Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1894, Page 17

s ST I'ABLISHED SILKS. Brought on tha Steamer. 29 29¢ DOUBLE WARP Black Surah Silks, Worth 59¢; go at 29¢ VERY GOOD Colored Satin, worth fie, goes at In all shades, worth 50¢ | 20¢ per yard, g0 at 25¢ per yard. i Double warp extra heavy 50 Pieces SURAIS are the rage this Black Small &onson, They are cspeclally Pigured Fanoy adapted for walstand dress poscs, These silks fine’ heavy quality a U the? thiey go Mo ¢ per yurd 59c NESE SHSIL K plaids, i light grounds; never more hieal silk for summ waists or_blouses thin this wash sill; they ar sold in o this 1A B UTAL In str pes und and dark there i CHOICE NI-I\Y Figurad China Silks, Bome of the handsomest de signs ¢ r shown In Omnha These are worth up to 81 ayard; Monday at te yard. b9 b n u varicty of new sha Tyulso street colors £ breens, browns, navys and lucks, sold overywhere at 8: at 45¢ and 98c. .uul!l.. On onr second Larealn square, inch FIGURED CHINA SILKS, durk grounds with smiall neat floral desizns, just the thing for a hundsome summer dress. These gooils arce worth 98¢, and go ut 30¢ per yard. JU NE FROM THE CARGO ON THIS STEAMER 8ilk and Wool m all n 30 Pieces Spring Colorings. in the city at $1.50 a yard; your choice at 85e. Boston Stare, Omanal BUSTON STORE dna THE OMAHA SUNDAY B 19 s DRESS G000S All Wool Black ONS” VEILING: 29 39 w spring colovs, worth $1.00 and $1.25 a 'd (this is the greatest value of season), all go av 40C per yard. 8b These goods are being sold right here All Wool BATISTE worth 8 at 3%c, 5e a yard, go 10,000 Yards of Two-Toned (Fancy Mirtures and the of New All Vool Fancy PARIS Dress Fabrics OMAHA, SUNDAY \IOR NING, APRIL 29, Corner CAPES LAGES Sent over on this Steamer. DIREGT FRON PARIS. These Were in the Last Shipment from the Wr.cked Steamer, ON SALE AT BOSTON STORE AWFUL CHEAP 200 of These Elegant me Imported Parisian Capes and Jack= ets—Will Be Sold At a Fraction of Thelr Va'ue Tomorrow. arments—\ll Gena- ON BOSTON STORE SECOND FLOOR. We have lald these 200 elegant garments on four different counters, and we put a price on each counter for choice of any gar- ment on it. Choice on first counter $2.50, worth $7.50. Choice on second counter $3.98, worth $10.00. Choice on third ‘counter $5.00, worth $15.00. Choice on fourth counter $7.50, worth $19.00. ON THE FIRST COUNTER-—0 importe s Intans, navys, blacks and browns, with braid 3200 AR and lace trimmings, with or without tabs, worth up to $7.50, go at $2.50, ON THE NEXT COUNTER-At $3.95 a number of stylishly trimmed, long and short capes, moire siik yoke, cloth and lace tions, in_lacks all s, all worth $10.00, go at 5o ON THE THIRD COUNTER— 15.00 for $5.00. Ladios' imported short capes of al it nate rows of braid and open inertions of jet, others in broadcioth and” Kersey ribbon, et and braid trimmed, black colors, worth $15.00, go at ON T} $10.00 imported cap moire silk capes aille and_corded bengalt trimmed in silk - ne: ruflles of lace and capes of imported With rows of moire ming, ribbon ruche stroamers, ol worth your choice of the lot, § 3 FOURTH COUNTER— Ladies' in_moire, with Also, 1 ¢loth, ibbon trim- and si Rl M - 1891 and Dodge. = CARPETS | FROM THE WRECK. Worth 50c a yard, huve AYARD, beenslightly wet, but are all dry now, go to- 50 PIECES HAL WOoOL 'INGRAIN SINGLE The Fame of e Burguins n This Golossol S Hove Sprend Far md Ned, Fling e Slore Evers ay-from Opening Uil Closing Wil HOger Buyers. cory A A A PR 4 PAG:S 11-20 mnnanany il IVE CENT T0M0roN'S Bargalss e Grea'es in fhe WhleSalg BARGAINS IN THE BASEMENT. FANCY NOVELTY Dress ods, 40 inches wide in mixtwes and sn cenlar 2he gocds an entire dress pattern of seven yards at G¢ checks, reg e rd wide check, English Serges and Henriettas, all worth 20, an entirve dress pat- tern of 7 yards at Sl pin 5) PIECES ALL WOOL EXTRA HEAVY INGRAIN CARPETS, 2 5 c Worth 65¢ and 75 a A YARD. yard, sligntly wet on the cdges, go at yard. 5 RUGS. | 14 yards long each, 59¢ for the whole ugr. ' Boston Siorex BODY An entiv dre of strictl ALL WOOL SERGE also, colored briiliantines and 4d-inch . henrietta: entire dress pattern of 7 108, Vory finest, st ALL WOOL (II\HH‘,S beautiful patterns, worth .y\)v a yard, go tomorrow, one dress pat- tern tow cust mor, at e u yu One lot of very fine lmmy cotch lawns und dimities, worth up to 2i¢ u yard, go at 34c. Best grades of blue calicos go at 3ic a yard. | Lancashire Amoskeag ging- hams, worth 124¢ & yard, g0 at Ge. Plain black and white India Linen, worth 25ca yard, go at 3ic. SHOES. —~FOR-— SHOES ¢ Filled the same day they are received. HERE THEY ARE. The entire output of the Riverside shoe factory, consisting of ladles' fine button shoes and oxford ties, and men's fine tan shoes; some half price, some less. 000 TLadies' fine flexible sole (oa- gola oxford ties, dongola blucher tieg and gondola cloth top oxford ties. Men's ten 5 low shoes. Men's don- ] gola low shoes. All$1.560 a pair; worth $2.50. 