Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1894, Page 16

16 THE GREATES UNDAY, JAN THE OMAHA DAILY R T BANKRUPT DRY GOODS SALE OF THE AGE. SIXTEEN PAGES. THREE MONSTER BANKRUPT STOCKS COMBINED ALL ON SALE AT GNCE TOMORROW, AT THE GRE DRY GOODS A BANKRUPT 8 ND SHOES, N. W. Cor. 16th and Douglar Omaha, Neb. C. BENNET . of Counc Wy A1 Bluffs WHICH WAS SOLD TO BOSTON STORE, OMAHA, BY THE SHERIFF, AND ALL THE GOODS REPLEVINED BY THE SHERIFF FROM Walker & Sons, Bankrupt Stores, A Resulting Climax of H Boston S DRESS ard Times. GOODS FROM THR THREE GREAT BANKRUPT STOCKS Divided Into Four Awful Bargain Lotbs. Buys Fifty Cent Dress All the odd bolts of drese goods in all these bankrupt stocks, which soid up to 50¢ a yard, go in one lot at 1se a yard. Cent Tn this lot, which we place on our bar- ain square, you will (ind all_the 98¢ dress zoods of these stocks. such as ex- tra heavy taacy reps finest hop: basket cloths and wool changeuble serges. Your choice of the lot for c. Buys Ninety- Eight Buys Seventy- Five Cent Dress 2005 In this lot we place all the 75¢ wool plaids, storm serges, cte., in navy blue and all colors, at the ridiculous price of 25¢ u yard. Buys Dollar and a Quarter Dress olc:: Tn bargain lot No. 4 wo place all the $1 and 31.25 imported novelty cioths and plain silk finished henricttas of those stocks, and put a 50c bargain price for vour choie tore’s Ready Cash Strikingly Proved. SPECIAL BARGAINS 1 2) All the Fine Figured SATEENS which sold for , in theso stocks, go at Gic. All the finest 25¢ French GINGHAMS from the bankrupt stocks which sold at 25e, go at 10¢. All the 12ic MUSLINS from these stocks. no matter what brand, go at 5¢ yard. Al the 10¢ grade Cotton Flannel bleached and unbleached from all stocks, goin one lot at 6ic. EZ All the 25¢ quality Table Oil Cloth goesin one lot at 10c. IN OUR BASEMEN From these three Bankrupt stocks .00 A Pair. 52,00 il 2 One lot Ten Dollar Chenille Portieres All the high-priced BLANKETS worth up Lo §7.50 a pair, in white, brown and scarlet, go at $2.50. All kinds 20¢ grade Crash Toweling On our main floor, All the Fast-Colored RED TABLE DAMASK which sold in Council Bluffs for 5llc, goes at 1oe yard. All the dollar grade hleached and unbleached and Turkey Red Scotch DAMASK in these stocks goes at 39¢ a yard. it Kearney and Grand fs Men's Bareaing From the Council Bluffs 8tock. Men's $1 Shirts for 25¢ All the men’s overshirts, in fancy flannel, cheviot, et for 81, o at Zic. outing ., which sold w™ianis $1.25 All Bonnett’s $1.25 fine dered shirts go at s0c. Men's $2 Pants, 69c. All Bennett’s men’s cassimerc and other strong, sensible pants, which he sold ab §2, go at 69c u pair. Men's $1 Gloves, 39c. C. C. Bennett’s entire bankrupt stock of men’s lined and unlined leather gloves and mitts of all kinds, which he sold for 31, go at 39¢ a pair 750 Unlaundered ShlrtS, 296 Benuett’s entire stock of men’s un- laundered white shirts, all-linen bosom, double bands, which he marked 75¢, go at 20c. white laun- White Shirts, 50¢ | Three Immense Dry Goods Stocks Thrown on the Market Without Warning, at Never-to-be-Forgotten Prices. Three Stocks Bought by Boston Store Without Competition--Bouaht at Our Own Price. And on Sale Now at the Smallest Prices and Greatest Bargains Ever Chronicled in the World. ~ $4 Shoes. for 26 On the first bargain squaro in the shoo department wo place all the odds and ends in women’s slippers, children’s shoos and infants' shoes, which Bennott sold up to 1, go at 25 av Boston Stove. $2 Shoes for 50c. On this counter you will find hun- dreds of ladies' fine dongola button shoes, oxford ties, slippers, men's good solid working shoes, boys’ shoes, chil- dren’s shoes, ladies’ warm lined slip- pers, children’s fine warm lined Good- yeur glove Alasias; many in this lot worth up to $2 a pair; your choice 50c, at Boston Stove, $2.25 Shoes for 79c. An immense Iinné misses’ fine don- gola and goat button shoes, ladies’ don- Zolu shoes, women’s henvy shoes, boys’ shoes, children’s shoes, mea’s arctics and men’s beautifully embroidered vel- vet slippers, worth up to $2, your choice 79¢ at Boston stove. $2.50 Shoes for §1, Av immenso lot of men’s_calf shoes, ladies’ dongola shoes, ladies’ warm lined laced and congress shoes, boys’ extra high cut shoes and warm lined ~ slippers of all kinds, worth up to $2.50, for $1 a pair at Boston Store. land™ Power of a Th Ladies’ and Men’s Shoes, which Ben- nett sold for $4.50 and $5.00, go at $2.50 a Pair At The Boston Store. In this line you will find fino calf custom mude luce, congress and blucher shoes, in all the new styles of toes, and ladies’ impouted fine sowed shoes, imported kid and dongela but- ton and lnce shoes, in opera, common sense and all other latest style lasts, in all widths from C to EE, all of which