8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt MONDAY , NOVEMBER 18 , 1803.
MANUAL VALUE OF CHEEK
t 3omtapdlty Worth More than Its Weight
in Golden Eagles.
FCUR SPECIMENS OF RECENT MINTAGE
/
Kebmnhn , Mlunciotnlncoiinlii ninl Now
York Fiirnmh ItlvnU for the llelt
Cured * uf Mrmirii. Mo hcr , Men *
tigr , Vteckmiml l.npppn.
Prosperity hides a multitude of financial
plungers. Hard times lands them in the mire
of bankruptcy. The buoyancy of the former
keeps nlloat countless craft which rush
hither and thither , throwing the wash t > f
speed on the slow-going and cautious. From
port to jiort they dash , overwhelming the
staid craftsmen with audacious gutlhero-
ntlvcness and a Monte Crlsto expression.
They invndo iho various branches of com
mercial life , but arc chlelly conspicuous in
financial operations , and while skimming
thocroslof good times are regarded by the
uninitiated ns marvels of modern business
enterprise. For a time the brilliancy of
their business ventures veils their real con
dition. Hut the moment business depres
sion stalks through the land they run for
shelter. The blighting breath of hard tlines
reveals their shallowncss. removes the mask
of pretense and reveals them as udventurers
banking on check.
Nebraska's "Only" Moshcr Is a fair speci
men of the financial rlfraff vitalized by pros
perity. In tlio boom days of Lincoln ho was
a boomer from Hoomcrvlllc. Ho dabbled in
every scheme promising a return. Between
affairs of stain and financial deals ho man
aged lo push himself lo a front seal , and no
enterprise was deemed a go without Charley
Monitor's influence and push , While bound
ing before tlio gale he look precious care lo
cast his lines and ball his hook for suckers ,
Ho could pay n higher Interest rate for
money than his financial competitors , and
this"1corralcd iho swag. " The stale
treasury was open to him and
the surplus thereof was hh private
snap. tin wns a Napoleon , enjoying
tlio acclaims after Marcngo. I3ut Austcr-
lltz came not. Instead came Waterloo. The
first frost of depression and doubt pricked
the bubble , and landed the plunger in jail-
not at first as a criminal , but ns a hunted
wretch Hying from the wrath of his victims.
There was no discrimination In Mosher's
swindling operations. Personal and family
friends , rich and poor , were made to stand
and deliver , and the taxpayers of the state
were plucked to the tuna of over f'.lO.OOO.
Tlio desperado holding up a train and calling
for iho boodle In ihc strong box ; the high
wayman demanding your money in a lone
some locality , meanwhile cinphasl/.lng his
rojucst with a gun thcso arc fairly respec
table compared with the methods Moshcr
employed in plucking patrons and the nubile.
Wci'lis Was n Sxvcll swindler.
But Moshcr Is by no means a lone plunder
consigned lo stripes and prison fare. A few
days ago the courts of New York consigned
Francis II. Weeks to prison for a period of
ten years. Ho was short a trifle of ? 1.114,930
In his accounts as assignee. Up to the time
of his assignment and flight he vtas reputed
a millionaire. Ho was a notable flguro in
New York's social life and in affairs. He
owned a yacht and belonged to the Metro
politan , the Century , the City , the Union ,
the University , tlio St. Anthony's , the Dem
ocratic and iho Player's clubs and was a
prominent members of tlio bar association.
I Thrown thus into contact with tlio wealthy
and influential men of the metropolis , many
of them became his clients. His honorable
I ancestry , his courtly address , unblemished
reputation , and the accepted accounts of his
wealth throw open to him Iho doors of New
York's swell sociely. Therein homel wonicn ,
widows and spinsters possessed of money or
properly , who solicited'this combincd lawyer
and business man of wealth to'take off their
hands the care of their moneys and proper
ties. So great was the pressure upon him
from this class that some had to bo refused ,
which fact being reported to those whoso
offers had been accepted made the latter
more grateful and trustful toward him.
