Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1892, Page 13

. J SH muel hart- Wi, , B. ery WHERE CRAY LIVED AND LIES Tn and About Stoke Pogis, Where the Deathless “‘Elogy” Was Written, RUGGED ELM, IN YEW TREE'S SHADE Bapecially Interest i grim from ity / ¥a “Pict Landscape and Car to the American he Penn (Copyrighted 1802 Sroke Poors, Kag, Oct. 12— [Corres. pondence of Tur Brr|--If the spleodid sconic and historic environment of Stoke Pogls, the old home and chiel haunt of the poet Gray, 18 fine and stirring, the place ftsolf is one likoly to awaken tho purest emotions of contemplation and delight Ponce and repose seem to trood upon all tho lanes and Gelds, 1 you come as most visitors do by way of Windsor and Slough station, you will insensibly feel this the moment the latter nlace has disappeared ve- hind the elms, and you are alone in thel highway between the fiolus. Iterna Sabbath seems to have descended upon tte entire parish of Stoke Pogis and the manor of Stoke; aud, whatever tho season of 1he year, the langurous hush is always here and ever closo and unbroken. Loften tramp out hers from old London town with any manner of vagarous excuse for the idling vagaboud journey. Each time Iamsure to aiscover some new lane or hedee-bordered road leading to the nook and nest I seek. Wherevor 1 may bo when a half-dozen miles away I follow biindly only the gencral direction toward the tny gray old spire which pushes above tho soft bank oftrecs to the west:and then, be it by broad highway, bloosoming lane or by foot- path across the flelds, there is the same sur- Passiug quiet beauty and changeless atmos- Pphiere of rest. All Life Attuned to Nature's Pence. 1t seemsthat even the carts upon the high- ways are more noiseless here. Lotter or plowboy, farmer or grimy potter from vhe near kilns, country wench or lassie with rosy checks, appears to move from house to house or tield to tield as if in pleasant meod. Kine n fields, dogs at doorways, sheep in meadows, all browse or nod in sicepy solstice time: while the birde, though no less melodious here, tune their lays us if hesi- tant of breaking, even with joy, the sweet and tender spell. All this, too, is Intensitied by the peculiar retirement of the central svene of the “Hlegy"—the Stoke 1’ogis church and churchyard. Neitheris at tho wayside ns is usual with English country munoria churches. Unless first rightiy airected, ¥ou would pass them many fines unon the old north and south highway from Slough. They lie to tha west of the road hidden by denss masses of trees. Opposite a pleasant ficlds with here and there willow- bordered runlets of wimpling water or shadowy pools, where in summer are The Kine, breast-deop in tho shallows at noo n When the flushed sun waits insaffrony skies, threadings of lanes and highwavs with dalntyvistas stretching tothe horizon between and, it the trees are wind-whipped enough in autumn time, glimpses of the somber brown of Et embattled walls with the reat Round Tower of Windsor a gray sil- ouette boyond. ‘The Memorial Monument. If you know the way und have come in Juue or July, when lawn and leal are rich- est, you cau see from the highway no more than the chimney, or the eaves, or a bit ot the roof tiling of & little lodge beyond the gate. Overarching trees and luxurious creepers shut, out the Stoke park road to church and mauor houso complotely. Leav- ing this, you enter a path leading over a lit- tle hillock through a tangled maze of cop- pice and come, at the end of perbaps 100 yards, to the huge monument erectea to the memory of Gray iu 1799 by John Ponn, grandson of William Penn, tue then lord of Stoke manor. Tho design was by tho noted James Wyatt. It consists of a sarcophagus of historic s1zo supported on a lofty square freestone pedestal, the wholo reaching per- haps forty or filty feot above tha sward, ‘which s beautifully gemmed with flowers and protected by a surrounding sunken feuce. It is really tho only important monument to Gray in existence. A vast sum was once collected uncer protense of a building fund in memory of Gray at Pembroke hall at Cambridge, whero he was for many years oneof the most illustrious ornaments of the classic town. “Indeed,” says so excellent &0 authority as Gosse, “if strangers did not periodically inquire at Cambridge for his room, it is probablo that the name of Gray ‘would be as completely forgotten at Pem broke as at Peterhouse (from which his cold bath at the hands of roystering fellow com- moners, ove Junuary bight in 1756, haa driven him) where also no mon- ument of any kina preserves tho record of his presence.” A Poet's Epitaph. The inscriptions on the four sides are in keeping with the spirit of the spov and at once emphasize in tho visitor's mind the closo and loving association of poet, poetry and place On the side faciug the south ap- prouct 15 the following: This Monument. in honor of THOMAS GRRAY Was krectod A. 1, Among the Sconery Colebrated by taut great Lyric and Elegiae Poot. He died in 1771, And lics unnoted in the ud jolning