Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1895, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1895 S DIPLOMATS Btories Illustrating Their Quaint and Orude Oharaoteristics, FOSTER AND THE MIXICAN MISSION Bome Unwritten History of General Grant's Administration-Dick Hubbard at the Coart of the Mikado-New Stories of Senntor Menrst, WASHINGTON, May respondence.)—General John now on his way 23.—(Special Cor- W. Foster is bome from China. He has done good work n arranging a treaty of peace, aud I understand that it was largely through his inflience that China got such excellent terms from Japan. retary Fos- ter worked entirzly in the background. He was the confident{sl adv'ser to Li Hung Chang and the Chinese envoys and his diplomatic ability entered into every question. A num ber of other governments have profited by General Foster's skill In handling great ques- tions and great men. He Is the confidential adviser to Mexico in its affairs with the United States und he has been frequently sent abroad ws a diplomatic lawyer by our State department. The story of his entrance upon his diplomstic career has, T think, never been published. Secretary Foster is a very reserved man. He seldom epeaks of himself, and it will be news to the United States fo Xnow that he had an opportunity to go to Japan as our minister during the administra- tion of General Grant. He told me the story last spring while we were salling across the Ye w sea from China to Corea ju a little Japanese steamer known as the Genkai Maru 1 had asked him how he came be a diplomst. He replied: “It was through Oli- ver P. Morton. Afier I came out of the army 1 settled down at Evansville, Ind., to practice law, and shortly afier this became interested in a newspaper theve. Oliver P. Morton was then in the senatc. He wag a man of in- corruptible integrity and of sterling ability 1 was avxlous (o see him re-elected to the senate, and duricg one of the campalgns when the outlook was very dubious 1 organized the doubtful counties of Indiana for him. It was a very close year. There was great danger of everything going democratic, and, in fact, the democratic candidate for governor was elected. As to the leglslature, however, we had worked the fleld so well that it was re publican by a large majority. Morlon's re election was assured. He bad been friend! with me before this, but he was so delighted with my work that he felegraphed me (o come on to Washington and that I could have auything there I wanted. I had been work- ing very hard up to this time and [ con cluded that a foreign appointment would give me a rest and the chance for readiug and study which I needed. 1 had not yet been out of the United States and I wanted the culture which might come from a residence abroad. “I was very modest thought that in my views and I it I conld have the Swiss mis- sion it would just suit me. I went to Wash- ingten and gave Mr. Morton my ideas. He said there was no doubt but that T could have the place and went at once to the white house. General Grant, however, said that he bad already promised the mission to Switzer- land and he asked Senator Morton if I would not rather have s He said ‘Why not take the mission to Mexico. Uhat is worth $12,000 a year, while Switzerland is ouly worth $5.000, and the position is a much more important one.’ enator Morton then left and reported to me the result of his interview. He urged me to accept the Mexican mission. I said I was afraid 1 would not be able to fill it aceaptably. He laughed me out of my timidity and I finally said T wonld take it. I did take it, and 1 have been connected with diplomatle affairs from that time to this. HE REFUSED TO GO TO JAPAN. “Did you ever have a desire to come to Asia_as one of our ministers, general?’ I asked “No.* was the reply. “At that time Asia s:emed very much farther away than it does now. As it was, 1 could have gone as minis- ter to Japan instead of to Mexico. John A. Bingham had been appointed. He was then out of congress and th plice was given to him as a sort of reward for his long services in the republican party. He preferred to go to some place nearer home. He thought I might €0 to Japan and give him the Mexican mis sion. He said that the salarfes were the same, but that he was an old man and Japan was far away. He said I was young and could walt for further advancement. This was reported to me and I thought over the situation. Japan was, as Mr. Bingham said, far away and I saw that if T went there I would be out of the world. I would lose my connection with current events and would soon be forgotten. Mexico, on the other hand, was the next door neighbor of the United States, and there were bound to be complications which would give me a chance to do somet" ing if it was in me. I refused to mak> the change and went to Mexico. In looking back, I am confldent that I chose the right.” OUR MINISTERS TO JAPAN. The result of Mr. Foster's refusal was that John A. Bingham went to Japan. He made a very good minister and was most popular ong the Japanese. He did not, however, insist on the Americans having a share in all the contracts and other fat jobs which the Japanese were placing abroad, as did the Ger- mans and English, and the result {s American trade Is at a discount in Asia. The English demand the lion's share of everything, and they usually get it. It is hecoming much the same with the Germans, and both nations are against the United States. The ministers we have sent to Japan have, to a large extent, been fgnorant of diplomatic methods, and un- able to cope with the shrewd Japanese and the polished men of Europe. During my first stay in the country the position of Amerlcan