Among the women whom Weeks so be
friended and defrauded was a niece of
his own , whom ho mulcted out of WO.OOO and
two sisters of his wife , wno , each , are out
JU8.070. Is Ino oilier women wern victimized
in sums raiiKitif : upward. from $18,000 to $85-
000. and amounting , till told , to f-120.000 ,
while several lost smaller amounts. In nd-
ditiou , there uro three sisters , Misses Betty ,
Fannie and Alary U.ivics , who , upon obtuin-
incr their majority , some ten .rears ago. exe
cuted to Weeks trust deeds for city real cs
tate , for which bo received M.'iO.OOO , all of
which ho has robbed them of. The funds of
different estates entrusted to him and prun-
tlcnlly wined out by bis frauds aggregate
, i
The women whoso trust he had betrayed
were , almost without exception , in New
York's aristocratic society circle. That they
I had oeenduued by ono whom they had en
tertained and been entertained by , that ho
had successfully used his social prestige for
fleecing them financially , covered them with
humiliation , and many of them would have
suffered their losses in silence rather ihun
expose their incredulity through legal ac
tions for recovery.
How HB Workril.
Weeks' methods of robborv wore success
ful for n long tlmo solely throui-h the itnl
pllcit confidence reposed in him by clients
who entrusted money to him for investment
Ills cue was to lend a given sum of money'
suy $15,000 , unu have the mortgage socurinK
the loan made out to him , nnu this mortgage
ho would then exhibit to each of his clients
whose money ho had received for Investment
By this trick a single mortgage for * 1D,000
was made to satisfy the contldenco of a half
dozen clients , whoso aggregate funds en
I trusted to him amounted to $73.000. Ho was
careful to pay Interest to inch of these
clients at the proper time , which was to tlio
latter a seeming assurance that his , or her ,
money was properly Invested. The 'invcsti'
gallon of the assignee shows that Weeks had
been pursuing this method of swindling for
.years , during which tlmo ho was using for
his own account in sundry speculations the
money of unsuspecting clients , It was the
money entrusted to him to loan on cily
realty mortgages Unit ho used tea years
ago when ho first entered upon his schemes
for hind improvement in Wisconsin , and
more money ot the sumo kind was used re
cently to keep ulloat the Jund and Improve-
nicat company of West Superior , and the
\\est Superior Iron and Steel com
pany , both of which ho practically
controlled. U was a nulet in-
vcstigatlon of Weeks' management of
tlul llrst named of these companies , set
nlloat in April by other stockholders , that
uncovered the rottenness of its financial
condition. At the lirst news of this investi
gation ho began making extraordinary
efforts to raise money. Ho succeeded In get
ting enough together to render Ufa easy for
some tlmo for hlmsolf and wife in another
clime , and when the fact of Ida assignment
wns made public bo ami she were far troin
the scenes and victims of his frauds , a fu-l-
live from Justice. Weeks was arrested "in
Costa Itlcn , brought buck to Now .York and
coiivicicq ,
duo or .MllmiuUco' * riuneen.
Another of the brilliant swindlers brought
to book by hard times Is Frank Lapiwii of
Milwaukee. Vivo years ago Luppo'i landed
in the city of Irowerics , with a ploash.i ;
Belf-lntrocUicioii that ho wns a business
iiiati from Boston with tT5,000 in ills inside
i popkot , . U lie did not iwvu that
fortune In cash ( and nobody believes now
that ho had 575) ) ho hail several
times the amount in noryo , as f500OOU la
Judgments lately entered iigulusi him demon-
strata. Ills IHTVO was equal to tnckling iho
strongem Hnandcrs In the town , and li was
not many dayb before lie hud used it to suc
cessfully on John PJuukiugton , the big nork
packer , that ho had rented from hituiovnaal
line stores on a block on Grand avenue and
negotiated from the Planking .on bank a
loan of 175,000 , with which ho opened n gen
eral furnishing business , which later In
cluded dry goods , and drove it with a vim
that fairly dnzzlcd the rather phlegmatic
German populace. Ho made money so fast
co everybody thought that ho and his
monev making were soon the talk of the
town. J Jiter , ono stand was not enough to
satisfy thu energies and ambition of the
dashing Lapp u. so ho bought out a big .fur-
ulturo establishment , borrowing from a
banker $14,000 to enable him to make the
purchase. Then ho formed a stocucoai-
p.iny for enlarging thnt business , and half a
ao7.cn of Milwaukee's leading capitalists
each put in from $10,000 to foO.OOO.
