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2 THE AMERICAN IN THE Clutch of Rome. H rYKli.HTFIl I BV M-uNAI H ' CHAITKIU. THEY MM K MfT AtSAIN. Washington. !). C. Ms- '. To lAHlg iiirtn'., A '' ' Vmnttt Sih tjwitius, i,.iimi.i, .';miim. Hi Uovereiic., Citrdinftl Xlmenen dhd in the fail'i at oVWk r. M. to day. ' O l'K Duo." la her cell like imrtmont, in a hgh turrvt o( tho con vent, which had flood for centuries in the nhadow ( the Sierra Nevahu, the Mh'h real the telegram from America, nd with a ( w muf mu ret words of regret for the news it contained, dismissed the nun who hud brought It to her, with instruct ions to have the hell of the convent tolled at onco. The aobess walked the limited con Bne of her apartment, with quick noiseless footsteps. Astho firbt mourn ful tones of the 111 vibrated around her. tdie loused before a narrow win dow, and her larte AmlalimUn even. which idxty year of life could not rob of all their beaut v. rested on the dln- tant towers of the ruin of the Allitim bra, with a lHk of deep melancholy The tolllnir N il awakened the echoec of the putt. It wa a mld-cummer eve of long h'o; and he wa walking with her lover, Iirenza Xlmeneo, and the music of t he Anpelua bell floated nround them. Oh that never-to-be forgotten night, when she had awakened from her dream of love, to find that he, nho lived for, wa soaring away from her and earthly pa sion, at) the great yellow moon rise away from the crcNt of the mountain she for an Instant m-c inn to carcim. They hnd wandered to tho ruined Alhambra, they and their gay com panion. Hceomlnp separated from thrm, the two had found themcelve In the Court of Lions. There, bolde the fountain che hud taxed him with cool injr love. Leaning against a ulcnrier column, which supiortril tho fairy fret work of the dome above him, ho had confessed hi wish to absolve himself from all earthly tic, and to take holy ordf rs. "Not but what I 'ove you well, Cara, mla, but the virgin needs votaries In numerable. She ba called me." lie led her, stunned and unresisting, to tho 'hall of justice." "Here my very reverend ancestor, the grand cardinal of Spain, placed yon cross when first the heathen were driven from tbee wall," he said. Kneeling before the broken altar, ho crossed himself and murmured a prayer. Rising, and "with the fire of aifibitlon Rlearalrg In hi eye, he hal poured forth hi hope of future glory, lobe at tained by constant labor and devotion in the cause of the church. "Over the water lies a land of prom ise; there duty calls me; and by the memory of my sainted ancestor, who chanted the Te Dcum In thl ancient hall, I swear I will obey tho call." Wble and silent, the girl had listen ed, whilo her once ardent lover pro nounced the doom of thoir love. The withered check of the abbess reddened and burned, as she remem bered her passionate appeal to him to remain true to lovo and her. "Together we will serve the holy church, and the virgin, and tho blessed saint will smile benignly on our united efforts," she hnd pleaded. Taking her by the hand, he had said, "No, Q.ierlda, It can never be. The virgin ar.d the church demand my un divided love, and" she flung his hand from her and hurled such a storm of reproach and angry invective at the young religeuse, that he stood before her pale and silent. Hot, Moorish blood mtdgled with the Andaluslan la her veins; pride had flown, and anger burned Itself out at last, and she flung her arms around him, and sobbed forth broken, impetu ous words of love. "You are mine, all mine. I will make this night one long vigil, and entreat tho virgin to give you up to me." The full moon was floating in the blue sky above them, floating the ruins, and bathing them In its Intoxicating light. Clinging arms, and the pressure of warm, crimson lips, and love asserting Itself in tho large, dark eyes, looking into his own, had aroused for the time, all the human passion of the man in him; and yielding to its overwhelming power, he had returned her warm caresses with more than equal fervor, and half resolved to renounce all his cherished schemes of gaining religious fame, and to devote himself, while life should last, to the glowing form of beauty he held In his arms. Suddenly, their merry comrades, gayly singing, burst In upon them. They never met again. Onco away from the seductions of her powerful beauty and her magnetic presence, re ligious zeal and ambitious hope resumed its sway. At eariy dawn he left his native city, shortly afterwards his na tive land; and, as 60on as It could be accomplished, took holy orders. In a fit