Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1902, Page 15

€ HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1902. Savage and His Sensational Screeds To Ezra P. SBavage: Shortly after the pardon of Joseph . Bartley, I learned from a rellable source that you claimed to have positive proof in your possession that I was one of the beneficlaries of the Bartley embezzle- ment. Immediately upon receiving this information the following letters passed between us: OMAHA, March, 16, 1902.—Hon, Eszra P. Savage: Sir—I am reliably informed that you claim to have in your possession a promissory note, or notes, due billa or I 0. U.s bearing my signature and payable to Joseph Bartley, or parties to whom Bartley advanced méney loaned to me. If such pa- pers are in your possession, or have been exhibited to you by Bartley, they are down- right forgerios. ’ 1 never borrowed a doliar trom Bartley directly or indirectly. I do not owe a dol- lar to any falled bank in which Bartfey made deposits, whether they were deposited legally or {llegally. I never borrowed a penny from any bank of private concern on the strength of Bartley's favor or Influence, and I ha cited such loans or asked ybody representing him for financial assistance in any shape or manner. This also applies to The Bee Publishing company and the Bee Bullding company. Nelther of these corporations have sollcited or received any financial ance from Bartley directly or indirectly. it anybody has led you to believe otherwise he is an impoator. It seems to me that the least you ocould do under the circumstances would be to oorrect the baseless reports calculated to create prejudice against me. Very respect- tully, EDWARD ROSEWATER. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, LINCOLN, Neb., March 20, 1902.—Hon. E. Rosewater, Omaha, Neb.: Dear Sir—Replylng to yours of the 16th inst., T beg to state that I have never said that I had in my possession nor that I had ever seen a note, 1. 0. U, or any other evidence of indebtedness of yours to J. 8. Bartley. Neither has he ever:said to me that he ever loaned you any money, directly or indirectly. Respecttully, E. P. BAVAGE. That would bave closed the chapter had, you not taken it upon yourself to couple my name with your story of an alleged attempt to bribe you to make certain appointments to the Omaha fire and police commission. While yeu did not charge directly that I had anything to do with the matter, your attempt to \convey such an impression by innuendo Justified my demand for another apol- ogy. Instead of exposing and prose- ‘cuting the parties to the alleged plot to bribe you, you sought to divert atten- tion from your, neglect of duty by pub- Ushine as Ushing as tents of the following letter: EXRCUTIVE CHAMBER, LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 16, 19%02.—Mr, E. Rosewater, Omaha, Neb., Bditor of The Bee: My\at- tention has boen called to an editorial in your paper under date of August 12 in which, under the caption of “Another jApology in Order,” you make another ;Characteristic effort to parade your virtue before the people of Nebraska by lament- .ing of the iniquities of others. . pdyaeonf When I replied to your letter of March A8 last I simply dwelt upon the context .of that letter only in so much as related ‘to dealings with J. 8. Bartley. I will say to you now, since you seem to 'have had & painful lapse of memory on ‘the subject, that I then had and now have ,in my possession a note given and signed by you for money borrowed from a state treasurer, which up to the present you |have falled to pay. On the back of the note are the following endorsements: Credit by job work (printing) \Credit by &m envel Credit by cards. Credit by 1,000 card: You seem to take pride in saying that you borrowed no money from J. 8, Bartley. ‘Let me remind you that your transgression is in no way minimized because of the fact that you borrowed from a state treasurer rother than Bartley. Moreover, there are many akeletons in that mue ‘mooted “clgar box” that may at some future time cause feelings such as some people ex- perience while walking through a grave- yard in the dead hour of night. In my letter bearing on the incidents as- sociated with the appointment of a board of fire and police commissioners for the city ‘of Omahs, I made no reference to you in ‘speaking of the attempt to purchase ex- ecutive favor, but you seem to have taken umbrage, as If my statements were di- rected to you personally. It Is theoretical philosophy that & gullty consclence needs Mo accuser, and this, together with spon- taneous protests of your innocence before you are specifically indicted, impels me to at least place you under the mantle of ‘suspicion. Contrary to your allegations, permit to say that I have no desire to besmirch your character or that of any other citizen. I think that even you will agree with me when I say that, considering the wanton assauits you have made on my officjal con- duct and coneidering further that I bave all along been armed with information seriously reflecting on your honor and i tegrity, 1 have exhibifed more than ordi- nary patience and forbearance in not di- .vulging what 1 know relative to the part yeu acted in the Bartley affair. I find no comfort in wrecking homes and families. 