It wns the proper caper for .Milwaukee's
merchant princes to llvo In a palace , so ho
provided himself with ono. the prnndeur of
the equipment of which was on every one's
lips. The portieres co t $1,200 each , and the
rest of the furnishing was in keeping with
what his plainer neighbors called his door
curtains. Ho bought , also , a country scat , a
big farm out In the state , nt Oconomowoc ,
rind cngnacd In the expensive luxury of
nreeding blooded horses. Ho dressed well
and made an linuosltig anpearance. Ho huu
an air of supreme confidence in himself ,
such ns only a supremely success
ful and solidly wealthy man could
have. 1'hcro Is much In the adugo
that the world talics a man at his
own estimate of himself ; certainly the Mil-
uiMinhnn vvnrlil tnAlr T.nnnnti lit. liift URSUIllCd
estimate ol himself and lot him hax-o for a
time about everything ho asked for. The
I'lanktngton bank alone let him have SiUO-
( HXitml ) Hobiirt Hill , vice president of the
Wisconsin National bank , lot him have
11.OM. One day Mr. H'll ' got tired of wait
ing for the payment of his loan and caused a
levy to be made on each of the 1-appcn
stores. This caused others lo become sim
ilarly tired very quickly , and within a week
the levies against Uipi'cn's properties aggre
gated S-l-U.uOO. ,
An Investigation , which nobody bad
thought of making earlleivshowcd that Lap-
pen had borrowed monc.V from about ovcry
percon ho had mot in Milwaukee and the
country surroundini ; who had any money to
lend. Nine women had loaned him from f2. > 0
to fJ , : > 00 each. From a girl clerk In one of
bis stores ho bad borrowed 400 ; from the
girl's ' widowed stepmother § 10,000 and from
thu cirl's brother WJO. His night watch
man loaned to happen all his savings of
fJ.100 , and llvo other meti'havo his notes for
loans In amounts ranging from $15,000 to
WO.OOO. A rustle having sold his farm near
iho city for $30,000 , , Lappen heard of It , engaged -
gaged htm IIM superintendent of ills Ocono
mowoc farm on a salary of Sft.OOO a year ana
then borrowed from him § 20,000. The Inves
tigation of what I.apucn's life lias been
while borrowing all this money shows ihut
ho had been a rake and a reckless gambler ,
almost always losing , anu sometimes as much
as $1,000 a night.
King of tinGroup. .
A more clean-cut scamp than either
Moslicr , Wcclcs or happen is Louis F.
Menage of Minneapolis , Iho projector ,
founder , manager and wrecker of the
"Northwestern Guaranty Loan company. "
In n foiir-hnmled game of swindling ho would
stack the cards on the other three and win
nil they possessed. The mental resources of
this man for scheming were phenomenal.
Within llvo years he organized no less than
thirty-live corporations , with an aggregate
capital stock of uo less timn $15,000,000. Yet
ho was without the Imposing bearing of
cither of the others. Ho was of diminutive
stature-only llvo feet five inches tall , and
weighed but 1'JO pounds. Ho dressed plainly ,
lived economically , and attended church re
ligiously. He was born in Provi
dence , U. I. , schooled In Now Bed
ford , Mass. . and has now only turned his
14th year. Uoinoving to Minneapolis
in 1871 , ho taught n class In shorthand in a
commercial college for awhile. Later bo
opened n real estate oftlco tail is acknowl ;
edged the original real estate boomer of that
much-boomed city. For years ho made
money and and was reputed ton years ago a
millionaire three times over above all liablii ;
tics. In 18S4 the titles to lunds ho bad pur
chased being voided bytlic courts bo turned
over tlio legal owner of the lands $1,000-
000 in cash and mortgages without , seem
ingly , struinlmr his bank account.