of desperation, the girl en tered a convent, and, now, for many a year, had ruled with an iron will, where she had entered a rebellious and broken hearted girl. She had always been kept ii'i! rf her loier" Hfo In the new world, and bad noted hW lw but ala prit,'relr( t. to the goal of hi ambition; to 1' the first to wear the curdiiml'a cap in Anerica. He had toiled in loiu !v iniNtion, among utoHd Indian, in tuple climes, or endured the f(!d of the north, with q ml forti tude; and, Ut by tep, through In numerable vicissitude, ho had, with tho forbearance arid eternal vlglWnce of the Jeuit, eor-ijuered all olwUcle. And at last, an American fhlphorea cHrdinal' cap over the water, and an American gun-boat tt,amcd out Into the harlmr to meet It, and proudly car rlcd him tho crown which hi faiih'ul hearing of the rrtiM hud gained him. A fe chert years he hnd worn it.and then a higher (tower than I tome hade htm take it from his brow. The long drawn out ti lie of the hell had, by dt erees. aroused In the breast of the ablies tho sleeping furies of vain and passionate regret. The first, faint shadow of coming night were falling around the convent. The tone of the hell were growing faint; soon it would cease, and the Angelim would ring out Its we t, cen-ollng measure. Far be neath her, a man and woman were walking arm In arm, followed by a ser vant carrying a bucket, whilo scviral children were running and leaping lo fore them, their hut and garments decorated with wild flowers. It whs only a family party returning from a little pleasure excursion, but to the overstrained nerves of tho religious re cluse watching them, they seemed a mocking fiends. 'T, loo," she exclaimed, In low, tierce utterance, "might have known all the joy a of domestic life; and these empty arm have held babe to thl empty breast. Empty, though filled to repletion with churchly lore, if I had not wandered within reach of this insatiate wo call the holy church." All the woman's pent-up feelings were lulling and seething through her, till her slight frame shook like some machine throbbing under too high a pressure of steam. "Is my life over? Am I old and hid eous, youth gone forever? Is It not a wretched dream of a night, and not the result of the progress of monotonous years, that holds mo in a dreadful em brace? Shall I not wake tomorrow morn to find myself still young and beautiful, with all tho promises and probabilities of a glorious womanhood mine? Will not Lorenza's arms again crush mo in close embrace, and his warm kisses draw my very soul unto himself?" Her eye fell upon her brown, claw like hand, and a bitter laugh gurgled over the pale lips. "Ah, the present is tho horrible nightmare, which will oppress me till fe4 me time shall end; and tfjo past is the beautiful dream. Oh, Lorenza, I could almost send my curse through the realms of space to your spirit, for the ruin you wrought my earthly, and, perhaps, my eternal life." Her burn ing eyes rested at last on the imago of tho virgin, in her oratory. With a sudden revulsion of feeling, 6ho fell on her knees before it. "Oh, thrlco blessed lady, thou, who wert queen of heaven, forgive my wild words and blasphemous thoughts. Give a kindly welcome to my lover of long ago, who deserted me to servo thee. And, O, sainted mother, light the remnant of my lonely existence here on earth with thy gracious spiritual pres ence. And forgive, i beseech thee, Oh, holy virgin, my woman' weakness!" The soft peal of the Angelus was fill ing the air ns the abbess arose and de voutly crossed herself. "Afur all," sh j softly murmur, d, "perhaps 'tis better to. All things of earth perish. Uenuty and youth will faile, surrounded though t hey be by the fondest ties. And trouble and care walk side by side with love and hope and life itself." "Cede Deo." Through the dim corridors of tho silent conven', tho pale nun glided on her way to the chapel to join the nuns and novices in their evening prayer. Once, during tho service, she en countered tho gaze of a pair of appeal ing eyes fixed intently upon her. They belonged to a young girl who had been torn from the arms of her lover, an American and a Protestant, who had wandered to Spain and gathered the fair, foreign flower, but cruel hands and subtle minds had protested. The girl hud been placed in the convent with In structions that the term of her novi tiate should bo made as short as pos sible. Her lovely, sad eves dtooptd be fore the cold regard of the lady su perior. "A most reluctant bride-elect of Christ," mentally soliloquized the abbess. The sonorous, indolent