Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1891, Page 12

2 - 1 THE BE E, SUNDAY AUGUSNI 0 1891 -SIXTEEN PAGES. 3 ECROES FROM THE ANTE ROOY, The Formaticn of a Second Masonic Grand Lodge in Ohio. ILLINOIS MASONS AND THE WORLD'S FAIR. Corner-Stone Laying at South Omaha | ~The Colored Masons to Meet in Another Violation Pythian Law. Omaha of to Tie Masonio Corusnrs, 0., Aug. 6,—|Spocial Ber.]-The ancisnt and honorable fraternity of Ohio is in a position now to at- | tract attention from all the world. The order is severed in twain, with two grand lodges in the Buckeyo state contending for supremacy, and the outcome of the future cannot be foretold. The causes loading up 1o this deplorable condition of alfairs,which is to be rogrotted by all true Master Masons, can be traced directly to the attitude of the old grand lodgo in the war of tho Scottish rites, which has beon waged rolentlessly in Ohio for ths past six years. Tho conténding rites are the United States jurisdiction (com- monly called the Cornoau rite) and tho Northern jurisgictic By action of the grand lodge all members of the Unitad State under a ban and oaicts wero grand master commanding members to withdraw from the Scottish rite bodies, under penalty of expulsion. Charges were made against members who refused to comply with these commands, and the courts were appealed 1o, Nota singls member nas beon expelied, but these acts culminated in the formation of a new grand lodge which recoived its charter from the state on July 2 The immediate cause for this action is found in n district meeting called s few months ago by the lecturer for thoe district, comprising all the lodges in this vicinity, for instructions. Kach moember of the order present wus required to tako a test oath in which he was made to aftirm thut he did not belong to the United States jurisdiction Scot- tish rite. Among those wuo attended the meeting for instructions was Brother Daniel W. Wright, worshipful master of New fng- iand lodge No. 4, located at Worthington. Ho refusod to take tho test vath, and after- ward the newly engrattea clausc of the Ma- sonic law was sent to him in_priuted form, accompanicd by an order from the grand master directing him to sign it, and admon- ishing nim that unless this was done he would be deposed and expelled. The lodge stood by the worshipful master, and passed a resolution withdrawing from the grand lodge. There wore only two or three dissent- ing votes, aud the lodge, one of the oldest in thostate, and which assisted in the focmation of the old grand lodge, refused to surrender its charter to the grand master. The lodge continued to contfer degrees and have intro- duced many neophites to the mystery of the craft. Other lodges, which had been broken up through the action of the erand body, re- organized, and joined with New Eugland in forming the new grand lodge, just incorpo- rated. Tho new grand lodge, while owing its ex- istence to the Scottish rite differences and the attitude of the old grand lodge in the controversy, is nota United States jurisdic- tion body, as will be seen by the following oficial statement given out by Daniel W. ‘Wright, whbo was duly elected and installed as the grand master of the new lodge, in which it is made plain that their object is to preserve tho ancient usages of Frecmasonry : “For more than seventy-five years anterior 1o 1885, the craft in Ohio, as ropresented by the grand lodge, refnsed to recognize or take cognizance of any other degrees in Masonry, wisely holding ‘that ancient craft nasoncy consists of tho three degrees only, and that it had no more power or jurisdiction over any of its members professing the so-called higher degrees than over the conscience, religion or politics of its members. In the year 1515 the arand lodge, at its annual communication, declared that the subject of the higher de- grees of Musoury was not ‘a proper subject for this lodgo to acton,’ and again in 1% upon the same subject, the grand lodga d clared as follows: ‘The members of this grand lodge are Ancient Master Masons ouly and therefore know nothing about, the law overning chapters in the expuision of mem- bers, nor do they kuow anything about the degrees or niode of conferring them if they have any,’ “Prior to 1535, there wore two rival bodies in this state, cach claiming sole authority to confer the degrees of the Ancient and Ac- copted Scottish rite in Ohi Neither of these bodies was 1u any way conneeted with Aucient Craft Masonry, but each claimed to be legitimate and deuounced the other as clandestine. Prior to 1855, tho Masouic fra- teenity of Ohio wisely forebore to identify itself with either of these factions and refused to recognize either in any way. In 1555, & conspiracy was entered into avnd car- vied out by cortiin members of one of these factions known as the Northern jurisdiction, by which they obtained control of the offices of the gruud lodge and through which the grand lodee was induced to declare the Northern jurisdiction legitimute and the other clandestine and was induced to is an edict declaving the United States juris tion, commouly known as tho Corncau rite to be ‘Yirregulnr, illegal and un-Masonic,” and making it a Musonic offense for any Mastor Mason in Ohio, to take, receive, com- municate or be prosent ut or assist any one to take or apply for any of the degrees of the Cerncau Scottish rite and requiring a test oath to be taken by all Masons visiting lodges in Ohio to the effect that they did not nold membership in or allegiance to any Ce neau or other body that had been declared clandestine by the grand lodge of Ohio, And by and through its grand master, the grand lodge required all subordinate lodges of Ohio under its jurisdiction to refuse to recognize or affiliate with any Masou refusing to ubjure the Cerneau rite; and atone of its annual communications struck from its roils three lodges in Ohio and pretended to arrest their charters and deprive them of Masouie affilis- tion with the grand lodge and their bretoren in