Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1894, Page 20

THE OMAMA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1894 How a Clever Lad Saved Fort Hunter from an Indian Massacre, About sunrise of a crisp October morning | crossed a field of corn stubble to the stable. In the year 1756 Oliver Lindsay, a slim sun- | The dnr«xr"\uw sl ol n»x!rlnxxt|(!lllllv{o'Iwa;!\ 1o " | sign of Brown Bes he chickens were ::"”’""Lr"l“m"'lf‘f;l ‘;::H’::“;“‘:‘l‘;:k:':p“‘]’:w‘:"‘n: | ;::M(-Imm about as calmly as though they o nad not been at the mercy of four-footed very discontentedly at the autumn land- | prowlers for a week past, and the oc scape. As far as he could seé russet and | sional quack of a happy duck came from gold-tinted mountains sloped to the rhurvn‘:Il;"lhl'l.!':j::"lyln;:);I.mm‘l of the run at the foot of the broad Susquehanna. Below him, and | " a few feet to ono side, A stolid-looking | sentry paced before the wide open gates. From the low log structure of the fort proper, behind the lad, came the eager prat- tle of chitdren, the shrill voices of women, and the rattle of tinware. In the yard few scattered groups of soldlers were light- Ing their after breakfast pipes, or polishing and cléaning their fint-lock muskets, It was more than a year after Braddock's | disastrous defeat near Fort Duquesne, and the murderous vnees and Delawares, in thelr slow and unopposed advance with scalping knife and tomahawk, had pen trated to this part of the Province of Penn- sylvania. At least they had been in the vicinity of Shamokin a week before, at which time the scattersd settlers had flocked In haste to the recently constructed forts along the river. A dozen families were under the protec- tion of Fort Hunter, which was garrisoned by two sergeants and thirty-four piivates. Mr. Lindsay, with his wife, had gone on to Philadeiphia’ to urge the need of more effi- clent protection upon the assembly, leay Oliver in care of the neighbors at the fort It was a dull and monotonous experienc for the lad, and he heartily wished himself back at his cosy home ncar the base of Peter's mountain. All through the summer he had looked forward to the joys of Octo- ber. Now, instead of gathering nuts for winter or tracking deer and smaller game, he was a- prisoner behind the tail stockade. He could have better stood danger and ex- citement, but there was not even that to relieve the irksomeness of life at the fort. No Indian atrocities had occurred within thirty eiles, and the scouts who went out daily reported no signs of savages. The house, and he opened the door and entered He glanced carelessly through the two lower rooms, noting that what furniture had been too heavy to take to the fort was undis turbed. ~ Next he climed the rickety steps to the loft overhead, where he knew some a | maple sugar was stored in a cranny of the rafters, He easily found it and was rolling a delicious morsel in his mouth when a noise outsida stiffened hs limbs with sudden ter- ror., He heard footiteps on the frosty ground, the cackling of frightened and fleeing fowls and the guttural tones of several human | volces. Then the intruders came into the house and moccasined feet shuffied softly over the floor Indians, Oliver's instant he simply could of course, was onviction, For a minute | not move from fright, and his throbb ng heart scemed to come clear up into his mouth. A resistless fascination Kept his eyes on the opening at the head of the steps, where he expected an Indian’s scalp lock to appear every second. At the same time he conld see the outlines of one of the shuttered windows of the Joft, but he dared not stir to reach it, nor could he have offencd the shutters without a noisy creaking of the rusty hinges. When the suspense was more than the lad could endure, and no prying feet had yet been planted on the steps, he noselessly lowered himself to his hands and knees, lot go of the bag of nuts, and crept a few inches to a spacious crack in the floor. He looked timidly down and saw enough to make his blood run cold Directly beneath Kitchen chimney. ‘Inl‘.wr s and Sha | with muskets and brutal faces were and close to the scven Indians, both They were armel tomahawks, and their hideously streaked with red and yellow ochre, One had a reeking calp dangling from his belt, and several wora faded and greasy coats that had evi- him, od HE UTTERED A CRY OF FEIGNED AGONY. settlers. themselves were discontented, and itted that they had been hasty in aban- plog their homes, while the fact that the gates were left open by day showed plainly what the soldiers thought of the situation “I'd like to stretch my legs on the moun- tain and pick up a few chestnuts,” Oliver remarked to the sentry oelow him. “They're just diopping out of tho burrs now. 1 Wonder if there’s any danger?” Private Gideon Gimble, having an exalted Mdea of his own dignity and of the rigid duties of his post, frowned slightly by way | of reply. But Sergeant Piper, who chanced to be passing along, overheard the latter part of Oliver's remark. “Don’t be afraid, dently belonged to some of Braddock’s fli- fated soldiers. Another, to whqsa face a broken nose lent a most feroclous’ aspect, held in his hand a pair of plump hens;-which he had captured and killed outside. From his words and gestures he seemed anxious to make a fire in the chimney and cook the fowls. To this the others plainly objected, and after they had talked for & while in low and broken English, Oliver suddenly discovered that they were on their way to attack Fort Hunter, The lad now almost forgot his own peril as he listened keenly for further information nd before long his patience was amply re- | warded. He lcarned that the Indians below him were