Churchyard, Under the Tombstone on which he plously And puthetioutly recorded tho interment Ot his Aunt and lamented Mother. The other threo inscripuons are from the *‘Ode to Eton College’ aud the “Elegy.” That on the north side is from the ode Ye distant spires! Ye antiquo towers! That crown the watery glade, Al hanpy bilis! A, pleasing shade! Ahb. fiods boloved fn vain? Where once my ¢ less childhood strayea, A stranger Yot o puin' 1 feel the galos that from ye blow A momentary bliss bostow. On the cast sido are the following two staozas from the “Elogy i Beueath theso rugged olus, that yew tree's shudo, Whe hoap, Euch in his narrow eoli forever luld, The rude forefathers of the hamiét sleep. The breezy eall of incense-hroathing morn, Tho swullow twittering trom the straw-buily heaves the turf in many n moldering il elarion or tho echolng horn, hull rouse thum (rom thelr lowly Again aro lines from the “Elegy” chosen for the inscription oo the western facads: Hard by yonwood, now smilinz as in scorn ug his wayward fu % he would Now drioping. woeful, wan. 11ke ono forlorn, v Oreruzed with cure, o crossed in hopeliss Oae morn 1 hill, Aloug the heuth. and nexr nis fuvorite tree; Another canio; nor yet beside tho rill, Nor i the luwn, 1or st the wood wus he, Vieasing Prospects, From your present station at the mouu- missed him on the aceustomed meut ¥ou have only to turn uud face the west for as sweel @ prosnect—one altogether hidden as you eutered thy lodgo gale—us over human eyes bebeld, Across a lawnlike open field of clover, almost musical from the um of murmuring bees, is scen Lo the right tho remaining huge gabies and chimneys, slmost completely covered with 1vy, of old Stoke ball, the aucient manor house. Here onee lived the novle fumilies of the Hunt- ngdous, the Cokes mod tne Cobhams, where Q ilizaboth became enamored of ner one time rogal entertainwent. Duws chatior about tne old chimneys and gossip iu the bruaches of the lofty trees. Anclent great- ness and stateliness with picturesgue and oven winsome decay charm the oulooker in every viow of ola Stoke hall. To tho left, and somewbat farther AWAY, across genlly rolling and velvely lawus, the beautiful vista being bounded on either side by some of the richest park for- estry in Kuglaud, 1s scen the dazaliugly ‘white outiines of the splendid Stoke hall of todsy. Beiore it, and stll Lo \he south, & of shimmeriug blue biuts of an exte ive artificial sheet of water. Bebiud it, to ight, 15 & lofty pillar nearly 100 feet b, surmounted by a heroic figure of wara Coke, Elisabelb's attorney wad ohiof justics of the kina's bomch, whose oa. reer and writings are tamiliar to the legal nrofession throughout the world. Throueh marriage ho was onee lord of Stoke manor. But the princely manor house which en the vista, and whose white colontades give the impression that lawn and forest enchant the eyo wo rest upon some fair palace built by fairy hands, was the work of the Penn family, principally of John Penn, the fonnder of Pennsyluania's necond son by his second wife. An American’s vivid fanny prompts & proprielary, or kindred, feelin here, and vou are heartily glad vou ean find in Eneland better memorial of this great family than the tavlet to Admirat Ponn, in St. Mary Redeliffo cburon, Bristol, or ‘the grass-choked grave of the grand old Quaker, Willlam Peun, in lonely Jordan's Meeting House grave-garth Where “the Knde Forefathers Sloep Squarely bofore vou, to the west, not 500 yards awar, au exquisite gem of scenio reality in the setting ot this unequaied rural picture, stands old Stoke ’ogis chureh, sur rounded by its hailowed churchyard, fade- Iass 10 the memory and hoart of man for just four lines of the tenderest poetry ever penned Beneath those rugged clms, that yew tre here licaves the fealt in many a mold'ring \onD, 1 s narrow coll forover lald, The rude forefathers of the hamiet sleep. At no old-world shrine wiil your heart so leap and thrill with supremely gratifiod ex pectancy, ‘There is elatiou, indeed intoxica- tlon, 10 the perfection of your realization. I 10 $UTe YOUr experience 1S an universal one. Expressions falling from tne lips of differ- ing types of Americaus in my prasence on different oceasions fuily illustrate this. One was by a prim Ohio matron who looked upon tho oid aud new manor houses and then on the littlo church and yard in a matter of fact way for a time, and thon said briskiy to her handsome daughter standing ue “If Gray had over written about this place differant than he did, he would bave been a plaguoy fool, and that's ail 1've got 10 say about it 1" A plain New Kngland schoolma’am came. Sho had walked from Slough to save car- riago bire. She had toiled and serimped years toget to a fow of these old-worid shrings. ©Ob, " she said, with tears of joy filling her gray, fine eyes, “to have worked and saved,my wholo life, with the surety of finging it 0 true to my heart-picture of it all, would have inaeed been a lifelong pleas- ure W Parsed that Staft of Gray's. A wealthy ranchman from