minister was held by Governor Dick Hubbard of Texas. Hubbard did mor= for the United States than the average American minister, as T will show further on; s ill, he was a queer character for a diplomat, and some of his antics surprised the foreigners. It was he who, it will b> remembered, got angry at the French minister because he called him Mon sieur Hubbard Instead of “Governor” Hub bard. It was, 5o the story was told me, at a diplomatic dinner where the portly Texan sat next to the polite Frenchman. From soup “0 dessert he addressed Hubbard as Monsieur Hubbard, never think'ng that the tiile cf plain Mr. was distasteful to him. Governor Hub. bard, however, thought that his greatness was unappreclated. He grew more angry with every course, until at last, fired by state prid and champagne, he could stand it no longer and he burst forth: “Sir, 1 want to object to your mode of ad- dressing me. You call me Monsieur Hubbard 1 want you to know sir, that in my country, sir, I am Governor Hubbard, sir. I have been governor of the great state of Texas, sir—a state, sir, that Is bigger than all France, sir! . I don't know what the Frenchman replied. The story got out, however, and not long after that it was published in the Paris Figaro. “CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENTED IT." Another story which I heard in Tokio con- cercing Governor Hubbard seems almost in- eredible to any one knowing anything of the rigidity of diplomatic etiquette. It relates to a dinner invitation from the Russian min- er. This accomplished diplomat, so 1 was told, entertalus in great style in Japan. He gives many dinners to his fellow diplomats and his functions are great soclal events Shortly after his arrival in Toklo Governor Hubbard, I am told, received an Invitation to dine with him to meet his brothers of the diplomatic corps. After a day or so he re plied, addressing the Russian minister as his ‘dear colleague,’ and saying that he would be present if nothing happened. Something however, did happen. At least the governor thought 50, and at the last moment he sent a note, which read something like this: “My Dear Colleague: “Circumstances, over which T have no con- trol, will prevent me from dining with you tonight. Your coileague, “RICHARD B. HUBBARD. That same afternoon, so the story goes, the governor was seen riding about Toklo, and “the circumstances over which he had no control” were the inconveniences of hurrying back to Tokio iu time for the dinner. + HOW THEY BAT FISH IN TEXAS. Such things as these made our minister for | Japan a time the laughing stock of Japan, and all kinds of stories went the rounds about him. Some of them described his eating. This made him very angry and he told a friend of mine, “Why. sir, they say [ eat fish with a knife; of all the blanked charges against a man that fs the blankedest. Why, It I re- ported that charge in Texas the people would ask: 1f you don't eat fish with a knife, how under the sun do you eat it? here eat it with their fingers and a fork They take a little bit of bread in one hand and put the fish upon the fork with 1 never heard of such a thing in America. Did you, now 2" HUBBARD And with some AND THE PALACE 178 all this, Governor Hubbard made, respects, & very good minister to His enormous appreciation of the Unit:d States and Texas made him believe that the United States ought to have a share in the contracts which the Japanese govern- ment were giving out to foreigners. The ministers from France and Germany insist on thelr peopl: being respected by the weaker governments. They demand when they can a share of the foreign business of the countries for their own people, and in this way the English, the French and the ierm have gotten many big Japanese contracts. The Japanese have generally used the Amerfcan ministers as they pleased, and have given them nothing. Hubbard objected to this. Japan was anxious to reviee its treaties, and the foreign diplomats have been meeting off and on for years in Tokio to agree upon such a reviston. ~ When Governor Hubbard found that the United States was not getting any of the business of the coun- try he refused to attend these meetings. The Japanese sccretary of state was horrified. He knew he could not get along without Amer- ca and he cama to Hubbard at the American legation. He wanted to know what was the mattef. Governor Hubbard eaid: “I don't think (hat Japan cares anything for the United States, and it so, | don't see why the United States shonld care for Japan.” “What do you mean?" asked the Japanese minister. “I mean," replied Governor Hubbard, “that whenever you have anything fo give to a foreign country, you give it to Germany, Fngland or France. The United States has bren your friend all along, but you never think ‘of glving us anything. I know that England, and France and Germany make their friendship the price of foreizn con- tracts. We don't wan: to do that; but we do think that as we favor you you cught not to altogether pass us by." “What do_you want?" said the Japanese minister. “We will give it to you.” “I don't know that we want anything' replied Governor Hubbard, “except to be fairly treated. And, besides, T don't know that you have anything to give. You have already given all your contracts to Engiand and_Germany." “Weil, T will tell you what we will do replied the Japanesa minister. ‘‘There are the electric lights for the new palace, which is now being built. We are considering some American contracts, amoug others, and though there is a great pressure from France and Germany on behalf of their electric firms, I will promise you here and now that we wili put in the American lights." “I don't want your promise,” repiied Gov- ernor Hubbard. “All I ask is that America be given a sho With this the Japanese minister left, and shortly afterward the Edson electric ilgh were chosen for the palace. There was noth- ing too good for Governor Hubbard from that time on, and, rough as he was, he made bis country respected. 