the advance guard of a larger force, which they expected to join shortly at th foot of Peter's mountain. ~ Then they planned to push on to Fort Hunter, reach it before sunset, and rush through the gates It appeared that scouts had apprised them of how easily the fort could be taken by sur- prise, and of the feeling of confidence and security that prevailed there. Though Oliver knew that his situation was still very critical the uppermost thought in his mind was to thwart the threatened at- tack, and he saw pretty clearly how it could be done, provided the opportunity was given him. “Hurry up and go, youpainted flends,” he whispered under his breath. hen we'll see who gets to tha fort first. Oh! but you'll suffer for all the settlers yow've murdered.” However, the Indians were provokingly slow about going. They kept talking and gesturing, and all the time Oliver shivered and perspired for fear they would take a uotion to explore the loft. But finally, after ransacking a chest of drawers and slashing it with their toma- hawks, the whole party slouched out of the door and their soft tread faded from hear- ing. Doubtless mere curiosity had drawn them to the house, or the hope that it was still inhabited. Oliver did not dare to stir for several minutes, though it seemed a much longer time than that, owing to his excited state of mind. Then he rose, stretched his cramped legs a bit, and cautiously descended the steps to the lower floor. The house stood near the southwest corner of the clearing and looked towards the river. From the door a narrow road with bushes on each side led straight for fifty yards to the thick chestnut timber; several hun- dred yards to the right lay the base of the mountain, and a short distance to the left the clearing was bounded by the channel af the run. Oliver hurried first to the right-hand end of the house, and peeping through a crevi of the logs he saw the last of the Indians just vanishing in the rocky thickets of the mountain. He walted a little longer to better his chances of escaping observation and then crawled on hands and knees out of the door. He rose to his feet as soon as he was fairly started down the road, and stooping low he ran swiftly between the bushes and tall grass. He was close to the shelter of the trees when the ‘sight of a copper-colored snake squirming across the path caused him ty start back and spring erect. Instantly, but too late, he repented his imprudence. A musket cracked sharply on the right, and he felt a buliet whistle by his ear. Oliver was badly frightened, but he had his share of the pluck and grit that made the settlers of those early days what they were As he plunged into the timber a second re. port rasg out, and a bunch of leaves wat nipped from a sapling at his side. He sped on like a deer, wisely keeping to the road where ho could make the best speed. He now heard no sound of pursuit, but well he knew that the crafty savages were coming swiftly and silently on his track. Faster and faster the lad ran. What if the boat should be gone? The thought struck a cbill of terror to his heart, for in that event all hope of life was gone as well. On the boat hucg his only chance of escaping the tomahawk—of saving the occupants of the fort from a like fate. The remembrance that other lives than his wn were at stake kept up his courage and strength, but he was badly winded when he came to where the road swerved to ford the run. Here he took to the shallow channel leaping rocks and logs and splashing through poo's, At last he caught a glimmer of the broad river ahead, aud an instact later he eageriy tore apart a clump of water birches, He sonny,” he said, reas suringly. “Your hair ain't in any danger of bein' lifted. Why, I'd make my after- davit there ain't a redskin within forty | miles. They know better than to meddle with provincial troops, an’ as long as you people stay In this fort you're safe.”” ‘I didn't mean that,” Oliver began, in- dignantly, but the 'sergeant had already paced out-of hearing, and was ncgotiating &loan of tobacco from his fellow officer. A moment later Oliver jumped down from the platform and thoughtfully crossed the yagd. ‘“‘Sergeant Piper says there's no danger,” he reflected, “and he ought to know. I'm just ravenous for chestnuts. I needn’t go far and I can easily get back be- fore I'm missed.” He entered the block house and when he came out of the rear door two minutes afterwards he had an empty powder bag stuffed into his pocket. A glance around satisfied him that the coast was clear. He mounted the stockade on the river side, climbed over, and dropped lightly down In the grass. From “the bluft on which the fort stood the lad descended to the ravine of the creek, and after following this for half a mile he struck across the thick timber to the first mountain. The chestnuts were not 50 plentiful as he had expected, and he trofged up one side of the mountain and down the other. He sorely wished that he had his gun along, for quail and turkeys constantly started up before him, and once he caught a distant glimpse of a deer. Beguiled by the beauty of the day and by the intoxication of his freedom Oliver strayed across the vallly to what was known as Little mountain, witere he filled his bag with chestnuts in-a'short time. It was now long past noon, and he ruefully discovered that he was hungry and a good distance from the fort. As he lay stretched on the sunny slope of a rock partly up the mountein a bright idea oceurred to him. Only a mile and a half away the sharp face of Peter's mountain dropped into the Susquehanna, and he could see the very clump of trees behind which the home clearing stood. He remembered that in the hasty preparation for flight he