Wyoming who cawo in a carriage, mind you, and ‘tipped” everything and everybody from Slough to Stoke, not forgetting myself in his kiondly feeliug, because L was ablo to point out a few tritling things he might tave overlooked, volead the samo idea in a difforent way: used to ‘parse’ thatstuff of Girav's when I was a bog, down in our Mohawk valley village school, til tho ufernal ‘glimmering landscape’ of every kind of grammer was fading from my sight. But it worked up a regular longiug to sometime come and sort ot stand around where Gray loafed. Now that I'm here the whole thing takes hold of me bard. My friend, thut fellow, Gray, ‘rounded up’ things here square ! And so he did. Poetry is truly revelation through melodious words, But it must be true, not false, revealment; or you and 1 and tho Wyoming critic are certain to stop at the ugly bars of unreality and tlaw. You will saunter lovingly among the graves for a little, moeantime getting ac- quainted with old Josept Lovell, for many, many years the sexton here, and his wife: both tiearly seventy years of age, but chirpy as crickets and brown and hard as nuts. They are makiug a bit of hay among the monnds, as is their right and their only fee, aside from that from burials, for which Joseph gets *four bob (shillings) fur the big uns, un’ two for the littie uns.” ere Lies a Poot to Fame Well Known. The church itself is a nttle odd jumble of stone and wood, low and wide, with two low gables facing the east aund graduvally merg- ing {nto one peak at the west end. It has one of the oddest south porches to be founa in England. On the north side is a huge, low tower, nearly s large @s the boay of the church, from the top of whose crumbling Norman battlements rises a tali aud very slender wooaen spire. The eatire church, to above the base of the spre, is massed and matted with 1vy, and is an inspiring picture of mellow antiquity and hallowed repose At the east end, just beneath tho vestry window and but a few feet from the church wall, is the anciont low aitar tomb of the Grays. Ou the slab is cut the famous in- scription by Gray himself fn memory of his aunt, Mary Antrobus, and his mother, Dor- otby Gray, “tho tender, carcful wmother of many children, one of whom alono had the misfortune to survive her.” In this most numble tomb Gray hes. He was buried here on the 6th of August, 1371, 1 accordance with his own request in his will made at Cambridge, but no mark upon the stoue whicb covers his dust ever served to denote his resti g place. Awain the friendiy hand of a Peun is seen in the tablet opposite in the old church wall, ~ recordine the fact of Uray's burial here. John Penn set this tablet here oighteen years after Gray’s burial: and it was the “first record made in stone that Thomas Gray bad lived and sung in Eng- land. "Tho old south porch 1s one of a few remain- ing curious cxampics—ulong with that at Grasmere church, where Wordsworth is buried—of the very ancient stone porches actached to counury churches. In olden times thoy were the gathering places of villagers, “With the room formerly over them' calied the parrise, the whole, with the stone sido seats and ' piscina, formed a tiny chapel 1w whioh rustic mar- riages were solemnized, “Husouads at Chirche-aoore have I bad five,” says Chaucer’s Wife of Bath; and as this church and porch aro fully 600 years old many suct ceremoniuls have doubiless been wituessed here, You will lioger long within it, for ou are situng in the very shade of 'that “yew tréo” commemorated in the *Elegy.” Its broad brauches reach to the quuint gable above you, and droop us if in benignant protection upon the hallowed spot. 1uterior of Stoke Pogis Churcl The faterior of this ancient church is very quaint ana simple. Throe strange five-angied arches divido the narrow side aisles from the nave, the timbered vault of which is parily supported by four huge cross-beams of ouk. ‘The pews ure as straight and narrow and as grotosquely curved as any i have elsewhere found in England. An ancient stone front, lined with lead and undoubtedly 500 years old, stands io tbe center of the nave and above the family vault of the Penns. The basement of the tower is wholly occupied by tho munor pew, 1ts bigh paveling and nar- row lattice work are very quaint and odd. 1t is provided with settles, ottomans ana & fireplace of ancient design’; curtains screen the occupauts from the gaze of other worshipers; it i3 lighted by a toy splayed window, cut in the tower's east wall: and the lord of the maunor and his family are admitied through a prisoniike door “beneath outer crumoling steps, up which the chunge-ringors, led by old Joseph Lovell, the sexton, ascend when they doff their coats for the merry work in the 16) chances upon toe chimn of six sweetly musical bells. Asido from the memorial pew the only spacious pew in Stoke Pogis church is the Gray family pew, now ocoupied by the Allbusen heirs, who are also ownors of the now handsome West Eud cottage, a mile north of tho chureh, which was Gray's homo during bis