Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1901, Page 4

M B amasa E21Y% ¥ wasze NEWS OF INTEREST FROM THE OMAHA DAIL Y BEE: THURSDAY, [OWA. _ COUNCIL MINOR MENTION. Pavis sells drugs Btockert sells carpets and rugs. Metz beer at Neumayer's hotel Drs. Green, office 33 Sapp black. Welsbach burners. Bixby & Son. Wollman, selentific optician, 0 Broadway, Dr. Stephenson, Baldwin biock. Elevator. F. P. Joncs has gone to Chicago to visit Suring the holidays dissourl oak body wood, 560 Weich, 23 N. Maip st 123, E. P! Woodring Is spending the holldays with relatives and friends in Des Moines. Sles Isabelle Campbell left yesterday. ® uix weeks visit with relatives in Gr wold, la Mrs. Fred W. in the for parents Mr are visiting holldays PE. ¢ wrents Miss Casteol of the has gone to Davenport, ia bolidiiys. Pictures, v mas_ shoppers, C. K. 88 Broadway To keep your hubby home nights get him % portabie billlard and pool table at Peter ven & Schoening's Judge Aylesworth for the Liecember 0urt to Feport today Trensurer Frank Tr ring the Christma {riends in Ashiand, Neb, ¢ Miss Mary 1. Wallace of th High school taculty ls visiting hoildays tn Council Hluffs Louls F. Campbell and Brown, both of this ety sterday by Justige Bryant Attorney D. Stuart fs spending the holi- Aiys with his parents, Kev, and Mrs. T, MCK, Stuart of Harlan, la. Mrs. Robert Mullls has been called to Hudson, Mich., by the serious iliness of her mother, Mrs, Lena Edlinger. Mre. Paul ¢ Aylesworth and Visiung for tne holldays with leswortl & parents In Denison, la Miss Shirley Moore of First avenue is home for the holldays from Stanley Hall, Minneapolis, where she 18 attending school Miss Frances Wright of the kindergarten faculty lett yesterday to spend the Christ- mas holidays with friends in Lodgepole, Neb, Congressman Walter [ for Washington January compunied by Robert Hendersou, his Vate secret The finest glfts you can ma niture. See the extensive i Petersen & Schoening, Merriam They can please you. B. 0. Nichols, general Citfzens tric ix here Dam, the ays Mr. and Mrs. A. Metzger and son are home from a three months Eur trip, during which they visited Germany, France and the Netherlands. Members of lodges 849 and %5, Bankers Union of the World, will meet this even Ing in Marcus’ hall to elect officers and insact other important business. David C. Marlene of Nuskolls county, Ne- braska, and Miss Eima J. Keltner or'Dul lus county, lowa, were married Tuesday evening in this city by Justice Ferrler. Mrs, Clarence H. Judson of Minneapolis and Miss Mame DeVol of Chicago are nding Christmas with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. DeVol of Willow avente, Mrs, T. Bridensteln of Tenth avenue has recetved word of the death of her mother, Mrs, Kinsinger, at Paxton, Pa., Monday afternoon at the advanced age of §i years Mrs. Frank ¥ have gone to Chicago where they will be who hag been on his ranch in Kansas tor several Weeks Mr. and Mrs, Henry were in the city yesterday visiting. Mrs. mother. Mrs., H. P Bisbee of Eas adecompanied them home an naln during the winter with them Council Bluffs aerle, Fraternal Order of Eagles, will celebrate’ Its first_anniversary tonight with o banquet in Royal Arcanum all. An excellent program of toasts and specches in addition to a splendid menu will be served N. Y. wm. for Johnson of Cody, Wyo., is the holidays, visiting her Elkins of Rawlins, Wyo., this city for th d Mrs, W friends In visiting her during th irlott 0ux Denman_ 1s Falis, 8. D. High school faculty to spend the and_statuary for Christ- Alexunder & Co, ordered the jury the superior has term ot and wife are holidays with Hamburg tor the Charlotte B were married children Mrs Stith will leave He will be ac- pri- is in fur e carried by block. manager of the Light company Wik, to spen Ra for the holidays, Thomas of Red Onk | Plumbing Co.. teiephone 250. Still Talking Redistricting, The proposal to redistrict the congres- slonal districts of lowa Is still being talked up with more or less persistency in Des Motnes by the politiclans, ‘and the several plans suggested all take Pottawattamie county out of the Ninth district and place it In the Eighth. The latest plan for the redistricting has been suggested by W. O. Payne of Nevada, la., and Is as follows: First District—Davis, Des Moines, Jeler- son, Lee, Buren, Wapello, Washington