1f our ministers would show mora nerve and would study more how they could bevefit their country instead of devoting themselves to lining their stomachs and their pockets, the United States would be In better condition all the world over. BUSINESS AND DIPLOMACY. The trouble with most of our foreign dip- lomats is that they have no idea of pushing American business, They think if they have the American flag floating from the top of their legation buiiding they are doing their whole duly, and they let Americans and American interests fight for themselves. The present minister tc Japan is the best we tave had for years, and the consul general at Yokohama is a practical lawyer, who is ready to do anything he can for American business men. ‘The minister to Corea ls mare of a college professor than a business man, but the private secretary, Dr. H. N. Allen, is as full of horse sensc as an egg full of meat, and the legation will probably take good care of American interests. Now that the Chinese envoy, Yuan, has gone away there will be a chance for Americans to get con . A year or 0 ago Mr. James R. Morse, a New York capitalist, and others bad persuaded the King to allow them to build railroads and to open the gold mines Had their arrangements been completed this war between Cnina and Japan would never have occurred. At least it would not have been based on the poverty of Corea. The gold mines of the country are very rich and the nobles would have gotten so much money out of them that they would not have had to »ppress the people. Consequently, there would have been no rebellion and no cause for war. Morse knows all about things in Corea. He has been engaged in the export trade there and in Japan for years. When his majesty became hard up not long ago he sent a cable- gram to New York asking Morse to come out to Corea, and cabling him that he would give him concessions for rallroads and mines. Morse organized his company at once. He went to Scoul and was just about to conclude the deal when the king changed his mind. The papers, in fact, were all ready and they were to be signed the next day at 11 o'clock. At about 6 a message came to the American legation from the king that the deal was off and he would not make it. Morse, of course, was very angry and he left Corea in a huff. He may go back again now. He s better posted on the situation there than any other man in the far east, and he his the confdence of the king and the people GENERAL GREATHOUSE'S AMBITION. It is a good deal of a question as to how this deal was broken off. I have heard it said that it was through Yuan, the Chinese minister. 1 have also heard it whispered that General Greathouse, the adviser of the king, was the cause of its not going through. As the story goes, Greathouse wanted a large percentage of the stock and the profit, and Morse and his friends objected to giving it to him. Greathouse knew the value of the mines and he is probably after them today. He has spent years in the mining regions of California and it is said that he went from Yokohama to Seoul to look into the mining prospects of Corea. I talked with him somewhat about the gold regions. He says there is no doubt but they are of great extent and very valuable. The gold is found in large nuggets and dust. It is mostly gathercd by placer mining. A little quartz is crushed by laying it on stones and rolling other stones over it. There is no modern mining ma- chinery and the man who gets the concession will have a great fortune, SENATOR HEARST'S MINES, I have already written something of Gen- eral Greathouse's experience with Senator Hearst. He was mourning during my stay in Seoul that Hearst was not alive and out in Corea. Said he one day: “If I had George Hearst here I could know at a glance t possibility of the gold mines of this country. God never created a better judge of mines than he. He knew instinctively as to the trend of a lead and was ready to back mil- lions on his judgment. No oneé thought much of the Ontaris mine when he bought it. It cost him $40,000. He spent $20,000 on it and himself and his partners cleared between five and six millions out of that mine alone. The Black Hills mines of South Dakota never paid until Hearst invested in them. “The ore was of such a low grade that it produced only from $3 to $4 per ton. There was plenty of it, but it did not pay to mine it. Hearst went out and took a look at them. He bought them, and he put up the biggest mill in the United States to develop them. He spent a great deal of money before he was able to make them pay, but he finally succeeded and since then 325,000,000 has been taken out of those mines by himself and others. MRS. SENATOR HEARST'S ALLOWANCE. 1 here referred to the magnificent resi- dence which Senator Hearst's widow owns in Washington and asked General Greathouse if it had not probably been built out of some of that Black Hills money. He replied: “I don't know as to that. I was, you know, George Hearst's lawyer, and I kuow that he gave a great deal of the Black Hills_property to his wife. It was through me that he did so. I knew of the ups and downs of mining and was anxious that be should settle something on Mrs. Hearst. He delayed the matter, always, however, saying that whatever he had was hers. On night as we were sitting around the fire after dinner I noted that he seemed to be i good spirits and 1 brought up the matter of settlement. 