resideuce at Stoke Pogis, 1t is the sunniest, coziost placo in the little church, nud stauds 1u the west end of the south aisie. Above it on the one side is & double lancer staioed glass win- dow with @ rooresentation of Uhrist Liossing hittle children; and on the oiher, along the south wall, is & buge Penn table:. commemorating the burisl within tois churet of Thowas Pean, sou of William Penn, of nis (Thomas’) wife, Ri. Hon. Lady Juliana Peun, third dsugnier of Thomas, first earl of Pomfret, of their soos, Jobn and Grap- ville Pean, of the wife of the latter aud of their threo sons aud four daughters. Somehow there is here and all about Stoke Pogis au iodissoluble linkiog of the memory of the pensive poet and the kindrea of the graud old Quaker chieftmn. Pernaps to you and I, as Americaus, it draws more close the kindly spell which broods upoo the church, cburchyard and silent, syivau scene of Lué “Elegy.” But you cau hardly leave tue sweet old spot until the shadows bave fallen, ‘und, vour whole beiug filled with the teader spirit of 1he place, your teart, rather than sour lips, utters those linos of graven soul 0 liquia so0g: Now fades the glimmering landseape on the sizht. And &l the alr a solemn stillness holds, Suve where the beotie whooly his droniug ght And drowsy tkliogs lull the distant folde Eouan L. Wasesay, CTOBER SHOTGUN MARRIAGES VOID Judge Davis Lays Downa New Rule ia Divoroe Cases. MARRIAGE MUST BE AMUTUAL MATTER William Schoberg Discovers that He fias Not Been n Married Man for Five Yenrs, Although He Was Wed to Save Bridget, When William Schoberg, accomoanied by his lawyer, went before Judge Davis yester- day, he was positive that he was & married man, and the lawyer in the case would have staked his reputation and his rotainer fee that William was tied to A woman by matrimonial fotters that galled and cut aeep down into the flesh, but when the two men hied themselves from the judicial presence they were not sure whether the one who was in trouble was married, single or both. Attached 1o this state of affairs there is a tale which a court potition and nothing elso unfolds. It is a skeleton in tho closet and it rattles every time that the door is opened and the family affair is exhibited to the public. wil % Boyhood Days. Seven years ago William was an innocent country Iad of 13 summers residing upon a farm in the violnity of Dunlap, Ia. William had his Aweathearts, and among them was u farmer’s danghter who was fair t0 look upon. The two young poople thought considerable of each other, but marriage was 4 subject that was never touched upon as they spooncd sbout the quiet rooks of " tho farm. Thero was a stylish young man from tho town happened that way and it was not long until he had wormed his way intothe girl’s affection. At length it became apparent that the country Rirl had loved the town man not only too well, but that she had lovea him too un- wisely, When this fact was discovered the town man skipped to otner climes ana the coun- iy girl expressed a desire to roturn to ber first love, but Willisa would not have 1t that way and so told the family. Marrled Under Trylng Circumstances. . Tue father of Briaget would not take no foran answer aond insisted that Schoberg should become his son-in-law, whether or no, and so, when February 1, 1885 rolled around Willlam was marched up to the altar with a shotgun leveled at his head. Not having a desire Lo become a corpse he ailowed Father Lynch to perform the cerc- mony, after which, wifeless and alone he journeyed to this city, whora he has since resided. A fow months ago he instituied divorce proceedings, being aided and abotted by ~an attoroey who informed him that there would be no trouble in securing the coveted court order, Yesterday when the case was called Wil- linm went upon the witness stand, where ke detailed the courtship and the incidents lead- g up to the time of his coming to Omaha. Judge Davis was a patient listener to the tale of woc, but he was unable to give the young man any consolation. Marriage, ho said, was a contract, and in order to make it valid there must be an agreement by both of the contracting- parties thereto. In the Schoberg cuse it was apparent that the plaintif had never entered into the agreement of his own free will and accord. That being so the pretenaed weading proceedings were void and without any force or effect. The lawyer in the case should have known this before he tiled his petition for the divorce, for if there was no wedding there could be no divorce. 