counties” Populution, 202,28 Second Distriet—Cedar, Clinton, Jones, Loulsa, Muscatine, Scott Population, 202088 Third District chanan, Delaware Popula g Fourth Dis lor, Chickns Howard, Mitchell, counties. Population, Fifth Distri¢t—Hoone, Calhoun, Grundy, = Hamilton, Hardin, Story, Webster, Wright counties tlon, 23,6 Sixth ‘District_lowa, = Jasper, Keokuk, Mahaska, Marshall, Tama counties. Population, 24,579 Seventh _ DIstrict — Appanoos Marlon, nroe, Polk. Warrer itiek. Populaiion, 204,658, Eighth District—Adams, 'Decatur, Fre- mont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawat- tamie, Ringgold, Taylor counties. Popula- tlon, 197,461 Ninth' District arke, Dalln adisan, Shelby, thon, 204,506, Tenth District—Buena Vista, Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford, Ida, Monona, Plym- outh, Sac, Woodbury counties. Population, Jackson counties. Benton, Blackhawk, Bu- Dubuque, Linn countles, Bremer, But- ayette, Floyd, nneshlek, Worth Franklin Humboldt Popula” Johnson, weshick, Lucas, Wayne Adams, Audubon, Cass, ene, Guthrie, Harrlson, Unlon countles. Popula District—Cerro Gordo, O Emmet. Hancock, Kossuth) Lyon, O Brien, Oxceola, Palo Alto, Poca- hontas, Sloux Winnebago counties.” Popu- 1ation, 193,104, Pottawattamie's general ae redistricting that will cut this county out of the Ninth disrtict. The proposal will, it is belleved, bring on a bitter fight in both houses when the general assembly meets in January, as it is expected that some plan to redistrict will be pushed for all it in worth by certain politiclans who have as- pirations pointing to Washington, dnd their friends The proposal to transfer Pottawattamie county fo the Eighth district is looked upon with alarm by the republicans of this sec- tion of the state and especially fn Council Bluffs and vicinity, as it is regarded as a direct blow against Congressman Walter I. Smith, who in the short time he bas repre- sented the Ninth district in congress has already made a mark. Dickine representatives in the Gravel roofing. A. H. Read, 641 Broadway, the following Name and Residence, E. R. Ravmer, Johnstown, Pa.... Bstelle K. Little, Council Blufts ouis F. Campbell, Gouncil Bluffs.. narlotte E. Brown, Council Blufts Davis sells glase Davis sells paint. LEWIS CUTLER Fun Dl or e FEARESI00R FARM LOANS 6.0 Bradley and son D:\rl‘ln' jolned by Mr. Bradiey, | i § I his | embly will oppose any plan for | BLUFFS. ALL ENJOY CHRISTMAS DAY Rich and Peer Ah;—!_;n the Pleasures of Yaletide | EXERCISES AT CHURCH AMND THEATER Miss Lizzie Hickey, Content Winner of He e Entertalne Friends in Opera House Box Party. A very quiet Christmas day was the gen- | eral verdiet |due In a great part to the unseasonable | weather. Everybody appeared to be enjoy- (Ing the day as one of rest after the busy | ones preceding. Christmas trade was ex- | ceptionally good this year and the stores 4id a rushing business, especialy on Mon. day and Tuesday While It was a quiet Christmas it was ob- served in about the usual manner. In the | morning the services in the churches were | well attended. There was the usual number of family gatherings At the First Baptist, Swedish Emanuel Lutheran and Latter Day Saints’ churches | the children of the Sunday schools held |sway in the evening, being made happy | with Christmas trees and other entertain- ments The Salvation Armiy cared for the poor and served dinner to about 300 persons at its barracks on Broadway. The members of the corps also carried dinners to many a poor home In the elty | The prisoners in the city and county jalls were not forgotten and they ate turkey and other delicacies, ““For Love's Sake,” with the Misses Mabel and Ethel Strickland in the leading roles, | attracted an audience at the Dohany opera house, which was filled to the doors. Miss Lizzie Hickey, the successful con- testant in The Bee's contest for the most popular working girl In Council Bluffs, oc- cupled a box. Her guests for the occaslon were Mr. and Mrs. Wollman and Mrs. C. H. Stephan. The box was beautifully draped with the national colors und set off with colored clectric lights. | The Sunday school of St. John's English | Lutheran church will have its anoual Christmas entertainment this evening, when a fine program of Christmas music and | recitations will be given. Miss Elizabeth Patton Weldensall of Omaha and the Messrs. Christofferson of this