Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1887, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY MAY 29. 1887..-TWELVE PAGES HILARITY FOR HOT WEATHER Pointed and Pithy Sayings in Botb Poetry aud Prose. A POEM OF THE SPRINGTIME. The Senator Didn't Want Whitewash —A Colored Porter's Long Haul —A Porous Plaster Gun— Bad For Bob, This is a_Real Spring Poem. P H. Converse. Now melodious and brazen toots the “little 1an band,” uy # lob!" or “Hol-i-but!” resounds thirouzhout the land The organgrinder grindeth and the base ball club Is se Likewise the tender violet and dandelion Now Kreen, ’ Now blow the cherry blossoms and the lilac *gins to bud, Now flow the patént medicines for cleansing of the blood: “The poet poetizes upon the zentle spring, Both bieycle and trycicle are now upon the wing: Now brand-new maple sugar from another season’s stock. -tonic, which the bibu- Now the sunlight lake, and river, But whether lifeis worthliving now depends upon the liver. ces gayly upon ocean, She Knew Her Man. Dakota Bell: *‘Henry!" shouted a Duluth ayenue woman to her husband as he started down town, *‘aren’t you guing to get me that water before you go?”’ “Not this morning—in an awful hurry —big day’s work to do,” and he tore along down to the gate. “Hut I want you to fix the cellar door dren won't fall down and cks." ‘em, watch ‘'em. Thaven't ;must be down to the oflice in tive minutes.” “'Did you see the scandal in this morn- ing's piper?'’ “Hoy?" he raphed, as he paused at the corner. “‘About Colonel Bilk and some woman from Sioux City."” *‘1s that so? Well, I must-read it.”’ and he came back, taking long steps. *1've rather been expecting something of the kind for quite a while.” One Way. The poet, pale and frantie, OF verses had a hoard ; And got in “The Atlantic” By jumping overbourd. None Wanted. Wall Street News: A practical joker at Albany, who knew of an old farmer with a hundred bushels of lime on hand, sent him up to the state house to ask for a certain senator, who might be induced w0 lm‘y the whole lot. “I found him,” explained the old man as he returned, “‘and would you believe that he flew mad in a minnit, and be would kick me but for my gray hairs! Darn it! If he hasnt got any whi washing to do why couldn’t he say so in acivil way?” Defled His Pa. My son.” said a father in Mich., “1'd rather not have you go tich, But the lad went a-fishin’ Without his permission, And thus he detied his pa's wich. The Law and the Porter. Chicago Herald: ““See here, porter, I gave you a dollar a few minutes ago, an’ ou have given me only ten cents change. ou can’t come that on me. I'm too old a kind of a traveler to be taken in that way." orry, sah, but the new inter-state railroad law, ye know sah. We darsent v}olnto hit, yo' know, sah, undah pen- alty.” “Don't you know, sah? The new law say fo' a sho’t haul de rauroad am only entitled to sho't haul pay, but fo’ a long haul it must cha'ge de long haul price. Yo'se rode with me all the way from New Yo'k. Datam a. long haul, an' d'ye 8'pose I'm gwine ter bring de law down on my po' head by makin’ only & sho't haul ou*’n dat dollah? Sorry,” sah, but my o'dahs is to respeck de into-state rail- road law to de very lettah.” Anna Jones, Anna Jones of South Bend, Ind., Was an overgrown, tall thind. Her tongue was so bitter Her friendsthey all quit her, And they called her the poorgirl Wind. ‘What the Gun Was Good For. “Yes, gentlemen," said onc of the few §et unboycotted liars of the Bohemian club as he fimished a snipe-shooting story: “‘that wus the most remarkable gun I ever saw. Wouldn't take a thousand aollars for it.” “It's nothing to a gun 1 used to own,” said an ex-champion prevaricator, walk- ing up just then. *It was simply im- possible for a bird to get away from that f\m. 1t made the closest and most regu- lr)mtwru ou ever saw. I traded it for ty-acre lot. “To Bogardus, eh?"’ said the other fin- ed equivicator, sarcastically. No, to Jimpson, the big wholesale druggist” Ho o it shoot ffotes in por- ous plasters—fifty at a clip,” And then nothing could be heard ex- cept the scratching of the other man's pen as he wrote out his resignation. O'Brien. 18 this the O'Brien of whom we've heard tell, Who stood tip for Ireland, whatever befell? 1f that's you, O'Brien, defyin’ the Lion, We'll be buyin’, ©'Brien, the paner you sell. —(New York World. 