'The court proceedings were wrong from the very incention, and if any action was to have been instituted it should have been an action de- claring the pretended marriago null and void. e The “No. 9 Wheeler & Wilson #ith Iys rotary movement Is the lightest running mactiue 1 the market, and is unequalled for peed, durability and quality of work. Sold by Georgo \W. Lancaster & Co., 514 S 16th s THE THEATL When Julio Marlowe first played Par- thenia at a matinec overy critic in New York was satisficd. There was not oue dis- senting voice. Her managor then equipped her with a company and she remmmned out the balanco of the season. The next sho started out fuil of hope und ambition, but alas, & cruel sickness interfered and for four motths she was very near the dark river, but youth and a strong constitution finally triumphed and sho resuwed her work the next season aond now for two years has been _ playing uninter- ruptedly. Miss Marlowe personally has everythiug to recommend her to the public. if they want to hear the best dramati literatura in the English language they will come, for her authors are Gilbert, Lovell, Knowles and always Shakespeare, Tomorrow evening Miss Marlowe will open ber Omana engagement and our theater- #oers will have their first opportunity of Judging of the merits of the wonderful little uctress themselves. Sho will the following repu) ] “As You Liio 1t and Juliet;’ You Like It;” Wedoesday eveniug, “Cymbeline.” At the 'nam rect theater this weelk, beginning with the matince today, Dors Davidson and Miss Kamie Austen will pre. sent the beautiful melodrama, *Guilty With- out Crime” (s dramatization of M. K. Brad- dou's colebrated novel, “Aurora Floyd”) supported by a strong company. The story runs thus Stella, o foolish vl fancies a sport, William Mortimer, runs away with him and murries. He leaves her, out she keeps her secret for sume time, when she reaas of bis death on the Lrack, She then marries & young Knglish lord (still keeping Ler secret) who is “all the world” to her, and she to Lim, Her hus- band employs a trainer for his stable, who turns out to be her supposed dead .husbang, The meeting is & surprise to botb, and with nis knowledge of her crime of bigaiy, he ex- torts money from her. Stelia, to save ber honor, agrees to meet him, and during this meouing he is killed by a “pal,” aud her second husbuna, who appears on the scene, is accused of tho deed. '0 save her busband Stelia confesses Lo the murder, is remanded to prison, adjudged guilty and suffers tho agouy of thinking her husband the murderer while she is“‘guilty without crime.”” Miss Austen takes the part of Stella. Her ewotional scenes arc all masterpieces of melodramatic acting. Mr. Daviason’s por- trayalof Tom, “the softy,” is & wonderful piece of work. The ' play will be. staged in a realistic and beautiful manner. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. at boarding school, “Our Irish Visitors" will keep opon house ARE TH RADIANT HOME STOVES Milton Rogers & Sons Cor- I4thand Farnam Sts. At the Farnam Streat theater week of N vember 6, commencing unaay. In its eighth succossful senson that popular comedy will be stronger than ever. ull of that rich Irish humor which, while entertaining, 1s not vulgar, it has made rapld strides into vobular favor. Entirely rewritton, its songs and byplay brought down to date, it begins practically a now careor. Messrs, Bonediot and McKeever havo placed the comedy on the road this season with a very strong com pany. By the puolic who olay and mass of the thoater going have tired of the horse vor done methods of farce- comedy, The Colonel,” a product of the legitimate school of comedy, will be appreciated. Though the entire pecform- ance is a continuous round of laighter the merriment 1s induced legitimately and the production retains a flavoe of cleanliness and refliement. But four performances will be given here, beginning Friday, November 4, at the new Boyd. Miss Patti Rosa, the vivacioas and tal- ented actress, will be seen in her new play, “Miss Dixie,” tonight at Boyd's new theater. “Miss Dixie” owes its origin |'to the pen of Mr. Charles T. Vin- cent, tho author of several successful plays on the road this season. Mr. Vincent has himself superiotended tho rehearsals of the company for the past four weoks. Miss Patti Rosa has a very good part in *Miss Dixie,” s havo also the various membors of the company. Everything will be fresh and new, bright and breezy at the Bijou and Wonderland this week, commencing with tomorrow after- noon. The engagement of How & Wall's Comedy company 1n the *Lightning Agent" 1o bo one of the most prosperous ed at this popular house. Alroady the demand for seats 1s brisk. All the spe- cialties are original and catchy, and many of them irresistibly funny. Violet Mascotte, one of the most graceful of all the world's great dancers, 1n hor marvelous serpentine dance, Is anxiously awaited, and Clever roll, the unrivalea ventriloquist, will create furore. Doiores, the Spanish fundango artiste, und Campbell ana Karcher in their incomparable comedy musical act, introduc- ing countless instruments, will constiture a whole show within themselves. Besides all theso there will be Patricoles musical da- Roes, the wonderful acrobats, Leo and Du- bois, and numberless other rare attractions. Manager Day has also fixed upon Fridays hereafter for ladies’ souvenir dav, when overy lady visitor will be the recipient of a handsome aud valuable present. —_——— LEAVENWORTH, Kan,, June 15, '00. Mr. J. 8. Moore: My Dear Sir—[ hav