Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1890, Page 16

s Grand Cook Calland Sce It, THE OMAHA Stove. e Poople’s Spring, PRICKE 88170, d WRITE | For ourillustrated cat- alogue. on application. mailed 10 per cent discount until Nov. 1st. Order from it and thereby sav THE TRUTI ABOUT BELANAP, He Nobly Suffered for the Crime Which Another Committed, SHERMAN ~ SAID Grant—Justice Milier's ~Wonderful Longevity of Supreme Court Judges, [Copuright 190 by Frank G. Carpenter.] Wasmixaron, Oct, Washington s still General Belknap and Justice The two men came from tho closest of fi at part of their Bellnap was Justice Miller in the highest terms, and when, theough the fault of his wife to leavo the war department, Judge Mi was the first public man to 10 tell Lim that he still beli than one-half of the talking of the Lupon him and passed away within thelast ten years and whonow shive in the minds of the peopls the brightest stars of morality and pur ens of American statesmanship, lead double lives and whose public 1 know of othe than dame history has over zo1 of truth, when 1 the lines of ord, will give hima bitter place in his fu- ture state than he has ever had in this, I chatted lastnight with one of GENERAL BELKNAP'S (I, the man who was hero scandal, who knew all the parties and who n associated with the general that day to this. knap did not know that his wife had been y from the post traders until tnvestigation, painted them, and it came out in th took the whole blame of the shield his wife shame from that DLlame her before the people. nap was mare has endured the You remember s prosent w ‘whom he first this first wife he had a child. manund both his wife ter of the wife ight to Washington, He was a poor acquainted with ill. The man wantod ure it, and it was his post trader at 10 hold his posit worth over fl{ty thousand dollars ugh his wire a dea With Muys, Belknap by which she received hundred dollars a mouth of the prof. s long as be held the position. Mrs, Bel. ying anything tho aeal, persuaded him to husbana of her friend. received the money regularly as long as sho lived, and Belknap who paid little attention to bis wife's money matte husband about supposed it was This happened during It wasa timo of administration, high liviog and extravagance of that day was almost as great General Sherman in speaking about it sald that there was not a cabinet oftic who could live on his salary, and that the only man he knew who had not gone beyond his means was Hamilton Fish who had an income of $200,000 and who spent SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLAKS A YEAR General Sherman then said shat it cost him over $16,000 a year aud he | in entertaining, "For ¢4.70 for a .nice Laundry Stove It is a seller. [ DAILY BEE: UNDAY OCTOBER 26 1 It is also a dapted sht housckeeping: gl $5 for this Commode. For a nice pair of Portieres, d Heater. Lveryone Guarapte oo yiloam 90¢ Buys a pair of Not- tingham Lace Cur- D, 4 - For this Hanging Pretty De £1.85 for a Good Hanging Lamp. $4 Buys a Gool Heater. PEOPLE'S MAMMOTH INSTALLMENT HOUSE, The Only Live House Furnishers in Omaha. 0613-615-617-619 N. 16th St., Bet. California and Webster. attributed Mrs, Belknap's act to the ridi. culons extarvagance of the times. He was right in saying that Mrs. Belknap was extravagant, The secretary of war enter- tained like a princeand bis wife who was beautiful and witty, presided o ver his iousc: hold like a princess. Well, soit went on till Mrs, Bel knap died and her sister took her placeas the nead of the houschold, She had known of the bar- gain of the post-tradership and she also knew that Gene Belknap would not permit it to 2o on if it was disclosed to him. She took ner sister's place and _received the money, and the matterwould have never come out had it not been forone thing. She and the post-trader’s wife were very thick. They wentto London and there quarrelled, Tho result of the quarrel was that tho post-trad- or’s wife swore she would_ bo zed, and she got ber revenge by malang an expode of the wholo matter, 1t came like o thunder- clap to Belknap. He was cailed before a con- mittee of congress and upon beingasked what hie e had to say replied: “I have heard the charges read. Some things are true and