begins
nn engagement of sis nights, st , the
Omaha Driving Club park next Tuesday
night ' .......
'The War of the Nations' Is Presented
on an open-air stags, ett feet long, sad
people taks part In It. It pictures
th si and capture of a city -In Bel.
glum or northern Franc. The place-is
strongly garrisoned. It Is defended by
forts and trenches. Ths long columns of.
ths betevig enny ruah to the attack.
Biegs guns flash and thunder.'. Machine
guns sweep down the hostlls rank with
streams o fir and death. Armored
automobile train their. rifles upon th
enemy. Bursting ahells 'fill th air.
Aeroplanes and dirigibles, manned by
living operators, crowd th sky. The
town is swept by flames. Th Oothlu
cathedral falls. Publlo sdlfloea and
horam crumb! down In on vast ruin.
Soon th prosperous city Is ia aahes.
In an Interlude before th battle, a
doxen hl,h class vaudeville and circus
acts ar et&ced. Afterwards, two tab
leaux ar proiivnted; on represents "The
Horrors of War," th other, "The Bless
ings ef Ftace." The perform ancs closes
with a 4.jo display of fireworks. In
tills dexsiirur exhibition liquid bombs ar
shown for the frst time in this cty, and
by what artetna a maglo of pyrotechnh a,
a gor. 6u rainbow la bun -across the
liavtii.
Mrs, Shorter Says .
Her Husband Makes
Charges Too Strong
Mrs. Kthl Shcrter, against whom Fred
Shorter, Jr., ftld on Wednesday a peti
tion for divorce. In which sensational
rhargf wtre made, insist her husband'
atatrmema ar entirely to strong and
not warranted by tt facta, eh says:
"Rom of the charges mrd In Mr.
Miorter's petition for divorce are too
frivolous for discussion; the others ar
absolutely fals and preposterous. Mr.
fhcrt-T !r.s!sed on tttr.g me t? a party
of his friends and Is now making libelous
tatvment about m for it Ilia state
ment about a certain picture displayed
in public and offered for sals is false
and cowardly. The tru situation will
t shown st the proper time. I have
nothing further to say except that I
shell contest this suit."
J. T. Mercell Made
; Police Court Clerk
Thou J. O'Connor, clerk of the police
cor, hi ben confirmed by the city
tour.rll j city clerk at $1,000 a year, to
sjic.fd Thornas J. Flynn, who will ks
Bpie Ho mute ( lnlted States mam h el
M-M li..riiy.
J. T. Meroe!!. who has been serving as
lrn:t clerk on the Gouth Side, was con.
th-med t succeed Mr. O'Connor and J. F.
r sUBf-ii!!'!. will auccc4 nr, Mercell.
j nu cuiinrniation in earn case was
UliUl.lliiOU.
I'.ly clfik Klynn tendered hi resigna
tion, i.lii was accepted, with an ao-
i on;inrtri felicitous resolution offered
by tbo mayor, expresslug regret upon
l-'g Jtr. Flynn, but wUl.lng him Ood
1 In hU new field.
I withdrew from the committee or a
hundred quietly, without fuss or public
ity. I thought that my letter covered
the ground. Innumerable calls, however,
this , morning Indicates that some am
plification Is demanded, and I am as
sured that It Is in the public Interest that
a more detailed publio statement should
be made.
It all come to this: - I do not know
of any consideration In the world which
would Induce me to become a party to
ttie buffoonery and blasphemy of a
Billy ftunday mission.
"The justification of thin langnag la
to be found In th reports of the - Han
Francisco press. If a person has not
read them, and has not read report of
similar . performances . 'elsewhere, he
cannot understand my feelings. I would
rather be put upon the firing line some-
wher In the neighborhood of Warsaw
than pledge myself to a belief In ths
verbal Inspiration of th daily : papers.
But unless the press men and women of
this city ar lying, unless they have en
tered Into-an agreement to II unani
mously, and heartily, then Dr. Bunday
stands condemned. If I had not with
drawn from the committee, I should feel
that I shar .and deserv to share In th
condemnation. ...
" "Cleopatra was a flat-nosed wench
who sailed up the Nil clothed only In
sunshine and climate' let . It be ad
mitted that 1 . hav not secured from Dr.
Bunday or from Bishop Hughe or from
Dr. II. H. Hell a guarantee that Dr.. Bun
day said this In precisely1 these word a
But nobody hes 'denied Jt neither Dr.