beon jectto sick headache all my life . Over two years ago I began using **Moore ' Tree of Life'" for it and never had a case o sick headacho since, except when the medicine was at one end of the road and I at the other. Itis worth more than money to me. I heartiiy rocommend it to all sufferers of headache. ~Very truly yours, W. B. Lirg, PastorFirst Baotist Churoh . s i SECREL NOULLTIE Army The commanderof General Joun R. Brooke Rarrison of the Regular Army and Navy union receatly sent the principal of the Lako school the following communication, which explains itself: \ ‘I am requested by the comrades of Gon- eral John R. Brooke gacrison No. 54, of the Reguiar Army aud Navy uniom, to convey to yourself, to the teachers and scholars of the Lake school, their sincere thanks for the ox- celleat manner in which we were enter- tained at the Columbus Day exercisos at your school on the afternoon of the 20th in- stant, and to assure you that we have never participated In anything which was so thor- oughly enjoyed as the exercises above ro- ferred to. It we succeeded 1in entertaining the scholars half as well as they entertained us we are more than satistied. *The recitations, essays, songs, etc., were rendered in a bighly satisfactory mauner, and certainly reflected great credit upon the children and thewr capable and efticient teachers. ‘“Phe ‘salute to the flag’ was worthy of special mention and it is our earnest hope and wish that those children may never live tosee the day when that flag 1s dis- honored by our friends or trampled upon by a foe. We have comrades in our ranks who have sorvea under that dear ola flag for fiv ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-twoand twent; seven years, allof whom will be found ever ready to defend it unul such time as the rising generation are able to take their placos, “The ‘grand review of pupils by com- panies’ was pronounced by all to bo one of the best features of the entertainment, the marching and fine military beariag of those Young warriors being one of the grandest sights we have ever witnessed, and one that none of us will ever forget. Itis not often that a veteran is taken by surprise, but in this instance we are free to confess that the review of those young soldiers not only sur- prised, but completely captivated us, ‘“In order that every scholar may know how much we appreciated their efforts to en- tertain us upon this occasion, and how woll they succeeded in doing so, it Is respectfully requested that this commuoication, a copy of which will be forwarded to Superintendent Fuzpatrick for his information, may be read to the scholars by their different teachers,” Royal Nelghbors of America, Wednesday evening the women of Royal Neighbor camp 120 gavea charming enter- talnment at thewr lodee room iu the Conti- nentat block, The following program was rendere Daet oo s, On Mossy Banks Miss Cudy, Mr. Dwight. ReadIng..oeve.inin 0Ode to Columbla MrWUE Ondy. iphony Quartet. Selection Normandie Murch Re: v . e nd the Discovery of Americs Aunna Thornton .. Huave Sighed to Rest Me Miss Cady. ...How Cyrus Laid the Cable Master Jo Trostier. . Landing of Columbus artet: Miss Oea Brown, co Cady, Mr, I, C. Dyer, Dr. W. D."Dorward. Banjo Duet. Darkey's Drenm oy kora and 3 Henbéck. Then & delicious supper was served and everybody went home perfectly hapoy . The Order of the World. Oak Lodge 100 will hold its regular meet- 1ng Tuesday night, November 1, in Tar Brr building. After business a ploasant hour forthe members will be provided. Brother Baldwin and Sisters L. S, Skinnor and Cora Hawes aro the committee on entortainment, which 18 an earnest of the good time in sight and should be an incentive to members to come out, Deputy Supreme Organizer L G. Baright org anized a lodge in Wymore on tue 2lst, with thirty active charter members, ana has an assured prospect of | doubling the mem bership at the next regular meeting., He is now iu Fairbury, whers he is having very Reeitation ... Plano au M E BEST. SOLE AGEN %), 1892-SIXTEE fiattoring sucoess and every prospect of or. ganizing a strone lodge in the near future. other officers-eloct tenant Tucker of Galveston: Hu wo! Long, Wheeling, W. Va. new grand commander upon whom the man tle of the late Albert Piko fails, is a Cana- life Scotty elected to @rand commander, board Caswell, rth: grand min) dian by birth, but carly in with his parents to subsoquently iog in modicine bo entered thn arn saw activa servico in Florida and also 1n the During the civil war he enterod the coufed. orate servico and held the position of surgeon outsiana, at this timo that he was confined, by orders of General Butler, on Ship isiand, and con- tracted the rheumatism which rendered him a cripple for tho remainder of his tho close of the war he settled in New Or- leans, where he some years ago retired from active medioal practice. tlon iu the order of the Scotush come after many promotions during a long membersip, as ho 18 now more than 14 yoars oo weny south, neral of the forces of Rite Masons, Tur