had concealed his fowling boat under bushes at the moutn of the run. What was to prevent his getting it now and paddling dewn the r.ver to the fort? Thers was no obstacle as far as Oliver could see. A short tramp through the forest would bring him to his home, and the river was clo.e by, it was far quicker and easier to returg by that route than by the way he had come. Danger from Indlans did" not oceur to him. The more he thought of the plan the bet- ter he liked it. He felt a strong desire to s6b how the place looked after a week of solitude. Perhaps the chickens and ducks had not been able to scratch a living for themselves and were dying of starvation; oF Brown Hess, the cow, which his father had driven far into the woods, had returned to the smpty stable and missed the com- panionship of the two horses, who by this time had carried Mr. Lindsay and his wite to Philadelphia, From simply wishing Oliver easily per- suaded himself that it was h's bounden duty | to visit the settlement when so convenient | an opportunity offered. With & glance at | the hazy sun he scrambled down the slope 10 the heavy forcst below, and struck briskly O in a hee line for Peter's mountain, Before long he recognized familiar spots Here was ‘he pool of the brook where he had snared the big trout, and there the clump of hazel bushes In which he had roused and shot his first pheasant. At last he broke from the shadowy oak and’ chestuut timber into the meager clear- Ing' where siood the log house and stable A8 he paused with a natural instinet of cau- tlop he felt a sharp pang at the contrast be! his life here and at the fort, seemed quiet and peaceful, so he A few steps farther brought Oliver to the | | | the boat Just as he had left it, the paddle still lying on the boftom. Oliver quickly dragged the light craft over sand and gravel and launched it on the swift current of the river. He tumbled in and began to paddie with all his might for mid-stream. Hope thrilled his heart as he glanced back between the, strokes, The Shore was thirty yards ' Behind—torty— fty. Ah! there they were. Out from the bushes leapt the painted savages, and a blood-curdling whoop echoed from moun- tain to mountain. Two muskets cracked, but still the daring lad paddled on, hoping to increase the distance before dropping under cover. But a third shot tore the paddie from his grasp, and then quickly a clever ruse flashed into his mind. He ut- tered a cry of feigned agony, tossed up his arms, and fell limply to the baftom of the boat. There was silence for a moment, and then the bullets began to whistle, Some flew overhead, and some spattered the water roundabout; half a dozen pierced the sides | of the boat, but luckily did not harm the prostrate lad. Finally the fusilade ended, and not o ound was heard but the rippling of the current. The Indians clearly believed that | the fugitive was dead, and not worth tha waste of more powder and ball. The boat drifted on and on, now pitching and tossing amid rapids, now grinding or submerged rocks and grass-bars. Oliver did not dare to rise. He knew that the current trended toward midstream, and in this thought there was comfort and cheer.. For fully half an hour he lay on his back gazing up at the blue October sky. Then, satisfied that the danger was past, he sat up and looked about. Peter's mountain was hidden by a bend of the river, and there was 1o trace of the Indians on the shore. Witk part of his shirt he plugged up several of thy | bullet holes that were leaking, and then started to paddle lustily. In a little less than an hour Oliver landed under the stockade of Fort Hunter and walked calmly through the open gate. There had been considerable anxiety over his ab sence, but no one had a word of reproof for the brave lad when he had related his thrill ing adventure, At unset Aisappointed the Indians arrived, doubtless to find the gates closed. The vatehful sentries discovered them lurking i1 the timber, and they were greeted with s hot and scattering a fire that they retreatey in haste, leaving three dead behind. During the perilous weeks that followed Fort Hun- ter was not melested. and in time the set tlers went eafely back to rebuild on the charred embers of their homes. M. G. GOSSIP ABOUT MEN. Rev. Dr. Benjamin Watwon, a vener able Fplscopal clergyman of Philadelphia tells the following anecdote of the late Dr Stephen H. Tyng, the elder, once rector of Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, and afterwards rector of St. George's, Philadelphi: “‘Before Dr. Tyng came to this city,” sald Dr Watson, “he was rector of a church at Georgetown, now a part of Washington City. It was in the early days of the century, when that great statesman and orator, Henry Clay, was in the heyday of his glory. One Sunday evening Dr. Tyng ascended his pul- pit and proceeded to deliver a most eloquent sermon. His hearers and he realized simul- taneously that his words were unusual eloquent. In the midst of an impassioned exhortation the church door opened and a belated Christian walked down the aisle and took a seat. It was Henry Clay. Dr. Tyng recognized him. Suddenly and unaccountably the preacher became filled with a sense of his own insignificance as an orator in the presence of this eloquent man. He broke down, and floundered miserably through the remainder of his sermon, which he brought to a speedy close Hon. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, and candidate for vice presi dent on the republican ticket in 1892, sailed for the Mediterranean on the 10th inst. A New York dispatch says his leave-taking was a particularly sad one, because of the fact that his physicians had assured him that ha could not survive another New York winter, and that even the climate of the Nile can prolong his life only a few weeks or months at the mo:t. Mrs. Reid accon panied her husband, but the children will remain at Ophir farm for the present. It has been known for several years that Whitelaw Reid had a bronehial affection that threatened a serious result. Last spring Mr. Reid contracted a very severe cold, which he was unable to shake off. It fastened it- elf upon his lungs, and as he rapidly grew worse the best medical assistance was called in. The physicians found Mr. Reid to be suf- fering from consumption, and the best to be hoped for was the checking of the disease for a short time. Though the German emperor employs Ber- lin tailors, he believes in giving provincials employment also. In every good-sized town there i3 a court tailor, who occasionaily has the honor of supplying the emperor with a uniform, and as his uniforms are as diverse and numerous as the stars of the heavens there s good business done, especially as his majesty differs very materially from his grandfather, who had his uniforms and caps repaired and cleaned o often that the trades- people had to declare at last the garments would bear no more renovation. The imperial measure is always kept in stock by the tail- ors, 50 that only the minute details are sent when an order is given. A tunic for the kaiser costs on an average between $40 and William R. Leeds of Philadelphia, who disd in that city on Monday, was one of the best known politicians in Pennsylvania. He held many offices, and was a delegate to a num- ber of republican national conventions. In 187 ex-Governor Beaver wrote of him: “There is no man in office, or that has held office, elected on the republican ticket within a quarter of a century, but that owes to Mr. Lesds a debt of gratitude. There is not a republican voter interested in the success of republican principles and republican candi- dates and party supremacy in the state and nation but is under obligations to the skillful, tircless, courageous and faithful labors of Willlam R. Leeds.” Monte Cristo never had its doors closed, and Dumas, the elder, fed a regiment. The hungry trooped there. It often happened that there was not enough for dinner. He had a dog as hospitable as was his master, and that dog invited twelve other dogs. Dumas' fac- totum in chief wanted to drive off'the whole pack. “Michael,” said the great modern romance-maker, “I have a social position to flll. It entails a fixed amount of trouble and expense. You say I have thirteen dogs, and that they are eating me out of house and home. Thirteen! That is an unlucky num- ber. Go at once and find me a fourteenth dog."” Whistler, the eccentric London artist, was born in Lowell, Mass., and was educated at West Point. George du Maurler, the novelist, and Alma Tadema, the artist, were students together at Antwerp, and resembled each other so closely that they were hardly distinguishable apart until Lu ) icr Iest the sight of an e and began to wear blue spectacles James Mulligan, the United States consul general at Samoa, writes to a friend in Lex ington, Ky., that Robert Louis Stevenson is a very lively man for one who is supposed to be in bad health. He plays tennis for | hours, and no one can outlast him at a dance. He will put off writing a story at any time to attend a ball. Sacharzin, the czar's private physician, is sald to be worth 7,000,000 rubles. He has been professor at tue St. Petersburg univer- city thirty-five years and 1s 65 years old. | He is noted for his blunt frankness, often | rudeness, toward his patlents, Including | those of the highest rank. Germans claim that the late Hermaun Helmholtz was, after Humboldt, the greatest scientific thinker of this century. The phy- siclans who performed the autopsy weré as tonished at the weight of his bratn and the extraordinary number of its convolutions. A monument to General Grant is soon to be placed in the Goldei Gate park of San | Francisco. It Will be a shaft six feet, four | inches In height, éurmointed by a fac simile in bronze of the bust of General Grant, | which was made by the same artist, Rupert | Schmld, for the tomb in Riverside park. At the base of the shaft, in front, will be a uttered a low cry of delight, for there was [ grcup of war insignia and trophies In bronze. | | may show his indebtedness and escape paying | longer exempt from tax. COOPERATIVE AOME BUILDING Btory of a Nebraska Victim of a Promising Foroign Association, CONVENTION OF THE STATE LEAGUE Omelal Call for the Third Annual Meeting ~An Importaut Decision—Late Local s—Value of State I spection«Notes, About five years mgo a pupil of the Na- poleonic menage shook ‘the dust of Minne- shares outstanding since January 1, bringing the total up to 4,617%, held by 691 individ- uals, VALUE OF OFFICIAL INSPECTION. State regulation and inspection of building assoclatfons {s demonstrating ita value wher- ever estatillshed. Nebraska's experience in that line has been fruitful of good results in eliminating speculative and illegal methods of business and in enforcing correct book- keeping, thus increasing confidence in their stability. A majority of assoclations are offi- cered by men who are novices in financial management. This fact calls for greater care and frequent examination by the proper offl- clals, o the end that errors may be corrected, and the organizations held closely to their clearly defined purpose. Tllinois did not in- augurate inspection systematically until the first of this year, and not a moment too soon. A number of wildcat concerns have beer shown to be insolvent and placed in the hands apolls from his bootsisand hurried to the Missouri valley with a gripsack and a head | crammed