1 would rather suffer insol myself than be the Instrument of grief anywhere. It is not a pleasant task for me to unmask even you, but, despite my predilections, I am first & martyr to duty wad your long continued wanton assaults on the best manhood of this state admits of no other alternative. Very respectfully, E. P. SAVAGE, Governor. I did not consider it worth while to waste my powder on political dead ducks, but since it 1s your last will that the cadaver shall be dissected and cremated in public, regardless of the stench, I shall comply, with an apology to the public. You say you have come into posses- slon of a note for state money borrowed by me. How did yon come into its possession and what right have you to keep it? While you may be ignorant of the simplest functions of your office, you know enough to know that you have no more right to any due bill or prom- i¥sory note for money belonging to the state than you have to pocket a state bond o1 to carry away the furniture of the executive mansion belonging to the state. If you belleve that the state has a valid claim against me or auy other person for state money borrowed from the treasurer, it is your duty to instruce the attorney general to make a formal demand for its payment and to enforce collection by due process of law. Anybody reading your letter might imagine that the note in yqurs hands represents a large sum of money which I am elther uuwilliyg or unable to pay. I am credibly informed that at a recent gathering of old settlers you had the audacity to charge that a note over my signature for $15,000 bad been found among the papers of former State Treasurer Hill and remained uncollect- ible amofig the assets of the state treasury. Nobody but a white-livered falsifier would have circulated such a deliberate and malicious sldmder. Every schoolboy in Nebraska knows that if a note signed by me for $15,000 or $1,500 or any other sum had turned up among the assets of a state treasurer, the state would have made an effort to collect it or at least get a judgment through ihe courts. You knew when you circulated that in- famous slander that the document you claim to have in your possession calls for the payment of $150, with a credit of $71.18 endorsed on the back. How this precious document was confided to your care and keeping will be readily surmised from its history. In the closing months of 1898 reports reached me from the state capital to Justify the suspicion that the state treas- urer was speculating with state funds. Among those reports, one of which I Jhave kept a memorandum, reads: ‘The reason State Treasurer Bartley and Bd Bignell are so thick s because they are partners In deals on the Board of Trade. They cleared over $30,000 on corn Just er the hot winds and soon after- wards dropped some $20,000 on C., B. & Q. stock. During this last deal they got dissatisfied with the way the Chicago end of Harris Bros. & Co. was handling their orders and Bignell went there to see them and came back satisfled. Bartley and Big- nell are the boldest operators in Lincoln today. In the last days of December, 1893, I called public attention to the cosditicn ‘of the state treasury in an editorial, from which the following is an extract: More than a month ago the representative of The Bee at the state capital apprised us that startling disclosures might be expected any day relative to the state treasury. ‘There is said to be a discrepancy of over $200,000 between the auditor's books and those in the treasurer's office. After spend- ing more than two weeks in checking up the discrepancies between the books of the treasurer and auditor the books falled to balance by about $225,000. The tangle in the state treasury indicates that there is something wrong in the methods of ac- counting. The enormous volume of out- stapding warrants indicates the most reck- less financlering. According to Auditor Moore the state debt now exceeds $1,000,000 and the debt is still increasing st the rate of §15,000 & month. This state of affairs de- mands immediate attention. The next day I recelved a letter from ©. F. Royce, our Lincoln correspondent, now with the Chicago Tribune, stating that Treasurer Bartley clalmed to bave a number of notes, amounting alto- gether to $1,500, purporting to be signed by me. I at once wrote Bartley the following letter: OMAHA, Dec. 30, 1803.