eity will fur- nish a number of selections on the violin. Santa Claus will be present with a load of good things for the young tolks. The girls of the Industrial school will have their annual Christmas entertalnment Saturday afternoon in the DeLong mission on East Broadway. There will be a splen- did program for the little women and they will candy and other good things. Rev. Henry DeLong will call ‘for Christmas trees at any, place where thelr owners are through with them. Day Behind the Ba: Even Fegley, who was committed to the county fall by Justice Bryant to serve out a suspended sentence for drunkenness spent Christmas day behind the bars and prospects for remaining there the greater part of the winter are very promis- |ing. Today he will appear before Justice | Bryant to have a hearing on a charge of | drunkenness preferred against him by his wife several weeks ago. When that case Is disposed of he will be ealled upon to face a charge of resisting an officer. When placed | under arrest Fegley put up a fight and kicked Constable Alberti in a tender por- tion of his anatomy. Joseph L. Riche, dealer in second hand goods at First street and Broadway, spent Christmas day behind the bars in the city jail. He was arrested at his home, 351 Scott street, in the morning by Officers Welr and Slack, who experlenced consid- erable dificulty in Inducing him to accom- | pany them to jail. His arrest was made on complaint of his wite, who feared that he would injure her or her children Mrs, Riche sald her husband had been | drinking hard for two days and celebrated Christmas eve by driving his family out of the house at the point of a revolver. When he went to sleep Mrs. Riche and the chll- dren returned to the house, only to be driven out again yesterday morning, Riche threat- ening (o shoot any or all of them if they dared enter the house again. Nelghbors who iInterfercd to protect Mrs. Riche and the children were also threatened, it fs sald. In securing the arrest of her hus- band Mrs. Riche asked that he be kept in Jail until he sobered up, as she feared he would carry out his threats. When the officers weat to the house Riche resisted arrest and flourished his revolver. He was, however, quickly overpowered and | the gun taken from him. Walting for His Clothes. Jobn Haley, claiming to be a returned soldier from the Philippines, who was ar- rested Tuesday night at the Rock Island depot after being put off a passenger train, will be released as soon as the authorities can procure some clothing for him. When arrested Haley was clad only in an undervest and uniform trousers. He sald that his blouse, which was missing, con- talned his pocketbook, in which were his discharge from the Fifth infantry, his ticket from San Francisco to Boston, an ex- | press money order for $50 and $40 in cash | As tur as could be learned Haley left the train while at the local depot to get a drink and when the train was pulling out ran after |t, managing to climb on the end steps | of the rear Pullman car. He was next seen walking towards the depot from the yards with his face bruised and bleeding and dressod only In his blouse and trousers. He sald he had trouble with two colored por- ters. It 1s supposed he attempted to walk through the sleeping car and a fight be- tween him and the porters ensued, result- Ing in bis belng put off the car. In the struggle it s supposed his Blouse was torn trom him. Haley had not sufficiently sobered up yes- terday to give a very clear account of the trouble which led to his strange bebavior at tho depot and subsequent arrest. Patrol Driver James, who arrested Haley, had a hard fight with Haley before he could get him into the wagon. Sues for Insurance. Mrs. Hettle Britton of this ecity has brought sult in the district court agalnst the Royal Brotherhood of America to com- of her daughter, Una Glee Britton. The daughter was a member of the order and took out an insurance policy July 11, 1900, She dled November 17, the same year, and it is inferred from the petition flled that the order has failed to levy the assess- ment to pay the death benefit. Mrs. Britton was named as beneficlary in the event of her daughter's death and the policy of insurance requires the order which is a mutual organization with headquarters In Council Blufts and this was | be made happy with gifts of fruit, | pel it to levy