with financial sschemes, The peo- ple of this section were plodding along in a monotonous rut, satifiell with moderate re- turns on their labor anfl money, he argue and needed to be educated up to the tim His partners or employes financial scheme insu:ing unheard-of profits to Investors. ou drap your dollars in th slot, the machine guaramtees the rest.” Hav. ing a strain of philanthropy in his veins he vatriotically decided it was too*good a thing to be confined to the boundaries of Minnesota. | He would Ict the adjoining states into the snap, the whole world i need be. The scheme was a National Building and Loan assoclation. Profits ranging from 20 to 30 per cent were cock-sure and loans would be made on easy terms. The luminous litezature coupled with a smooth tongue captured_ several hundred persons in Omaha d vicinity, and they put up $1 per share for the privilege of being taken in, besides contracting to pay $1 every month on each share, Matters drifted along smoothly for a year, and the dollars poured into the Minneapolis slot in a steady stream. The shareholders flattered themselves that the first year's divyy would be a stunner, and their day dreams of afMuence grew apace. Suddenly rumors gained cur:ency that the Minneapolis seheme and the schemers were not working on the square, Some part of the machinery slipped a cog and an arctie coolness sprang up between “anticipations and the realiza- ton. It did not take the Omaha crowd ong to discover that they had been bitten, and they proceeded to clamor for their coin. Formal letters counselling patience and a ange glassy stare werc the response Later 1 the victims united in-a demand for a settlement and placed it in the hands of a Minneapolis attorney. A settlement was finally had, the victims receiving about 50 cents on the $1, and the remainder, less lawyer fees, golng to fulfill the pledge of great profits—for the managers, The story of one of the vietims—a woman who clung with much tenacity to the printed promises of ‘the concern, furnishes | an fnstructive lesson on how to get rich at the expense of others, At the time other victims rushed for cover she had paid in $138. Early in 1851 the concern unde:- went a process of reorganization and all claims were neatly scaied to make up a huge deficit in the expense account. Gorgs ously printed bonds or promises to pay were issued in place of the original certificates, and each victim received a copy. The bond of the Omaha woman is printed on regula- tion bond paper, 22x16 inches in size A perspective of Minneapolis occupies a con- spicuous place, givin the impression that the managers own the town. Flanking the frame are cuts of two fine buildings, and on the top In elaborately designed letters the name of the institution. Below is a cer- tificate stating that the holder will recsive “on the 1st day of July, A. D., 189%, on presentation and surrender hereof, the sum of $103.95, together with the net profits on that sum hereafter accrning.” The bond is dated January 1, 1801, Under the terms of settlement printed on he back of the bond, 5 per cent per annuin was to be. pald the moncy, which wouli bring the total up to $117.14 on the 1st of July, About the u the bond matured an Omaha gentleman uadertook to eollect it for the distressed lady.. Inquiry as to what it was worth brought the answer, $112.05. Subsequently the bond was sigaed and sent to Minneapolis for coMection. 1t was re- turned a few days ago-with a note stating that the concern wouldipay but balf of the amount in cash and give paid-up policy for the remainder. Thus the victim was shaved $34 by the reorganization deal, $4.46 on the bond in terest deal, and the prospect of her receiving the balance is decidedby remote. THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. The following circulur has been issued by the Nebraska League Local Loan and Building associations. To Lical Building A The third anoual meeting of the N braska State League of Local Loan aud Building associations whl be held on D:ce ber 11, 1894, at 2 o'clodk p. m. in the co mittee’ room of the Lincoln hotel, at Lin- coln, Neb. All local associations in the state are in- vited to send at least one delegate to this meeting, as our legislature mects this win- ter and important matters pertaining to our building association law should be consid- ered. Tho executive committee of the league has rendered valuabie services to local associa- tions during the year, which will be fully shown by their annual report, and steps should be taken to continue the good work. We especially urge all local associations who have not yet applied for membership in the league to do 0 now, 50 that when the occasion requires we can secure prompt, vigorous and united action. The wisdom and necessity of unifying our scattered forces is shown by our late experi- ence with the Income tax bill in cougress, which would no doubt have been passed without a clause exempting building associa- tions from its operation had it not been for the prompt and persistent protests of the various state leagues and the United States league. Let us get together, find out what we want and then proceed in a systematic way to get it. C. J. PHELPS, Pres., C. W. BRININGER, Sec., Schuyler, Neb. Grand Island, Neb, At least three of the Omaha associations will be represented at the convention with two or more delegates each. The Omaha has already elected Messrs. E. E, Bryson and T. J. Fitzmorris as delegates, and the Mutual at its meeting Monday night will name its delegates. The Nebraska directory meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month, when the matter of representation will be settled. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. The supreme court of Illinois has ren- dered an important decision on the appeal of the Jollet Building and Loan assoclation from the ruling of the assessor of the town of Joliet. The case was a test one on the point in fssue. Nearly two years ago the as- sessor of Joliet assessed the assets of the above named association and proceedings were immediately commenced by the assoclation to have the assessment set aside on the ground that it would force its members, who were chiefly borrowers, to pay a double tax. The court sustained the assessor and held that the borrower, like any other borrower, a of lations of Nebraska taxes upon It. According to this decision the building and loan assoclations of Iilinois and those doing business o that state are no REPORT OF THE OMAHA. The twenty-third @nmual report of the Omaha Loan and Buildng assoclation, just issucd, presents substantal evidence of steady growth. The total assets amount to $102,- 749.80, of which sum ($81,315.75 represents loans on first mortgages, and $2,401.20 loans on stock, In the eleven’and a half years of its existence the assoclstion foreclosed real estate mortgages amoumting to § 4.97, some of which has beea resold on contracts, The recelpts for the peMod included in the report were $49,049.56, ©F nearly $5,000 per month, Of this sum:§1L,856.62 was paid to withdrawipg shareholders, $18,361.95 lo «bor- rowers, $6,000 on redemption of certificates of indebtedness issued at the maturity of the first series, and $1,533.20 for expenses. The net earni:gs for the :hx moiths were $3,772.58 out of which a semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent was paid. -Despite the stringency of the times, and the comsequent witadrawals, | in operation sevent perfected a | the Omaha of recelvers, others had in practice a variety of doubtful schemes which were eliminated and the books of all overhauled and brought to a uniform system. “I discovered one e Auditor Gore, “‘of an asso- sets of $50,000, which has been n years, which has ma tured and pald off three series of stock, and which has built eighty houses, where the only recogd of accounts of any kind consists of a bank account book and the stubs of a check book. The secretary is a lawyer and a spiritualist, The soclety s located in a farming community, and every member had a private account, no matter how small, with the local bank. The first of eich month the secretary made a practice of drawing checks in the namas of the members of the associa- tion and depositing them to the credit of the assoclation. The accounts are all right and the society fs thriving. Its officers, however, have been mnotified that some boskkeeping will have to be done in the future.”” ASSOCIATION NOTES, Equitable of Fremont has matured its first series, and will close subscriptions to series N on December 6 Since June, 1891, co-operative building as- soclations to the number of 250 have been chartered in the state of Pennsylvania, mak ing the present total in that state 1, The membership aggregates 272,680 persons, the n cash income $44,432,686, and the assets nearly $104,000,000, The state auditor of Illinois expense funds must be done away with that state. Mr. C. Ciessy, formerly a reporter on The Bee and the jourmalistic hero of Wounded Knee, is now editor of the Chicage Building and Loan Re st il RELIGIOU fon with The decrees that in H. The largest cross in the country ha been erected in a cemetery in Buffalo, N. It was cut from one block of Barre granite, stands 26 feet high, breadth of arms 10 feet thickness 3 feet 6. and weighs thirty tons The figure of the Savior cut in the ston nine feet from head to foot. The estate of the late Prof. Swing of Chi- cago, somewhat to the surprise of his friends, is estimated, real and personal, to be worth nearly §200,000. In San Francisco there is a cfrcle of King's Daughters in which there are eight Chinese, two Japanese, two Syrian and two American women. At the ordination last week Hardy, a prominent member Hampshire Methodist Episcopal as a deacon in the Protestant church, the lessons were read by Rev. A, C. Hardy, jr., of Rhode Island and the sermon was preached by Rev. Lucius Hardy of Ver- mont, both his sons. Rev. B. Dulin, who has been assisting Rev. A. T. Lynn in holding a series of meet- ings in Stafford, Va., is 84 years old, and on ihe day he was 8 ha rode fourtecn miles and prezezzd at three different pla He was converted fifty-nine years ago and has been preaching fifty-four years. Dr. Carroll estimates that ligious services, not counting schools, are held every year in States, and that 10,000,000 sermons preached in 165,000 places of worship. The American Bible society has suffered a heavy loss by the burning of its house in Yokohama, Japan, used as a depository for Vibjes. The entire stock of books and sheets were much injured by fire and water, but the plates were fortunately stored elsewhere, and thus are uninjured. For the first time in many years the Ameri- can Sunday School union makes a special eppeal to the churches. The past year has been one of the most successful in the his- tory of the society, showing the establish- ment of 1,785 new Sunday schools and the conversion of nearly 11,000 persons. The next national council of the Congrega- tional churches will be held at Syracuse, N Y., October 9 to 14,4 1895. It had been ex- pected that San Francisco would be selected but arrangements for railway fares were not satisfactory, and, as Syracuse renewed her Invitation, it was accepted The twenty-ninth annual report of the board of trustees of the Universalist general con- vention shows that the church membership is 46,413, a growth of 1,700 during the past year; the Sunday school