6,000 pairs—worth $4-00 and $5.00, La= dies’ Cioth ‘Top Dongol Button Shoes, ladies' kid button \Imw, ladies’ Paris kid lace ~Im.»~. 1 Vienna dongola shoes, ladies’ dark tan lace shoes, mens' razor toe call shoes, men’s tan blucher: men's piceadilly tan lace shoes, all worth from #4.00 to $5.00, go 32.50 Ladies' big button shoes; ladies’ aported front lnce shoes; Iadies' imported kid butt hoes; men's real Russia ¢ A omind o5, (nes shoas, el wine colored Rusala’ calf lace shoes; men's tan_ big button shoes; none worth less than $5 and up to §7; all &0 at onc £3.00. THE SECRET l\OthTIOV Progress of the Inquiry Into the Affairs of the Lincoln Diocese. TEXT OF THE FAMOUS TRUCE The Conditlons Imposed Upon Bishop Bona- oum by the Papal Delegate and How They Were Obscrved—Appenls to the Civil Courts. LINCOLN, Hennessy of Neb., April 28.—Archbishop Dubuque has closed the second week of his “still hunt”’ for evidence re- garding the conduct of affairs In this diocese. Priests and laymen in this vicinity have been summoned before him, and many witnesses living in the southern and western portions of the diocese have received similar calls. Opponents of Bishop Bonacum, who are closely watching the secret inquiry, claim the summoned wit- nesses are friends of the bishop. However this may be, the archbishop has been put in possession of proofs of the most serious charges preferred by the priests. The demonstration of prominent laymen of this city agalnst the bishop produced a marked fmpression and those who participated in it express coufidence in a satisfactory if not an early, solution of the demoralizing seandal. The belief that Bishop Bonacum must go is stronger now than at any time since the papal delegate voiced that senti- ment at the residence of the bishop of Omaha In June, 1893. “I always thought 80, 1 told you so0" and similar expres- Bions by~ friends of the bishop show the current of feeling Great secrecy observed as to what transpires before the archbishop. Wit nesses come and go without giving the slightest inkling of what they imparted to the inquisitor. The seal of sec does not extend to what transpired preceding the present inquiry, and many interesting facts and much unpublished history have been gathered from conversations ~with priests and laymen. These throw a strong side light on the struggle for supremacy be- iween the liberal and conservative divisions of the Roman Catholic episcopacy in the United States, The division, It is said originated in 1883, when the American arch- Dishops were summoned to Rome to advise with Pope Leo XIIIL with regard to an im- Is proved church government. The appoint- ment of a papal delegate to the United States was considered at that time, but the arguments of the archbishops overcame the desires of the pontiff. Some reform was deemed necessary to diminish the flood of priestly grieyances which deluged Rome. As a compromise the third council of Baltimore was proposed and held the fol- lowing year. INADEQUATE LAWS. The rules of church government promul- gated by that council afforded temporary railef, but they did not diminish to any serious degree the powers of the bishops or afford the priests adequate protection from the tyranny of superiors. The sus- pension and _excommunication of Rev. Dr. McGlynn in New York without the form of trial provided by the Baltimore rules flustrated the inefciency of the code, or, rather, how readily it may be set at naught by those who drafted It. Dr. McGlynn's case was not more grievous than scores of others. He had influential friends to carry his case to Rome and vindication followed. The obscure priest, on the other hand, without means (0 carry his case to Romo and struggle for Lis rights, was obliged to bear whatever indignities or in- Justico his superior imposed. The educational controversy carried to Rome and championed by Archbishop Ire- land, his qualified victory, followed by the appointment of Mgr. Satolli as papal dele- gato to the United States, sbharpiy divided the American episcopacy