tones of the priest at the alt ar, as ho prayed for the repose of the soul af the dead cardinal, aroused again sad memories in the mind of the abbess, but her pale face gave no sign. Late that night, the ab bess visited the unhappy novice. What passed between them none but God knew. The night after, the girl mys teriously escaped from the convent and fled the country with her lover. Meekly, the pale abbess bore the severe reprimand which sho received from her superiors for her gross neg lect of duty in allowing the relaxation of eternal vigilance, which should guard every avenue of escape from a convent. She argued with her some what uneasy conscience, "that It were i-ttcr to rUk torm and fc!p wreck out on the great eean of life than to re- iijh!ii forever ar.ebored in dead, in land w a." t IIAPTI.lt II. TIIK 11.Y J I. Sit" IT. In a private apart mi nt of the Vatican were a-t-ieh!. d the ope and ix car dinal. They were dl -cussing the death of I ho cHptain of the t'alh die uhip in America. "There muet be no unnecessary delay in tilling the vacancy,"' saiJ Cardinal llftiiin.i. "O.ir bright e'n-tc!Iatinn. whith shed its ever Iiicna-iiig I ght over llie new world, must not le with out a centra) siar for l'tig." The kih. pale and care iri , was re clining In an it-y cha'r. his head rest ing on a velvet p'.l! tw. He slowly ra sid his eyes, an ! fixed lh in, with a glance full of meaning, on tho hand some, aristocratic countenance of the volup'uous prince of the church before him, who wa niechanica'ly turning a ring of dull gold, containing a hlond red ruby, round and round the third finger of his left hand, with the thumb and first finger of the right hand, ar.d slid, in a voice whi h a'e and ment.il care rendered weak mid tremulous: "The brighter Its light, the paler grow the, great system hire from which it sprung. " Cardinal Planl, a tall, severe look ing priest, with a form spare to attenu ation, a vivid entrust to the comfort able Cardinal ltetilino, fixed his pierc ing bliiclt eyes on the pope, and said: "The time draws nigh when the cen tral star of the whole grand system must change Us Misition." Swift, significant glances flashed from cyo to eye. Those of the tou rested an Instant on the pale, ea'or face of the speaker, and a smile so taint and transient, that an ordinary person would have been in doubt as to his hav ing smiled at all, passed over hi lips. Faint, though the smile, and of light ning-like swiftness tiie glunce, tho wily Jesuit knew that tho pope divined the ambitious schemes ho had been carry ing in his breast so many weary years. Hut he gave no sign. Secure in the personal friendship of the pope, and laboring constantly for tho good of the church, he hud no fear of opposition from his hollne-s. From his brother cardinals there jlght be much to fear. Rivalry as to place is ever to he found among the laborers of tho vineyard of the Lord. ; TL'fl Romish priest early learns to ''iabor nd wait," but the waiting is not idling!; True to , the cloth, Cardinal Pizani had labored and watched and waited. For centuries tho Pizani family had furnished (pricsta and supporters of tho faith, bui their footsteps had always, stopiied jt t the foot U tbvp.. throne, or had stood behind It and silently swayed tho wand of power. PIzani'g education, from early child hood, had been unde r the guidance of a Jesuit priest, and he had sucked the blood of churchly lore, upon which ho had been fed, with the avidity of a leerh. Very early In life he had taken holy orders, and had retired at onco to snowy, lonely St. Bernard. In the olated Hospice, ho had given six years of his life to work in its frozen, snow-bound region, thinking ever of tho future. And tho beacon light, which glittered afar off in that future for him, shono before him, even when he strapped a blanket and fl: sk of brandy on some great St. Bernard dog and sent him through the ice and snow to carry life and hope to some bewild ered traveler. Or, as so often happened, a great shaggy creature came bearing to the solitary building, whose door opened quickly on its hinges of everlasting charity, somo poor wanderer who had yielded to tho icy elements and had sunk exhausted on the soft, white, cruel bed of snow and allowed his spirit to escape and wander evermore in icy caverns and dance to the wild music of tho winds on s-uowy mountain-tops. The young priest would caress and care for his sagacious fellow-workers, and bear aay the frozen thing and place It with hundreds of other ghostly relics of humanity, in the rocky morgue, behind the Hospice. The