1 told him that he ought to give his wite 5,000 shares of the Black Hills mines. He in BLACK HILLS replied that he would like to do this, but that his shares were all hypothecated with his These fellows | partners and that they had not begun to pay. 1 replied that I would arrange the matter with his partners and that I would risk their paying in the end. He replied he would give Mra. Hearst tho shares. 1 did not allow the matter to grow cold, but then and there I took a pen and wrote out the agreement. The next day the stock was transterred. Within a month it began to pay 50 cents a share every month and Mrs. Hearst got for years $2.500 a month out of her Black Hills mining property. This was $50 a day, and she could have built several houses out of such an in- come. q:'va lh w——n CONNUBLALITIES, A St. Paul man pleaded guilty to having married three wives, 'and received eight months for each and boquets gratis. The new woman id doesn’t seem to be very popular in Chicago. What they are looking for principally there are new hus. bande. A Washington clergyman having married forty persons hours. This, if we mistake ‘Washington divorce record. 1f a gypsy girl wishes to know how soon she will marry she whispers into the ear of the first donkey she meets, “Shall 1 scon have a husband ?* And if, in reply, as it were, the donkey moves its ears, the girl knows that she will marry almost immediately. The marriage of Arthur Rodgers, one of the most prominent of San 0's lawyers, to Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, the widow of the late millionaire, Alexander Montgomery, created great surprise in California, as the attorney was regarded as a confirmed bache- lor. Mrs, Montgomery inherited from her husband about $700,000, or one-third of his estate Charles Litner is one of the luckiest sailors that ever sailed out of the port of San Fran- cisco on a sealing schooner. He is going to be married to one of the prettiest girls in Japan. Not only is she very pretty, but her parents are very wealthy. While at Hako- doto, Japan, a few months ago, Litner hap- pened to be on one of the chief thorough fares one afternoon when a spirited Japanese pony ran away with a Japanese girl, Miss Stena Kato. Litner saved the girl's life by springing in front of the runaway and striking the pony a stunning blow on the head with a club. The act was regarded as one of rare bravery. e was hurt in the accident and was first taken to a hospital, but was after ward removed to the young lady's residence at the request of her parents. The marriage ceremony was to have taken place two weeks ago. Some one with nothing else to do has in- vestigated the way in which 100 men in fiction are represented as proposing. Seventy-two hold the lady's hand, seventeen hold it very tightly, fourteen have' lumps in their throats and nine exclaim aloud: ‘“Thank heavens Only seven out of 100 declare themselves to be delirously happy and five are too full for utterance. Three out of 100 stand on their feet when they make a proposal and two go down on one knee, while nine make a formal prelude—something like the slow music in the play when the villain appeals to heaven to witness the consuming flame of his affections for the heart he plots to ruin, etc. The behavior of the lady under the circum- stances is equally entertaining and instruc- tive. Out of 100 cases eighty-one sink Into the arms of the gentleman, sixty-elght rest their heads on the gentleman’s breast and only one sinks into the arms of a chair; eleven clasp their arms around the gentle- man's neck, six weep tears of joy silently and forty-four weep tears aloud—whatever that means; seventy-two have eyes full of love and nine out of 100 rush from the room and tell everybody. Only four are greatly sur- trised, and eighty-seven out of 100 knew that something was coming. Five giggle hyster- ically, and one even sneezes. Only one of 100 siruggle not to be kissed, while six kiss gentlemen first. e PRATILE OF THE YOUNG It was his first visit to church and his big brown eyes watched everything, relates the New York Times. He saw the new comers drop thelir heads on the pew rails in front of them as they entered and in a moment raise them again,” “Why do they put their heads down?"" he whispered to his older sister, who w with him. They say a little prayer, back. “But they don’t talk, not_convinced. “No, they think,” explained the answer, and “Shall T think a little prayer?” was the next question "7t you like” was the reply, and the big brown eyes were shut, the small hands folded and an earnest little face dropped against the ail. In a moment or two the head was raised and the little fellow crept back on the cushions. I tried to think, ‘Now I lay me,’ " he whispered, “but I had to talk it. 'cause the words wouldn't say down in my stummick, Will God care?” hé finished, anxiously. The other day at the Teachers association a class of children, aged from 5 to 9 years, was giving an exercise in phonics. The teacher had received correct answers to de- seriptions she had given of trees, woods, etc., and then thought she would describe a brook “What do we find running through the woods, moving silently on the ground, with but liftle noise? she asked. For a long time the little ones were quiet and then a little hand was raised. “Well, Bessie, what is the answer?" teacher questioned, smilingly. “Tramps,” piped out the little one, Puck: Little Clarence (with rising inflec- tion)—Pa? Mr. Callipers (sternly)—Now, look here, my son! If you ask any more foolish questions I'll send you to bed. Understand? “Yes, sir; but mayn’t I ask you just one more question, if it isn’'t foolish?"” ““Yes; If