Bennet sold for up to $3, go in this sale at the Boston Store for $2.50 a pair. Also all the shot silk evening slippers in delicate shades. At $3.00 We will sell all the Shoes for ladies or gentlemen which Bennett sold in the Bluffs up to $6.00, This includes the finest lace and con gress shoes of ali kinds which he had in his stock for men, as we!l as everything he had in ladies’ shoes, including cloth top lace shoes, Juliettes, new bluchers, imported Vienna kid button shoes, 1 worth up to $6, go ut $3 a paiv at Bos- ton Store, Omaha. Ladies’ tailor-made overgaiters, worth 75e, go at 25¢ at Boston Store, Omuana. Misses’ spring heel, warm lined Good- year glove low overshoes, 59¢, worth 81, at Boston Stove, Omaha, men’s N BOSTON ST ORE, OMAHA MILLIOSS FUR_THE LOOTERS A Few Coppers and Costly Experience for the Viotims, THE EXTENT OF THE PUBLIC PLUNDER Dimensions of the Numerleal Bond Swindle Strangled by the, Postal Authoriti normous Profits of the Promoters. An inventory of the remamns of numerical bond companies, though incomplete, justi- fies the condemnation which their opera- tions evoked. Words but feebly measure the breadth and depth of this gigantic swindle which counts its victims by tho tens of thousands. While other financial bubbles collapsed at the first breath of devression, bond lottery schemers seemed to thrive on poverty. Their operations were confined largely to a class that can ill-afford the loss. To them were held out inducoments in the shape of bewildering profits. The South Sea bubble in its palmy days could not equal on paper the money making powers of the lottery bond. It was a mint created to abolish poverty and overspread the ruins with the expansive lap of afiuenco. Around this glowing golden magnet the gullible flocked like electric bugs on a July evening. They came from all sections and poured their dollars into the coffers of the promoters, who, for a satisfuctory rake-off, agreed to set in motion the magie wheels which would convert dimes into dollars, The wheels operated successfully in one re- epect. The promoters sceured the money, while the victims have the experience, The exposure of this shallow and men, cious pretense in Tk BEe and other news- papers, followed by warnings and_denuncia- tions by state authorities, checked its growth. - But theso ugencios were insufti clent. State laws afforded no weapons to meet the emergency, and recourse was had 10 other means. The prowised relief wus furnished by tho postal authorities. The federal faw probibiting the use of the mails by lottery schemers was nvoked most effect- ively, und in about six months has practi cally'squelched the swindlo and the swin- dlers. “The eficacy of the law s shown in the gratifying record of convictions and ar- rests and the rigid exclusion of fottery lit- eracure and lotters from the mails, Three convictions of leading promoters were had in_Chicago, arrosts huve been made in Cre ton and Cotmeil Blufls, Ta., and in_Deny Salt Lake City, Ogden’ and San k Right and left_ ofices have been closed and the promoters have flown to avoid the wrath of Justice and of buncoed victims, A Specimen Loot, Following the convietion of the head of- ficers of tho Guarantee Investment company in the federal court of Chicago last Novem- ber, & receiver was appointed to wind up the affaivs of the concern. During the trial the defendants asserted the company was sol- vent and fully capable of fulfilling its prom ises. ‘The report of the veceiver filed in court last week tells an altogetner different story and aftirns the justice of the jury’s verdict. The report shows the compuny’s liabilities were $65,000,000—that is, there were 55000 bonds outstanding. To pay off these bonds the receiver found §44 cash, 75 cents in multilated coin, and an assortment of office furniture with an adhesive chattel mortgage attached. Notwithstanding the collapso of the con- cern and the conviciion of the chief swin dlers, many victims are paying theirinstali ments, expressing faith in ultimately receiy ing the promisea roward, while others, com- prehendiug the situation, forward piteous appeals for the money they foolishly paid in A great many of the bendholders are Widows, orphans, working girls, street car conductors, railway employes and others in simlae walks of life who have invested the saviues of years to make the fivst payment ona fow of the company’s bouds and who, 1t appears, have deprived themselves of the nccessarics of 1ife 0 kecp up the wonthly assessments. Pitiful scenes are by no means raro in the receiver's office as these people come in and realize they have beeu swindled out of their hard-carncd money. The P1 The Chicago Tribune relates thata modest, dignified_young woman of refined manuer walked into the oftice one day to find out what