Obilo for having appealed to the civil courts for an_impartial decision of the ques- tion in controversy. *“This arbitrary” and unmasoaic action of the grand lodge in recognizing as Mascnic & body unknown to Auncient Craft Masonry aud heretofore unrecognized ns Masonic und in declaring a rival body irregular, illigiti- ate and unmasouic, has resultod in’ depri ing about two thousand Musons und five lodges of Ohio of all Musonic rights and privileges—sown the seeds of discord and contention, destroyed brotherly love. severed the bonds of fraternal union, and aroused bitter and unforgiving animosities which will take years to beul. Under the direction of the fastion domi- nating the grand lodge, and resulting there- from, ofticers clegted in tho lodges were de- posed, alections Were set aside, and lodgos were not permitted to elect to office any of their members who belonged to the other Bceottish rite; they wore mpelled to file charges agminst and expel brothers belongng to tho Cerueau bodies, to administor a new and hithertounknown tost outh which exclud- ed hundreds of good and true Master Masons of this und other states frow sitting with them 1 lodgo—all under pevalty of baving their charters arrested or their membership decreased by expulsion. A unew ooligation was proviued, requiring the candidate to pledge himself in advance not to take the de- groes of the Cerneau bodies, and was ordered 10 be exacted by lodges from their candi- dates, whereby the craft is deprived of the accession to it ranks of many liberty loving citizens who will uot thus sacrifice their freedom of chuice. All Masons, however wunh{n, are debarved from the privilege of visitation, of ofice in their lodges, of dele- Kates to the lodge, of of sitting in the erand lodge, in short, are aborn of all rights and priviloges as Masons, who do not yiold to the proscriptive behosts of the Scottish_rito faction dominating the Eund lodge. Worthy Masons from abroad ave been refused admission to lodges in jurisdiction wore placed issned by the all blue lodwo dic- grand the state because thoy refused to humiliate | themselves by taking the obnoxious testoath, A large proportion of the Musons in Oblo bave ceased 1o take iuterest in the order; general disorder and dissatisfaction provails within the ordor throughout the state, and all in the iuterest of one fuotion of an outside body. The grand lodge has ceased to repre- sent the interests of the craft in Ohio, and has become an adjunct to a foreign body. “The grand loage organized today proposes to adhere strictly to the ancient charges, con- stitutions aud landmarks of Masonry and to recognize no other dogroes of Ancient Craft | Masonvy. Wa recognize as brethren all Masons who conform 1o the ruies and rexula- tions of Anciont Craft Masonry and W nou recoguize as Masonic uny of tho so-¢ higher dogreos no will any Mason be | seribed or called to nccount for having taken any of the so-called higher degroes.” | M | The Acacia club of Chicago, an exclusivo Masonic institution, proposes 1o do sorrething in the way of makine an attenctive exhioit av the club house during the worid's fair, and a | circular has been issued to tao lodges of 11li | nois in which the president of the club, | George W. Warvelle, says “In view of tho large influx of Masonie vis- itors which the world's faiv will bring to Chicago the directors of the Acacia club do- implements of Masonry, and other objects of archiologleal interest, the whole to form a | permanent _exposition of Illinois I'ree- masoury. The collection will bo properly ar- nged, classified and catalosied by the ci for the inspection of the Masonic fraternity throughout the world. Old or new pubiicati celebrations, addresses, raports of co occasions, portraits of living and de persons of Masonic prominence are desi local matters, smoninl ased ) 18 of | Old procsedings of th grand lod e, chapter, couneil, or commandery prior to 1570, and anything bearing the mark of the craft upon ro solicited, The collection will be open for inspection ull times, and visitors' tickets will be fur. nished to every person who can prove Ma- sonic standing. Al the oxpenses connectod will be borne by the club. We trust the importance of a goodly showing to our foreign visitors will be a suft nt ine tive to you to aud us in our efforts, irand Master Staughtor requests that Master Masons meet at Freemason's hail, Sixteentn and Capitol avenue, at 2:30 p, m today for the purpose of atien ling the laying of t or stone of the First Presbyterian church of South Omaha. Au occasional wrand lodge will be openca ab that hour, aud at 3 o'clock special wotor trains will be boarded at Capitol avenus and Fourteenth street for South Omaha. It wili be necessary that movements be made sharply on time in with the enterpris order to avoid delaying tue other motor trains, irond Lodge. The grand lodgo of Missouri, Ancient, F'reo and Accepted Masons (colored), will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary b Omalu, becinning Tuesday, the 1Sth inst., and continuing until Saturday, the 22d. The meeting is expected to be the largest in the history of the grand lodge and the members of thé order in Omaha are spaving no effort to make the occasion a success. Both the grand commandery and grand chapter will hold their annual sessions during the week and_entertainments will te providea each night for the winusement of tue visitors, con- cluding with an entertainment at exposition hall on Friday night, th 21st inst. Iriduy afternoon 'a prizo drill will take place at tho ball park botween visitiug com- manderies, for which two prizes of $100 and #25 have baen offered. A band contest will also be held and excursions will bo ran from St. Lows, Kansas City, Leavenworth and other points. PO b Grand Secrotary Myers has issned an im- portant circular to the order from which the following is extracted: “During the year tue district deputy, in making bis offieial visit, will be imstructed to make a personal examinatiou of the black boolk of every