it isn't foolish.” “Well, pa, don't you suppose that wher Jonah found himself inside the whale his first thought was that he had been shut up in a folding bed?" (RN vy has a record of in forty-eight not, beats the 1S, she whispered argued brown eyes, the Indianapolis Journal: *Now, Johnay, re- member that when a ship s disabied at sea the first vessel that comes along gives it a tow. What lesson are we to draw from this?" “I dunno; unless that when a disabled any, the first feller along gives him the whole boot.” man gets that comes Chicago Tribune: Sunday School Teacher— It you had your choice, Willie, would you rather be as wise as Solomon, as great as Julius Caesar, as rich as Croesus, as eloquent at Demosthenes, as tall as Goliath or as good as the prophet Elijah? Wiilie—I'd ruther be a drummer in a brass band. eir— An Ugly Trinkot. In the midst of a group of men at the Galt house the other evening, says the Louisville Courler-Journal, stood a tall, dignificd, gray haired man, whose swarthy complexion be- tokened a deal of travel under tropical suns He exhibited a small, silver object, not unlike a match box, and explained its use, saying: “I picked that up near Guadalajara in Mexico and I think it is the ugliest weapon I have ever seen. Mexican women of both the lower and higher class affect these things as trinkets to wear about their dress. By a slight pres- sure on a tiny spring the lid fies open and you sce it contains the tusk of the ‘Cratalus Horridus,’ a most venemous serpent. Th's tusk is filled with the venom, which closely resembles amber. If the woman is assaulted or insuited she has simply to scratch the oftender with this to insure his death in a very short pericd.” e MoreTrouble. Chicago Tribune: “I saw something just now I can't get over,” observed the financial editor, coming in with a preoccupied look on his face. “What was 1t?"" queried the exchange edi- tor. “The moon. Tra, la, la—" ‘Mph!" grunted the exchange editor. “That's pretty smart, but you can't tell the difference between Henry Clay and a gorm- le! ““What's a gormlet?"” editor, suspiciously. “A thing the hens pick their teeth with, Lum-ti-tum-tum! Too-ral-eye, too-ral-eye, too-ral-eye-day!" ————— Cook's Extra Dry Imperial should be in every household. pure and naturally fermented. asked the financlal Cbampagne 1t is perfectly ECHOES FROMTHEANTE ROOM . 0dd Fellows Oelebrate the Seventy-Sixth Anniversaty ‘of the Order, HAD ITS ORIGIN IN A/ MOST MODEST WAY Lodges Are Now fa Ali Parts of the World and the Members Number Millions— lead Camp of Woodmen to Convene at Madison. Although there was no special cffort made to commemorate the event in this city, many lodges throughout the United cele- brated the seventy-sixth anniversary of the founding of the order of Odd Fellows, which occurred during the past month. Naturally the event has excited in the minds of many of the members a desire to know something in regard to the causes which lead to the es- tablishment of the order and the objects it was designed to accomplish. To satisfy this desire the following is reprinted from the Philadelphia Ledger, and it will also be found interesting by members of other societies, as the general scope of all fraternal orders ls practically the same The order of Odd Fellows had its origin in Bngland in the early part of the last century, and doubtless sprung out of the guilds and trades soc'eties then existing among working men and mechanics in that country. Some writers carry the institution of that order far beyond that time, and one of them goes so far as to attribute Its origin among the Romans, away back in the time of Nero. This is however, purely imaginative, because it has neither legendary lors nor the persuasion of ingeniously constructed romance to support any claims to antiquity in its crigin, The recognized authority upon this subject, the late James L. Ridgely, for many years sccretary of the sovereign grand lodge, sald: “The incidents of its origin have been sown broadcast by its orators and its publications, and by the favorable notices of the press Many of these have been highly colored, and some of them are entirely apocryphal; yet out of this partlal chaos one may easily perceive a lofty pedestal, with glimpses of an angel hand removing the veil from a statue of ex- quisite symmetry and biauty. 0dd Fellow- ship, as we know it, Is an Institution of mod ern times, grown in our midst and fashioned by our hands.” In the last part of this sen- tence he refers more particularly to the plant- ing of what is now known as American 0dd Fellowship on this continent, at Baltimore, on the 26th day of April, 1819, and its rapid growth since that time. As has been seen, the order originated In England less than 200 years ago, and it was started for the express purpose of assisting workingmen at that time in traveling from place to place in search of employment, as was then and still is the custom in many parts of Europe, and when failing to obtain work for them to provide them with food and lodging and supply them with funds sufficient to defray thelr necessary expenses in journeying to the mext city or town. The novelty of the soclety and the mystery which was thrown around its form of initiation had the effect of exciting so much interest and curlosity as to cause 'lodges to spring into existence in varions prts of the kingdom of Great Britain, These Odd Fellows' societies were confederated in 1815 under the style and title of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows when the beneficial féature, that is paying sick and _funeral, henefits, 'was first intro- duced. The prin¢iples which gradually be- came engrafted into the