cold charnal had no terrors for him, for over the frczen things, somo of them mere frag ments of what once had been living, breathing men and women, who waited (not in vain) for the last trumpet to arouse them, and to be thawed to eter nal bliss by the warm, perfumed zeph yrs, or to endless horror, by the eternal fires of hell, shone the beacon-light which lured him on his way. In leisure hours, and far into the night, he had pored over the history of the church. Her past, present and fu ture were to his: what love and beauty and ail the wine of life, were to other men. He had served the church faith fully and with gratifying results, through the rank and file, from priest to archbishop; and now for several years he had been a cardinal and one of the six suffragan bishops in close and intimate attendance on tho pontiff. The long August afternoon was draw ing to a close, and still the pope and his tried and trusted sat discussing church secrets, and planning the work which was to bo given to the hands of humble architects for completion. A knock sounded at a remote en trance to the room, and a slender, whiUs hand lifted the fold of a por'ierc ard a neere'iiry, followed by a servant arrving a leiher bag containing the papal tu!l. enU-ied the room. F.very paer or letter hearing an American ostmark wa taken from the mas of mall matt'-r, and the secretary and ervant withdrew. The poin' touched a bell, a'd motion- d to the lamp wh n a servant entered. The lamp lit and the daylight ex eluded. th iiopo and hi brill'ant satellite drew c!i together around the table, on which lav the communica tion from a foreign and coveted bind, and the business of the night began. Tomorrow the sacred eoPege would mi-ct and tonight the power bieh would control it must fortify l'self. The pom broke the seal of a large, thick envelope, and drew forth a letter of many pages, closely written In the Lit! n tongue. It wa one of the large cities of the United State of America. and It suhjeet mutter was the result of a municipal election recently hold In that city. A the pope read in clear, f.ire'blo tones, twelve glittering eyes fixed their sternly gaze upon the letter be held in bis hand, which were trem bling slightly with surpressed nervous excitement. At Its conclusion, Car dinal B-till" o muttered a low but dis tinct, malediction. The pope's firmly compressed lips parted at last to say bitterly, 'Behold the result of giving woman too much liberty." "Pardon me, your holiness." said Betilino, in his soft, subtle tones; "let us reflect a little. This same lib erty of speech and a right to vote, may be to our advantage in time to come. In this Instance the Protestant women outnumbered tho Catholics; hence, tho resultforus was disastrous. Controlled by the armof thechurch. your holiness must know that women have carried us safely over many dark and dangerous roads." "The charming Will O' the Wisp have guided thousands to dark and dangerous roads, also to everlasting de struction," said Cardinal Pizani. "Nevertheless," reported Botilino, "I s'ill maintain that we should belike ships with officers, but no sailors, with out them." Ambiguous smiles passed over the lips of all except the pope and Pizani. The indulgent smiles and the stern ex pression on the pale face of the pope brought a red wave of color to the handsome, sensuous face of Betilino, and ho was about to administer a bitter pill of words, swathed In tho rich sweet ness of his sonorous voice, to his cleri cal friends, when the pope said: "Pizani, will you read fiat clause re lating to the election of the school boHrd ega'n?" Pizani had been reading the 'et cr to himself during the Uttle'bjplRy which his reply to Cardinal Betllino's defense of women had invoked, and was ohlivl ous to what was passing around liim. ne read the Important clause according to th,e request of the pope, and his ibi lant tones fell on the ear like a his of a serpent. Indeed, his long, sinurtus neck, swathed in black, his small head, so destitute of all animal brain that r soemed abnormally long, surmounted by his priestly cap; hisgllttering black eyes, together with a nervous habit he had acquired of passing the scarlet tip of his tongue swiftly over his upper 11 o, might, as the final hiss of his last words cut the air, have made an imaginative person think of a hooded cobra ready to spring. Tho holy father was the first to break the silence which followed the reading. "The victory belongs to the heretics, certainly, in this momentous question of public schools in that, particular city for the present time," ho said, ''but right and might must conquer in the end. For some time, to come wo shall take no active part in the municipal government of one of the most import ciIes in the United States. The worst, feature of this defeat in our exclusion from tho school board, and tho conse quent casting aside of our carefully se lected text books. We are defeated for a time certainly, but we are notcrushed." 