—Hon. Joseph Bartiey: Dear Sir—Have just recelved a letter from Mr. Royoe, our Lincoln corre- spondent, which among other things con- talns the following: “Mr. Bartley bas hinted to me several times that he has ,certain notes in his possession and signed paper. He claims that he purchased them in order to prevent some afMdavits which accompany them from belng printed and says that he did it entirely in your fn- terest and did not want you to know about e This is the first intimation I have that anybody holds any notes signed by me which remain unpald, barring notes held by local bankers and creditors, secured by collateral. If anybody has sold you such notes they must either be spurious or purioined notes. I have never repudiated & legal claim or debt, evem if such debt had been outlawed. 1 certalnly do not consider it proper on your part to buy up such pretended claims without gt me notice or an opportunity to pay them, if genulne, or repudiate them If fraudulent. If anybody has made afdavit fotimating that I bave repudiated any honest debt or sought to levy political blackmail, I demand an opportunity to re- fute the charge. Please present the alleged note and affi- davit to me at your earliest convenience. Yours truly, E. ROSEWATER. P. 8.—My editorial bn etate finances was in the hands of the compositors before Mr. Royee's letter was recelved. To this Bartley sent an evasive reply, saying he had only one note, obtained from Ed Bignell, superintendent of the Burlington road. Not content to drop the matter, 1 dispatched E. O. Hunt, then a member of The Bee staff and at present of the World-Herald, to Lincoln with the following letters: OMAHA, Jan. 1, 1894.—Hop, J. 8. Bartley: Dear Sir—This will be{ hatided to you by Mr. Hunt, who is hereby authorized to take copy of the alleged note and appended afi- davit purporting to explain the manner in which said note was negotiated by me or tor me. I learned from Mr. Royce that the note 1s said to be one of a series aggregating $1,500 in tavor of General. McBride, state treas- . urer, to which my name is appended. I mever borrowed any money from General McBride while he was treasurer and do not remember any money transaction after he went out of office, unless it was an exchange of notes made at his request and for his benefit. If I have ever owed him any money he would have been able to collect it. At any rate, either he or some of his creditors would have tried to collect it. As a matter of fact we have a claim of several hundred dollars against McBride on the guaranty he made for an agent at Lincoln, who turned out to be an embezzier. Yours truly, E. ROSEWATER. OMAHA, Jan. 1, 1894.—Mr. Bd Bignell, Division Superintenaent Burlington & Mis- souri River Rallway: Sir—I learned through Mr. Royce that you are in possession of & eral notes aggregating $1,600, purporting to be signed by me, In favor of General J. C. McBride, and that one of these notes bas been sold by you to Hon. J. §. Bartley. 1 do not remember of ever having bor- rowed any money from General McBride. Nobody has ever presented any note or claim held by him to me for payment. The bearer, Mr. Hunt, is hereby authorized to inspect and make copy of the notes and any documents you may have authenticating them. Please exhibit the notes and papers to Mr. Hunt and present them to me for {den- tification at your earliest convenlence. I have never repudiated a genuine note or an honest debt, and would not do so even if it were outlawed. If you consider these notes genuine, I cannot comprehend why you have never presented them for payment or sent me word that they are In your possession. Yours truly, E. ROSBWATER. Mr. Hunt returned without having found Mr. Bignell, whereupon 1 wrote as follows to Mr. Royce, to have him carry out Hunt's mission: OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 3, 1894.—C. F. Royce: Dear Sir—Please call upon Superintendent EAQ Bignell of the B. & M. and hand him the enclosed letter, which I sent to him through Hunt, but Hunt could not deliver it and brought it back. I want this note matter cleared up and the parties who pretend to have these notes and are circulating reports concerning me to show the papers and docu-, ments they have and the source of their in- formation. Please insist upon Mr. Bignell showing you the notes he has, and copy them, together with any afidavit or state- ment attached thereto, and forward to me by the first mail. Yours very truly, E. ROSEWATER. On the same day I malled this letter to General McBride, which brought the annexed responses, one by wire and the other a letter by mail: OMAHA, Jan. Bride, Dickinson Land Company, Galves- ton, Tex.: Dear Sir—Parties Lincoln