Brr erred last week in the statoment that Theodore Krasmus olectea grand Carr haa been commander of the Southern jurisdiction Scottish Rite Masons, whereas James Cunnigham Batchelor of New Orleans that oxalted position, the | h being as follows . Philip grand prior, San Francis chancellor, Theoaore Erasmus Carr, Leaven er of state, Odel Squire Dr. Butchelor, the New York state ana After graduat the Indian war with Mexico, iite. His present posi- Rite has Oda Fellows, The following resolutions passed upon the death o Mavor C lodge No. 148 Wharess, God, in | grot the doath of our and we humbly submit to the decreo of an row: and westurtnor Resolve, That tho draped in mourning duys and that these resolutions be spren. the records of this lodge, & copy thereof lishod in the clty papers. of age, Jonx C. Dasier Beforo adjourning the suprome body of the 1. M. PIERSON southern jurisdiction voted to hola the next 11, Hynax, Continental Committ blennial meeting in St Louls, 1904, the mest- 10g of 1863 naving Also been held in that aity, wero recently Miller of South Omaha by South Omaba His all-wise providence, een fit 1o remoye from our i fdst Brother Liou- | C. . Miller, a member of our beloved order, ) ayd 'I"nrmby‘ Wherens, While bowing fn submission to Omas | the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, knowing REANA | (ot he doeth all things woll, we groatl y ro- beloved brothor: theres pved fore be 1t | Resolved, That we, the menibers of S | Omaha lod:e No 148, Independent Order of 1 0ad Follows, of South Omana, Neb., deop] | lore the loss we hinva sustalned {n the doath moved | or' orthy brothor, who has beon remo trom our midst to the universal lodge aboyo, alls and | wise Ruler. o wars fo | , Resoived, That, in the doath of Rrother C. F Miller, our order has lost a good member. his wite a'lovinz husbind and this community citizen nrity 1ife and devotion duty have endeared h' to all who knew him. It was | Rosolved, That we extend to tho whiicted widow and'family and heartfelt sympathios i thelr Miction. and_coni- l' mend them to Him who doeth all th 1 [ And that wo esharo with them the hope of AL | reunion In jthat world whero there s o sor harter of thislodge be or n period of thirty d on sent to the bereaved widow and that they bo pub- o0, Clothing House. Special Trade Sale Overcoats and Ulsters Mcn"s Suits in all Wool Cheviots and Cassi- B OF Beginning Monday Morning Retail Profits Saved $75,000 waorth e Dl Overcoats and Ulsters ——=—AT==—= Jobbers' Prices. Men’s Chinchilla Overcoats $6; worth $10. Men’s Wool Diagonal Overcoats $3; worth 5; guaranteed colors W Men'’s Eleysian Overcoats, at $10; worth $16.50. meres, $8.00, $10.00 and §12.75. BOYS DEP'T. Suits and Overcoats. oys’ Cassimere Suits. Boys’ Union Suits, Boys’ all wool Double Breasted $1.50 and $2.00 Saved on Every Boy’s Suit AT THIS SALE. Hundreds of Boys' Over- Cheviot Suits, $2.50 $3.00 coats and Ulsters at Jobbers' Prices. Come Early Monday to the CONTINENTAL. DrDOWN 1816 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb, The eminent specialist in nervous, chromic, pri wraduate in e . Tt r o, Elest. rar lomas and'cert Lload, skin and wnoary diseases. A reywlar ehow, atriotas Parties uanb o f‘onw BLECTION PROCLAMATION, Proclamation and notlos to the qualified elactors and legal votors of the school distriot of Omaha. in the connty of Douglas, in the suate of Nobraskn, of a general gla:tion to be held tn snid sehool dlstrl Tuoesduy, the eighth day of November, 1803 for the puLposs of alecting five members of the Bourd of Bdu- cation of sald school district to serve on sald bourd from and Including the tirst Monday of Januwey, ISG. until the first Monday In J Ary, 18, Tathe qualifiod eloctors and logal voers ot the school district of Omaha. in the county of Douglns, In the stato of Nebraska: I, Samuel K. Spauiding, president of the Board of Eductalon of the school distriet of Omal, In the co nty of Douglas, in the state of Nebraska. do fssuo this my proclamation, and by virtie of the authority vested in me as such prosident do hereby give publio nos tlee 1o the qualiffed * cloctors and 1egAl voteis of the school dise trelot of Omaba, in the county of Douglas, 0 the state of Nebraskr, that w gen= oral election will be neld in sata school dise trict on Tuesday. the sighth.day of Novems ber, I8, for the purpose o: e Ing five mem« bers of the Board nlli"-h\"nllm\ of sald school district to serve on said board from and tne cluding the tirst Monday of January, 186 un- il the first Monda; f Janunary 18 Tho polls shall be open on the day of satd on at 8 o'elock in thesmorning and shatl continue open untii 6 o'olo: 1 the evening of the same Ay at the respactive vomng 3 to atthe fol % 10 sald schooldistrict of Omaha PIRST WARD, District—8. B 1st streets. 