1s this Mister 0'Brien, Who's defyin’ the Lion? Is this Mister O'Brien from over the sea? 1t 1t's Mister O’ Brien ‘Thiey spake of as dofyin’ “Then, Mister O'Brien, here's kood luck to ye! Not sarah. Detroit Free Press: A messenger boy who came up Lafayette avenue the other day found a young man waiting for him at Shelby street, and when the boy halted he was anxiously asked: “Well, did you deliver the basket of flowers?" “Of course."’ “Did she smile" “Not a bit.” “'She didn't? card."” “Oh, yes, she read that the first thing, and then she called the cook into the hall and told her to heave the basket into the back yard."” “Great Scot! But could that have been rah.” , no, sir. mother."” She must have seen the It was your Sarah's One in a Thousand. StJoseph (M.) Herald. ‘I'here Is & man in our town, and he is won- drous wise, ‘Whenever he wrltes the printer-man he dotteth all his i's; And when he's dotted all of them, with great sang froid and ease He punctuates each paragraph, and crosses all his t's. Upon one side alone he writes, and never rolls his leav: nd mark eive And when a question he doth ask (taught wisely he has been), Ile doth the zoodly two-cent stamp, for post- aze back, put i, nile, Bob Ingersoll and the Reporter. A few days ago Colonel Ingersoll was pussing through Pittsburg. He, with a great many other passengers went into the dining hall for breakfast. He was ap- roxmhod by a beardless boy reporter of he Post, who saluted him with: - “tlow ara vou, Colonel; how are things looking out west!" half around in his chair and said abrapt- y *No, I thank you; I never play cards." ‘The reporter explained who he was, but the colonel would not listen to him. The reporter, however, was equal to the emergency and he wrote nearly a col: umin story of the attempt of a confidence man to get the best of Ingersoll. Swce the colonel's return to New Yotk he has received the congratulations of the army of friends, “An interview,” he said, “would not have caused me one half the annoy- ance,” For Poker. He had been out night after might for several weeks, claiming to be a member of the Business Men’s association, and that lus presence at the meetings was a positive necessity. ‘The other morning Mrs. Burker cornered him at the break- fast table with “Sco here, Richard,but one of the serv- ants saw vou in a Mouroe ayenue saloon Last night.” “Yes; that's where the association meets.” “What! A business men's association meet in a saloon!” “Certainly." “But you playing cards!” “Certainly I was. know the object of & business men sociation! Did you suppose we went there to sit down and look at the ceil- ing?" ere drinking becer end Referred to the Proper Department. Night Editor—which is the more ad- vanced college—Harvard or Yale? Lit- erary Editc “I'm sure I don't know. You'd better ask the sporting editor, He keeps track of the records.” ‘‘The rec- ords?’ “Certainly. I believe they're about even on boat but I think Yule is a bit in the lead on foot-ball. Still 1 may be mistaken. The sporting editor will know all about 1t, though," An Easy Solution of the Case. Chicago Heral A clothing firm oec- cupying a prominent corner in Chicago concluded Some weeks ago that on the 1st of May it would extend its first floor rooms by leasing the quarters then occu- pied by a German saloonkeeper. The clothing peoples already occupied the floors above the suloon on lease and by a sort of agreement with the owner of the bloek had a call on the ground floor whenever they were ready to pay the rental demanded. This time having ar- rived the manager of the clothing store, mn order to avoid a misunderstanding with the German, and' possibly to wvre- vent ruinous competition in bids for the lease, called upon the saloonkeeper, and in & friendly way remarked that he guessed his firm would take the store room after the 1st of May, and that the dispenser of beer and pretzels had better be looking for new quarters. “But I don't want to move,” protested the German, “‘Well, but you'll have to. You're a poor man, and we are rich, and we can pay three times as much for this room as youcan. If you'll go out quietly and make no trouble about it, we'll help you find a new place. If vou stav here at all you'll pay a rent thai'll make you sick —mind that."” 5 “Vell, you come in two weeks und I dell you vot I do.”" Two weeks later, or shortlg before the 1st of May, the manager called again. The German was all smiles. “Dot's all right, mine vriend. You may schtay up stairs, und I'll schtay