into two fractions. The liberals, headed by Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishops Ireland and Keane, warmly champloned the delegate. The leadership of tke opposition was by common consent accorded Archbishop Corrigan of New York. The conservatives had a strong majority of the metropolitans ,and suf- fragans, but they could make little head- way against the minority supporting the proclaimed policy of the pope. Open and anonymcus attacks on the delegate and his supporters were conspicuous in the press a year ago. That system of warfare sub wided, but the spirit which animated it is not dead nor sleeping. It remains a power- ful, aggressive, organized force in the church, apparently determined to negative the influence of the delegate or win his support to their reactionary policies. REACTIONARY INFLUENCES, The prolonged strife in the Lincoln diocese is due to this reactionary influence. It is the power behind the bishop's struggle for ecclesiastical existence. At the outset he raised the question of Satolli's jurisdiction, claiming that Rome alone had power to try a bishop. Jurisdiction was subse- quently acknowledged and almost immedi- ately repudiated. The bishop's cause was taken up and made the common cause of the opposition to the delegate. A cononical trial of the accusations made by the priests meant the \nstytution of canon Ilkw in church in this country. Against this in- novation the opposition combined. They succeeded in preventing a trial and in maintalning the missionary system. A significant feature developed by the struggle thus far is that while Bishop Bonacum’s adherents comprise the opposi- tion to the permanency of the papal dele- gation in this country, Mgr. Satolll has glven him substantial aid and comfort at the expense of consistency. The charges against Bishop Bonacum were fled In March, 1893, the complaining priests contending for his removal. A copy was sent to the bishop by Mgr. Satolli with instructions to disprove them. The papal court journeyed to Omaba in June of that year. Three commands were required to intuce the bishop to appear. The dele- gate and the bishop adjourned to a private room. When they reappeared their flushed couutenances betokened a lively argument The bishop was required to sign a truce containing certain stipulations which he was commanded to observe pending further proceedings. In doing so he expressed the opinion that the truce was not worth the paper. Subsequent events justified the opinfon. The terms of the truce are ex- plained in a letter from Mgr. Satolli to the counsel for the priests, as follows: T die 21 OF THE TRUCE. 1593, —Revede and Ilustr m- OMOH A Phelan: — Ej nocondonar Promitit se ninil o Immediate saeredotl et el dabl il et Junil, 18 SOPIPLO. exprossit 82 oblivisel onie Quinn nai 08€08, s & clum_vel Rev. Vestr Lincoln, sed minl contra Rev. Vestram vehemen| amendo ut Rev. Vestra in ephemo ntra ipsum diclt Duae illae sorores Visitationls late revertl in domui orl suae placst ews accipere. Amplius diclt sorores quod pro sua domo aedificanda et *“pericienda,’ sutti ma $15,00 quae domus aedificabitur jam proprio Eeelesta Baluto atque omr poterunt sliglosam st su im nova t sum sulo ‘prospera’ dico Rev, V Aduictiss mus. X FRANCIS AR. BATOLLL Translation OMAMHA, June trious Dr. Pk 1893.~Rev. and The DIShop h pressed in writhig that he will forgiy orget every thing He promises he will do nothing against the signers of the charges. He promises to immediately grant facul- tles to suy muss to Priest Quinn, whom he acknowledged to be a priest of the dloce and if he behaves well to give him some time an office or mission, He no longer prohibits ygur reveren from saying mass in the diocese of Lincoln, but he made known to me that he was vehemently angry with your reverence; but 1 sk your reverence to say nothing gainst him in the newspapers. 