'And is there no means, fair or foul," said Pizani, "by which we can secure or silence that reprehensible priest, Mac Neal? Or must we impotently watch him tear great holes In our fab ric by upholding the godless public schools, which furnish the mental food upon which future rulers of the great republic from generation to generation are nourished? He is a towering vol cano In our path belching forth hereti eal lava and sulphurous fumes of insub ordination." The thin, white hands ot the priest were opening and closing nervously, and his eyes glowed from the reflection of the fire in his brain Cardinal Betilino laid a quiet, elegantly formed hand, on which the ruby quivered in the lamp light like a drouof blood, on the arm of the zealous priest, who was vibrating from head to foot with the working of the intense nervous force within him, and said in dulcet tones: "My dear friend, excuse my thrust ing before you, the thread-bare proverb, but out of yonder laboring mountain may simply escape a tiny mouse, and some patient, Roman cat, crouching quietly among the crowd, will catch and destroy it before its little teeth can fasten In the meshes of our closely woven web." "But even a Roman cat," said Piz ani, "may over or under-leap iu dis tance, and the d-.uum! pregnant with se ditious doctrine-, s.-atter it gnawing offspring far and wide." "I have commanded and entreated in vain," said the pontiff, "and I also have held forth to him every Inducement my power could grant him to make him re tract; but he boldly denies the infalli bility of the pope, and asserts that bishop and priests shoulJ be free and independent of papal authority; and while be claim that he believes In the dogma and teachings of holy Roman Catholic church, be upholds the god less public school ysiem of the United State, which is to us as a winter fro?t to vegetation." The pale countenance of the pope, long schooled to suppress all signs of emo.ion, was dark and st with impo tent wrath against this Pranken&ticn thev had made. Ob, that we could again command the soul-subduing anj all persuading truths of the Inquisition, ' said cardinal Pizani, who was pacing restlessly to and fro. 'Jesus forbid," said Verona, "at this day and ago subtlety and ceaseless watchfulness must accomplish what force did in the old days." We have not the Ir.qulsiti m at our command, but once in Home, I think we could find a chamber in St. Angelo where he wo j id remain a gueat in Rome lode finitely," said Betilino in his vel vet voice. "This traitor cannot be brought to Rome," said the pope, "but why need we fear him? Excommunicated, and no longer a priest of Rome, and protected by the civil law, he can only lie reached by obscure means. Remember, Rome never lacks means. Shame to the chil dren of men when they acknowledged a civil law to be higher than the ec clesiastical; and when It speaks all civil authority should be set aside. Tomor row the question of filling tho vacancy caused by tho death of the American Cardinal Ximenes will be brought be fore tho sacred college. I shall appoint you, Pizani, to that all important post. You must hasten to that distant land of promise, gather together the scattered jewels of our faith, and set them in a golden diadem, with which to crown tho head of tho church when sho shall bo firmly seated on tho throne in the new world. There may be disappointed aspirants among our American bishops. I have in mind a certain archbishop of Irish extraction born in America, who has a right to expect this position of trust and honor; one who trod the burn ing sands of Africa, in supremo de votion to our true and holy religion. And at a later period, when death stalked through New Orleans in poison ous yellow robes, this self-sacrificing christian buckled on the armor of the italtif itbd ministered to the sufferings of stricken humanity, regardless of creeds. "On his last visit to the Vatican, I led him to think that his devotion, an inestimable service which he has ren dered tho church, would at no distant day be rewarded with the scarlet cap; but let it pass. You, Cardinal Pi::ani, are the man to distil that subtle cs- Isenco which must be wafted throughout