some things T know nothing about. But make your and put anything in it you may it makes no difference w . As 1o wy guilt, Twill acknowledgo it without ; Only grantmy" wish that this inve tion shall be pursiied no further as it af- ccts any member of my family. In the meantimo T forgot to say General Belknap had married his w s sister and sho had had a brilliant social career before the investiga- tionwas spry As s00n as Belknap knew of the investigation, he called upon President Grant, and Grant has told me the story of his call. 5 “General Belknap came in with' Z ndler, He was 80 CHANGED | HARDLY KNEW HIM and he looked as if he had not slept for a week, 1 had not heard of tho scandal and I gotup and shook hands with him, Chandler then broached the subject of the investiga- tion g p said that he v sure it would dam: 1 but he did not want it to hurt tho administration, He suid no had written his ignation, and he there- upon handed me a paper, bursting into te 1 told him that I did not want his resignation, but 1 finally accepted it and hand [ letter before he left to that effe Grant said that he knew the w - stances and that he considerod Belknap inno- cent “Gen, sensitiy man, Belknap was one of the most men L ever kuew,” continued this ant veturned from his trip 11 was at Philadelphia with great throng of callors and the room was crowded Belknap's card was sent in, loggod it the cardand replicd to the. messen- geFthathe wanted to have a private talk with General Belknap and asked hun to call down in the evening. In the newsy I ports of that afternoon this fact was not men- tioned, but the reporters stated that a num- of distinguisted gentlemen had ealled upon General Grant and that they had all been received with the exception of General Belknap, whom it would be remembe the hero'of the most disgr n Grant’s administration, - When General Bel- kuap came down {0 the hotel that night he raving. He met me in the lobby and ked me if 1 had seen the statement. 1 told him I bad, and heasked mo as his friend to 0 0 the newsvaper offices and have it con- tradicted. While we were talking togethe Jesso Grant came down and taking the gen- eral’s arm told him that HIS PATHER WOULD SEE 1M, I told him that I would fix tho mat- ter if it took me till midnight and with that heleft. Shortly ufter this some of the re- porters of the iorning newspapers came in and I told them that Grant and Belknap were spending the evening together, 1 denounced the ridiculous report in the evening papers aud toe result was that the next moruing the papers did full credit to Belknap, “General Belknap always grew angry when anyone referred to this seandal and the slightest mention of it hurt him, Only a few days before his death T was riding with him in street car when @ couple of strangers with a lady resident of Washington entered tho car. As this woman caught sight of General Belknap she pulled tho dresses of her frionds and said in & stago whisy “Therels General Belknup; the man wl had to get out of the war department while Grant was president. You remember, don't youl” Of course they did remember and they stared over Belkuap as though he were s prize log at a county fair. He could not help hearing them and he was white with anger, He gritted his teeth and could hardly keep from leaving the car. He had to go through hundreds of such experiences after the scandal and his sensitiveness in regard to it seemed to be as keenat the time of his death as it was just after the invest r I saw General Belknap about two day fore he died. He was attending an auction sule of some valuable lots which he owned on K street and McPherson square, — The sale was a forced one and the lots did not bring as much as he expected. His financial affairs were very much involved, and his estate will be small. ~ General Belknap was one of the finest looking men in public life. About six feet high, he had a greathead of classic shape fasténed to a palr of strong broad shoulders, His complexion was as fair as that of a milkmaid. His eyes were blue and be had a long beard of golden hue ioto which the silver strands had begun to creep. Hewasa popular man bere and he leav wany friends. Judge Miller wentoff in much the same that Belknap did. Both seemed in per- health