an assessment for the death | yin Des Moines to levy an assessment, the total of which was not to exceed $1,000 The petition asks that an order be {ssued by the court requiring the defendant or- ganization to at once levy the necessary asseswment on all members in good stand- ing at the time of Miss Britton's death. It states also that the proofs of Miss Brit- ton's death were duly forwarded to the officers of the order in Des Moines The reason for the order declining to pay the death benefit is not stated in the pe- tition, Act on Proposed Brida. The city council will meet this afternoon At 2:20 o'clock to take action In the mat- ter of the proposed bridge across Indian creek at the junction of North Main and Mynster streets, City Engincer Etnyre is expected to have his plans for the proposed structure and his estimate of the cost ready for the aldermen by that time. It s ex- pected that the contract for the bridge | will be awarded this afternoon | belteved a better price can be secured now than next year, when the cost of lumber or bridge iron is ilkely to take an upward rise. HOLDS ANNUAL CONVOCATION Elsteddefod Assoct, cennful Meeting of Cluba, OTTUMWA, Ia., Dec. 25.—~The second an- nual convocation of the Eisteddefod asso- clation of lowa began at the Grand opera house in this eity today. President T. J. | Phillips, late candidate for governor on the democratic ticket, called the meeting to order. John P. Reese, district president of the United Mine Workers of America was conductor for the day. The convocatiom was the most successful ever held. Large audiences were present at the morning, afternoon and night sessions The competition for the various events | has been very spirited® Especially the com- petition for the glee choir prize of $40 for sixty volces at the afternoon session. This was won by Ottumwa chorus over Willlams- burg Glee club by 1 point. Over $1,000 was ghven away In prizes Three cities competed in nearly all events, while four others participated. Choirs of sixty volces were present from Ottumwa, Willlameburg and Beacon. The chief in- terest at the night session was the choral competition for sixty volces, in which choirs trom Ottumwa and Willlamsburg contestad for a prize of $100 and a medal and $25 to the conductor. Ottumwa led by Mrs. Frances Clark win- ning the chorus prize, Next year's Els- teddeford will probably go to Des Moines, where several hundred dollars and the Au- ditorium are offered | EVANGELIST UNDER ARREST Popular Preacher Accused of Defacing Cars with His Pocket- Knife. BURLINGTON, Ia., Dec. 26.—(Special.)— W. H. Illif, a well known and highly re- spected Methodist evangelist, of Hamilton, 111, 1s under arrest here on the charge of mutilating a pumber of Burlidgton rail- road coaches by splitting the panels with his knite. Mr. I1lif denles that he is guilty. It is belleved I11if committed the vandalism while intoxicated. at his arrest. vouch for him. The evangelist is known all through this part of the country among Methodist ministers and possesses a high reputation. His friends say he has never been known to drink, and cannot account for the affair. Several belleve there s some mistake, but the authorities claim as conclusive evidence of his guilt the fact that on one of the mutilated cars {s his name carved in rough knife strokes. STABS COLORED FOE IN NECK Young Farmer DNeals Blow with CARSON, Ia, Dec. 25.—(Special.)—Caslus Church, a young farmer living near this place, stabhed A. Field, commonly known as “Ginger" Fleld, colored, in the neck with a pocketknife this afternoon, eever- wound. The two men engaged in a fight over the pessession of 35 cents, and Field, it Is sald, struck Church twice with his fists before the blow with the weapon was dealt by Church. The affalr occurred in a bowling alley. Church gave bond in the sum of $500 and his preliminary hearing was set for to- morrow. ughlin is Run Over by Rall- road Trnin and is Killea. SHENANDOAH, Ia., Dec. 25.—(Spectal Telegram.)—James Laughlin of Coin was run over and killed last evening at 7:45 by the Wabash' train one-half mile north of the Coin depot. The top of his head was torn completely off. Laughlin was about 60 years old. He has no relatives living in this vicinity. He was a laborer and it is thought that he was under the influence of liguor when killed. Surprised Thelr Friends MENLO, Ia, Dec. 25.