Sunday nor the person described by th
newspapers as his 'official press agent.'
nor Dr. Bell, nor anybody else.
i nav ror mora than a rear system
atically accumulated from ths seoular and
religious press reports of Dr. Sunday's
speeches, and this quotation agrees with
a vast number of other which I have
before m at this moment. Unless It Is
alleged that the Chronicle reporter In
vented this sentence, and did It so well
that Dr. Bunday himself could not better
Imitate his own style, I am content to
make my appeal to th good sens of th
religious community upon the ground of
such an ut te.-ano.
"Let v us plain and honest speech. I
do not know whether Cleopatra ever sat
naked In a boat and caused herself to
bs rowsd up the .river Nile, Assuming
that Dr. Sunday's historical reading Is
wider than my own, or that this Incident
Impressed Itself more deeply upon hi
memory than on mine as It probably
would do then It' Is conoelvabl that
there might at some time be some rea
son for stating ths fact, though It is
difficult to Imairin th relevancy of It
to the gospel message. Yet I tek my
stand here; that nothing en God's, earth
oan Justify In a sermon the leering gug
gestlvaness of Dr. Sunday's phrases, t
"There can beonly on object In stat
ing th fact-lf It Is a fact in that way.
And the object ls-dlrt.
"Mothers who ar trying to bring up
thHr boys to think pur thoughts and
siK'sk pur words, and fathers who hav
daughters of their own at horn may
anewer whether any pit rones can b
served by this sort of talk In a sermon:
whether the preacher wished to serv any
purpose beyond that of causing a broad
grin among the delighted perspiring boys,
and a tutor and giggle among th girl.
"And parent may very well ponder
tills quotation:
"Pllats was a lick-splttls, low-down,
free-lunch, hog-pouched, plsbla, plastln.
ward-heeling, whleky-svaked graft puli-
irviJi vi nis aar
fathers and mothers will understand
that the youngster hav not been to a
prise fight, nor to a saloon, nor to a
house of Infamous resort. Parents will
understand that the boys hav been to a
religious service and have listened to a
preacher who by th grace of an Amer
ican college Is a doctor of divinity, and
who Is supported by th leading clergy of
San Francisco. '
"My opposition to the proposal to in
vito Dr. Sunday could not, of course,
be grounded in thee utterance, because
th meeting at which I voiced my objec
tions was held many months ago, and my
letter withdrawing from th committee
wss written nearly two weeks ago. I had -
before me that Urn such evidence as
this:
"Princeton university refused to Invite
Dr. Sunday and gave Ha reasons. Th
dean of the graduate school, over his own
signature, printed quotations from Dr.
Sunday's 'sermons,' and made this state
ment: 'Every " passage quoted Is taken
from the official copyright report of Mr.
Sunday'' Ilhlladeiphla addresses, pub
lished with his sanction in th Phila
delphia Evening Telegraph during Janu
ary and February. Their accuracy can
not ha questioned.' And the are speci
mens: .'.
"If a minister believes and teaches evo
lution he is a stinking skunk, a hypocrite
and a liar.
"If I were the wife of some of yoa
men. I'd sefuse to clean their old spit
toons. I say let every hog clean his ol
trough. . , -
"Your wife has a rood a right to line
up before a bar and fill up her skin wltn
the hog gut you do as you have.
"Then Ilerodias came In and danced
with her foot stuck out to a quarter to
twelve, and old Herod said, 'Sis, you're a
peach. You can hav anything you want,
even to half of my klninioin. bh hiked
off to her licentious mother. -
"Why, a man wtlh red blood In hi
veins can't look at half the women in
the street now, and not hav impure
thoughts.
"Little rlrl. vou look so small. '
Don't you wear no clothe at all t
Stenographer Has
Her Nerve With Her
and It Wins a Tip
Mis Iiasel M. Kerman, public stenog
rapher, with an office adjoining that of
Oeorge D. Melklejohn, in the Brandels
Theater building, was a. beneficiary of
th Thaw munificence while he was In
Omaha.
Harry came In with Mr. Melklejohn and
suddenly decided that he wanted to writ
some letters. He dictated them and the
young typist then tickled the keys of the
typewriter In her A-No. 1 style.
And while she wrote she thought. And
her thoughts were something along this
Una: Here Is a young mun to whom five
shekle of silver are but as five pence
Here ' am I to whom 16 represent the
price of patiently typing twenty (30)
letters. He hands out tips to bellhops and
other people who don't work half as
hard for them as I..
By thi time the letters were finished.
Thaw read them over.
"How muchr he asked.
Miss Keman admits that her voice
trembled, ' but she bravely enunciated:
"F-flv dollar."
. Thaw looked her In astonishment He
hesitated.- Then he grinned.
' "Bay, you're all right," . de declared.