he United States " Tbe other cardinals signified that they were of one mind with the holy father. A man with a weaker mind and knoro vanity than Cardinal Pizani would have indulged in flimsy protests and male a pretense of urging the pope to reward the life long service of the Irish arch'iishop. Not so this ascetic prince of Lie church. The long sinu ous neck benia little forward; the glit tering black tves flashed around, ihe circle of priestlj faces; and the aicarlet tip of his tongue d&f,-rapid y over his thin upper hp, Wvsimply: "With the help ., , :ssed lady 1 tnl I ,,1111,1 and the saints, yc,virUl0 aever regret the faith and trust'osur,,.ave reposed in me." And his thin, nervous hand rapidly made the sign of the cross, while the responsive "amens" still lingered on the air; the pope signified that the night session was at an end. Left alone, the holy father drew aside the heavy draperies from a win dow, which opened on a balcony, and stepped sloly and wearily out, and looked down on the sleeping city. Some boats were moving slowly down the Tiber. The darkest shadows of depart ing night seemed to be grouped to gether over the grim towers of the castle of St. Angelo. A bell rang out the third hour after midnight and his holiness re entered the room and the servant attended him to his sleeping apartment and gave the bowl of hot bullion, the only stimulant in which his holiness indulged. Soon after, sil ence and sleep reigned over the Vati can; even the watchmen allowed their vigilance to relax with tho coming dawn, and yielded to slumbers. Dark, though obscure threats of personal violence to the pope had penetrated the palace of the Vatican, and trusted sen tinels were placed at various places to watch thro igh the dark hours of the night. Serious difficulties between the church and state made these precau tions no idle form. (To bo Continued.) "IN THE CLUTCH OF ROME," Is published In book form, pupercover, and can be had by sendinit i" cents in cash to the Amkkican 1'iBi.isiiiNU Company. It you desire to assist the cause suf scribe for The American. iftiinr-.T - mrnni ti, ttotvlrW th. n'ir-Wr, for earf rplr M4kH, a J if ur.y v t I , . MII4 fui4 !-. 1 if Ktitc t rlMfVi. a..-! l(iU ! . "t b ,-'!- I - iftUwlixN mu lpljtr luMkl) mr g r ltn-m frr m !'' ' " ')( t--. e.,.,.,i .-,,s1I.'.'. lH Ml i,.4,t- U Mto i4i'(iM tln V t-r i t fmfmUr Italy .tr.MJ 4 wfcrt;-r r . vtot Ui ',. fr. i t, i-rt f-r h;tat-c " PuU. ttl't LAR MONTHLY, 1 W alr Su, lkU,lUft, fJtFREE HEAT! " I Tk I .amp iht 1. 1, hi. y.ur IttMM FjL I ? WUI IIKAT ll il you u v FALLS HEATER. ft I iwohm. In wi.ww.ful uwiu N. t r.il. t st.vsi in mehiirQ-slz'4 Msflll llu.il! V.. 1- . .--I-, I " Mr.K H. M of n f.r- UWsVTM h.VTKK fit IsiK M Mi.TO. IT 31 UU m,., n(0, B. , Articles of Incorporation. We. tns. tiittie s lire sulKcrilH to these Artielfs of 1 iienri iiutliri, il.i I ,, r.-1 . y as snehoe our.-e. v-s fertile purpose of forming ImmIv corporate under Hie luwsof the stat of elira kit. ARTICLE 1. Ttie nan e of this I'orpot a' ion slutll lie -The Nt-tr;tsk!t ('reinuti.iti and Tiusl I'uii p tny 'of Omaha. Nelirusku. AHTCt.E II. The riniii:tl pi a- "-of l'iii:ii'-s of s-a!d Cor rorat ion shall I ut n al a. Houidus County, Sebra Kit. AKTICL.fi 111 Ti e iiener il nature of the business to be traosaetetl shall be lo .olvorale the substitu tion of iiH'iiierutlini fur the present system ufeaMIt burial: to purehae. lease, acquire ordl-pose of siieh real or iersonal property as may be deei ed neeessat v or pro,er for the ireiier; 1 business.; to build a Crematory Ten pie and Colon ouri-in when the funds on hand of the Company permit. AM'it'LK IV To aet as the K.xtculor. Trustee or Admin istrator of the estates of deceased litem liers of tliis Con pauy. mid others, mo as to insure Hint tiie last wishes of Testators iu reference to the disposal of their Indies be carried out strictly both In letter and spirit, and truard at-'ainst any Interference in this particular on the part ot friends aud relatives. ARTICLE V. The an mint of capital stock authorized is fixed at t went y-flve thousand dollars if i.0t. The Company shall eon uence business when one or more shares are subscribed. Each share of the stock shall be live dollars iS-VOO). The number of shares shall consist of five thousand ARTICLE VI. The Corporation shall commence business as soon as the Articles are tiled with the County Clerk of I'mit'las county, Nebraska, and shall continue for a period of twenty five (-i years unless sooner terminated by the consent, of the holders of two-tliirdsfS) of the subset