order, says an ac- cepted authority, rare ‘‘religious, moral and intellectual. Indged, the relation of fra ternity, instinctive of humanity and divinity was the birthright of the race; innate as life itself is the sentiment of a common Father and a single family, that we are of one blood, and that each son of Adam is my brother by hereditary ties. Such, also, have been the awful and splendid announcements of revelation, by which we know the eternal God as the Iather of mankind. From these sources Odd Fellowship, as a system of fraternal benevolence and reciprocal aid, com- prehending not only its principles, but its illustrative and theoretical character, is de- rived.” The first lodge of 0dd Fellows—that s, the one from which the present order in this country sprung—was self-constituted at Balti- more, Md., on the 26th day of April, 1819, by five workingmen, who came from England and Scotland at the close of the war with Great Britain, of whom Thomas Wildey, a spring maker, who was born in London, was the leading spirit. The name selected was Washington lodge No, 1. Other lodges, through the missionary labors of Wildey, were soon afterward organized in the citles of Boston, New York and Philadelphia, when a charter was obtained from the order in Eng- land, constituting them into a grand lodge with power to regularly organize state grand and subordinate lodges of 01d Fellows. Grand lodges having been constituted in Massachu- setts, New York, Pennsylvania and Mar: land, their representatives came together at Baltimore In January, 1825, and organized the grand lodge of the United States as the supreme legislative body and appellate court of last resort. The Americanelodges continued to be con- nected with the Manchester Unity, the English order, until 1843, when a formal separation was brought about, and the secret work, and, in fact, the entire system was materially changed in this country. The title of the supreme body has since been changed to the sovereign grand lodge. This was rendered necessary in consequence of the order having extended all over this country, into the Canadas, Australasia, Sand- wich Islands, Chili, Peru, West Indies, France, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark, and since then lodges have been organized in Holland, Sweden and Japan, and very recently in Rome. The statistics as compiled to December 31, 1893, show one sovereign grand lodge and four independent grand lodges, as follows: German Empire, Australasia, Denmark and Switzerland; fifty-five state and provincial grand lodges and fifty grand encampments, and 10,205 subordinate lodges, 2,557 subordi- nate encampments, and 3,292 Rebekah lodges, with a total membership of 1,118,636, From 1830 to 1593 there were 1,947,711 members admitted, 1,809,045 relieved, 209,902 widowed families 'pecuniarily assisted, and 176, members buried. The total amount paid for reliet was $64,376,265.92, and the re- celpts were $168,056,287.65. Besides pay- ing weekly a stipulated sum of money as benefits to members when sick or disabled, and a sum sufficient to give those that have deceased decent interment, the order of 0dd Fellows has always promptly and liber- ally responded to appeals for the relief of communities when affiicted with famine and plague, or when sufering from fire or flood It has also founded and erected in this and various portions of the land homes for the support and education of orphan children, for the care and maintenance of aged and indigent members and widows of ‘deceased Odd Fellows: The qualifications ‘for membership pre- scribe that the appljcant shall be a white male over 21 years of age, in the enjoyment of good health, of gobd moral character and beliet in God the creator and preserver of the universe. The gecrecy of this fraternity is confined to sigps and passwords only, by which members ‘are enabled to recognize each other and gaim admittance into the various lodges. States Head Camp of Modern Woodmen. The head camp of the Modern Woodmen of America will convene in annual session in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday, June 4, in the senate chamber of the capitol bullding, and will probably adjourn on the following Fri- day or Saturday. Its main work will be the election of officers and the revision of the fundamental laws. The greatest question to be considered will be that of the creation of an emergency fund Other proposed changes in the fundamental laws are such as provide for district instead of state conventions to select head camp delegates, the addition of new territory to the jurisdiction, increase in number of head physicians, providing for soclal members, and rewriting the laws making the language more explicit. Of course there will be many changes in detail proposed uot mentioned here, but these are the most important mat- ters that will engage the attention of the delegates. The delegates will be highly entertained by the local Woodmen of Madison. There will be a drive through the city in carriages and 3¢ __from this list will save are bound to have you Silks. An elegant line of Novelty and colored figures, at 7oc, Silks, Black We have a few p Corean Silks which 9. Figured India of Black Satin Duche: quality, Monday in black , 69c and........ 111 RPN those we will close Come early, for they are worth 60c China Silks, a full line of colors, at.......... inches wide, A good quality Black Satin Duchesse at Striped woven rol -inch L'\'(‘l‘y ut at The regular §1 Yo The regular $1 The regular $1 vate & Livery embroidered description on special prices, o E | PMQ{ 600 Some Extraordinary —Every item is « Bargains—————— A casual glance at these prices will convince you ol that. S € X .