lodge visited and see that it is promptly Kept up in full to date. If by neg- cct of your predecossor or for any reason your biack hook has been neglected, please inform your loage and have a now and com- plete black book ordered from this oftico. Do this at your next meeting anda don't wait until the snow begins to fly. In a numver of instauces officers have lost their rituals by careying them home or elsc- where. This must result in disaster to the order, and the greatest care should be used if our secret work is to be securely guarded. On_this subject T am dirceted by our grand exaited ruler, Brother Edwin B. Hay, to say must commit their rituals in hour laws, and at the expira- tion of that time every rittal must be placed in the custody of the tyler and remain thero. The unames of brothers dropped for no payment of dues need not be sent to this oftice, and they must not be sent to other sub- ordinate lodges. Owing to the fact that _during the summer months lodges are required to hold ouly meeting monthly many lodges have mot vet acted on tho amend- ments 'to the coustitution. If your lodge has not done so please bring the'matter toits attontion and notaty this office at once of the result, that we may prociaim th> adoption or rejection as speedily as possible. A handsome lithograph, splendid in desien and beautiful in execution, has beon prepared and copyrighted for the grand lodge for use as commissions for past exalted rulers, lodge oficers, und members' cortificates. = This work, which surpasses any design_issned by any secret society, has been printed on heavy plate paper for framing. It is not loud in color, but is a perfect and exact reproduction of an' India ink sketeh prepared by Brother J. L. Raxe of Reading (Pa.) lodge, No. 117 These can ve had for §1 each. All monc 8 from this sourco go iuto the grand lodge treasury. New editions of the Grand lodge constitu- tion and laws and by-laws for subordinate lodges have been printed, and can bo sccured ou order from tho zraud Secretary. The torm of visiting crd authorized by the Grand lodge at its [ast mecting has been printed. No Elic should be admitted to any 2 without this card, worded in accor unce with the law. The language 13 plain, and there can be no exceptions under any circumstauces. (et vour cards, so that ali vrothers may be provided before the regulur meetings in the fall, Any brother desiring information of any kind will be promptly answered by adaress- ing his communications to this ofice. Our grand exalted vulor, Brother Hay, is bei annoyed with details, which take up much ol nis_time, when the letters will reccive - mediate attention by veing addiessed to the grend secrotary. Letters asking for a legal opiuion or for” a construction of our luws should be addressed to the Hon. Edwin B Hay, 1425 New York avenue, Washington. Allen O. Myers bas sold his interest in the Social Session, tne official organ, to Georze . Griftiths, and for the first time in eizht- eou years ho is entiroly out of the newspaper business. Dispensations have been granted for six new lodges sinco the grand lodve meeling, and papers are out for a dozen more. All offorts to induce New York to return have failed. They seom determined to shut the door against themselves, Pennsylyania will soon pass Obio in the uumber of lodges and bead the Elk’s column. K. of i The Western Accident association is the name of the latest addition to the Pythian insurance companies which come under the ban of tho luw enactod by the supreme lodwo at its last session. The company has its headquarters in Omaha and all the oficers and airectors are Knights of Pyth No ono except Knights of Pythias aro insured. The ofticers and directors uro as follows: Ed R. Sizer, Lincoln, president.D. 1. Miller, Omaha, vice-president; Charles M. Chamber: lain, Tecumsoeb, trosauror; Will L. Seism, Omaha, secretiry; Jobn Jenkins, Omaha, agent; Clarence K. Chamberlain, ‘ccumsch: K. M. Billings, Geneva. All of these gentiemen are members of tne order of more or less prominence, K. G e Red Cross castle, No. 4, Knights of the Golden Eagle, installed the following officors for the ensuing term: Dr. J. M. McManigal, past ohiof; W. R. Miller, noble chief; C. B! 3oice, vico ohief; R. Tizard, high priost; L. C. Exven, vencrable hermit; John Hall, mas- tor of rocords; W.S. Porry, keeper of ox- chequer; Frank Kessier, sit herald; George B. Morrs, worthy bard; H. Bechtold, en- sign; L. Steln, esquire; A. Haas, worthy chamberlain; Chavles A. ‘Barry, first guards- wan; William Shepnerd, second guardsman This castlo is in a flourishing condition and is taking in new members at every meeting. 10,0,k Tho next mecting of the soverelgn grand lodgo will be hold at St. Louis, beginning September 21, Preparations are being made for a street parade by the Patriarchs Mili- tant, encampment and cantons, and several vrizes will be offered for prize drills by the cautous, ) o do | ed | | pro- | sire to make a tine exhibi of the origin, progress and dovelopient of Kreemasonry in ! Illinos, and 1o this end fnvite the co-opera- tion of the craft generally. The exhioit will ke the shape of & file of all printed publica- | tions issucd by grand and constituent bodies since the mtrouuction of Musonry into the | original northwost territory ; portraits, views, | o1d manuseripts, aprons, working tools and OMAHA DAILY | THE OLD-TIME TELEGRAPHERS Preparations for the Ooming Annual Oone \ vention in Washington, | THE VEZTERANS OF = THE SIXTIZS, Thrilling Experiences of Members of’ | the Military Telegraph the War—Interesting Reminiscences. Corps nerally through- out the country as a city ot conventions and as the place of mee of various societins, A large numbs of such mootings have been held, but thero is one which wi!l oceupy the | 19th ana 20th of the next month which, not only on account of its distinguished member- | ship, tut because of the fact that it will be an event in that greatest of all modern in- ventions, the electric tele ph, will be | possessed ot unusual ana