—(Speclal)—John Wilson and Gertrude Culbertson, a promi- nent young couple of this place, were mar- ried last night at Valley Junction. Miss Culbsrtson went to Valley Junction day Lefore ostensibly to spend the holidays with friends and relatives. Mr. Wilson went east yesterday, and it was supposed that he was to spend Christmas at Des Moines with his father, who is a bill clerk at the state legislature. The young couple re- turned this morning on an early train, and ve the first news of their wedding,' which was a Surprise to thelr friends. A largo reception and Christmas dinner was given them this afternoon at the Wilson home. GIVES | CREDIT TO RUSSIA Continental Papers Are Charged by English with Usurping Clatm LONDON, Dec. 26.—The Times tHis morn- ing publishes an editorial article on the pretensions of continental newspapers that it was Russia, not England, that prevented European intervention In the Hispano- American war. moment has arrived for the production of documbntary evidence regarding tude of Great Britain on that occasion, “'in | order to nip in the bud the growth of au Ingenlous legend of a kind from which we have suffered before now." —— Towa M 1y Injured. KANSAS CITY, Dec, %.—A man supposed to be Troy Nicholson of Des Mofnes fell from the “L" road viaduct at the Union station Inst night and was probably fatally injured. He fell on his face, which was cut in & terrible manner, and his right leg wa broken at the knee. as it Is | 1it's friends in Hamilton are amazed | A number have offered to | iog a veln and probably Infilcting a fatal | TOP OF HEAD IS TORN OFF| the | The Times thinks that the | the attl- | WILL TRY FOR RE-ELECTION Judge NoVey Will Take His Oath of Office at Onoe. GIVES QUT STATEMENT OF HIS PLANS ‘eels Re- Conaented (o Appointment with ing tha Would Be turned to Bench by Voters. (Flom a Staft Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Dec 5. —(8pecial.)—~A. H McVey, who has just been appointed a dis- trict judge by Governor Shaw, to take the place on the bench made vacant by the death of Judge Conrad, today announced that he would take the oath of office imme- | diately and enter upon his duties at once. | He has also made the announcement to his | friends that he will be a candidate for the republican nomination for judge during the coming year and seek election for a full | term, to succeed the short term he will | now Bl out. He says that he would not have consented to become a judge for on: year and give up his law practice without ; expectation that he would be elected for a full term following. This mgans a hard fight at the primaries for the nomination. There are four judges of the court and they all live in West Des Moines. Hereto- fore at least one of the judges has always resided in East Des Moines and the late Judge Conrad lived on the east side. Th: ction of McVey placed all ‘the judges | bunch and {t will make it certaln | that some of them will go down to defeat. Christmas Murd v . Charles Johnson, bartender at a saloon | on East Fifth and Court avenue, died this morning at the hospital, the vietim of a drunken quarrel in his saloon late last night. A number of men who had been drinking engaged in a fight and Johnson interfered as peacemaker. He was stabbed with a knife just below the heart and other- wise cut. He died at the hospital this morning. Willlam Smith is under arrest for the crime. Smith is out on parole and had been serving a sentence for burglary, for which he was convicted soveral years ago. He was in an affray some years ago in which he came being killed and lay at a hospital several weeks at the point of death near College Endowment. A young college In Towa which has just made a substantial start toward an endow- ment is Palmer college, located at Le Grande, on the line between Marshall and | Tama counties. Some time ago the trus- tees started out to railse an endowment fund of $50,000 and succeeded In securing pledges for $20,000. A committee consisting of A. F. Lyun and J. F. Bratt went to New York and conculted F. A. Palmer, after whom the college was named, and he has Just consented to give $30,000 to the endow ment fund making the 850,000 desired. The collego has been engaged In school work but a few years and has never been recog- nized as one the standard colleges of the state. Recommends Completing Bullding. The