here. T don't pay no rent at all, put you'll pay seex hundred tollars a year more as you paid lasht. I haf bought de block!"" It's Settled. Mr. Clark and his wife were going to California, but 1t is just possible that they will give up the enterprise. It hap- pened in this way. Mr. Clark was reading an article about the country from a paper sent him, and had just reached a sentence begin- ning with *“The mean temperature of Californy,” when Mrs, Clark laid down her knitting, “That settles it,” she said, taking off her spees. “I ain’t agoin’ to any conntry where the temperature is any meaner h it istohome. We am't goin'to 20" —_———— KILLING OF CAPT. CRAWFORD, An Explanation from the Mexican Manister of Foreign Affairs. A correspondent of the Chicago News, writing from the Citv of Mexico, says: Senor Mariscal, tbe Mexican minister of foreign affairs, has addressed a letter to the United States legation in answer to several communications from Mr. Jack- son, the former minister from the United States, giving the results of an official investigation by the Mexican govern- ment into the circumstances of the kill- ing of Captain Crawford of the United States army, Fourth cavalry, by a body of Mexican troops while he was in pur- suit of a band of Apache In *‘From the judicial and mil; tigations made by the Mexic ment,” writes Senor Mari; vears that the Apache Chiricahua dians had invaded the state of Chihua- hua, stealing quite a pumber of cattle and' murdering several Mexicans, as at- tested by reliable witnesses; that Mau- ricio Corredor, a citizen of said stat i order to defend his home ru one hundred and twenty volunteers to the Indians; that he found their id followed it till tie 10th of Janu- and at daybreak on the following morning attacked the Indians, who were n " govern- 1, entrenched in the rocks to the number of | two hundred and fifty or more. The light | lasted about one hour, during which time Mauricio Corredor, the commander of the Mexican band of volunteers, was killed, with four Mexicans, and several others were badly wounded, “Just about the end of the battle an American young man, without any uni- form or ‘military insignia whateye: came out of the rocks and told the Mex icans they were fighting the United Sta troops, and not hostile Indians. The firing was at once stopped, and it was not afteward rencwed, asalleged by Laeutenant Maus, Captain Crawford had already been killed before th ceased, butas soon as the Mexi alized what had happened they ex- ressed their sincere sorrow for the un- ortunate mistake, while the Americans likewiso expressed their regret at the death of Corredor. The Indians who were attacked on that day are the same who committed the raids aforementioned on Mexican territory. They were dressed just like the hostile Indians and had in their possession the stolen cattle, which they refused to restore, notwithstanding a formal demand was made for it by the Mexicans. It 18 not true that Captain Crawford waivea a white bandkerchief when the fight commenced. ‘The Americans wore no uniforms or insigna of any character whatever, nor did they show any proof of being what represented themselves to be,except a single serap of paper written upon with a pencil. The eattle found in pos- session of the Indiams were recognized by the Mexicans as belongingto some farmers in Chihuahua, from whom they had been stolen. The agreement allow- ing the regular troops only of either country to cross the boundary in pursuit of hostile [ndians did not contempiate that Indians without uniforns or other military insigna should come into Mexico, where they have committed so many raids, and then succeeded in returning to their reservations as innocent men, and fed and clothed by the United States gov- ‘Ibe colone! turncd ¥ ernment.” You don’t seem to | as- HE LED A DUAL EXISTENCE, Romantio Lifs of an Associate of the Oen- tral Pacific Orowd. A STORY EQUAL TO KISSANE'S. The Criminal Maintenance of Two Households — His Ingenuity in Preventing a Mecting of the Women. “California is full of people, and some quite prominent ones, too, whose ante- cedents, could they be rovealed, would surpass in interest the story of Kissane- Rogers," said a gentleman formerly con- nected with the law department of the Central Pacific railway in conversation at one of the down-town clubs yesterday. “Kissane 13 not the only man who, when he drifted to the golden shore, forgot to take