a few days befove their deaths and Miller looked as if he mightive TO BE A HUNDRED, As it 15 he died at seventy-four, by no means an old age for a justice of the supreme court. There have been during the hundred years of its organization ~only fifty- three justices on the supreme bench of the United States and twenty of these have lived to be over seventy. Judge Brad- ley is now seventy »nand he is as tough as a pine knot. Blatchford isseventy, and tiie prospects are that he will dry up’ and drop to pieces all at once like the old deacon shay at some time during his eighties. Ha only fifty-seven, but he don’t look to be , and he has enough iron 1n his blood to make o horseshoe, Justice Gray has a skin as fairas a bab and at sixty-two he isas spry and healthy as ayoung cken, Judge Brewer is in his prime, Chief Justice Fuller is sound from in 10 out, and the only shackley men on the su- premne bench are Lamar and el by all odds the healthier of the two. though he is nine years the olde amar looks much broken and his hai fast turning Rray The justices 6f the United States are the longest lived men in the couutry They he softest snapin Uncle Sam's estab- and they stick to it like grim death. 0 telling how long a man will live il he is once appointed to the supremo bench and acurious instauce of this was that of Chief Justice Taney who died at eighty- seven, Heseemed to be all his life UPON THE EDGE OF THE GRAVE, He was one of the leading lawyers of Mary- land before Andrew Jackson appointed him secretary of the treasury and got him to re- move the deposits from the United States bank, Luther Martin and Willlam Pinkney were at this time his chief competitors, but they died leaving him at the head of Both of these men hud been cmploy chancery suit which had been for a long time in the courts and which bade fair 10 become a second Jarndyce vs Jarn- dyce. The client, who had employed them had taken one after the other and they had both died on his hands, leaving his case unsettled, He was then advised to engage Taney, and with this in viow he called upon im. "' He entered “the office, took a look at the emaciated form und graveyard air of the great lawyer, and then turning on his heel left the oftice without saying a word that man my case,’ he said to the first friend he met, “I' would us soon think of giving it to a corpse. He will die within twomonths.” But Taney did not die, Jackson made him chief justice of the United States aud ho sat on the bench for twenty-elght years, Among the other octogenerians of the su- preme court was Chief Justice Jay, who had the good semse to retive after he had presided over the court for six ycars, and lived cighty-four. Chief Justico Murshall liv be eighty und Judge Swayne of Ohio died at four score, and sut on the bench for twenty years, Judge Duval of Maryland died at tighty-six, and he was on the bench twenty- five years, T heard a funny story about him the other nighi from one of the oid stagers of Washington, Said this man: “Gabriel Duval wus one of the best fellows as well as one of the most noted men of his time. He had to leave the supreme court on account of deafness, He was a mem ber of congress when it was sitting in Philadetphia, and while there boarded at the house of an old lady named Gibbous, and who had & daughter whe was ueither young noy tpeityrn, fec There i Thero were a number of other congressmen at the house, and among thom a meinber from Virginia named Giles. Giles and Duval be- at Wishington. . had been elected senator of the United States and Duval was comptroller of the treasury. ying themselyes and chatting and discussing a number of Senator Giles sudden “By tho way Duval, what has be- of that damned cacklings old maid, Jon- “She is Mrs, Duval, They were en about old tim nie Gibbons ¢ " was the reply. Giles SIUT UP LIKE A CLAV, and it was several minutes before he could recover himsell enough to go on with the conversation, years and there hav in the past who have se Justice Marshall leads the list at thirty-four, v of Massachusetts was also and Judge Stc on the bench for thirty youngest_judges th had was Bushrod Washington, who was appointed when he was thirty -al Washington was still a orite nephew of Gen inherited the estate of Moun! sat