hope there wasof realizing upon ten bonds she held. She suid she was a type- writer and her They had been raised in easy circumstances, but their parents died and’left them noth- ing. They went to work to support them- selves and to educate a younger brother. [v was a hard struggle and to make it easier they had scraped together $100 to make tho frst payment on ten bonds, hoping that when they matured they would have enough to complete the education of the brother. Another victim, who sat in the office and heard this story, veceived but scant sym pathy. In fact the disinterested bystander treated it as a rich joke and laugheéd uproar- iously, for this victim had money and could bear the loss, even if it were rather hard He was a merchant from a Wisconsin tow! and had come in to see the receiver upon an important business matter. They weve in- terrupted by the entrance of the voung woman, Evidently the Wisconsin merchant then heard for the first time that the Gual antee Investment company was in the hai of a receiver,for he turned pale. leaved back in ms coair, and fairly gasped. When the young woman had gotie he turned to Mr. Hurley and inquired : )o you know where I could hire a real strong man to kick me for a few hours?. Why 1 *Well, I hold 211 of those bonds; that's all. O, thinkof it! Two thousand one hun- dred and ten dollars in cold cash and $203 o month afterward and nothing to show for O, me! O, my ! Many prominent Chicago citizens hold large numbers of these bonds, muny of them holding 100 apiece. The agents had a sche for selling bonds in_ blocks of fifty by repre senting thut by the multiple system, five being the muitiple, any one who held ' tifty bonds was absolutely certain o ge leas bond cashed every ten drawings. But nger still 1s the fuct that bondholde: come in every day and msist on paying their ssessments and express undying faith tha “the compuny will be all v protly soon They do not stop to covsider that, thero being 55,000 bonds outstanding, they have oue chance in 55,000 of realizing on their in- vestment when a drawingis held; nor do seem to think it strange that a concern which had received 50,000 1n cash as first payments on bonds, not a cent of which y used for the redemption of bonds, and 25 cents premium on each bond every month, should be obliged to mortgage offico furni: ture, und they go away with hearts filled with bitterness against the veceiver because ne will not tuke their money. The recolver expects to secure o portion of the $100.000 in good bonds filed with the sec- vetary of state of Missouri, but this involves considerable litigation, Even if realized upon prowptly it would not pay a tithe of the pending claims, Counting the Cost, What was the harvest of the promoterst ccording to the facts aaduced at the trinl the Guarantoe officers the company dis- posed of 85,000 bonds. For these the pur- chusers paid a total of 850,000 in the shape of preliminavy fees, or $10 & boud. This euormous sum was pocketed by the agents. A good rustling agent could malke anywhere from §50 to 8500 day, nnd one struck an extra streak of luck in Chicago and pocketed §1 profits in a duy. The fee of the actual managers was 23 cents out of each monthly installment, which, at the time of the prosecution, netted 813,750 ver month Estimating the' total number of bonds were paid on during half the life of the company, the profits from this source amounted to £105,000 in two years. This, however, does not represent the whole of the promoters’ rake off, On the same basis of calculation the income, exclusive of the %5 cents, was 00,000 Out of this only £206,000 was paid to holders of 208 bonds, leaving $454,000 un accounted for Is it any wonder Judge Grosscup char- \cterized the scheme as public robbery ? When tho postal authorities laid hands on the swindie there were 152 companies kuown to exist. ‘They spread over the country dered. from the lakes to the Pacific and were multiplying atan amazing rate. Of these the looting Guarantee was the parent as well as the richest, buving agencies ina ster wasa_saleswoman, | dozen states. None of the others approached 1t in extent of business. Two concerns in Missouri had issued together about 35,000 bonds, the remainder of the list ranging down to a few hundred. he aggre- gate of bonds issued by these concerns at least equal the Guarantee’s total. Applying the Guarantee ratio of income to outgo to the whole, the receipts aggregated 2,750,000, of which $412,000 was returned to the bond- holders, leaving the enormous sum of $2,338 000 as clean profits for the swindlers, The pily% itis that nine-tenths of the swin- dlersAvill go unwhipped of justice. A Texns Roar. The Texas commissioner of insurance, backed by the attorney general of the state, has declared war on the bond