membership is 58,163, 2 growth of 1.000; t number of families re- ported s 43,950, almost equal to the church membership; the number of ministers is 747, The total contributions for parish expen 1nd benevolences were §1,224,851, a falling off of about $165,000. This included $521,670 for current expenses and $63,991 for missionary and general purposes. EDUCATIONA Tllinols has 855638 pupils n the public schools, 116,636 in private schools and over $16,000,000 in school houses. land under the Orientalists, Inynball and Rutgers. In 1848 he went to Sumatra and remained there for many years, studying the language. Word has been received in Holland from Surabaja of the death of Dr. H. Neubronner Van der Tunk, the famous Indo-philologist. He was born in India and studied in Hol- Miss Jennie Dean, to whom the Manassas Industrial Schcol for Negroes, in Virginia, owes. much of its success ,was born a slave, but now owns her home of fifty acres, near Dudiey Springs, paid for by her own' earn- s just of Rev. A. C. of the New conference, Episcopal 20,000,000 re- the Sunday the United are he official registration at Yale shows an increas in every department of the uni- versity. ince 1890 the total student me bership has increased from 1,600 to ne 2,400 The tration for 1863 was 2,217 and for 1894, A Ex-Minister Willlam Potter has enriched the library of the University of Pennsy vania by fhe gift of a complete set of Hansard’s parliamentary debates. It makes 459 volumes and covers the proczedings and speeches in the British Parliament from 1066 to 1891,, This is a very valuable and in its completeness a most rare work in this country. It is the repository and source of our Parliamentary law and will afford the historical studenfs an opportunity near at hamd for investigating points in English his- tory in what are practically original docu- ments. Dr. Willlam T. Harris, United States com- missioner of education, in his annual report says: “But far surpassing libraries in thelr educative influence are the daily newspapers and magazines. We are governed by public opinion, as ascertained and expressed by the newspapers, to such a degree that our clvili- zation is justly to be called a newspaper civilization.” This fact is becoming more recognized by the educational expert and the student alike as time passes. There is, therefore, great need that the daily press be kept free from matter of an objectionable character. The home newspaper, which re- fuses to cater to the depraved tastes of the minority of readers, loses its prestige the moment it falters in its determination to improve in its moral tone and debar from its columns evervthing which tends to lead to a thitet, among the younger of its readers, for news or stricity literary matter of an fm- moral or low sensational type,” ——— Kt THE SAL Herbert sits at her glass with musing heart, And thinks of the days that were, Before she sold at the world's great mart That face so passing fair. And she wonders what she give, If out’of that glass could rise A face that lies dead In the years that are fled, With'the hoj would give and and the trust In its eyes. ——— Imperial, World's fair “highest excellent champagné; good efferves- Cook's rd, ports & met lncrease of l,lu~90nc-, agreeAble bouquet, delicious flavor '™ Y. Orchard & Wilhelm Garpet Co. Special sale of dr pets. be duplicated prom weeks’ sale reliable prices to close them. 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The supreme court of the United States by a recent decision, brings into relief again the career of a financial Napoleon rivaling | that of Ward, who wrecked the fortune of | General Grant, of Ives, the Ohlo railroad | plunger, of Menage, the Minneapolis pro- moter and exile, or Nebraska’s Mosher, now | tarrying in prison at Sioux Falls By forgery and theft John C. Eno wrecked the Second National bank of New York, while president of the institution, and fled to Canada. That was ten years ago. He was indicted for forgery, but owing to the meager number of crinies for which extra- | dition could be had at the time, pursuit of Eno was useless. Suddenly and unex pectedly he returned voluntarily from exil determined to stand trial for his offenses The first object'on ralsed by the defense was on the right of state courts to assume Jurisdiction cver crimes committed against an institution chartered under federal law. An appeal was taken to the federal circuit court, and that tribunal held that the state courts were without jurisdiction. The na- tional supreme court has just reversed that ruling, remanding the case to the state courts for trial. LIFE IN WALL STREET. In 1881 John Eno was looked upon as an almost perfect type of the successful man. Nobody knew the extent of his speculations but those that he let come to the public eye were so admirably timed and worked out they added to the estimate of hi ewdness. By his father's influence he president of the Second National banik an institution so solld that ite clients repre sented more classes than could be seen at any other bank. Lawyers, ph: gymen, actors and gamblers—rich poor men—gave their money to the of John Eno Wall street s a pool among whose rocks les an octopus, a patient devil that is as slow and as resistless as a glac clutch is death, One in 1882, with John Eno at his plest, this octopus reached out one tentacle and dragged him dow superhuman effort he broke away caped. The octopus hid in his waited. He could afford to wait With the first reverses of luck Eno strug- gled all the harder. Nobody save his brokers knew that he had lost a penny, and, after all, he was far from ruined. If he lost $100,000 on a deal, it was but a twentioth part of what he had made in a few years. It