2nd District worth streets grd District stroots cornor Tt and Marey N W. corner 8th and Loaven ¥, cornor 12th and Jones 4th Distriot E. corner 13th straot and first alioy south of Plerce streot. Sth District rth side of Pacific streel be- tweon fith and 7th stroots. Oth Distri at sido of Gth street near (®outh of) Puci reet. h DIStrict—! corner ot Park Wild aves nue a 3 Sth rner 10th and Hickory. streets. Oth District=8, W. corner 6th and Contor stroets, 10th District-N. W, corner 9th and Baneroft stroots. 1ith District <N, B corner tith and Vinton streots JOND WARD, 1st Distriot - N, W, corner 14th and Jones streets. d Distriot—N. W. corner 13th and Paclfio streets. ird Distriot—S, W. corner 18th and Leaven- worth strects, 4th Distrie worth street 5th District—S, E. worth streets, 6th Distriot—Enst sido of South 20th street, opposite Poppleton wvenue. W Distrlet—S, 1% corner 16th and Plerce stroets. sth Distriot strects, Oth District- corner 2)th and Leaven- corner 2ira and Leuven- S E. corner Hth and Wiliams corner 16th and Conter stroots. 10th District—N orng h and Doreas streets. 11th District—$. 1. corner 20th and Rancroft ots. 1 Distrlot—N. E. corner 15th and Vinton streets. A 13th District—S. W. corner 1th and Valley N. E. corner THIRD WARD 18t District—8, W. corner 12th and Chicago stre 23th and Boulo~ d Distriet- DOt siroets. drd District—South side of Oaplitol avenue, near (west of ) 1ith street. Sth District—\West sido of 12th stroet botween Douglus and Dodge streets. 5th District—N. E. corner 10th and Capltol avenua. 6th District—N, Harney streots, 7th District—S. F. corner 11th aud Douglas streets. 8th District—N. straots. Oth District—S, E. corner 10th and Howard stroots, W. ¢orner 1th and Daven- . corner 9th and . corner 15th and Jackson FOURTH WARD, 18t Distriot—; POTt streets. 2d District—N, W. corner 224 and Davenvort streets. N. W. corner 17th and Daven- 3d District—N. W. corner %th and Dédge streots. 4th District—N. E. corner Iith and Dodge streots, . E N. W. corner 2)th and Douglas 5th District- streets. bth District- corner 1ith and Harney streets. s 7th District--N. W. corner 2ith and St. Mary's avenue. Sth District--8, W. corne St. Mary's ave, b District- and St. Mary", 10th Districe worth street Tith District. avenue. n Harney corner 18th and Leaven= S.W. corner 1ith and §t. Mary's FIETH WARD, t—Est side ¥irst Dis opposite Mand Second Distr Sherman avenuo % corner Sherman nve- nue and Wirt Third Dist r Sherman ave- nuvand Lk W. cor or Shierman aves nu Ll Disi Chitrles stry Sixth District—E. side teet N. of Nicholus stre nth District—S, E. corner Sixteenth una zard street Sighth D W. corner Sixteonth and Burt streets X Ninth Dist corner Difteenth and Cnss ALreots, Tenth District—East Side North Seventeenth between California and Cass sireets, Eloventh District—S. E. cornor and Ouss streots. khteenth SINTH WARD. 1st District—8. E. corner24th and Ames ave. d District—S, k. corner 3ith und Grand ave. drd D strict—N. E. corner 45th und Grant stroets, corner 24th and Mander- 4th District—S. W. S01 SLrects, Sth Distriet streots. Hth District strects, 7th District—N. W, stroots. sth Distriet—N, Atroets. E. corner 2ith and Wiry W. corner %d and Parker cor Ath and Corby 3 corner 2ith and Burdotte ol District—N. nd and Grant stroets. 1uth Dist 28th and Franks lin streets. I Distriet—5, W. corner24th and Pranklin 18 - ) Distriet—S, W, streets, 22nd and Clark SEVE! . Ist District—S. W. cornor 2ith and Mason streots. 2nd Distr E. corner 20th and Popple- ton uven d District—S, W, corner 20th and Wool- worth avenue, 4th Distric W. cornor 20th und Arbor streets. h District—South side of Vinton east of enue. Gth District—8, E. corner 3)th and Poppleton avenues, th Distriot--N. W, cornor Hth and If stroots, ancis EIGHTIL WARD Ist Distrct--Eist side of 2th south of Charles street i Diste.ct--West sido of Zird sonth of Panl strect. srd Disteiet--N, W, corner 200h and Nicholas stroets. 4uh District=--N. E. corner 20th and Cuming streets, 5th District--West side % street. oth Distrlet-S, . h north of Cuming corner ¥2nd und Burt streets. Tth District W. corner 20th and Cass strects. NINTII WARD, 151 Distriet—S8. W, corner 3204 and Cuming streets. Zad District—N, W. corner 40th and Cuming streets. drd Distriet <N, E corner 40th and Faroam strocts dth Disurlet—=North slde Davenport, west of d uvenuo corner Glst avenue and ol 6t District—8, W, corner 20th avonue and Jaekson stroet. Tu witness whereof, I have heraunto 8ot my Bund us the presiueut of sald Board of Eatis cation of the 8chool District of Omalha, in ths county of Douglus. in the state of Nebr.sks, il 20th day of October, 1h) BAMUE VALDING, President. Attest CHARLES CONOY L1, Secretary, 00410 ¢ Y virwe of an order of the district cours of Douglus county, Nobr ska, made on the cuse of W. 1), Mess! ). 6t ul. V8. John J. Wilkinson, Harry O et al. 1 wiil, on Monday, the Tth day of Novenber, 150, at % .. of ‘suld day, at the corner of Douglus Btreotand the volt ilne, in the eity of O ha, 1us county. Nebrisk, seil the following hed porso One - ¢ boller und e anell & I WX pri saws, one pli chine, and shaftng. pulivy and bolting, noe cording Lo the torms of said order, for cash 0 the highest bidde ADOL KEN, Rocolven ebraska, Uct. 2Lk, 180 w2d 108 Owmaha,