ila d shares of stock. ARTICLE VII. The affairs of the Cc rporatlon are to be conducted by the following ollicers. to-wlt : A Hoard of Ilirectors consisting of seven (7), who shall elect from their own nun her at their lirst regular meeting in each year, a President. Vice-President, a secretary and a treasurer. The Ilirectors are tobeelected at I lie annual u eetliiK of the Corporation on the second .Monday of January; tiie place a id hour to be determined by tiie Secretary, who shall notify each Stockholder, and hold over until their successors are elected and have qualified. I'ntil the first annual meet ing shall take place on the second Monday of January, ls'.!.". the following are and shall be Ilirectors: Henry Khreiipfort. Herman Keln bold. John I). Veiser. Walter Hreen. M. K. Atkln on. James i. Donnelly, Herman II. Ver Mehren; and the following shall con stitute the officers: Walter Hreen. President; John O. Veiser. Vice-President; Herman KelnlHild, Secretary j Henry Elirenpfort, Treasurer. ARTICLE VIII. Conveyaticesof real est te held by the Cor poration shall be n ade pursuant to resolu tions of the Stockholders by a meeting called for that purpose. In the name of the body corporate, and shall be signed by the Presi dent and atiesieil to bv the Secretary. Also t4cleiues drawn uuou funds deposited to credit, i f the Company in Bank slutll be signed by the I'residentaud countersigned by the Treasurer ARTICLE IX. The highest, amount of Indebtedness to which theCorporatlim is at any tin e tosuli ,)oet itself is placed at a sum equal to one fourth i 4 of t he paid up capital stock. The private property of the stockholders and members shall he cxen nt from the corporate debts. ARTICLE X. By-Laws, not Inconsistent with these Ar ticles. li a 1 1 lie drawn up and adopted by the Board of Directors; the same may there after he changed, an ended or repealed at any regular meeting of said Board of Direc tors, on a vote of not less than tiveiTu Direc tors in the atlirmatlve, Likewise these Ar ticles tnay be amended, added to or repealed, at any regular or special meeting, on a vote at which at least a majority of thestock sub scribed shall be voted in the alliruialive of the proposition submitted. In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names tliis alst day of Dcceu. ber. isiit. SEAL. Wai.tku Rkkkn. JotiS O. YtUSKK. y IlKUMAN KKIltllOI.il. 1 ls-4 Hp.NKY EllHENVFOItT Special Master ('uiiiinissiiiiier's Safr. Cnder and by virtue of an order of sale on decree of foreclosure of mortgage issued out of the district court for Douglas county. Ne braska, and lo me directed. I will, on the I-tn day of February A. D. Itl.". at t o'clock v M. of said day. at i lie east front door of the C unity court house, in the city of Omaha, Douglas county. Nrbruskii. sell at public' auction to the highest bidder for cash, the properly described in said order of sale as follows, to-wit : Lot. fourteen (14i in block seventy-live (7:"i) of Dundee Place, an addition to the city of Omaha. Doug'as county. Nebraska. Said properly to be sold to satisfy E. A. Stevens, plaintiff herein, the sum of five hundred fifty-three and. 1) dollats i.u:i KTi) Judgment, with interest, thereon at tiie rate of seven (71 per cent per acnum from Septem ber 17th. ls'.'t. To satisfy The American National Hank of Omaha. Nebraska, defendant herein, the sum of four thousand font -hundred forty -five and ',; lib dollars .4 447i.Mii judgment, with Inter est .thereon at the rate of eight iHi per cent, per annum from September 17th. MM. To satisfy I'avton ,t Vlerling Iron Works, defendant herein, the sum of thirty three and Wi-lno dollars iScunn judgment, witli In terest thereon at t lie rule of seven (7) percent per minim from November itrtl, IHUJ. To satisfy the sum of thirty and 48-llKi dol lars i:iiL4,si cosi.s herein together iih accru ing costs according toa judgment rendered bv tiie district court of said Douglas county, at its September term, A. D. lS'.U. in a certain action I hen and there pending, wherein E. A. Stevens was plaint i IT, and The Patrick Land Company. Hohert. W. Patrick. Vermont, In vestment Company of Minneapolis. .Minne sota. Dundee Brick Company, .lorn D. Mont gomery, American National Bank of Omaha, Nebraska. Oeorire A. lloaglaud. I'axton & Vierllng Iron Works and Susan K. Wheat were defendants. Omaha, Nebraska. January 11th. PiOS I.EOIiliK W. Hot, BROOK. Special Master Commissioner. Saunders. Macfarlatid & Dickey, attornevs Hoc. 44; No. i:i4. i-u 5 3 ' "Convent Life Unveiled.' 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