} gem---every purciiase you money—big money. We r trade if we give goods away, Sficéia—l Salé ojr' Laprobes- with yes, fringed border: with knotted fringe and centers and all robes of sale Monday at fancy G50 89c¢ 1.00 1 Prices Monday, 00 Lap Robes will be only 3 Robes will be only.... 50 Lap Robes will be only Robes extra Spec Black Dress Goods~ 10-inch_English Serge, the ular S0¢ quality, for . 16-inch Henriettas always at $5c, for.. -inch wide Wale Chevots, close price $1.25, fOF.....eieerr. b-inch Storm Serge, regular $1.50, for. . . 46-inch Tmp value $2.26, for........ooues 46-inch silk and wool Crepons, 3175 quality, for.. Colored Dress Goods- Half wool at 15c, B 13 L&) - O8c 87ic 98c 81"_’5 8110 rted Crepons, actual Challis, now... alway; 2,000 yards 40-inch Novelty Dre i0ods, all wool, at.. 42-inch silk and wool Crepon 100 piece dinner set.. 13 gallon water pitcher. Flint table tumblers.......... Engraved tumblers,..... Handsome water set....... 7. pi€ce berty seti. v . Engraved decanters .. 50 Salts'and Peppers..ieeasccs s Cut glass salts and peppers.... 6 piece toilet sets......c.cvvevven 10 piece toilet sets....... 12 piece toilet sets..... ceceenn In OQur asement .$5.94 . 1¢ each Vesiens s @ CIEHGH vee...98c each 23¢ veve e vess 120 eadh sy, S0 GROH ..$2.40 ..$3.85 R R TR TR r have a dres ing the interior fittings? I i Cheap Linings- spoiled from too much economy in buy- ronomy is always praiseworth but only as long as it buys “‘quality.” Our linings have quality and they are not high priced. Hair Cloth, Percalines, Taffetas, Crinolines, Grass Cloth, Ete. THE BEST QUALITY SELISIA MADE FOR 15c. to to be Wo give away A Gold Watch- the lady securing the most subscribers the “DELINEATOR” fore Sept. 156th. Come and see us for further particualrs. freo rides on the lakes tendered ‘the dele- gates. Wednesday evening the Madison team will exemplify the secret work in the opera house. On Thursday the great picnic of the Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois association will be held, and in the parade are expected to be at least 15,000 Woodmen. The exercises at the platform in the after- noon will consist of music and speeches by prominent Woodmen. Thursday night a grand ball will be given to all visiting Woolmen The Woodmen of Omaha have about per- fected arrangements for the reception and entertainment of the Nebraska delegates on their way to Madison, Wis. It is the purpose of the people here to have all, or as nearly as possible all the Nebraska delegates make the trip to Madison by way of Omaha, ar- riving here, if convenient, on Saturday after- noon, and then be entertained at the Com- mercial club rooms Saturday evening. Ar- rangements have been made for the accom- modation of the delegates at the Dellone hotel. Sunday afternoon the delegates and Omaha Woodmen will attend services at the . Mary's Avenue Congregational church, and listen to Dr. S. Wright Butler. They will then arrange to take a special Pullman car at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon over the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, arriving at Madison Monday, June 3, at about noon. The transportation committee has arranged so0 that all the Nebraska delegates and their families and friends who desire to accom- pany them to Madison can buy their tickets to Madison from their homes, having the ticket read: “By way of Omaha over the Chicago & Northwestern.” As many of the delegates as desire can make the return trip either by way of Milwaukee, Racine or Chicago, stopping one, two and possibly three days at either one of the places. A letter will be sent to each of the delegates, stating the exact cost of his ticket from his home to Madison and return. A fare of one and one- third has been fixed for this convention. All the Nebraska delegates but three or four have signified their intention of joining a delegation at Omaha Saturday afiernoon and going in a body on the trip from Omaha to Madison, Grand Army Services. The following circular has been ssued from the headquarters of U. S. Grant Post No. 110, Grand Army of the Republic, to all members, regarding the celebration of Memorial day. For the twenty-eighth time the Grand Army posts of the nation will assemble on May 30 for our usual Memorlal exercises. A grate- ful nation will again on that holy day cease its toll while we reverently strew upon the graves of our comrades the millions of flowers gathered by the willing and loyal hands of the children of America and arranged by the always zealous teachers of our schools and the noble women of our Relef corps. For our own post Memorial week will be an important one. On Sunday morning, May 26, at 10 o'clock sharp the post will assemble, gloved and uniformed, as far as possible, to meet our Women's Relief corps, at the resi- dence of Comrade Wilcox, 2109’ Wirt street, thence to march one block to attend servico at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church to hear an address by Rev. Dr. Sanderson. All are most strongly urged to be present. On Sunday afternon we are to meet with Custer post at 3:30 sharp at its hall, 114 North Fifteenth street to £t end tervice at the Young Men's Christian association, to be addresse by Rev. Dr. Hellings. On Sunday evening as many as can are urged to attend with Crook post a service at the United Presbyterian church, Twenty-sec- A Delicious Breakfast ! and cream: then — Sold only . . To begin with, Quaker Oats in 2 Ib. Packages. S.P. Morse Dry Goods Co. ond and ‘Emmett streets, to hear Rev. L. E. Hawk. On Wednesday afternoon, May 29, all the public and parochial schools are to be ad- dressed as usual by members of the Grand Army of the Republic