"Here' ' S for writing th letters and
here's ' another five for your nerve. I
admlr . nerve. I Ilk to help working
girls along, anyway."-
Mis Kerman says she thinks Thaw Is
Just grand and not any mora craiy than
you or X, . '
Ion't you wear no chemise shirt T
Don't you wear no pettysklrtr
MANY FROM IOWA GOING
TO THE TRACTOR SHOW
The-tractor show at Fremont Is being
visited, by people from all over the west.
as well as the farmer and those Inter
ested In farms In Nebraska. A woman
living on West Farnam street Thursday
morning . oounted over . 100,; automobiles
with the yellow Iowa number going west
vr ths Lincoln I highway,, evidently
bound for Fremont.
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THAT PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS
A BEE WANT AD
A'UII I ?VU ...... I aiv M 1 vt T-1 . ivmcn.
but your corset and your hoseT
"They call this a revival of religion.
"But It 'will be observed In my letter to
th committe I took another ground.
I did so because X had read th apolo
gies for Dr. Sunday made by clergy
men, and heard In committe th argu
ment In support of the Invitation. This
Is th gist of them: "Sunday says and
does many things which we regret,
which w cannot Justify. - But h gets
results. Men and women ar converted,
"VV hav to tolerate his profanity and
other things which w condemn because
souls ar saved.
"And against that I declare. In cara
fuly chosen words, that even if every
'result' olalmed by the 'official press
agent' Is as recorded a colossal 'if
and even If every one who professes
conversion' is a penitent and a be
llow In Dr. Sunday's 'gospel.' then the
Injury don by the presentation of such
a loathsome gospel, with such a fright
ful Ood, such a grotesqu Christ, such
a fantaatlo heaven, such an impossible
hell, must outmessure and outweigh be
yond all calculation th good obtained
by those 'results.' I have said, and I aay
again, ther 1 no such Ood. no such
Christ, no such heaven and no such hell.
"If the pulpit and th pew substitute
for th religion of Jesus Christ th gos
pel according to Billy Sunday.' then
Protestant Christianity 1 doomed, and
man' Indignant heart will turn away
to find the symbols of it faith elsewhere."
B
eaver; Motors isiake their way
by the way they are made
v.c found deadc:j
fTCCn AT HOME AT NOON
:.:,h. J. .,t;a lUnu, 2 rears. w!f
i f v i .i. in Jianl-i, a laborer, living at M
; i . u.iti t;v.t. u&s found dtiad on
t-.o r f-r vt t.tr S.i.i e 1 noon. Dr. Charles
t ..-v !" i h-J jusrtor. who
v t u f 9 t!''i m.l f-.rted oin the
t i if t;. liii.' jO t.'.t tt Woman
i. . ii. TI.e 'ii'iwr sti notified,
i .: ji i ! Ki.o of no reon
' ' . -i I I m taken her lifo.
U W':it Ad.
FcderalJudgeship
Vacancy Already
is Much Sought
The death of Federsl Judge W. II.
Munger promise to hasten th contest
for the vacancy which would otherwise
hav occurred in October, when h would
hav been entitled to retire. The ap
pointment, earning a life tenure, with
.M salary, is rated as the best in Ne
braska within th gift of th president,
and the skirmish lines of th candidates
are already out.
While Mr. Bryan held his plao In ths
cabinet It was supposed C. J. Smyth
had the hisida track, hi loyalty to Bryan
bavin- secured for him a tat temporary
Job as assistant te th attorney guneral
The democratic stats chairman. "UlLly
Thompson of Grand Inland. U laying
eliiiu based on his political service.
Bylvuster K. ' Riuh' of Onvsha. who, as
aaalntaot to ths attorney general, has
conducted Important case tor th De
partment or Justlc all over th country,
is also a candidate, and J. W. Wood
rouKh of OniAha, who headed tb Wood
row Wildun leagu Uire year ago. has a
lightning rod up. Furmr Chief Justice
J. J. fcuiiivan and several other lawyers
j of democratic perutialon hav been men-
tlond-ln fact, they ar all la
captive list
th re-
FOUND ON VACANT LOT
WITH HIS BONES BROKEN
II. B. Halton, CIS North Fifteenth, wa
discovered In an unconscious condition
In a vacant lot on North Nineteenth
street Wednesday evening. Th man had
evidently been attacked, as It was fur
ther discovered that h was aufferlng
from a broken left arm and a dislocated
right shoulder. II was attended by Dr.
Charles Zlmmerer and taken to St.
Joseph hospital.
Beavflted by Chaaafcertai'
Ltalsaeat.
"Last winUr I need Chamberlain' Un
hnent for rheumatic pains. sUffoes and
soreness of ths knees, and can const ten
uously say that I nevar used anythln
that did me so much good. "-dej ward
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