his name with him. Did you ever hear the story of John Miller? That is a tale of romance beside which the Kissane revelation sinks into the commonplace. It you have half an hour to spare I will tell it to you, I was one of the attorneys that worked up the case and am entirely fanuliar with it. The Miller explosion occurred about eight years ago, and it caused a greater*sensation in California than any similar development that, haa ever come to light. Not that such things are uncommon or unexpected in that country, but the high position Miller had held, the men of mighty wealth and prominence with whom he had asso- ciated 1n business, the social standing of allthie partias, the elogancs in ‘witich Miller's family lived—all these things in- vested the affairs with an absorbing inter- est. To say that society in San Francisco and Sacramento was shocked when all the facts became known but feebly con- veys my meaning, qme time about 1864 there came to mento from Virginia a large, im- posing looking man who introduced him- self as John Miller. He was very veti- cent—in fact, so much 8o as to reach al- most brusqueness in repelling advances to learn more of himself than he chose to tell. But be was of very quiet habits and us he was evidently a gentleman and a man of marked ability, he soon mude friends and powerful ones. Miller was & man of large views aud sought the ac- quaintance only of men of like calibro. Though not rich, he had means sufii- cient for his support. He seemed in no haste to get either employment or en- gage in business. He lived the life of a gentleman of independent means, and was as well informed on public affairs as any of the leading public mon whose ac- quaintance he made and whose friend- ship he formed. He took a great inter- estin the construction of the overland railrond, and had many conferences with Stanford, Crocker and Hopkins on the subject. Mark Hopkins was especi- ally impressed with M‘lller's comprehen- sive and sagacious views on financial matters connected with the road and its building, Not one of the railroad syndi cate but respected Mr. Miller and ga him as much of their contidence as was consistent with their relations as gentie- men. Miller nad a wonderful degree of magnetism, He was also the soul of candor and truthfulness, and he made' such an impression upon Mark Hopkins, and Crocker too, thatit began to be suggested amoug the railroad men that if Mr. Miller could be induced to accept some position of trust and respousibility he could be made most uscful. Nobody thought of investigating the antecedents of the man; they had known him nearly a yeur; besides it never was the fashion in California to go behind the returns, Once across the Rocky mountains, and you come into an atmosphere of trust and confidence. ‘‘So when the Contract & Finance com- pany was organized—that wheel within a wheel organization by which the four railroad builders made princely fortuncs —John Miller was iuvited by his friend Hopkins to become its sceretary. i was for his financial ability that his ser- vices were especially sought, it was deemed useless to offer him auything less than such services would demand any- where, and his salary was fixed at $10,000 » year in gold. The Contract & Finance company, as 18 well known, dis- bursed all of the hundred millions or so that the Central Pacific is alleged to have cost to build. Of course not nearly all that money went 1nto the road and its equipment, but it did go through the Contract ~ Finance company, and John Miller kept the accountsand for ten years or more possessed the closest secrets of the president and directors of both railway and construction com- pany. As time passed on Miller became more and more valuable to_his employ- ers. Quiet, unassuming, snd industrions, for he worked night and day in ti in- terests, he was_indeed a jewel of a trusted official. His salary in time raised to $15,000, and when, 1809, the road was combleted to Ogden he was given six months' leave and told to spend it in Europe. Being a man of inexpen- sive habits, Miller naturally saved mone; He began to invest 1 lands in the Sacra nto and San Joaquin valleys, but not quantities than his supposed savi vould —warrant. Somewhere about 1873 Miller, who by this time had come to be regarded us a representative n and a solid man fi vinlly, mar- ne of the best known society women in Sacramento. She was the widow of a lawyer, who