'hose (wo sisters of the Visitation can Illus- ex- and an: return fmmediately to their religious home if it Is acceptable to their superior. The bishop said, moreover, that for his new house the sum of $15,000 is sufficient to “ercct and complete” (quoted words under- d in the original) and that the house 8 %o be bullt upon land alveady “'belonging to and adjacent to the church” (quoted words underscored In the original). Most cordially yours X FRANCIS AR. SATOLLI, Delegate Apostolic. HOW THE TRUCE WAS OBSERVED. In additlon to the written assurances, the papal delegate verbally informed the com- plaining priests that a regular trial would be ordered and that Archbishop Hennessy would be given jurisdiction after his in- stallation. Bishop Bonacum gave practical effect to his oplnion of the truce in short order. Three of the complaining priests have been kept on the move, either in search of shelter or in dodging civil court injunctions or ec- clesiastical excommunications. The bishop's home is built on land which was owned by McCabe, Henry and Bonacum when the truce was signed, and instead of being adjacent to the church it Is nearly four miles away. Besides repudiating the pledges given the delegate, the bishop publicly denied on two occasions having signed the truce. The first denial was a letter over his signature in the Amerika, a German publication in St. Louis, organ of the Priester Verein, of which organization the bishop is a member. On the 16th inst., in a civil court in Ne- braska City, the bishop repeated his denial and offered ‘to make afidavit to that effect. With the departure of the papal court from Nebraska, friends of the bishop in- dustriously circulated the report that the case was finally settled. One of the priests telegraphed Satolli, asking if the report was true. The reply was: “Yes, if the conditions of the truce are observed by you." The complainants were exacted from them other than that due respect should be shown the bishop. The latter did not hold out the olive branch, though agreeing to do so, but on the con: trary provoked greater turmoil among his subordinates, especlaily those prominent in bringing forward the charges. A PLAN THAT FAILED. As soon as Archblshop Hennessy was in- stalled preparations began for the promised trial. the influence assert no conditions Here again of con- servatives was shown. The plaintiffs r celved an Intimation from high quarters than a change of counsel would expedite the trial. The liberal music which Dr. Phelan of St. Louls usually grinds out igrated on delicate ears. If his orchestra, was dis- pensed with the opposition would make con- cessions. Some of the priests, anxious for a settlement, snapped at the bait, and re- talned Rev. Dr. Smith, a canonist of Pater- son, N. J. Dr. Smith was encouraged to prepare the case for trial. Phelan wa kept in the background. When matters came to a head late in March last, Dr Smith suddenly withdrew from the case, pleading pressure of duties. The promised trial also collapsed, but the results were not what the promoters expected. The priests were on their guard. They had provided counsel and were not trapped on the “personal grievance’ investigation. Pos wibly Dr. Smith was not a party to this by play. Being a staunch supporter of Bishop Wigger, who is an active opponent of liberal tsm in the church, the doctor would imperil his standing at home by advocating the cause of “insurgent’ priests in another diocese He returned the papers in the case and pocketed the retainer. THE BISHOP AND THE CIVIL COURTS The arrest and prosecution of Bishop Bonacum in Lincoln on the charge of crim fnal lbel, preferred by Father Corbett last February, called forth & vigorous condemna- tion of the proceeding from the papal dele gate. The immediate cause of the prosecu tlon was the olrculation of a dodger an nouncing the suspension of Father Corbett The rules of the dlocese require such an nouncements to be signed by the bishop and the seal of the diocese attached. The ir regularity. of the document and the manner in which its contents was made known pro- Butter-color point Venlee Lace. nine inch wide, 10¢ yd. Black and cream silk chantilly butter c color Oriental Lace, butier Go at 10c, 19¢. 25¢. 39¢ EX(RA SIDE BARGAINS, 100 doz Ladies’ long w.ist Corsets, worth c Silk Vests with silk embroidered neck and arm holes worth 1 1ot Ladies® Tmported Silk Satin Corszats, Extra long waists, inall’ 50c VEST3 FOR 15c. Ladi Lisle Thread Vests silk ribbon ‘trimmed ; worth 50¢, case Finest Imported La- dies’ Hose, in black and in lisle thread. Plain and aucy opera lengths, Worth $i.50 a pair; go at 39¢c 1,000 PATRS LADIES’ In black and all c¢l-2 ric; worth $1.00, | c ter to the bishop the deisggte said: “Lan- guage fails me to express jow deeply I de- plore and condemn the actign of Father Cor- sacred person of his own pishop.” Bishop Bonacum has Instituted mdre suits in civil courts than all the bishops west of the Mis- tster to Chill, was called jnto court by the hishop for refusing to pay & subscription of $500. An Omaha contractgr was obliged to material furnished; several