was not the loss of money that made him nervous and uneasy, it was fear that New York, his New York, would know that he had lost. Througn_ the spring of 1882 the great game went steadlly against him. The drain was constant and terrible. In the summer he was at the end of his resources, His last dollar was gone. Over the door of his Park avenue mansion he fancled that he saw “Ruin’ in bold let- ters, like the Inscription carved upon a tomb. Then, without forethought, moved entively by the instinct of self-preservation, and ut- terly without scruple, he took a package of money from the vault of the Sceond National bank. It was not until he had sent the bank notes to an imperative broker that he realized what he had done. He sat down in his private off upon the deed and its con morse was farthest from his thoughts had no qualms concerning the depo whose money he had thus bol1ly taken all, it was but a loan. One sharp turn of the market and he could repay every cent. Y he felt that it was a loan and his heart gr lighter. He slept soundly that night and awoke to go down to the bank and repeat his theft. | He clearly foresaw the end if he kept on in this course—the collapse of the Second Na tional, But It he were not beneath the stones when the structure fell why should he care? Deliberately, and day after day, he stole the money entrusted to him, entering | and hole es- and After | W it on the books as loans to mythical persons d Floor. cloud struck New York. On that blgo Tuesday, when with Jim Keene's suspensiol still fresh, the Marine’s National bank col lapsed, with James D. Fish buried in th ruins, and Ward and Grant went under. the one-time ruler of the country a pitiab] ectacle istice. and his parter a fugitive fro Eno affected dismay. In reality he wi m. He had expected this. He socrfl¥ compared himself with Ward, and shrugge his broad shoulders. He sat still and waited for the great catastrophe. BURSTING OF THE STORM. It came on May 14—an appalling burst of fury, as if an avenging god reached dowm from the skies to shatter the peity houses of men. The first news was that Nelson Robin- son had suspended. Wall strect was thronged with men, many of them laborers and clerks, waiting to see the refreshingly unusual sight of millionaires going mad, But these stoles gave no outward sign of emotion; their terror, their anguish, were locked within their breasts. 2no, sitting in his private office, reviewed messenger after messenger, each bearing news of immense meaning. ‘“Hatch & Foote are down.”” “O. M. Bogart sus= pends.” “So does J. C. Williams.” ~“Done nell, Lawson & Simpson”— Hotchkiss & Burnham’'—bulletins snapped out as if evers word were precious. One of the firm o Goffe & Randle, Eno's brokers, rushed iny He must have $05,0001 Impossible! But he must—he begged and ple:ded. Koo turned away and shut the door against the broker. In a half hour Goffe & Randle had furnished another piece to the general wreck. Such dismay had not been sesn in years, There were runs on a half dozen of the most stable banks, and the Metropolitan closed its doors. So great was the fear that Secretarg Folger came to the Stock exchange—in & very bad hat. From Broadway to the sube treasury the street was blocked with shouts ing, gesticulating men. It seemed as if thé commune had come. All travel through the alley of wealth was at an end Then a line of police formed and pushing steadily on pressed the crowd back, inch by inch., Down the lane thus formed came General Grant, haggard aud bowed, tottering he walked, leaning on the arm of a man of majestic mien—Roscoe Conkling, A sighte perchied on the shoulder of the Washs statute, called for cheers, but there was no response. In panics men do not burrah—they growl. And Eno? He had waited long enough to'see a crowd at the paying teller’s window of the National—a motley assembl in were both the Dalys, Mike Murray, Pete Miller, Jacob O'Brien, Rowell, the pedestrian, most weeping for hig dollars, and Bdwin Booth, silent and thoughtful—more sphinxe like than the gamblers—and then the presis dent fled to Canada Al A CANTICLE OF NOVEMBER, ington George T. Rider in Harper's Magazine, 8ad, fitful, dwindling days are here The pale, chill lustre of the sun: And cloudland leaden, dismal, dun— The faltering pulses of the year. At sea a ghostly close-rcefed sall raing, here and there, to make the landj reat billows break along the strand, And terrors gather in the gale; And pelting, passionate gusts of rain Make moan o'er forest, field, and fold—s All grewsome gray and dusky gold, A’ dolorous litany of pain The crlmson hectic of the le hat flit and flutter from the t Like frightened birds abr t th The rustliog of the tawny sheaves The fretful murmuring of the rill at hurrics on with startied pac A strange and patient pallid grac That lingers over vale and hill; All blighted buds and perished bloom— glory from the garden gone s year walts solitary, lone, in the deepening gloom. E A wanderer Let earth and heart and head have rests currents in the veles stand still A little while; there lies no ill In thix repose; for rest i best, And Faith shall better lessons bring Of Him who worketh as He will Through seeming joy, through seeming illy he Fall is prophet of the Spring. - A toadstool welghing six pounds and meage uring over three feet In circumference way found recently on the farm of the late Joh Durham in Huntington, Long Island. It Wi presented to Cornelius P. Rogers, postmastel of the village. In an unguarded moment hy placed it on exhibition in the postofce, Eve since he displayed it he has been pesters | by persons who want to have the pecullarities On May 6, 1584, the edge of the storm of the curlosity explained to them.