blennial report of State Librarian | Johnson Brigham, filed with the governor, | makes recommendation that the legislature | expend $300,000 in the completion of the lowa historical building, a part of which 1s now completed and occupied by the his- torical museum and Iibrary. It s the in- tentlon to make the building sufficlently large to accommodate the entire state library with the exception of the law books. The historical books are now housed in the bistorical bullding and the state has u fine collection of newspapers and documents. It | Is expected the legislature will make pro- vision for doing at least a portion of the work left to be doue on the building. Youthful Thieves. The police have in custody two children, a boy and a girl, % and 16 years old re- { spectively ,who are accused of pocket pick- | ing. They live with thelr mother in a| | shanty in "the downtown district and have | {been allowed to go without restraint. A few days ago they were arrested for al- | leged theft of some junk which they were said to have sold to a dealer, but as there was no evidence against them they were | released. Yosterday It was learned that | they had been seen in some of the large | stores and that some pocketbooks had been stolen. The police succeeded In arresting the children about 1 o'clock this morning. They had taken three or four pocketbooks and had got In all about $16 in cash. They | had thrown the pocketbooks away and bought & cheap one. Then they started out to buy Christmas toys. They had bought a small wagon and had loaded 1t up with play- things and were going home when caught at 1 o'clock n the morning. They had $10 left and each one says the other did the stealing. Coming to Teachers' Meeting The advance guard of the teachers who will attend the meeting of the State Teach- ers’ association has arrived in the eity, al number of the leading educators belng here. | Tho busincss meeting of the lowa Educa- tional council will be held tomorrow even- ing and the general meoting of the council the next day, which marks the beginning of the association meetings. It Ia believed, in view of the certainty of pleasant weather, that there will be an unusually large at- tendance this year. CALLED TO DOOR AND KILLED Crowd of Men Ask and The Him, to See Mini Shoot PARIS, Tex., Dec. 25.—Rev. J, H. Me- Clinton, iving near Deport, was called to his door at an early hour this morning and shot to death by a crowd of men. He claimed to have recognized some of them and gave their names to officers before dying. Queen Alexandra Recover LONDON, Dec. 25.—Queen Alexandra is making excellent progress toward recovery | but will not be able to be out for a few days. Jdaquis Henry Fouquler Dead. PARIS, Dec. 2. —Jaquls Henry Fouquler, the publicist and former member of the Chamber of Deputies Is dead. He was born September 1, 1838 Jockey Lester Relff Marries, SAN FRANCISCO, Rowell and Jockey lLester F vied yesterday ning at Dr. and Mrx Rowell Gate. The date of kept a_ secret and were present at the Dec. 2 only ceremony Charles M. So b Sails for DECEMBER | pay and ne church debt, 26, 1901 MAKES THE CHURCH PAY This Georgian s Second (o No Yankee In Theift, “I have heard how thrifty the Yivkees remarked the man who gges about from place to place, “but the thriftiest man 1 ever came across lived considerab south of Mason and Dixon's line. As far south in fact, as Georgia. He was a farmer in the poor part of that state--though Geor gians may say there are no poor parts in their great and glorfous state—and, unlike most of his neighbors, he had a little money ahead. Not a great deal, perhaps, but enough to allow him some swing if anything turned up worth considering. One of the sore needs of the community was a church bullding, but for many years they had not seen thelr way clear to erection of one. There were people enough in the noighborhood to have put up a house, but there were denominational differences, and they could not unite, and unless they did no one denomination could raise enough for the purpose. Thus the case stood for a long, long time, services heing held in the woods in summer and in the cabins in winter. “Now, it happened that the thrifty man was not a member of any church, #o that he could look upon the matter dlspassion ately, and he did. He made a calculation | or two, and finally concluded he would take business