peculiar interost, { both present and reminiscent, says the Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Ropublic It will be the meeting of the Tolegraphic association and of of the United States Military composition of these assoclutions work which they have done are with interest to science, to business and to the history of the late war. Many of the members of these socictics were telegraph telegraphing at the front meant as much a r to them as did the charge of battle to men engaged in it And again, in their administration of the | pavticular line which they had operate, it was incumbent upon them to show ad- ministrative judgment and tact equal to that of an officer in commana of a division in reconnoissance. In other words, they not only had to know their country and their wires ana be quick in execution, but they Old-Timers' the societ corps. The and the fraught operators when were competled to rely wholly upon them- selves. If they failed, there aro but very few records of such failures. work without fear and to the entire satis- faction of the men who beuetited by that work th e records of the war department fully attest, That they did their FIELD DATTERIES. It was early in the war that the benefits of the telegraph wero recognized, and it was only about six months after the war opened, that telegraphers were used to establish lines on_battle-ficlds, and to manuge what were called “eid batteries,” a_term drawn from tho artillory. The uso of the telegraph as an adjuuct of War was thus_demonstrated by these men 1o bo not ouly practicable, but of the greatest advantage. = Buropeau coun- tries wero quick to recognizo this fact and to introduce the system in their own armics, General Sheridan 1n his Memoirs speaks of this, espeeially in reference to 4 conversi- tion'on that subject which he had with Prince vou Moltke, when he accompanicd the German army in the Franco-German war. Von Moltke, General Sheridau says in his book, told i that thers wero two things that 5tood out awong others that he had learned from the American civil war. Ono was the use of the military telegraph dnd the other was the equipment of the cavalry. This was toid to Genoral Sheridan, as be lates, on the ficld of Gravelotte after the German charge had beeir made, and Vou Moltke, Prince Bismarek and Emperor Will- iam were standiug on a knotl with eneral Sheridan awaiting calmly the result of taat charce, The 'rench were next to follow the United States in this field, which ha¢ been developed by the American’ telographer. After thut came Eogland, always slow, and _the rest of Europe. This much fora preliminary as re- wards too military service of the American telegrapher. SOME OLD-TIMT A number of men now prominent in other walks of life started out us teiegraph opera- tors. Here are some instances: George C. Maynard of this city is the president of tho SOld-Timers,” and Colonel W. R. Plum of Chicago is the president of the military so- clety. A pleasure that the ussociation antiei- patés is the presence of Anna Elisworth,who 1 now the wife of Mr. Roswell Smith, pre: dent of the Century company. Miss ~ Eils- worth 1t was who sent the first messaze over Morse's line between Washington and Balui- mo Among others in the connec be mentioved Public Printer Palmer, Sixth Auditor Coulter, Rev. Jabez Iox, Andrew Carnegie, Rovert Pitcairn, Thomas A. Edi- son, Gieorge IKcenan, Elisha Gray, James D. Reid, United States’ Consul to Dumfearine, Scotland; Thomas Sherman, consul to Liver pool, Enzland; Julso §. Wicikham of >eunsylvania, ~ox-tiovernor R. B. Bul- luck of Geéorgiu; Walter P. Phillips, manager of the Umted Press; James [iverson, puvlisaer of the Philadelphia 1n- quirer; Bdward Rosewater, proprictor of tho Owans Bre, and J. L. Waite of the Burling- ton Hawleye. Andrew Carnegio to this day uses as paper-weight a telegraph key made of gold Matiers of the most important and seeret character are in the keeping of telesraph op- erators. ‘There have be where these men could have used tho infor- wation which they had o their great mon- etary 0 ‘The tomptation to do so has n thousauds of cases doubtle 3 great in nany instances, out cases where faith has been violated are ex- wemely rure—so raro,ndeed that they could be counted upon the tingers. And.when operator once breaks faith 0 out of the business. for it in every offico in tne country, and 1t would be almost impossible for him to secura employment: aud even it bo should do so bis lifo would ho no pleasant one, for the faith- ful men would have nothing to do with bin. So marked 15 this trait that Genecal Grant s00n as he begun to use th dispatches acring the war, confided the keepin vs of his cipher to tho tele- He took this siep after finding out-that in the use of the cipheron a certain oceasion, his operator, Bockwith,was right while he was wron. olegraph operators have been known to Dburn a message rather than expose 1t, even ma court of justice. Others have been known to 2o to jail rather than reveal tne secrots of their “profossion. Thero are in numorabla wstances of this fidelity, The operators ave trasted, and they ave faitnful to their trusts. It bas been well said of them that their business-is an education in honor A WAR INCIDENT. Oue of the thrilling iucidents of the war which peoble did not hear about was connoc ed with tho appearanco of the dreaded M rimac in Hampton Roads and hoe work of de- struction therw before the Monitor appearod on the scene. This was the transmission by wiro of tho details of the Mae gress from Newport, News to | roo aud thence to \Washington. Ou that day Jobn O'Brien, a boy not over sixteen years of ago, wus at the key at k Monros, whils CGieorge D, Cowlan was just across the river. Tho ofiecars at tross Mouroo gaihered about O'Brica and usked him to signal over tho wive for Cow- lun. ‘This was done. Cowlan promptly un sweored. Soon thoreafter iviug commencedl he might as He will be known a of the ke eraph operator. Cowlan’s position mado him a mark for tho tire of tho ¢ ate:. But