frauds. His action roused the wrath of interested pur- ties, and in an open letter he defends him- self in this vigorous style: *I denounced and exposed the numerical bond companies because they were frauds pure and simple, in the interest of the people of this state, knowing if they were not ‘strangled in in- > the people of Texas would be merei- Ly plundered ana would soon lament the existence of such corporations, and would also have cause to censure ofticials whose duty it was to warn and protect them against such speculative and deceptive schemes. It is frivolous to say these gauzy schemes, founded upou the doctring of chance oaly, ure attacked in the interest of life insurance, when it is a fact that every periodical wave of such frgudas but strengthens the hold of slife insurance upon the people and adds toits popularity, be- cause by cxperience and comparison the people learn to appreciate and admire the good. “T'he payment of the bonds of these in- vestment companies is not determined by any law of nature or business as in the case of life insurance or other sound and houest institutions of the land, but by lot or chance as in 4 lottery. lIn the contruct no time is named when bonds mature, but a vague, in- definite maturity is promised according ta mathematical table constructed by the com- pany, which means, at best, that th.e bond- holders who were in the first ‘divide’ of lucky numbers may be paid und an oc sional late comer if the company can live lonz enough to cateh suckers sufticient. T'he only difference in any of the plans is the scattering of the lucky numbers, which 15 done under a_pretense of being fair, the real purpose being to nllure and encourage late comers. Again, there is a so-called re- serve fund, which some provide, while others do not, which 15 a delusive incidental bene- or Tustallments, A Michigan man holding thirty-one bonds in the Columbian Bond Investment com. pany of Saginaw applied for and obtained an injunction restraining the monthly draw- ing. The plaintiff says the concern has celved more than $18,000 and paid out but $3.400 in_four months, and that the whole scheme is a fraud. An Omaha promoter showed painful agita- tion & few days ago. Since the mails were slosed to the concern he represented, care was taken not to violate the order. By an oversight & bond purchused by a colored woman was forwarded to her addre through the mails. As soon as the promoter discovered his mistake he made a lively rus- tle for the incriminating euvelope. A5 the woman was anxious to recover her money > promoter saved himself by refunding. T'ino attorney general of Missouri has com- menced proceeding bafore the supreme court of the state to vacate the charters of the ntee Bond Investment company of ada, Mo., the Pettis County Investinent company of Sedalia and the St 1 Mutual Bond Investment company. 1'he torney general of Mianesota is understood to be contemplating similur action against bond investment companies in that stute. Similar action ought to be instituted by the attorney general of Nebraska to aunul the incorporation of bond concerns in this state. A comparison of their mcorporation articles with the business conducted would convince any court of their fraudulent cnaracter. San Francisco bond promoters are doing some lively sprinting to keep beyond the reach of the postal authoritie The insurance commissioner of Ponnsyl vania denounces the Order of Solon as a huge fraud. It hasa membership of 10.601 residing in six states. It resembles the Iron Hall. In four years it collected §585.000, hs outstanding contracts agyregating $5.4584,000 and the net avallable assets with which to weet these millions amount 1o §l44,445 CO-OPERATIVE HOME BUILDING The Income Tax Bill and the Building-Loan Associations, EXEVPTION CHECKS A MIGHTY ROAR The Looting Methods of Chicago Natlonals Looked Into by the Grand Jury—Some Details of the Robbery—Lnpor= Court Declsions, What promised to develop into a mighty roar against certain provisions of the pro- posed income tax bill pending In congress has suddenly subsided. Building and loan associations are specifically exempt from the proposed tax. When it became evident two weeks ago that an income tax would he incorporated in the revenue bill and that the income of cor= porations would be invited to stem the treasury deficit, well grounded fear was manifested in building association circles throughout the country. Unless an excep- tion was made associations would necessa- rily come in under the head of corporations, the dividends of which are to be taxed 2 per cent. Here and there a note of warning was sounded, but comparatively few real- ized that such a step was contempisted. Up to last Monday Philadelphia associations had not heard of the proposed.tax, and very