risk and build a church of his | own. He got a few assurances from the Methodists and Baptists, but they were not very encouraging. He knew, however, that are | the human kind is slow to catch on, espe clally to the unseen and unknown, and he took long chances and went ahead with his | proposition “He found that he could put up a very | good building , for the purpose for $500, which would cover the cost of a stove to keep it warm, and a cupola with a small bell in {t. He picked out a favorable site in a | grove near the road on his farm, and before Thanksgiviog he had bis house ready for | occupancy. He opened it on that day with an all-day service, Inviting the Crackers for | miles around to come and bring thelr bas- | kets. They weren't much on Thanksgiving, as a rule, but this was a new departure, and | they were there in force, regardless of de- | nomination. The Methodist and Baptist | preachers delivered sermons in the morning | and there was a unfon meeting of all de- | nominations after dinner, which was handed | around to the people in their seats by the sisters. It was a day of thanks and re- Jolclng and everybody went home feeling kood and very happy that there was o real church house in their midst “Before the next Sunday the thrifty man was visited by the Methodist brethren to know if they could use the bullding on that day. The thrifty man said they could price for the day, $5; they to furnish heat and light. The terms were accepted after some. haggling and the next Sunday was a great onme for Cracker Methodism. The next Sunday the Baptists, determined not to be outdone, had the church at the same figures, and there was a big time. Then came the Episcopalians for a Sunday, and then one or two scattering, and it was time again for the Methodists, who were Just as game as ever. In the meantime, to show he meant well, the thrifty man offered the church free for an hour and a half every Sunday morning for the holding of a union Sunday school for the children This was a boon and pleased the thrifty man mightily. And so it kept up, with services every Sunday by some denomina- tlon or other at a price that they could an. at the end of the year the owner made a calculation and discovered that his investment had paid 50 per cent net. “When I heard of it last,” continued the traveler, according to the Detroit Free Prees, “the church was still paying at that rate, and the thrifty man had got his money back and was $1,000 ahead of the deal NE T WORK. Anclent Precedents for Modern Skin Game Every little while some locality or some country, or even the whole civilized world, 15 excifed by the news that some cleve man or cllque of men, having determine to play for high stakes and to get ric fast, {8 endeavoring to “‘corner” some com- i _that ntrol of It is sought ~ with W to putting up the vrice, and almost instantly a craze for speculation begins Almost from th ning of time, s ler's Weekly, n oo Aheor speculative crazen of ene kind or her. Joseph ran one in the days of oah, although not with the same mo- | that has actuated others since then. | Joseph's “corner” was in corn and he spent Beven yvears accumulating the stock that proved so useful to him when the time of famine came. But his motive was humuni- tarlan rather than mercenary; he had no desire to put up the price, but only to pre vide sustenance for those Inghis charg Still, as “all Egypt” had to g8 to him fo corn’ finally, the venture certainly comes under the ‘general classificatio When the people of Holland became in- terested in tullps it was different. Still, the craze reached such proportions that in 163 were quoted on the Amsterdam ex- ke and regular specilative markets provided for them in_other cities. | == For more than two vears the people of Holland lived in an atmosphere of fietitious | in wealth, ISvery one who had tullps was | ti accounted rich and "pparently nearly every Lk one had tullps. 