still be stuyed at his instrament, Shells tow about his quarters. Two of them tore through his of. tice within a few feet of nim, but he lsopt a steady hand ut tho key and ticked off an ac connt of how thiugs wera going. There was nothing in_tho whole war that_ transcended this exhibition, not oniy of courage, but of fortitude. A fow sentonces of his will show how graphicaily he told the tals of ms work “She is steering steaight for the Cumber- laud—The Cumberland gives her u broadside. She reels over—sSeems to be sinking—No; she comes on again—She bas steack tho Cumberland—She has poursd a broadside 1nto her~God, the Cumbarland is sinkiog The Cumberland has fived her last broaaside and has gona down. " I'he effoct of Luis story, 48 dopicted on the couutenances of the officers in Fortress Mouroa who surrounded O'Brien, passes aescription. But that work was not all Cowlan ¢ tinued 1n Lis dangerous place and described from tiiore vach phase of tho figat. Ho apparently carea for nothing bat tne por. formunce of nis duty. O'Brion sent directly from Cowlan to the office of Seoratary Stau ton in Washington, and it was he who seat the news that the Monitor had turned the current of affairs which car d sueh jo throughout the north and g you in Washiagton, whers boats, lalen with stoucs 1o ba sunk i case the [derring the river, higd O Brien, ol fng, wasthe young the military service hannel of the Potomae 1n 1 had come vietorious up foon proparod. whiom we have just boen talk- st telograph operator in he was in bis teens, Arother y who was al ly i ho kr JER YOUNG ITERO, ing one »i#ow his years of uy Al the ¢ duty, and ho did it 1L ho Wiy A man under age, Buunell, Ho was sume time Dospite the o was was Jesse majority. ady for his wdtk. Soon the opportunity presented itselt,. 1t was on Jun when Gaines’ Mill was fought. Porter had ro tired from Mectianiesvills and it was impor- tant that o shoyld hold his position north of the Chickahomiuy until night. Bunnell had n temporavily sont to Porter's headguar- . und on thymorning of the Jith, in fal- ling back to Guines' Mill, he having no horse missed tho main live and got out of his PrOper course, ['nis was about 1 o'clock in tho afternoon. Porter was being pressed vory har struck road along whic telegraph line was strung, and discoverod also that a lne of battlo Was being formed about 100 yards to At that bour Brunuell a the roar. He cut the line. He counected his instrument with the current and then sat down behind atreo, The nextthing he did was to call headyuarters, Caldwell, at the other end of the wirs, promptly responded. General McClellan ~ and — the officers about him regarded the opening ication at that voint aud Bunuell having 1o orderlies, M an sent a telegram to him to stop tne first mouvnted off or soldior passing that way and order bim in McClel- Lan's name, to uiko a message to General Port to sond Bunnell fifteen mounted orderiies and communicate at once with him by telegraph, This was done, and for sev- eral hours Buunell sat there close to that trec and sent and received many messages as 10 the progress of tne fight, of Which lio was receiving no mean sample himself. Tho roar of battle was all around him. Shells and builets came his way very often. Ho could hear the checrs of the union men and at the same time the yells of the confederates, This pandemonium, us it may be evident, did not conduce to telegraphing by the ear. But Bunnell, though a youngster, wus equal to tho occasion, una “did his work like a veteran. Seveval of the messages which his orderlies brought him “were be- spattered with their own blood. He was obliged, in fact, to forward his telegrams to General Porter by two or three messeugers, s several of them wers shot on their way. MecClellan fougnt that battle by telograph, nd 1t was Bunnall who wa3 his chief medium, who worked where the fighting was the hottest. This certainly was great confi- denco to reposo in a beardless operator, but as usual that confidence was not misplaced. of tolegraph comms moment as a ousend. AS A FORAGER. The tetegraphicr is not void of ingenuity in providing stores for himself. This 15 very aptly shown by an incident at General Hal- leck’s headguarters in frout of Corinth. Hal- leek’s provost marshal had issued an order forbidaing tho landing of any liquor and closing tho bars on all steamers on the Ten- nessee river. I'he operators at headguarters undertook o circumvent this order, believ- ing that liquor was no worse for them than for membors of the staff, who enjoyed ir. One of the operators had a great idea. e called on the mars and told him that the tield lines were nearly useless for want of buttery material. ‘The marshal asked what article was upply the de- ficiency. The reply acid was needea, Tho marshal said that he had no acid, bat if it was possiblo to use alcoiol as a substitute hie could furnish that article. The operator told him that ho might ge: slong with - tho alcobol if it was seut to him in the form of very good whis The marshal sent a bar- BESTABLISHED ~ |MAXMEYER & BRO. CO. 180606, Sixteenth and Farnam Streets, LEADING JEWELERS OF OMAHA We not only earry the LARGEST STOCK of DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CLOCKS, SILVERW ARE, JEWELRY, ETC., but we are constantly adding all the LATEST NOVELTIES as fast as they come out. RICH STERLING $(L- VER GOODS, including the largest assortment of SOUVENIR SPOONS in the rel Of his best to thie telegraph headquarters, “The barrel was sunk in a hole of the floor of the tent and covered with earth. A roed protruded from it about threo inches from the ground. Tho “battery material” was tested and found to work beautifully Ono afternoon whilo one of the telegraphi ope: tors was lying upon the grouud drawing “battery material” Geveral Halleck unex- pectedly enterod the tent. 