few in tho west had an inkling of what was on, Up to within a fow hours of the in- troduction of the bill associations wero in- cluded in the list of able corporations. The avthors of the measure evidently real- ized the injustice of tuxing the income of these associations, and added to section a proviso reading as follows: “And provided further, that this act shall not apply to the incomes or dividends re- ed or paid by such building and loan a; sociations which are organized under the laws of any state or territory and which do not muke loans except to share within the state where such asso have been ol anized.” “The excmption. itwill bo seen, is practically to lo al assoc ich ar really mutual in character, None of this class seel business beyond thestate in wiich they are incorporated and very seldom go beyond their respeetive countics. The na taonal or interstate class will, if this provi sion becomes a law, be obliged to limit their operations to state boundaries or pay th tax. The action of ‘the authorsof the ac noves what woulil hayve been a troubl some, oreanized opposition to the measury Staustics compiledi by the United States commissioner of labor show that at the closs of 1802 there were 5500 associations in the country with a membership of 1,655,456, Tho present number of associations exceeds 6.000 und it 1s probable that the total membership 15 2,000,000 Had shese organizations been aroused against e @irect government tax it is certain they wotld make a highly inter- esting timo for advecates of the bill and carry their sentiments to the ballot box with emphuss. A National Wreck, elopments in the affairs of the collapsed ( rago Nauwonals do not afford much comfort for the victims. In addition of $i5,000 loan on property valued at §2,000 made by the National Building, Loan and Investment society, the investigation of the state auditor shows that the society’s assots are impaired to the extent of §145,000. In presenting the case to court in support of an application for a receiver the attorney gen- cral stated that the society, since its organi zation 1o 1800, colle 4 an expe o fund of 10 cents a shure per month, All this disap- peared into the pockets of the mansgers and an overdraft of §,050, making o total of £30,000 gone whither no one kunows. The secretary drew the snug salary of 7,500 o year for work valued at $1,500. Other ofce:s received round sums for little or no lubor, the governing motive being to dis | burse the receipts in the manner best calou Later ¢ - lated to enhance the prosperity of a clique of managers and relutives, Taxing Pald-Up Stook. The action of the Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners in the matter of building and loan associations will be watched with intevest, especially in those sections of the country where issues of paid-up ssments are popular. The board has had the ques- tion of paid-up stock assessments before it for some time and has just reached a de- sion, by the terms of which such stock is to be taxed at its par value, The board was unanimous in the opinion, itis said, that money placed in paid-up shares was simply aloan to the associutions, for which the lender received from 6 to 8 per cent, and in the end shared in the general profits of the association, The members did not believe that the law exempting the building and loan stock from taxation was intended to give immunity to such loans, Acting on this theory they de- termned that this stock should bear its burden just as other capital invested in an interest-puying business, An Important Questian. The attorney general of 1llinois proposes to test the question whethor a building and loan as tion of the national varicty can escape state scrutinyg by appealing to the United States court. The American, an Tlinois association, the managers of which squandered hundreds of thousands on sand lots, variety theaters and museums, was de- clared insolvent by the state auditor, but to prevent the state from winding up its affairs for the benefit of the victims the managers applied to the federal court for n receiver, and secured the appointment of a friend_of the wreekers. ‘The attorney gereral has asked that the order bo vacated and that the state be permitted to deal with the con- cern and the lnoters as the state law directs. Commenting on this, the latest development of national erookednogs, the Chicigo Herald says: “The bankrapt associations, mstead ot ‘attempting to recover - themselves under the conservative provisions of the state law, ave rushed into the United States court, confossed their insolvency and avplied for a receiver of their own appointment. These proceedings bear the appear ice of collusion. ‘The onty pretext that the defaulting agents of the Illinois corporations had for this course was the allegation that they had stockholders in other states. 