suits were in- stituted on the orders of the bishop against subscribers to a church fund in Rulo, Neb.; church fund, but being unable to pay owing to his failure in business, was followed to other states with a judgment for the ing in the clvil courts, in each of which the bishop is plaintift. If the bishop may employ civil courts to ventilate temporal, as seem Just to condemn others for following the extensive and varied example of the bishop. ent layman, “that those high in authority in the church have not suppressed this scandal long ago. The bishops themselves manded vigorous measures of repression, for the developments in the case are destined to fmpair in no small degree the prestige these tronbles are not ended promptly we will be without a church worth fighting for."” e S DB Worth Up to §1.00a Yard. cream silk Bourdon bla ck and color Point d'Treland, worth up to 81 yd. 50c, go at | case Ladies’ Pure $1.25 colors, worth $4. 00, - embroidered neck and HOSIERY. fancy silk in all colors and an- 59c« ors, in silk and fab voked a iesort to eivil coupts. In the let- bett in citing before the ‘elvil courts the sourl river. Hon. Patrick Egan, ex-min g0 into court to collect a hill for labor and a Lincoln layman who subscribed $200 to a amount; at least four cases are now pend- well as ecclesiastical disputes, it does not “It appears strange to me,” sald a promin- should have seen the necessity for and de- of the American Catholie episcopacy. If ELECTRICAL NOTES. Germany has an electrically lighted life buoy. A long distance telephane is in operation between Chicago and Washington. Electric light is being used as a bait by fishermen who ply their calling along the Pacific coast. This Yankee adaptation of electricity brings big hauls. The fish are at- tracted by the bright lignt in the water, anl thelr investigations generally end in, their bring hooked while (rylng to swallow the glass globules, M. Paul Jablochkoff, the inventor of the “electric candle,”” who died recently in Saratoff, Russia, was director geaeral of the Moscow-Koursk telegraph lines when he first took an interest in electrie lighting, and the Nihilist propagenda of 1872, when the rall- road tracks the czar traveled over were lighted as a measure of safety, gave him his first experience in practical work in that ine. M. Jublochkoff made a number of im- portant inventions besides the candle, his system of the distribution of currents by means of inductive colls having been held be the master patent:for transformer dis. tribution, His system :of distribution and division of the current by means of con- densers was used at the Parls exposition in 178, ————— The Earnest Ypung Woman. “I have my program pretty wall arranged now," sald the earnest young woman to the Indlanapolis Journal. #Sunday I devote to 2ligious exercise, of coutse; Monday to Delsarte and caMstheniess Tuesday, the walking club takes its outing; Wednesday, we study Moliere; Thursday, we discuss th probabllity of woman attalning the ballot, and Friday 1s devoted to uplifting the poor.” “But what do you do’ on Saturday, dear?” ‘Oh, that's the day for training for my husband."” —_— e —— Before He Said'Grac Husband (at the table)=My dear, s the baby going to stay at your mother's until tomorrow ? Wife—Yes, dear. Husband—And did tho#e prepared fish- balls come from the grocets for tomorrow's breakfast? Wife—Yes, dear. Husband—And has the serva ised to stay with us ampother nig Wife—Yes, dear. Husband—Then let us give thanks. girl prom- [ COOPERATIVE HOME BULLDING | Instruotive Facts Gleaned from the Report of the Banking Board, INCREASED BUSINESS IN DULL TIMES Comparative Summary of Building Assocla- tion Trausuctions for Two Years— Spirited Protest Against the Proposed Income Tax. The second annual report of the condition of building and loan associations of Ne- braska for the year ending December 30, 1893, has been published by the banking departments in connection with the reports of state and private banks. Mr. R. H. Town- ley, clerk of the board, in a preface to the report, states that the provisions of the state law have been rigidly enforced. “The appiications of all foreign associations,” he says, “were denled on the general principle that the laws, charters, articles of Incorpora- tion, constitution and by-laws governing such assoclations did not afford as ample protection to the interests of the members as is afforded by the laws of this state to members of associations organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska. In obedi- ence to the instructions of the State Dank- ing board a careful examination has been made of the articles of incorpcration, consti- | tution and by-laws of the local building and loan associations doing business in this state, and such as have been found to con- tain ‘any methods of transacting business contrary to law have been notified to make the necessary amendments, so as to comply with the act of 1891.” The report is an elaborate one, following closely the various subdiyisions of the first report, The mass of statistics tell in plain figures the growing popularity of co-op erative home building and compulsory thrift in Nebraska, COMPARATIVE FIGURES. A comparative summary illustrates the strides of mutual assoclations during the sed times of last year. ASSETS 1502, Mortgage loans. Lc ns secur xtate LIABILITIES, siock pald up sty received Fiies collected Other labil RECEIT Bal. on han 1 3 Dues Interest Fines 5 Loans ‘tepaid Other receipts.. $1,024,600.81 EXPENDITURES, Loans e TR ITY ] Sajurie e T TN T Other expenses.... 10,7648 Withdrawils 109,464, 38 Caxh on hand 70'349.23 Miscellancous 84418.05 $1,024,600.50 §1 7% 3102 The number of associations Iucreased f 71 in 1892 to 84 In 1593, and the nu shares In force from 46,012 to year 22,7374 shares we 11,027 shares matured, withdrawn or ed. There Is a discrepancy of 6,241 shares in these figures. The report for 1892 shows 46,0123 shares in force at that dat The report for 1893 in the recapitulation put the number “in force at last report,” 60 263.6. The actual Increase in shares 11,710. The Lincoln association holds first place in wmount of loans, $157,487.77, with the Mutual of North Platte a close second, of 61,9644 e fssued During the and was $187,000. In shares in force the Guarantee of Fremont takes front rank with 5,090 shares, par value being $100. The Omaha comes second, with 3,469.5 and the Nebraska Central of Lincoln with 3,343, par value $100. Other features of the report are equally instructive, but it is impossible to give here more than an outline of the remarkable ad- vance made during the year. The fact that the associations not only passed through an ordeal that strained the strongest finan- cial institutions, but scored a substantial increase of business, is the best possible evidence of their stability and worth. The work ofl collecting and arranging the vast mass of material comprising the report has been creditably performed, and that, too, in_ addition to the routine work of the office. Mr. Townley says the increased duties renders necessary an increase in the number of employes in the department, in order that the work may be performed in- telligently and_efliciently. INCOME TAX PROTEST. Petitions have been prepared by Nebraska associations, to be forwarded to Nebraska senators urging them to secure complete exemption of associations from the proposed par value $200, third income tax. The clause as amended by the senate committee limits the exemption to loans made “for the purpose only of ena- bling such sharcholders to provide for them- Ives homes. “It is practically impossibl petitioners, ~ “for associations termine to what uses the money loaned to stockholders is put. The usual security offered for a loan s a homestead, nd in the majority of instances the mone received Is used to pay off a long standing Indebtedness on which interest has been paid for years without reduction of prinei- pal. The borrower, through the loan and buillding association, sees a possibility of final liquidation through the system of monthly payments. Thus the money re- celved by stockholders is used in liquidating a homestead indebtedness, expenses of sick- ness, frequently In larger cities, In_pay- ing t assessed for improvements which could bo met in no other way submit that while not directly providing homes, the loans enable borrowers to maintain and re- tain their home already partially secured The Impositiog of a tax on any portion of the incomes Of building and loan assocla- tions would be a gross injustice. It would be a direct tax on thrifty wage earners com- prising 90 per cent of Mutual Loan and Building _association membership {n Ne- braska. This system of co-operation, saving and home building is steadily growing in the state, carrying into city and village the beneficient example of economy and indus- try. In fifteen years elghty-four associa- tions have bcen built up, having now an es- timated membership of 9,000, holding 