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END OF A SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Omaha's Chautanqua Coleege Holds Its First Anniversary Celebration.

Speeches by Dr. Duryea, Mrs Elia W. Peattie, Judge Ambrose, Rev. Frank Crane and Others of Nole.

The first season of the Chautauqua college was brought to a fitting close last night in its home, the lecture room of the First Methodist church. About 173 members were present.

After supper had been disposed of Mr. Ralph W. Breckenridge briefly reviewed the work of the college, which was established last October and thorught following the general Chautauqua principle, was in detail of Omaha Institution. The college differed from the regular Chautauqua circle in the same manner as a university differs from a school. Mr. Breckenridge found that it had been a siccess and congratulated it on having proved that Omaha wants, needs and appreciates a course of weekly lectures by prominent local and foreign speakers. Miss McClintock, the secreatry, read the report and Mr Breckenridge then called upon Major Halford to act as toastmaster.

Dr. Daryes was the first speaker and, as usual, he not only aroused himself, but also his audience. In Dr. Duryes's opinion it is a man's dury, not only to God. But to his fellow man, to increase his ability and to stimulates his intellectual grwoth; the measure of a man's ability and opportunity and the man who deliberately gave all the day to work for gain and all his lelsure time to amusement, neglecting the development of his higher self, awas a original. Dr. Duryea scored not only society for its shallowness and falseness, but also the churches, for not doing the work they should promoting the growth of men.

Mrs. Peattie spoke of "The Value of Sentiment," and in doing so declared it to be the mother of human development, of religion, of liberty, of all that is highest and best in man Dividing society into two classes, the egotistic and the altustic, Mrs. Peattie said taht the former class largerly predominated the world over, but nowhere more tan in republics, owling in part to the theory that all men are born equal, and the herces and selfish competition which it involved Selfish motives were often lauded, and the greates crime today among men was to fall; yet the unselfish man could not under existing conditions, from the world's point of view, succeed All the sorrow and sin, Mrs. Peattie said, came from selfishness and it was against selfishness which sentiment waged constant war; it was sentiment which had given woman the place she occupies today, changing the harem into the home; to sentiment could be traced invention and literature and it remains as a star guiding himanity on to its high destiny.

Rev. Wesley K. Beans spok of "The Relation of the Church Education," and gave a history of the educational efforts, chief among them being the Chautaua of the Methodist church in the United States.

Judge Ambrose talked on "Files and Hired Girls" The former, he said, was the greatest ill inflicted on suffering humanity, and after graphcally describing the ghoulish [glee?] with which a fly will torment a man when he wants to sleep in the morning, he declared that some good christians have found it hard to forgive God for ever making them. In his talk on the latter Judge Ambrose went back even to Adam, Abraham and Job, but did not give the long-sought solution of the present day problem.

Mrs. F. A. Tucker was to speak on "The Woman Questions," but disappointed the audience by changing the tables, and in place of talking about woman she talked about man Mrs. Tucker's talk was very different from the backneyed and word out speeches about woman's rights and was refreshing to the constantly increasing class of women who believe in polical equality, Mrs. Tucker quoted freely from the poets in sustaining her position that has been and isdue to a false chivairy that woman is denied the rights she now claims and that men have been mialed from the highest niotives and are not intentinally unjust to women.

Mr. E. A. Benson was down on the program for a talk on electricity, but on account of the lateness of the hour simply told a short story and asked to be executed Rev. Frank Crane then briefly gathered up the "crumbs," and the frst season of the Chautauqua college, which has been the most sicessful effort of its kind ever made in Omaha, was closed