left her a large com- petence and a handsome home. She be- came devotedly attached to Miller, who by this time had become a v man in one of the ionable churches and an earnest worker in philanthropic field Everybody said the mateh was an exce lent one, and the new Mrs. Miller was mly congratulated. About the sume time the marriage took place the railroad company removed its gencral offices from Sacramento to San ancisco, and the headquarters of the Contract & Finance company were removed also, This made a permanent residence in San Franeisco neces: and ia a year or two Miller built 4 $65,000 house on Sutler street, one of the fashionable residence thoroughfares. By the way, the house stands at the corner of Jones street, and is now occupied by young Tim Hopkins. It was the building of this house that brought on_the crash and led to the un - masking of the adventurer. ““Just before the crush came,C, P, Hunt- ington paid his railway associates a visit, Now Huntington is the shrewdest and keenest of all the railroad magnates. He never knew much of Miller and had not, therefore, the opvortunity to be magnetized by that individual. " Heisa sharp New Yorker, not accustomed to seeing a trusted employe, no matter what his salary, living 1n the same style as his employers. On an evil day Miller fmvc a swell banquet in honor "of Mr, Huntington, and the latter had an oppor- tunity to observe the costly mansion and its luxuries, the valuablo plate, the stable with its crack steeds. He let' the thing pass for a while, not earing to be guilty of a breach of hospitality just then, but when he got back to New York he wrote a lon, conlidential letter to Governor Stanford, in which he asked if there had ever been any investi- i ion of the aflairs of the Contract Finance company; whether the secre- ry had ever made an accounting; and whether if he (Stanford) did not think it time there was one. Other correspondence followed, and the directors at first scorned the 1dea ot there being anything wrong. Besides, sucha thing as an over- hauling of those accounts may have been just as distastetul to the directors as to liller himself, for it was believed abroad wa in that there were many ugly things buried there which a general imvestigation might inadvertently reveal. But the sced of distrust was sown, and finally after many months of deloy Miller was tendered a leave of absence, and a trusted expert was put upon the books. Whether the fact that he was given a leave when he had not asked one ex- cited Miller's suspicion, or whethor he got wind of what was going on in an- other way, is not known, but day the ¢xpert began his wor packed a small v kissed his wife good-bye, and saying he was going up the road for a day or two, left the louse Fortunately the expert had not been at work two hours before e found a false entry of £10,000. “And now the game was up,” said the Iawyer, “and it only remained to find the missing man, for none doubted that he had fled. The railway detectives were promptly put an his track; all the resources of the company o taxed to cateh him before he could get out of the state. It was thought to be an ecasy enough job, for Milier was known to every train hand on the road, and every conductor was instructed to look out for him. But Miller had laid a bold plan. He knew he was too well known to hone to get away without a complete disguise. When he ‘left his elegant residence he went straight to a second-hand_clothing store, where there was no possibility of his being known, and fitted himself out a8 an English sailor, a part he was well fitted to play. Then he shaved off his beard, ‘bought a gr broad- brimmed hat--just such a hat as a sailor who wants to appear in ‘shore clathes’ would be sure to buy. ‘Then he bought a third-elass ticket to New York and succeeded in getting to Sacramento in an emigrant car without ¢ There he left the train in the d hiring a team where he thought he could not be known, drove across the country to Kocklin Junction, whe road branches off from Theré he bought cond-class ticket to Portland and took a night train. But the conductor of that train could not be de- ceived, H e telegraphed J. A, illmore, division superintendent at S acamento, that he thought he had his man. Fillmore wired him to saynothing, but run- his train as slow as possible until he (%) coutd overtake him i a special engine. The Iatter followed at lightning speed and overtook the