45,012 say to de- shares of stock. The aggregate assets at the close of 1893 amounts to $3,653,096, Dispatches from Washington announce that the amendment will be amended #o as to make clearer the intent of the senate clause, namely, to tax that part of the in- come which non-borrowers receive on their investments {n building and loan associa- tlons, A Surplus of Thirtes e Every one of the women who attended the third annual dinner of the New York Thir- teen club a year ago is living still, At the fourth annual dinner Friday night there were thirteen tables and thirteen guests at each table. The menu had thirteen courses, and the wine list, which was printed on a black card in the shape of a coffin 1id, con- tained thirteen varieties of wine he tables were decorated with thirteen varleties of roses, and a mirror, which was hung at one end of the room, fell during the even ing and the pleces were preserved as s venirs. Lastly everybody went home blissfully happy at just 13 o'clock, A heartless clerk In a court at Leroy Mich., kept a groom walting for two days before Issulng @& marriage license to him though the day was set for the ceremony and Invitations out, just because the bride was two days under the legal age. Both parties survived the ordeal. ANTHEM FOR ARBOR DAY, F. Smith In Kansas (Tune, Ameri Joy for the sturdy trees Fanned by each fragrant breeze, Lovely they stand. The song birds o'cr them thrill, They shade every tiukling rill, They crown each swelling hill, Lowly or grand. 8. Clty Times, ) Plant them by stream and way, Plant where the children play And toilers rest; In every verdant vale, On every sunny swale, ‘Whether to grow or fall— God knoweth best, 1 Select the strong, the fair, Plant them with earnest care— No toil is vain. Plant in a fitter place Where, like a lovely face, Let in some sweeter grace, Change may prove galm God will his blessing send— All things on Him depend. His loving care Clings to each leaf and flower Like ivy to its tower, His presence and His power N Are everywhere, CONNUBLLALITIE As long as a woman retains her malden name it is her maiden aim to change it. Ex-Senator and Mrs. Dawes of Pittsfield, M will celebrate thelr golden weddin, next month. Agnes—Well, T want a husband who Is easily pleascd. Maud—Don't worry, dear that is the kind you'll get. Jupiter—Of the women of your acquaints ance who have married, which are the hape plest? Juno—The dead ones. Father (from the top of the stairs)—Ellen, isn't that young fellow gone? Ellen—Oh, yes, papa, dreadfully, Husband (vituperatively)—I when I married you, Mary! Yes, Tom, I know you were! But what could I d0? You seemed my only chance, and 1 thought then that you might improve was a fool Wite (quietly)— a little with time! The Girl—I want you to he!p me make him jealous—awfully, wildly jealous, The Man—Er—let's get marrled, Henry Cratzer of 1daho, through an adyers tisement, has become engaged to Alice Yingst, a 335-pound belle of Sand Beach, Pa, s value of advertising s constantly illuse trated The danger of getting poisoned by are senfc In the parlor wall paper seldom frighte ens young men away from the house In which there lives a protty girl. When a married man has been alone to a big dinner, it is mean for him to come home afterward to his wife and enlarge to her upon the attractiveness of the menu. One of the most fashlonable weddings In Philadelphia last week was that of Mis Elizabeth Butcher Glendinning, daughter o the late Robert Glendinning, and Clayton Fotterall McMichael, son of Clayton Mos Michael, publisher of the North American, A recent enactment in Belglum has made it 0 ligatory for brides to have their marriage licenses or ‘“marriuge lnes,” as they call them in that land of s and T gorgeously bound in glit-edge morocco. This 1s considerately done—or, in other words, done for a consideration—by the municis palities, who have now taken o binding up quantity of more or lews useful informatio with the documents, There Is a summary of the Belgian marriage laws, a rough and ready lesson on the treatment of children, and a table with spaces for a catalogue of the lssue of the marrlage. Tho table cons tainy room for twelve children to bo entered, 5q this may be taken as a gentle hint that that number is the extreme limit tolerated by Belglan burghers in a well conducted family. ‘The manual seems only to need the addition of & few cholce recipes and a hint or two on the best means oi obtalning divorces la order to defy criticism,