detailed for that purpose. The committee urges | every man to accept his detail to teach our most sincere and enthusiastic friends, the children, “Why We Observe Memorial Day.” The presence of the soldi and his simple story are most valuable les- sons in patriotism to the children. On Thursday, May 30, Memorial day, com- mittees from the posts, the Women's Relief corps and Sons of Veterans will devote the morning to the decoration of graves in the various cemeteries, The usual morning salute will be fired from the cennon on our lot in beautiful Forest Lawn. At 2 p. m. the Grand Army of the Repub- lic posts of the city will rendezyous at the northeast corner of Hanscom park. There we meet the High school cadets, the Thurston Rifles and Omaha Guards, who will march from the city and proceed to Hanscom park pavillion to hear an address from John M Thurston and to participate in our Grand Army of the Republic ritual exercise, The circular is signed by the commander, B. Bryant, and the adjutant, R. M. § F. Tribe of Ben Hur, On Friday evening, May a splendid meeting of Mecca court No. 13, Tribe of Ben Hur, was held. About forty members were present and twenty-three applications for men bership were presented for action upon. Fifteen applicants were admitted to full court degree. The next meeting of the local court of this growing order will be held next Friday evening at Patterson hall, Seventeenth and Farnam streets, at 8 o'clock A large number of candidates will be Initiated. All members are requested to be present. Tak- ing into consideration the character and standing of the members and the large num- ber being elceted, this lodge will very soon be one of Omaha's most influential beneficial orders, A great deal of enthusiasm is mani- fest at every meeting In the degree work, which cannot be excelled, and almost 95 per cent of the members are In regular at- tendance at every meeting. The charter will be closed the first meeting night in June. All lodges are not as fortunate as this court in having the president of the city council passing on Roberts and Cushing. Hotel Lafayette, on beautiful Lake Minnetonka, Minn., is one of the most charming and beautiful sunimer resorts. he Lafayette is a first-class hotel and a favorite resort for tourists from the south and east. e Killed by o Runaway Push Ca DENVER, May 25.—A special to the News from Como, Colo., says: A push car oc cupled by thirteen workmen became uncon trollable on the newly opened Gunniso branch of the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison road last night and shot down the grade like lightning. The men jumped, Charles Michael son being killed. Al were seriously injured. Killed by Runaway Cars. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 25.—A number of flat cars broke loose and ran down a steep grade at Pratt Mines yesterday, running ove and killing William Fields and Neal Brundie miners, Sole Agents for Bullerick’s Paitorng Th Odor of Almonds Clean, pure and pungent, pleases the nostrils as the cork comes from a jar of Mme. Yale's celebrated Almond Blos- som Complexion Cream. For years and ages, women have sought a safe and cer- tain preservative of the complexion. he sun in summer and the heat of stoves and steam in winter make Nature’s work too hard for her. The dust that is always in the air grinds it~ self into the sensitive skin, Soap and water ave not enough to get it out and to soothe and soften the dry chapped "™ Yale’s Complexion Cream will do it. Tt cleanses the skin and its pores. Softens the foreign matter with- inand without, soothes all irritation, cools the heat of chapping and fever blisters, and gives a satin surface to the suffering skin. It is good for burns and for any abrasion. A single upplication is effect~ ive. Put it on at night and rub it briskly into the skin and you will ba pleasantly astonished in the mornin, There ha 'n imitations of this wons derful beautifier. Look out for them. Accept nothing but the real. 1t will not_supply you. send MME. M. YALRE, Hoalth Spectalist, 140 State Sty mafled free, NOTICE OF Notice s an order of RECEIVER'S SALE. hereby glven that pursuant to _of the ‘district court of Douglas county, Nebraska, entered on the 9th ay of May, 18%. in & sult pending in said court, wherein Willlam A. Wallace s plain- U and Wallace and ‘company, Incorpol 15 defendant, I will on Monday. 77th Ay of May, 1896, at 2 o'clock of said day at the place of business of sald Wallace und company, = incorporated, —at number 411 South Tenth street,in Omaha, Ne- braska, sell at public auction to the high- bidder for cash all of the assets of sald Wallace and company, incorporated Said assets consist n part of saloon bars, back bars, mirror frames, beer coolers, @tCe all being manufectured by the said Wallace and company, incorporated, a complete out- it of ‘improved wood working ‘machinery, together with shafting and belting and two Deétrojt electric motors of fifteen horses power each, the office furniture and Nxtures and a lot of raw material and partially mavufactured stock Sald property may be Inspected at any time during business hours and the uni signed |s authoriged to sell all or parts of suld property at private sale at any time prior to the date fixed for sale, Sald sale will be cond nstructions the in the sald order which willi be found in th office of the clerk of the district eourt or Copy of the same may be inspected on U above premlises at any time during business hours. JOHN JENKINS, MA117t m and o Recelvér, NOTICE. Parties having goods n pawn with me will call for them within 3 days from May 1l as 1 intend to go out of business. ti2l) MOHILE, 1517% Parnam 8t Bhow cases for sale, MNWLE-SS