express just above Marys- ville. Fillmore went through the train, and there, in the smoking-car, crouched down in the seat, and with his he: half enveloped in a rough pea-jacket, the rich secretary. ‘Hello, Miller? said Fill- more. Miller looked up, but never moved a musele, ‘I thinks y mistaken,’ he growled. ‘My name's Jim Pate n.' ‘0 no, it isn't. What's the matter? Are you erazy, masquerading this way? Come, the governor wants to aee vou right off in San Francisco,’ said Fillmore. Miller hesitated at first, but seeing that the railroad man was in earnest and had a whole train crew back of him, he gave in. But he would not do more than accompany his captors, Not a word could be got out of him. They took him to Sacramento, got some ap- propriate clothes on him, and that pight a special train tan him'to San Francisco, where he was lodged in jail. He lay in a cell nearly a wesk while the expert was going through his books. Meantime the company found that during the ten years of his service with'them he had emb zled nearly $£00,000. That much was ad- mitted, but thete the investigation stonped. The company saw at once that they would never dare prosecute him, so all at once all proceedings were stopped. Indeed, no formal complaint was made, and after a few days Miller was quietly released and the” whole business was hushed up. He turned over all his real estate to the company, amounting to over $200,000, but about $75,000in money, which he had in one of the banks, they permitted him to retain on condition that he would quit the country. Nobody need be told why these concessions w allowed or why Miller was released with an apology for having interrupted his romantic {light, 1t was seen that to ever bring the books of the Contract & Fi- nance company into court would be the ruin of more men than Miller.” S0 far, tien,” was suggested, as the lawyer stopped, “Miller does not seem to be anything but a successful embezzler.” “He was & good deal more than that. His was one of the few casesin this age of steam and telegraph where a man could successfully lead dual hives. There were two men engaged in_business, two men with respectable families, two men of weaith and standing in_their respec- tive localities, and yet the personality of the two were consolidated 1n the physi- cal body of John Miller. After the crash came all of this exposed, for some of his real estate investments in California he foolishly caused to be recorded in his own name. For you have well under- stood by this time that the name of Mil- ler was an al The man's own name was W. 8. Woodwa-d, and he was born and reared and married in a county in West Virgima. He was about thirty- five years old when he went to Californi: and ‘the reason he changed his name never fully known, for there seems to have been no cloud npon him. He left his wife and two children behind him in good hands and set forth to seck his for- tune. He corresponded with them regu- larly, sent them abundant meuns, but refrained from giving other address than a = lock- in the San Francisco post- office. His wife's letters were re- ceived, placed in the box, and during nearly the whole of his residence in Sac- ramento he would make frequent trips to the bay to get them, Matters went on for several years in this way, time Muler, or Woodward, made seve! visits home and was well eived one of them he bought a handsome upon which he placed his family, wife's brother managed the place. stocked it with choice breeds of cattle and horses, and made 1t the model estab- lishment of that part of the count When home he always said he was en- raged in mining entervrise which took hml constantly to the mountains, and that therefore he could not have h ily with him. Finually, howev this dual existence had gone on f six years, the wife became reative and in- sisted upon coming to California, if only for a visit. She had begun to suspect, as shesaid afterwards,that her husbund was keeping a gambling house, and she wanted to influenceé him to give up such a business, This Miller had to prevent at all hazards. So he wrote that he would sail 1n a few weeks to Australia, where he had bought & larze sheep range in connection with an English capitalist. But first he would pay her a visit, which he did, staying several weeks. When he came back to Sacramento he at once hired a young Englishman who was stranded ~ in the country, to go to Australia and be the “medium of a