1f this pretext_is good for tying una case the kind iu the United States court the sources of craft and fraud in similar com- binations are almost endless. Any conc might donate a share of its stock to a citiz of Indiana or 0¢ Missouri, and then claun th protection of the United States courts, through a collusiy ship, to oust the state courts of jurisaiction and defraud the vast majority of its stockholders. In hold- | ing these associutions to strict account under their state franciises, Attorney Gen 1 Moloney is performing an imperative public duty. They are not interstate af- fuir: They should be held accouniable in the courts of the stite from which their charters are derived.” Dimensions The reason for the American’s appes to the federal court is a consuming desire o protect the men who rioted with its funds, The report of the stato auditor shows that the concern loaned over $300,000 in sums ranging from $5,000 to #11,000 on property valued ut £5,000. The plan which seemed to strike the managers most easy for disposing vipts was to set up a “dummy,” the money and pocket it thom- Besides tifis outrageous robbery the oficials collected an expense fund mnounting Lo §200,112, and memuorship fecs | aggregating §156,020, making o totul of over £000,000 stolen by ihe managers. It is not improbable that before the recewvership | contest Is settled some of the robbers will have acquired quarters in the state prison The grand jury has taken hold of the robbers, to compel the department to approve the certificate. Interest on Premiums, Vice Chancellor Van Fleet of Jersey City, N. J., has decided that loan associations have a right to charge interest only on the amouut advanced. The papers in the case showed that the Lincoln Building and Loan association had advanced $7,000 to Charles Clark’s Sons & Co on a premium bid of §1.000, taking as security a mortgage for §5.,000. The firm subsequently gave a sec- ond mortgage on the property to the At lantic White Lead company, which moved to set aside the first mortzage. Vice Chan- cellor Van Fleet held that the association naa a right to charge a premium for its loans and to include the amount in the mor! gage, but it had no right to collect interest on the premium. He also held that the as- sociation’s fines and penalties for default were legitimate charges against the prop- erty. A few more such decisions will help to entirely retire the obsolete gross premium system. e — RELIGIOU Bishop-elect Hall of the Episcopal church will be conscerated at Burlington, Vt., Feb ruary 2. A chain of missions has been established across Central Africa from ocean to ocean in eighteen years. In all Africa there are 727 aries, 1,006 native preuchers native Christians, and 2 dren, a and total of 1,004 The publication of the statistics of both tho Northern and Southern Presbyterin shurches shows that their united strength s 34 synod: 3 presbyteries, 7,780 ministe 888 eldors, 9,044 churches, 1,043,685 com- municants and a total of contributions amounting to §16,850 801, The vencrable Bishop Williams of Con- necticut will deliver tie sermon on the oc sion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the consecration of the Right Rov. William Crosswell Doane as bishop of Albany Feb. vunry 2. A feature of the service will be an offer'tory of. §25,000 for a new chapter house. The People’s church of St. Paul has per formed the remarkable feat of lifting within the past few wecks, a debt of & 750; in addition the church has raised 817, 205 this year for current expenses. The hurch has received much financial aid out sido of its own membership. but practically all of this $47,000 came from within Another clergyman who was drafted dur- ing tho late war Is reported in the person of the Rev. Warren L. Hayden, who was preaching at the time in Rupert, Vi, but living in Salem, N. Y. Ho was drafted Sulem, when ho went commutation, as hissociety at Itupert would not spare him, Mr. Hayden is now hiving in Ile s tho pastor of a Campbellite society there, Tho Protestant white mission- 770,960 adult churches of Washington ave busily engnged in_preparations for a sevies of meetings to be held under the | ¢ leadership and direction of Mr. Dwight L. Moody, the well known evangelist, assisted by Mr. Sankey, beginning February 7 and continuing one month, One feature of the | meotings will be a chorus of 1,600 voices, the membership of which is now nearly com plete. The work in Washington will be' Mr. Moody's last pr to sailing for London, Rev. G. Monroe Royce in tue Junuary Forum in attempting to account for the de- | ! cline of the Americau pulpit says that in 1870 | there were 45,000 ordained ministers in tho Some of these most devout of mi ister's wife