claim to be in possession of several notes, aggregating $1,500, sald to be signed by payable to yourself, dated in 1877, or some time during your firet or second term as treasurer. Onme of these notes is said to be for $150 and attached to it is an afidavit from a person, whose name the parties refuse to divulge, alleging that this note and the others in the series were among your papers when you went out of office and that you instructed him not to present them because they were blood money and which was never expected to be pald. Please wire me at my expense whether you ever advanced me amy money when treasurer or whether you ever held any notes for money advanced to me and whether you ever stated to anybody that you had been held up by me for campaign contributions. Very truly yours, E. ROSEWATER. (Telegram.) GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 6, 180—E. Rosewater, Omaha: About seventeen years ago Bdward Rosewater, with whom I had a running account for job work, asked permission to draw a draft on me for §150. I pald the draft and the amount was re- paid to me by Mr. Rosewater in good time. Some eight or e years later Rosewater endorsed a mnote with me for $2,000, I think with an Omaha bank, which wi pald. These are the only financial tran: actions we have ever had. He never ex- torted mor tried to extort any money from me. That I ever made such statement or claimed to hold such notes is all damned J. C. M'BRIDE. Tex., Jan. 6, 1884.—My Your letter of the 3d came to hand an hour ago and I at 1 stated the facts inst. once replied by wire. tully as I thought necessary and will reit- erate by afidavit It necessary. Possibly someone about the state house may have found the $150 draft spoken of in my telegram and at once supposed they 3, 1894—General J. C. Mc- . had found a mare's nest, but the $150 was pald a few months later and that ended it I never had a note of yours for any amount. If I bad one it would have been in judgment long ago, if not paid. Yours truly, J. C. M'BRIDE. On January 6, 1804, I received the fol- lowing report from Royce: LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 6, 1884.—I bave just returned from a talk with Bignell. He w: at Pacific Junction yesterday and did not re- turn untll last night. He makes the follow- ing statement and I will quote his language: “1 knew nothing of the existence of the notes in question until after the article in reference to the Burlington Volunteer Rail- way department appearcd Just before elec- tion. In that article The Bee accused me of taking an underhanded advantage of a widow and I am free to say that the attack, or at least what I considered an attack, made me angry. A few days after the arti- cle appeared, perhaps on the day following, a gentleman came to my office and asked me why I did not get hold of something I could use against Rosewater. I told him that 1 had no controversy with Rosewater and knew nothing that I could get hold of to use against him. He told me where [ could get a mote he had given to McBride. 1 went to the party who held it and got it. 1 did fhot buy it. The party gave it to me to use for my own benefit. I happened to drop into Bartley's office and told him what 1 had got and that I was golng to print it in the Lincoln Journal. I then left the note and the afdavit with Bartiey with the dis- tinct understanding that no%one was to know of its existence. When I get the note in my possession again 1 propose to lock it up in a safety deposit box and never let it go out of my possession again, “I will not permit you (Royce) to make a copy of it or a copy of the aMdavit. I will not let you see the afidavit nor tell of its contents. I will simply let him look at the note to satisfy himself that it is what I claim it 1s. I will not present the note for payment, neither will I allow Rosewater to take It up. I did not pay a cent for it and I will not sell it for $5,000 even. I will never use it in any way or manner whatever unless Rosewater makes a personal assault upon me. I will not tell the name of the man from whom I got the note. I do not know how many notes of the kind are in existence.” The financial transaction General McBride refers to is embodied in a note of which I give a copy and which was discounted by the Nebraska Savings bank of Omaha: $2,000. LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 8, 1888, ceived, we or either of us promise to pay to the order of B, Rosewater two thousand dollars, with interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from date until paid. Ne- gotlable and payable at the State National pank, Lincoin, Neb. No. §56. Due Nov. 3, 1888 J. C. M'BRIDE, C. C. BURR, H. H. MELONE, W. V. WHITTEN. Every impartial person must concede that the exhibit here made completely