two years correspondence between himself and his family, and, strange to say, it was conducted * without a break. The agent carried a glowing letter, to be mailed as soon as he reached Sidney, and there he was to await th roplr, send that to Miller at Sacramento, get his re- ly at Sidney again, and so, in that wa Rllller exchanged three or four letters a year for two years, and then Miller be- an to talk of coming homg, forin truth he was interested in his children now growing up, and wanted to see them One day he turned up at the West Vir- inia home and said he had made a vast eal of money in Australia. He made additions to his farm, built a new house and sent his family on a run to Europe, This he did because his wife begun to talk of going with him to Aust Having done this he went back to Sac mento and was safe for another year or so. But this deception could not be kept up always. Towards the last, and especr ally about the time of his bigamous mar. Omaha Heights! House Given Away with the Next Fifty Lots Sold, WORTH TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. Sole Agents for Deer Park. 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Stationary & PortableEngines Locomotive and Stationary Boilers, Tanls, Steam Heaters, Hot Water Boiler Pumps, Dodge Wood Split Pulleys, Acme Shafting, Wagons, Road Scrapers and Bale Ties Agents for the Improved Corliss Engine Prompt attention given to all orders. Get our prices before buying. BROWNELL & CO., 1213-1215 Leavenworth st., Omaha, Neh. Steamm Generators, Steam riage, he must have been greatly har- assed by fears of detection, but he was a | mau of iron nerve and never showed it. ) 4G4uce his wite to no one. Being a tac- Two years before the explosion came, | jyyen man this was enough, but to Mrs. Woodward wrote vere nmml(- that | keep his friends f ing up she was coming to Cahforma, and Miller | 4reb 0t S i O Was the hardest had to meet the issue. After much cor | yicpof a1l The narrowest escape of all respondence in which he said that in & | (5% 1o hai was on one oceasion, when year or two he wus going to dispose of all | jiy'was taking wife number on¢ on a hisinterests in Californin and Austraha, | ¢80 Luke "Tuhoe, wife number two and return permanently to West Virginia, | 4r,v0 to the ferry boat to take the same he consented to a brief visit. Miller had | { T8V 00 00T O now reached a desperate point in his escape, but Jiller reer and had to exercise all his_ingenuity | (EIR W U intkeeping up the deception. He met hs | S8V, RS 0 : wife and escerted her to San Francisco. | .\ Uaicr was lucky eno: to get his Not during to take her to a hotel he hired irat, and 80 to avoid her by a furnished house for a month, put & No. 1 through the gentle- Chinese or two in it, and there installed | (05 Cypjin wnd into the engine room (o her with her maid. " He said it was 80 | g0 cr the big machinery, When sure much pleasanter to live that wa He | {1V wife No. 2 had left the boat and quieted wife number two by taking num- | 1At MG B0 S 0. T was thrust crous trips to the country. Wife number | i "other car, and there for eighty one was not permitted to stay many days, | ;1105 the two woren rode in adjoining however, in San Francisco, He took her | ours und Miller had the nerve to pass to the Yosemite, and on this, as on all | gars S0 TRE TAE L o While with 1"“‘" trips, he explained wherover it | o), excusing his absence from each b gentlemen in the smoking car. His only sulvation on that occasion was that there were no gentlemen on the car that had a speaking acquaintance with him. And s0," said the lawyer, “fiftecn years of that man’s life were passed.” W hat became of Miller finally?”" was d. id. Wherever he could he hired cot- ) tages and he took serupulous eare to in- | trange to say, the sccond wife did not want to give him up, but finally her friends persuaded her to haye her mar- riage annulled, Miller or Woodwerd joined his family again, was 1iuull"_ for- wiven, and I believe they are now living in scclusion in Switz Quite & story, isn't itt" —— Mithout a Moral. “] was a clerk in a grocery store a $0 a week," he said, “‘but like many other young men I fell in with dissolute com- panions and was induced to gamble.” “And was tempted to take money elong to yout" enough iga week to buy ghted, rlanl. seemed necessary, that the lady was his Suying that he was talking business w“f, sister. The hotels were the hardest to