on the supreme beneh for thirty-one v and died in 1 and Justice Way s of the supreme. coul rs, and Johnson of South Caroli Tho man who shortest, term on the supreme ber who had a termof two v opened the He was appointed by Gen ington, and Washington thought a good deal i emed ho nomi senate refused to confirm him, and_ Oiiver Ellsworth, a gradu- ate of Princeton, and one of the the Declaration’ of Independence, got the co. Rutledge became insane affor his ap- pointment, and1t was on this account that senate refused to confirm him. Justice Miller was the only supremo judge everappointed from lown, and he, with the the supreme court Washington and Vernon. He MecLean of “Ohio vservod as o dinnah, an’ axes stof_the Mississippi. ober de fence las’, an’ yo’ suys John Jay, was a New Y Virginia havo each had five justic has had the honor of having a chi Chief Justic from Virginis and Chief Waite and Chase both being Ohio other stata except Ohio has Pennsylvania has b bench during our bist ts has bad four, rolina thee, Alabama, New Je; , California, Conune Now Humpshive, Tenne sippi, and Kausas one, and representative on the benchof the union. Judge Miller's death was largely Ho was tived out by his work, by his labors on the circuit and he had dec he would never mako the tri This was but & day or two b , and the duties of the supreme jud rous it he chooses o 1 orkod nearly all the day each night, and I dou't belie harder worked set of men than the judges who are now on a Posey county man went ot # be a water works ¢ electric light pl T} milo itself to death. In or withyou, I would st me up in little bits of piecos and divide me among the citizens.” o you will find & ve hours out of Tho ehiof just every twenty-four. hard student, and Jud in about twic the hunks of that ¢ gall,” hours as a gove Waite's last si ness was caused by overwork, and the moral of Judge Mille man in“public life life should retire at until he drops. seems 10 be t nd especially in judicial sventy, and not work on FRANK G, CARPENTER, Dr. Birney, nose and throat, Bee bldg. 3 and, with the impulsesof 1f you've got a pain, ache or bruise, Salva- | gup, u Oil will reach the case instantly, ition Voters—By resoly ourtlegislature, all good citizen's ar ed uo use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup a mend the same s the coughs, colds, ete. Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Beo bldg, THOUGHTS 1N LICHTER VELY, Somo Straws Gleaned from the World's Harvest of Wit and Humor, HOW CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES He Knew the Girl-Had Plenty of Gall-Why She Necded a Para- 80l — Mr. Jones Didn't Bother Him. Attorney (in breach ofpromi I it wasso dar see her kiss him, could you?” Witness: “No,” Aftorney (triumphantly): “Why then are you positive that she did kiss him.?” Witness: “Because it was too d for me to see her.” Attorney (furiously); “From what actual knowledge of your own, sir, can you state that she kissed him?” Witness: “From my knowl the girl,” arlk y of Room for Suspicion. Chicago Herald: Re impson Doe- little lives in the suburbs. The other evening he met Brother Reachup in a davk street, strolling carelessly along with an empty bag on his shoulder. Hi! Brer Reachup!” said Rev. Doolittle, *“Wha'yo’ gwine so sly wid dat bag dis hyuh in de ebenin’?” I'so atter T hopes yo' don’ sp exclaimed chickens' Brer Doolittle Brother Reachup indigantly, “‘Shoh” replied Rev, Mr. Doolittle. “DId I say's 1spec’s yo' obdat? But I got jes’ hyuh to say, Brer Reachup, an dat is ef T draps in'to yo' house tmah to ’fo’a wing an’ a s an’ de piece wiut goes d plenty ob gravy, o hain’t gotno chicken, I'll "spec’ yo' ob p'vavication', Brer Reachup, Dat’s wat I wi piece ob de bre He Wanted the Gal TIndianapolis News: Some ago 1o umé president of a bank, president of smpany and owned the nt. One fine day the bank closed its doors, The supply of ater was_exhausted and that night ro wasn't n bit of electric light in the town. An outraged community with a vove called on the Fosey counto min and, after standing him on a box, asked him if he had anything to say, “Not much. The bank's busted. 