'The operator serambled up s CGeneral Halieele inquire why he was so prostrate. The operator stammered out: “1am drawing battery terial, general.”q “Halleck saw that soin thing was wrongand questioned the youn man. He drow out the whole story, over which ho had a heatty lauga There’ was W. K. Applebaugh. Whie at White Plains He sturted with a_small puriy in a tugboat for tha mouth of the Matapony river to repair a oreak in the line. T'he guor- villas fired at the party from the river banks on the downward trip and on running into Little York one of the boat hands abandoned he tug. Applebaugh, at the request of the captain, took charge of the wheel on the retuen trip and piloted the vessel up ths river, a distance of sixteen miles, notwith- standing the incessant firiug from both banks. At Bethesda ciurch the confederates drove back a portion of Warren's corps, le posed for some distance the field tel line. ‘This the confederates gathered, coiled up, rammed into one of their - guns and_ shot back to the union camp. [t camo whisthng through the air with a hideous noise until caught in too bushes and trees. The opera- tors had a good laugh over this and asked one another why the coufedorates had uot sent an operator along witls it. A PECULIAR EXPERIENCE Albert . Hoover, the day operator at Nor- mandy, Tenn., had a peculiar experience dur- ing the war. Every train that passed north carried wounded men. Ono night Colonel Koetcham, commanding at Normandy, called floover's attention to the fact that tho north bound midnight train had for several nights failed to stop as ovdered, and he was directed to stop it. Hoover gave the instructions to the night operator and went to bed. e coutd uot slecp. o was keonly porsuaded that the train must be stopped. He arose to nwait its coming. As it camo along he stowed the ved lizht, ana the tram_stopped. Tho conductor was 'told that No. 7 was re- quired to stop regzulariy, but as it neglected to o so the lantern bad been used. “Well, that is all right,” he repliod, “but I am not No, 1ts engine gave out ahoma,and ¥ special full of wounded men was ordared alicad and to carry the flag of No. 7' He then pulled wwiny T with _ten conches full of helpl The operator watched until the rear re jnst tuened tho cuvve, whon he heard call for brakes, ‘Then there wero a fow dull sounds. Hoover stao 1 trausfixed at tho door. Ho folt that whateve ho had been dreading so many hoars b t0 Ina tew minutes the conductor r ith his lautern, and in a husky vo “Come and seo what your red light saved us from.”” ‘They discovérad that in the daric- ness tho confoderates *had broken tho switch lock, turned the rail from the main track and 88 the track with o seid the conductor, pass fastened a bar of iron ac tele caph wire ou haa no huve steuck this obstruction at_ forty an hour, and the wholo teain with the helpiess men woula bave gone down into that rivor! pointing (o tho deop black waters of the Duck river. Sueh of the wounded as wero ablo to wall crowded around tho telo- graphors and wid) taies in their eyes ox prossed their gratiugte; but Hoover insisted that it was not he but an overraling Proyi- dence that had saved them. THEYARE PAITIFUL. vaph bigs stand by one another. Whoo the anion fordes wero in Atlanta, W. IR Plum had chad8f the ofico there.’ An operator near AlAtoona informed the Atlaita oltico that Lhery wave reports that Grant wis fizhtiug throo mils from Richmona and thut s0 far 1 could bo (ehvnod wll was prozressing favorably. ‘This Fport, liko many other ru Tors, was given t] Baowsdaaler, who bulle tined it GeneralSlocumn, who was in com. mand at Atlanta, folt outriged because, as he suid, he recorved Thfnews from bis orderlies, whobad read the'Billetin. He made two sol” diers warch Plu |§ bi> quarters, whero ho “Bays,” tlagged us tonight we would miles ‘The tol ave u disagreeablh gxhibivion of oficial tem- per. Plum was cilifined amoug u lot of thioves, deserters and spies until lhiberated ut the personal solicitation of Genoval Bran- non and some other oficers of General Thomus' stall. Cass Sholes, the chief opera: tor, was refused a1 interview with the pris ondr while the latter was in confincment Thereupon he notitied General Slocun that until the prisoncr was released the tolograph oftive at Atlanta would be closed. — Tho oper- also telographod to Goneral Sherman, signailing a part of the way, but tho affair was all over beforo u reply came, The uoove will give tho reader o very good idea of the class of wen who are s00n 0 have their reunion in Washington. Thousands of | stories ilinst thelr couvage, intelli geuce and fidelity coutd be writton. Prosident Lincoln was a great friend of the west. Our “Big Injun” Omaha spoon=-just out, is taking the lead, and is des- tined to be a great seller. We placed on sale the FIRST HUNDRED of these e beautiful spoons last week, and there were only a few of them left Saturday night at closing time, but we will have plenty more of them the coming week. l:lu coliection would ba complete without one of ll\n:r(‘rqpv):'ni. : e OUR GREAT Reduction §'1e OF — FineClocks is still in progress. Fine mmitation Marble Clocks at £3, $65, :7.50, #8.50 and $10, worth double. We have about a dozen very 3 tinn Parlor Clocks, in }f} ;) : Y ; "fl ‘gl‘nu?|nl".\llu||‘l‘\h-.1.\h‘ul-"n'\- % A Uz e l‘wm% 5 »‘h‘. ;\m{;‘. n - i Eooant Clock, 8- ay, HattHour Strike,Cathedral Gong, only §7,50 werida an ' " " Fine Spectacles and Eye Glasses. Solid Gold #3, $1 and 5, worth to $10. Fine Steel Speetacles or Eye Glasses from $1 up. Smioked Glasses from 30¢ up. Byes tested scientifieally, froe of charge, by a prae- tical optician. Spectacies repaived. : 4 e aa) 1 z Ladies' and Gentlemen's Watches. Sclid Gold at 523, $30, §35, $40, $50 and up. Gold Filled at ¢1o, g12.50, 815, $20, $25 and up. Silver at $5, $6, $7, 8, $0, $10, $12 and ¢15. i : Nickel at $2.50, §3.50, $5, $6, §7.50 and §10, Solid Gold Chains ¢35 to $50 each. Fine Gold Plated Chains g1 to 85 each. 24385.000 Fine Solid Gold Finger Rings b from $1 up. - 2 Waiches, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired. MAX MEYER % BRO. GO, Sixteenth and Farnam Sts - - OMAHA, NEB. AN e e Y e P2 T T R S S K TP tion which conveyed sometimes joy and