8o long as all wanted to | Ne buy values were sustained, but in course of ‘time It became necessary for many to | o1 sell in order to live and others decided | ‘W that they were rich enough in bulbs, As A natural result pri appeared, men were ruined in a night or even an hour, and—well, it took Amsterdam & g00d many years to recover from the shock of the bursting of the tulip bulb boom. th In this country, about 1826, people became practically insane over mulberry troes. silkworm was supposed to have a fondness for mulberry leaves and the idea became prevalent that if a man only had enough mulberry trees of a certain variety the siik- | 501 worms would do the rest. A Baltimore man imported some of the trees from France and began selling slips from them That was the beglnning. ~Everybody had to have slips, If he couldn't afford ta buy 1 transplant the trees themselyes, and from one end of the country to the other | vomen began planning for gowns | pl and men for a life of independent ease | pul while the silkworms worked 0 This was not as disustrous as the tulip bulb craze of Holland, but some idea of the amount of money that was wasted may | M be gained from the fact that $90,000 was [ tr reallzed from one auction salo of slips and tre mantown, Pa., in 1830 Nursery men ywhere did a wonderfully profit. able business, but most of them Invested the money In more trees from France, so that when the crash came they were in no better shape than thelr customers. MAN IN WOMAN'S CLOTHES, modit jit? the | of he ap| Did the Stant in Bosto Years. for Thirty fol The fact that Arthur L. Carver of North Haven, Me., has paraded for thirty years (an a8 0 woman under the name of Lilllan G. |of Carver was revealed in Boston last week Migs" Carver for many years conducied a candy store and barber shop. The shop Wwas a popular resort for the village gos- #ips and enjoyed a prosperous business A statement signed by Carver, by his father and mother and by Rev. Lyman R Swett, pastor of the Blaney Memorial Bap- tist church of Boston, betrayed Carvers true sex Pastor Carver's af an pa & nu Swott Fet gave out the queer Nlfe. 1t was In part as fol lows: 1 first became acquainted with rver_through one of our church mission Miss Alma | dv, Who ¢ r while conducting services Me. Her convert beca M interested in her and experlenced #h religlous feelin Miss Edwards confidence. She advised him ‘to make a clean breast of the whole affair. This he hesitated to do at first. He had long black mther coarse, hair and i lke a | 1 masculine woman. The halr was eut lust | of fall man ‘fashion and petticoats were | kil changed for pantaloons He then left | w heme and obtalned a position as a hotel |y full_story of was tuken Into Carver's NEW YORK, Dec. Charles M Schwab, president of the United States Steel corporation, will sall for Europe to. | morrow on La SBavoye of the French line He will he ace 1od by Mrs. Schwal | and has planned to remain abroad for two | monthi . | tered up courage and, looking the man full | Te clerk In a Muine town. One evening an old into the hotel, scrutinized asked him if his name if he did not come Carver was il at easc acquaintance came | the clerk and | was not Carver and from North Ha bat finally he mus tumbled, fortunes dis- | the search of work an ing him. 1 feminate and bea explanation AKRON, cashier of the Citizens' N bank this afternoon. 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He w o again, “He told me that his par him up a3 a girl and that when he realized aftairs he was too late to change his dress and mode e true condition of life “When he reached the age o had resolved to mak bue he experienced great re mewhat demoralized heavily. Since te resolve 1 dress W that of a son [ advised him to go b e and make a true blic about himself, eve state prison for it'and He felt thut he was woman he his_parents. seemed to think more ‘Cary le conseque uble an expose of his would not say 1 d to be ng id he could ne 1. Nelther he nor the o was as ho told me, masiuerad in would in his on the manly | ed him wh jirents had Yo bringing him up . th aid of thelr eccentric he must b not Cary ever was in ulte sure of mis- ¢ and s at- the was missing from ent to Boston in to begin s had brought feured |t 21 he sald own his sex, orse, became took fo drink- he had e ki on changing his mode of 1i it the authoritie the be sent to ack to his native statement to the n it he had to g bring disgrace on of the ter ces 10 his parents than the | case would o use that he wag of contrury, he his conduet t reason hiy ver learn the rea vy could offer any ——— Forms n Ky o, tnl Dec. 2 ind dead in front of electric shock through an incandescent lamp vault door at the same time, atal current had been kil Cu D. P. 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