explodes the charge that I am indebted to the state treasury for a single dollar. I repeat that I never borrowed a dollar of state, county or city money. All the business transactions with General Me- Bride were strictly personal. The amount advanced by him was repaid in full, but owing to my neglect to take up the note or draft, it was found among the papers in his desk. If I had actually owed the state the $79.82 not credited on the back, it could bave been collected at any time In the last twenty-five years on presentation. Your threat to open the cigar box and your innuendoes about skeletons have no terrors for me. You remind me of an insulted prostitute. Nobody but a born fool would offer a $5,000 bribe to a liveried horse jockey. You intimate that there are some terrible skeletons In that Bartley cigar box. If that cigar box contains anything that would af- fect my reputation for integrity or re- flect upon my standing as a man and citizen, I defy you to produce it. You know that I did not have to rush to the penitentiary when Bartley made his threats to open that box, like some of your friends, and was not among those who In trembling and fear urged you to pardon him to protect themselves. You say you find no comfort in wreck- ing homes and Yamilies. Nether do I If any families have been wrecked by publicity of wrongdoing, the wrecking was done by criminal acts and betray- als of trust by the men whose conduct I have had to expose and de- nounce in the Interest of good govern- ment. You pretend to be a martyr to duty, when in fact you are & victim of your own depravity. You have been treated by me with lenlence and forbearance. A great many people and many papers openly accused you of selling out for a price. I extended to you the benefit of the doubt and discussed your scandalous actions with courtesy, although you were entitled to none. Your grand- stand play decelves nobody. You have disgraced yourself, your party and the state. You will go out of office ex- ecrated and despised by honest men of all parties. E. ROSEWATER, _—————————————— e e e e — — — — — — ——— QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE. The following advertisement has just ap- peared in & German newspaper, the Werni- erode Intelligens Blatt: “I herewith re- tract the libel uttered by me agalnst Frau Meyer to the effect that she was wearing The same bonnet thiy year as she was last vear. 1 offer her my apologles. Frau epning.” In getting this published Frau Henuning siggests O'Connell's apology: “T sald you were composed of 600 scoundrels, wnd T am sorry for it What & rush of mall the man will get ‘who published this advertisement in a New York paper: “A man whose life is & mar- tyrdom owing to the lack of means which ploked up & ball and flown off with it to the woods. It may be t mistaken for eggs, and tting upon them with lncu- but it looks as though the golt orasze bad extended to the feathered world. A funeral was recently held at Altoona, Pa., the corpse prepared by the occasion belng that of a foreman who had been ex- ceedingly popular with his rallroad as- sociates aud with the community gen- erally. Floral tributes were plentiful and the widow exhibited them with et pride. “Yia,” sbe explained to eympathizing friends, “thim flowers do be showin' how manny frinds be had. That cross comes from the division superintendent, that pilly is from wan uv the conthractors and the broken colyum was sint by the mayor him- At this point she paused for a moment @s her eye lighted on a beautiful anchor, which she grabbed savagly and flung out of the window, exclaiming as she did so: “Who the divvie had the ba-ad taste to | Clatsops were adept weavers of hats. The | tollowing is from thetr journal: ““We gave & fish hook In exchange for one of thelr hats. These bats are made of cedar bark and bear grass, Interwoven to- gother in the form of & European hat, with a small brim of about two inches, snd & high crown, widening upward. They are light, ornaménted with various colors and figures, and, being mearly waterproof, are much more durable than either chip or straw hats. These hats form & small artl- icle of traMe with the whites, and their manufacture is one of the best exertions of Indian industry.” No man should resist or resent the ef- forts of & pretty girl to kiss bim, accord- ing to a decision just rendered by Judge George B. Sidener of St. Louls. Harry Alberts, who belongs to the swell set, bas been bragging of his asbestos na- ture and the girie In the & izhborhood of his home conspired to bring sboui & change. Miss Maude Mitchell, a dashing blonde, was detalled to walt near & corner where Alberts would pass on his way home. As be lifted his hat she threw her arms around his neck and planted a kiss on bis cheek. Alberts replied