was told that her littlo boy had | been ov nintTo he as | a where was the world with an United States, and though this number had increased to 04,000 in 1850, the reports show there were no more trained and educated men in the 64,000 than in the 48,000, Thi strange when the number of great’ institu- | tions ot learning and the increasing l¢ of students atlending them is consiiesed. The Rev. G. B. Chambers of Lama. O., has | demonstrated his ability to remonstrate | v yand successfully with those who disturb his meetin A couple of hoodlums | ¢ made 4 row at his meeting the other night ions Valldity of Pala-Up Stock. I'he court of appeals of New York has de- | that the issucof paid-up stock by i | loan association is not agaiu the law. ‘The case was one brought by | Chatles 8. Puirehild, representing the Peter Cooper association of 2 ork, ugaiusy th superint the fug department Superintendent | to uecept the certificat f the Cooper associnti nuout | intention of ent The court of appeals dix ourt below cided suvings and Peter | od its stock ts the and he remonstrated with them. He did it | n witn u poker vgetically that one of the men will hen he went home and vhe other hoodlum, with a company of & Li» friend d bim to continue the o Chambers us vt th Juted s antagonist, who X sorder [ ent \pp lay night with wras | Having coneiud ngag Charley Mitcl 1 bett Gentleman Jack in Boston Mon | the sister, examining the | apparel replicd tho b worih operat ofticer SOME OF THESE DAYS, Frank L, Some of these brighter. Some of these lighter; Hearts will whiter— Some of these days! Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. days all the skies will all Le burdens be will be days the bo happier—souls s, In the deserts upspring- Fountiins shall flash, while the joy-bells are ringing, And_the world shull go singl Some of these days! ith its sweetest of birds Some of th Lot us bear with our sor- rOW: Faith in the future—its light may we borrow; hero will be joy in the golden omiorrow— Some of these dys ———— PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGNTERS, o days! Little Mary has always been devoted to her Aunt May, and prays for her each mght long and fervently. - Oue day, however, dur- ing a visit to her aunt’s, the child did some- thing wrong and had to'be punished. When evening came, and she kneltat her aunt's knee to say hor prayers, it was evident that the sore spot was there still. “Bless papa and mamma,” began tho childish voice,and then there was un ominous silence, after which the prayer was con- cluded with no reference to Aunt May. “Now,” remarked Miss Fou with flashing eyes. as she roso to her feet, “what do you think of that fora prayer?” Foward T., who hus lived all his short lifa a city, was taken recent real farm.” The child w Lon the place was a delig pecially centered in him, by about a Jersey calf. 1 would like to buy it,” he said to the owner, “But what would you give in exehange?™ he was asked, “My baby sister, replied the child the utmost gravity ; *'we have a new nearly every year at our house and never had i calf!” with baby we'va Edward Junior (aged 5) is the son of the isters. One aay the min- Calling t sho had heard and rhoard swearing. she told him wh 1 if it w true *Who told you!" he demanded. “Oh," she replied, rather surprised, ¢ little bird told me,” Well,” responded the youthful impeni- in | tent, *‘then it was one of those durned spal to Troy and paid a | rows.” ‘The inborn pride of Chicagoans and their neighbors in their city and all that belongs to it, especially since tho fair, is well illus- | ¥ y & remark made by o’ youngster in 1i., the other day. “His mother sverheard hum talking with his little sister wnd discussing great questions, as children lo, with all the gravity of his clders. Ifinally the little girl asiced, “‘Harry, made?” And Harry, air of superior wisdon, answered, Why, don’t you know, Dotty? In Chicago, ‘ of course “Oh, Agnes!" exclaimed brother, John, the other day n your stocking as big as yetter not let mamma s0e it “How you do exaggerate, John,” renlied oresaid article of rger than a halt her younger ©'s a hola You'd “ILisn’t much o lollar,” “That ain't much of an ex ration, then, other, “A silver dollar's only cents now, you seé, v right than you ave,” about rty, 1 was near i cided that the A Canadian judge has g iNCe company nt of i foreien i zin Canadn is tho y 1 1o make afldavit as to the correctness the ments fled fo that countr T'his secms traugoe to insurauco agents, inasmuch s ho eofef agent only kiow what the s chooso to tell Lim, while the oficers hemselvos hive oF can have lute knowls™ Ige of the company's affairs. Hoss and up farce ing will produce o now dder called “A Back Willie Collicr 10 the coming Idward 12, 1 of Hoss' was decided comedy Nuwber,”