somo- imes sorrow. To ¢'0se I will give the words of Secretary the perfect man, living on all planes infull self-cousciousness, is ultimatoly evolved. Tho task is a long and weary one, needing A EXAN CLOUDBURST. of War Stanton. ~ He, of corse, had an al- | myriads of vears for complote accomplishe | ‘16" OBe of Them Lets Go a Man most unlimited experience in dealing with | ment, so that tbo spirit and intelligor Has to be Handy With His Prayers. telegraphers. In onc of his reports to the ! which are the permanent part of man, must I was riding in the smoking car of a president he uses thess wordat “In iutelli- | roturn to earthly life over and ovor again, | Texns Pacific tratn, says M Guad 1o tho genee, fidelity and important aid the tele- inhabiting body after body, and building up fraph corps Rave been unsuvpassed by any brick by brick tho spiendid tomplo of u | NeW Yor World, when a Texan sab opposito me s who zod the sleeve of his branch of the servic divine humanity. Theosophy, then, teaches 7 . e the doevrine of relncarnation, and further of | oAb and began to wring and Lwist as it What is Theosophy reincarnation under law. This law, named | to clear it of water. It was sucha queer By Annic Breant, Karma (the Sanserit word for ' action), | move that I asked for an explanation, All the world of late has been talking about | i3 the enunciation of causation in all | and he looked a bit confused as he said: worlds, mental and_mor. as spiritual, and theosophy —mostly with a pleatifullack of in- | Worlds, moutal and moral as spiritual, an “It’s a habit U've fallen into. I did it N ath of : a der its sway. As the man gl formation—because "mfld_“v‘:"°l‘h"“° otarn | Sows in one life, he reaps in succeeding lives, w'.‘.‘,’fu",_" L(h'"Il".'?f. % wotd” who presented it onco more in the western | ang no can never escapo the consequences of |, out your sleeve isn't wet?” world, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Many | his own actions. **Action” in the theosoph- Oh, no. I just imagined it. T was in a cloudburst about two yenrs ago and I got so wet that it took me three months to dry out. [ got in the habit of wringing my clothes out every hour -~ or two and I siill keep 1t up.” *Can you deseribe the cloudburst?” 27 ical vocabulary it should be said, includes all mentai as well as bodily activitios, the mental, being indeed, by far’ the most potent in their effects. In ' a fashion, any descrip- tion of which would far_outrun the limits of my space, man m each life casts the mould predictad its disappearance with the death of its expounder, but Mme. Blavatsky was only the latest of & long line of messengers who, at considerable intervals of time, have put forth the same teachings, the same ideas - touching the universe, man and maw's des. | for his futuro capacttios, power of selt: | (0 % F s 2 v. | expression climbing slowly up with many ced. tiiiy:iiheosoph yiwas ";:- baufliviltl:l!.w;“l‘i':u slips and tails, alas! that long ladder of life | *‘Powerful casy. In the first place I aical body, notihastibidied. with it eternal. whose highest runes are voiled in | had 3,000 sheep feedin’ on my ranch. contrary, it has received a new impulse from her departure, if only in the fresh proof that it does not depend ot the physical presence of any one persouaily, however great. And truly hor personality was a vory great one, liow great will ve nieasured better . century hence than it is today. light too da: ling to be pierced by mortal eye. Reincarnation ana Karma are the foundution of theosophical othies, affording the ical imperative for which every oth tem crav Such is the bold outiine of afragment hown from the rock of theosopby, n fragment only of a_mignty whole. Thoso who wonld grasp The sun bogan to pump up water about noon, and at 2 o'clock when she had about forty million barrels on hand, she pulled out the plug and let the wholo bilin’ of it come down kersquash on my land, and in ten minutes [ hadn’t % sheep alive. All the buildings woent,nll _Theosophy is the ancioat “Wisdom-RRe- f yho tenchings of the wisdom-religion must { tho herders went, the old woman fnd limon,” “as handed down for thousands of | spuqy for themselves, and not hope to eateh | ehildren wont, and T was flune nshoro yeurs by goneration after generation of In- f von it S i 050 GE it in . newspaper Shildredwens, andilvoai i il 0 intes, who from time to time have given out | arie " i SRERAE L0 TRt Shve | ten miles away. Goin’ to live in Texas portions ot its doctrincs, us the evolution of | hoa'anid thero to long to seo the unveiled the human roce rendered mankind ot 1o | gy If you was, T wanted to tell you that ready for tne teaching. ‘These [uitiates are | 716 gt to add to this sieteh that no beliet | you kin play with a centipede, fuss with merely men more highly evolved thau th 1 auy of the teaching sketehed is necessary | i tavantula) joke with a catamount; and fellowmen, who have become cavable of com- | for aimission to the Theosophical socic hake ip fnces ata dowhoy. bub when 1t prehending tho deepor truths of nature LY | ipyyy sucioty only imposes on the membors | comes to cloudbursts, vou want. to let developing the uteliectual and “spivitual | o (OREAT TY EROER, B0 LI HIHTES | come loylhireieh vant_to lo parts of their bewng, and so coming into con- D e Al A Tt Ao e » and begin ‘on tho Lord’s tact with, portions of tho universs uuknown Ay to the race at large. For it must be remen- o 2t Onlveses ALl LVon bl bered thut whilo our knowladgo of-uhe uni xmyv||{-x-xn$x‘)f1"nr'h|(..'.'.:fu:'nm. w i"lu‘m[l I:lhl:mf[ Listen to the Tale of Woe. bounded b pressions from i not so vounded, our capicily to recoive the universo itself is very frosh seuse, every Nt Louis Republie, A merchant, hent on economizing, Decided to cut off nis advertisiug. tion of vace, creed, sex, cast, or color. o promote the stuay of Aryan and stern_literatures, religions, philoso ow point of contact that can bo developed | pyog una sciences, and o demonstrate its i man opens up uew avenues to kuowledgo | R T d It costs me ton thousand u year,” ?Iahx'nu “','.