with & blow from his fist, which discolored Miss Mitchell's pretty fine of $20 against him Judge Sidener sald: “A woman has a right to kiss a man at all times. This is & privilege we owe to the opposite sex. They Break the Avalanche. In Switzerland the people have entered upon effective plans to defeat the ava- lanche in its devastating work. No more Ded the traveler be told, “Beware the ful avalanche,” for these rolling, pitching, sliding bodies of snow that accumulate into masses of destruction are now broken up before they galn an amount of material or wvelocity suficient to make them dangerous. Along the mountain sides, where ava- lanches form, earthworks in the form a V are constructed, with their points up- ward, and when moving masses of snow col in contact with them they are broken apart and so defiected as to be rendered harmless. Same Ol New York Times: Ex-Congressman Tim Campbell says Mrs. Campbell spoke to him the other day about the advertisement of & buttonless shirt. “What kind of & shirt is that?’ she ln- quired “Just like mine," answered the ex-con- gressmap, who in telling the story said Mrs. Campbell didn't epeak to bim for & Lowis and Clark testify that the |face. He was arested and la Luposing & | week Iwuhctu‘ 0ld Makes New Styles ALL SIZES WE ARE Now showing the 1903 sample cases from the several plano factories we are so fortunate as to repre- sent. They are certainly a reve- artistie. small lation to lovers of the The new and a beautiful from Steinway's, & “vertical grand” “Puritan” style from Steger & Sons, Emer- “Art chaste “Grecian” model from Hardman's, and the “Ionie,” Vose & Sons' de- serves special mention. You will find them here only—in all the beaytiful, at prices and on terms within easy reach. “spectal” grand Sheraton model from Mason & Hamlin, son Nouveau,” a rare woods, |ISI°T‘ e FALL OPENING ™ SCHMOLLER & MUELLER, 1313 FARNAM ST., OMAHA y STEINA Piano Economy s i Lowest Prices EASIEST 1ERMS. MANY Means buying a good one—one that has proved the test of many years' service. “Time levels all values.” You can make no mistake to buy a Steinway & Sons, Steger & Sens, T P Mason & Hamlin, I El VT:‘&onéons. - s A . B. Ch: ee:r[: S'I:‘k. T N Hardman, E o and the many others which bring the eareful buyer to our store. BARGAINS Came in saock last week. They have been cleaned, polished and tuned, and the prices on the tags appeal strongly to the family of musical taste with limited means. SQUARE PIANOS, at $18.00, $32.00, $62.00 and up. Several finer ones, Stelnway & Sons, Emerson, Weber, Chickering, Haines Bros, Hals, eto. UPRIGHT PIANOS— Large onos, small ongs, some used considerable,,some used very little. Genuine bargaina, however, when you see them-—$65.00, $92.00, $118.00, $127.00 up, on payments ot $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 monthly. Schmoller & Mueller Ialsohrnn!n st Sq2 Bpafne Grandma—Willle, 1 don't want you to DEWEY & STONE FURNITURE CO., 1115 and 1117 Farnam Street PRATTLE OF THE YO Papa—Alwa; morrow never comes. Little Fred—And tomorrow's my birthday. Now I suppose I won't have any. wore “Now, darling.' lttle 3-year-old daughter, who w ing her prayer before retirin is going away and you must pray for ber Why, “when did grandma get & bicycle '~ Annual Discount Sale Ourregular autumn furniture sale commences Tuesday morning, September 2d. Itis our aim and desire to. make this the greatest of our many successful sales, and to ac- complish this we have arranged to allow DISCOUNTS of from 10 to 50 per cent ‘on thousands of pieces of all kinds of Furniture located everywhere throughout our immense store. This discount is taken from the plain figure price on the original ticket which is still attached to each piece of Furniture—insuring a genuine discount—reduction of from ONE-TENTH to ONE- HALF the price. Dressers, Chiffoniers, Sideboards, Buffets, Dining Tables, China Cases, Brass and Ircn Beds, Bedroom Suites, Rockers, Parlor Furniture, etc. In fact all kinds of Fur- niture is included in this sale. $100 at 10 per cent discount saves $10 $100 at 15 per cent discount saves $15 $100 at 20 per ce nt discount saves $20 $100 at 25 per cent discount saves $25 $100 at 30 per ce nt discount saves $30 $100 at 40 per cent discount saves $40 $100 at 50 par cent discount saves $50 It is impoesible to enumerate the large number of different prices of Furniture in this sale. You must come to see its vast importance—BE SURE OF OUR NUMBER. Merritt—Why, Johony, it's lucky If you put your shirt on wrong Little Johnny—No it mother has told you not to go in swimming. ide out. Sunday School Teacher—What do you sup- pose Jonab thought when he found himself fnside the whale? Little Bdgar—Guess he thought he’d been asleep in & folding bed aad it closed up. iy The father of 3-year-old Margle usual : 11 silk hat, but one day he wore & soft felt and as he approached the house Margie turped from thé window and ex- | ¥, claimed: “Oh, mamma, come quick and see papa wit ed bat on!" & soft. mamma,” sald Py play with Sammy Hill any more. Willle—wWhy Boti Grandma—Because he is & bad little boy. Willie—Well, look-a-here, I aln’t so dog- gone good myself that you ought to be a-kiekin'. Johnny—No, sir; Minister—Well, I'm pl no school this summer? 