3 isn’t adrop of water within two nd the electric plunt has shocked 1o bo square gest that you cut When Le had finished a little old man hopped up and shouted neral distribution of mount, I want his “Gents, in th Fooled the Preacher. roit ws: A precocious little us noticed on Jeflerson avenue r day making his best endeavor door-bell just bayond his reich Lappencd & 0od Sumari to ring A well knbwn minister wanted 1o help the boy, ke to ring that bell, sonny?” Yes, siry but lcan't reach it,” he divine stepped to the verandg and gave the bell w vigorous pull, T he lvm\u: the interesting juvenile on the hend, uted the yw run like the devil! kid, as he shot down the strect at top , you couldn’t speed. All the man could ness and mak was answered, Better Than a St Milwaukee Journ thing,” said o farmer as e duy, Sivell, what s it?? low us?” “Lake Brie,” which the b * Put-in-Ba, its run to” there worth of paryg I'd be sur proof that L didn’t, Needed Tt e App received u birthd parasol. She ca all through the house, br table with herwhen shos on taking it along when sho Hermother demurred at this. “You don't need it while asleop, Bessio,” suid the ma ent, an't my parasol.” asol there, my child,” i asl me 1o go out walking with be ina protty fix without wouldn't 17 He'd think I was country,” Didn't Bother Him, Chicago Herald: When ¢ was predaching in o we time ago he was annoyocd by an who was whispering to I terruption 1o long straight at the you use until the ng man The silence was intens whispering busy that “nsur Mr. Jones repe vemark, and this time thoy he himiclf. While every one wus and snid: **Go right shead, youuare not bothering me.” “*Do you see that man th laundry? usked the g whom he was showin, penitentiary a fow da siry that man is no doubt the man inside of these v " Visitor (interested) Indeed! we haven man in here who mortar on the i flinched even afte shot woun gang of ou \ ws on the Visitor (very much interc ~ WRITE For our illustrated cat- alogue, on application. mailed cent discoun until Nov. 1st. 10 per Order from it and therely save And mny T ask what ho was laugh at this deplorable bit of worldli- | sentenced for xplanation whenthe call inly; sir; he was received That man had six I want some- Michigan avenue drugstore the otl New York Worl hoy avengerto his heara voico wallcing this way!” The faith ful dog histed, “Ididn’t tiea string around my finger, but I guess I can get around to it all the same, What’s the name of the lake be- though Uully. Al thatmoment nine indians, led hy tomaches, chargedup the The faithful dog Slipped his pip is pocket and d foremost, and, one afte of the red demons bit the dust Lo his horror the Boy Av that there w But he wasab What's the name of the hay Old-Fourteen-s “‘Correct. Now, then, who put in @ bead on th 5 I want 10 cents’ y old woman Lramrod into his weapon he fired full nt the neclssof the remaining Indiar rance Sake. Chicago Forald; Little Bossio present of a fine blue :d it over her head ught it to the o,and insisted I theivneceks and streung them up thanked the faithe jestort to’ scesce me durin’ the Custor “Yos, T do, mamma,” sho answered. “IfIshould die and go to heuven, I'd ne One Was Kissod. “*You wouldn’t have any use for a par- I would, mamma. 1f God should Fuilas much o wJust lookat tho baby L wink, us 1€ 10 herliuge you thi t Of the girls1'd 1 town ceriol, stilling mlly the preacher could stand the in- , ol to ohey, a r, &0 he oung man in th room gets through talking, ,and ¢ was on the young mun, who was still to hisgirl. He had been so ud ot caught the pr d lushed aplil Wiile Sumuel tur 80 the question 5 d him. Not an instant did ho hesi- tate, but he immediately tried tosquare Profits of Flness. From Smith, Gy “Ihat house, him, he looked squarély ut tho preach 10 an exnbezzl capel punishment, | s 0, noj it wis built by one of our proms 1 of a visit throu, since. gable Fyidence. am sure of it.” malkes you think so? Guard—Y es, sis, no doubt of it. shotaud shell from the musket 1d of Shilo and celving two painful have another who paida bad o A Worthy B g0 Inter Ocean “in thesoup” und perhaps killed men than any other man alive. He wasn't afraid of beast. We have still another wan here who with one palheld up an expre teain and robbed over fifty pa and wis as ool about it as if »assing the contribution box ¢ yut that man yonder beats thewm all for nerve,