‘-‘1"59»(;’.5'3{ sm(:r\inlu;:ym- lhl‘ll;.fnll": 8. To investigate unexplained laws of | “And I'll come out just thut much Mustors—are men who have opencd up many | Ature, and the psychic powers latent I | iy vy appeared fn the papers no more, guch new avoy :n:.:mumq“\\;»l.‘.:_‘rp‘:::;mn{::l;;- OF these, accoptance of the first only is | His customers went to an advertised storo. knowienge 1L i " | obligatory. Many members of the society oy o S 2 ward brethren, as these are able to under- | S RN 0 I TGS ecept its teach- l\l::]!;v’::.l‘:.-‘:I::I.:!.::n:'ml nl,.‘::.'::“u- \.L'-“l) Iflm:‘:: Bl ligionto glve it its older | 18K bub neithcr the study” nor the accept- | ARG how tho me s Cana Don Bels e o oltor | nce is onforced ou vy, Each s loft froe to . ame, 0080| N lo; ]800 ok A . duting only from tho third century, A, D.—ls | WO out his own line of thought, and o 1 ... ....ociiviviiiiens K O L eria rolikions, the | Feach its own conclusions in his own way; the fou e T selonoos and philosophics, | DUt every member must recognize, and ought | @ ASSIGNER'S SALE. sayraeobo.LIKne:apione Phies | to serve in that brotherhood ~which sees : “Th the world ure alle bief doctrines of the great religions of ories, too_often distorted, of overy sorrow the duty of succor, whi Left-Over Stock of the Great Unknown by the vory mixht of its conviction shall oue clustered round a nucleds of exoteric truth 10 ¥ry f its jonval pieg i Tl sojanco of tha ninateouth contury druwa | 48y realize tint in which it beliovos,—Eful To be Disposed of at D some of its most cherished theories from th B 2 o o AT Tuittates of Greece, und tho chiof “discover | yyorey cp RETTT o STATIv TS, WASHINGTON, 0c on the Dollar, : i03 of the middle ages were madte bya mion | [y ¢ Wihe fxcelsior Springs, Mo, Waters | o.......ee... 3 who bad beon trained in occultism in ghe | aro elicious to the tasto and splendid in re east—as tho discovery of hydrogen by Para- | gujis whon used in bilious and malavial con - ool Evury student can 30 how lllh:xl:n;r:l ditions of the syatom.’ The King of Milliners, Sratod with the shiritof the ) schools, O Mawsin ML € Thore is a good story told of & mis Aud 80, in the course of #ges the time has s o guided woman who ventured to remon- an stand out Lo claim strate with the great man milliner in PPuris whose uite as nmazing And your clothing bo mussod 4 tions. ‘Thy subject of con- Bo a brick: troversy wis i gown of most pevishable Don't grumblo and fret, chiffon, with a girdlo for a bodico and For the rain, don't forg no sleoves; for which the famous cos- Is laying the dust, tumer roquired the sum of 600 good Don't kick Come when theosophiy 4 heuring for its doetrines from the futellect- ual world, to chailenge the theory of mater wnlism, to lay the scientific foundation of re- ligion, aud to give thatsure busis for echics of which modern socicty is 50 much in need “Theosophy teaches that the universe is lifo ombodied, and regards vspirit” wud “mat- Detrolt Fiee Press, ‘Though tho weather bo wet tor” as tho two poles of this manifesting en- san dollars, ergy, which_evolves into seven planes or Thanahithol *The material,” said the lady, *could Alakve oF Sxlalacco, shch charagtenigad by (i And boilea be your blood be bought for $100, und surely tho mak- SIS, A v Till 'tis thick, ing up would bo well paid with # h e . Be content with your lot, more. fold in his constitution, being oy each B oaulenb wikle 0% Jab, R sl i S plauo of his being to the corresponding plano SHANUSIRE b Madame,” ans ho ira inthe universe. Hence, as he ovolves tne AATLIRR AR Ry grandiloquent dressmaker, *would you migher parts of himself he comas into cout L . have gone to M, Meissonier and said to with tho higher plancs of the uuiv and colors to the 9 8 Speaking of the shifting weather, him, “Hero is canvas telegrapners. ‘W'o those stationed i the whito house and the war department he paid iln sreat lntorest in the wen who were furnis bing him with informu- dully visits can study, luvestigate, ana_kuow thewn with Tell you what I wish you'd do: value of 320, Paint me a picture on this as much cortaluty as he oan study, lnvesti Wish you'd pleaso inform'me whethor | canvas with these paints and L will puy gate, und_know the physical plano through e D DXAS LD iR B MA E his five physical senses. ‘The department of Itis ) ot | enough for you yau 814 o ; 2 RAYA- fie theosophy that deals with the wethods of e 3 swored wlvmo, this is no paymoen this ovolution is callad occultism: it is tho e 8k for an artist.” No!but I say more. If study of the mind of the universe by thec he Great Americay you think my terms are too high, keep and by practice. ow huve the self-sac Popularity of the American hog | the dressand pay me nothing, —Art does the endurance, the courag :.., \w}‘ll'\' steadily increases. Tho number of hogs | not descend to the pettiness of bag- such investigation, and emphatically it | marketed in the United Suites has in- | gling. true of students of ‘occultism that *few aro | (HATEEEC B M Sl AR SRS o | BT LL S ahosen 23,6 ) 800-4 d the amoy orked self. Avcovting the correspondence between the | 23,066,000 in 1890-01; and the am unt o Corked ilimself 1 universo and man, it foilows that man must | shipped abroad has shown o correspond- | Thomas Hackot, of Reod Station also bo spirit-embodied, I, e, that he is o | ing incrense. The shipments in 1856 in- | Ind., amused himseif by tossing up u s spivit using a body, not u body possessed of & | cluded 367,000,000 pounds of bacon, and | ver doliar and eatching it in his mouth soirit, This spivit can become self-couscious | 54 400,000 pounds of hamg and in 1890 the | until thocoin lodged in his throat. A o0 all places of existeuce only by experience, | (44 " I bacon were 636,000,000 | 4. Whp § Aint | shipments of bacon were 5l . surgical operation wus uecessary W ro- aud this expericuce can ouly bu W Bt Liam B1.000 000 poLnde Argloal y treading each plane in all its phases, until [ s , 000, i