'm sorry. n't when your remember, my boy, that to- sald a mother to her repeat- | propoded " establishing & ‘grandma the little miss, r—Johnny, | suppose you are glad eased to know you | i & LOOK FOR THE NAME. fond of school. you are sorry. Johnny—'Cause a feller can’t play hookey when there ain't no school. Now tell me why RELIGIOUS, Rev. Albert Arnold Bennett, long & mis: stonary in Japan, will soon take charge of the department 'of practical missions at Colgate university. Rev. Frank W. Gonsaulus of Chicago has recelved a cail from London to be the astor of the famous Congregational City emple, where he is at present preaching. Dr. and Mrs. Hiram Bingham of Hono- Julu have just finished the first volume of the commentary on the new t ment, on which they have labored for the last five years. Dr. A B Stmpson of New York, in his collection for forelgn missions in the Christian Alllance convention at Old Or- chard beach on Sunday, raised 36,00 for the work, eleven persons each = giving Rev. Michael Hill, professor of rhetoric of Loyola college, Baltimore, has gone to Rome and will visit other European cities in search of information to be used in his volume, “The History of the Jesuits in North America.” Rev, A. J. Diaz of H Cuba, has aptist printing ouse in Havana for the purpose of sup- plying the Bunday school and other liter- ature in Spanish. - The Baptists missions in the island are said to be in & prosper- ous condition. has Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore ex- pressed his disapproval of an elaborate oelebration of his silver jubllee next Octo- r and the project has n abandoned. '‘he cardinal thought it inadvisable fin view of the large number of stmilar ob- gervances that have heen celebrated lately. It is stated in England that & prominent brewer is bullding a church as a memoria of King Edward's coronath Switt’s cathedral—8t. Fa Jus_ ren Benjamin Guiness. tlller, too, who rotestant cathedra! of Cork and another distiller re- stored Christ church in Dublin. the famous brewl, erected no less arious One of firms ‘in England has No matter what you want you can save money by attending this sale Below 'is the saving in the different discounts on a bill of one hundred dollars worth of Furniture— | Bhe watched *! wi 115-1117 Dewey & StOfle Fumiture CO-’ Farnam Street CONNUBIALITY A pollceman-evangelist who drives the atrol wagon married a couple in New wOr 10 Is Niting that eager lovers should y the driver of the ' o wagon. e “hurry up’ A Texas man {s wanted by forty- women who had severally promised to pe: e his wife. He ought to I engagements better than that " O KD Dr. Henry Wood, director of manio department of Johna Hophins woy versity, who recently married Franlein Clotiide vor, Koetschmen of Potedam, Ger- many, has just retu - many, ha to Baltimore with A daughter of C. F. Boothi Colo- rado ranchman, I the eteel Amecion woman to seek & place In the ranks of the Britleh nobllity. On the 27th inst. she will wed Captain Lyulph G. 8. Ogilvy, the sec- ond son of the earl of Alrile of Scotland He has been in the ranch business in Colo- rado for a number of years. He went homo L9 yorye In the Boer war and Is now living e, Colo, e i money out of & shoep ranch, ' ¢ MaKIng The wedding of an Indlan_couple at- tracted & large crowd to_th 4 dian Baptiat Ghurch, In Chesies Sien v the other day, when M son became the bride ¢ Miles. Both of the parties to Were ‘members of the well known O - Rominy ribe of 'Indians and ate et known and highly respected. The bride was gowned in & sult of cassimere cloth A romance in Dorchester count “ land, In which Miss Mamie Zorcross oo Mr. Ralph Messick figurec, is the talk o the day. Fourth of July Miss Zor- cross sent u (ish-shaped toy balloon, with & photograph and & letter attached as it soared skyward, and it ‘was lost from view she thousht no more of it. After a few days she re- geived a ietter from Ralph Messick, dated Ocean City, Md., many miles away. Mr. Messick had found the balloon bay with the you woman's photograph _attach He as slon o correspond. It was granted, and s0on afterward he forwarded his own t and churches ot | pleture. Miss Zorcross was favorably tm- pr A little later he arrived at the Yonn: woman's home and Miss Zorcross met him at the statl He was driven l} her handsome home,