The Northwestern Guaranty Loan com
pany was , from the time of its incorporation ,
m 18S1 , managed by Louis F. Menage up lethe
the date of his ( light in May last. It was a
money-making enterprise from the start
and won the confidence of the money centers
as few financial institutions have over suc
ceeded in doing. Up to about two
years ago" this confidence was , ap
parently , well deserved. On the 1st
of .last January it declared a semi-annual
dividend of 4 ucr cent , and at that
time it novcr had missed a dividend anil
never had a piece of its paper discredited.
Some of the longest beaded and longest
pursed capitalists hi Minneapolis , Now York ,
Uoston and other cities were stockholders
hi the company and holders of Its securities
for largo amounts. But a little over two
years ago Meuago seems to have become
possessed of n demon for speculation. In
Montana and Washington , on the Pacific
coast , in Chicago and in Galvcstou , Tox. , ho
made enormous outlays In efforts to boom
land properties he had purchased. It was
to cet money to Heat thcso schemes that ho
involved the Northwestern Guaranty Loan
company so disastrously.
The endorsement by this company of com
mercial paper made it acceptable to money
lenders throughout the east. It was by re
sorting to tno puttinu out of spurious paper ,
endorsed by , him officially , that Menage per
petrated frauds aggregating $2)00,000. ! ) Few
of the makers of tbo notes have actual ex
istence so far as the receiver can learn. Outer
or sixty notes sent to one Minneapolis firm of
lawyers for collection the makers of only
four of ihom could bo found , and of these
four one man is a porter in a store , another
is a barber , one a mechanic on small wages ,
ami Iho fourth a man out of work. Yet
ctch ! of these notes has a memorandum ac
companying ' 'Guarantor Northwestern
Guaranty Loan company , " of which the fol
lowing am specimens :
'Maker is known to this company as a
careful and Industrious man of some means. "
"Maker Is in good shape financially to take
care of his business interests and protect
his paper. "
Tlio Madison ( family hotel ) , 21st and
Chicago. Transients , -62.00 per day.
DEATH OF TOM RTJANE.
\Vull KIIUWII I'lio J'JKlitor Succumbs to nu
Attarlc of I'nmimonlii.
Tom Unane , plucman of hose company No.
1) ) and one of tlio best known llrcmen In this
city , aicd at St. Joseph's hospital yesterday
afternoon. Ho had not been well for sove'ral
days , but did not leave his post at the engine
house until Saturday , when ho was taken to
Iho hospital , His case developed into acute
pneumonia , and ho died after an illness of
scarcely twenty-four hours ,
Plpcman Kuano WUH appointed to his posi
tion on tbo lira department In September ,
IslXI , and was ono of iho men who wenl down
with Iho wall of Iho Fnrnam Street theater ,
Ho miraculously escaped Injury at the lime
only to die a natural death. He wa's deputy
jailor at the county jail during Iho Incum
bency of Sheriff Hoyti and was fora time con
nected with the city police force. Ho was a
slnglo man. and his remains will no taken to
Frceport , 111. , for burial this afternoon ,
TO UAUI'DKNIA.
VI Denver mid Suit I.iiltc Oltj- ,
Patrons of the Great Central routu
weekly o.xiMirBiona to California via tlio
Union Pacific can liavo their tiokotu read
via Denver and Salt. Ltiko City without
additional expense. Send for folder
tr.'vlng details and advantages otTortid.
F. K. Shearer , manager , 1U1 South Clark
street , Chicago. E , L. Lomax , general
passenger and ticket agent , Omaha ,
Neb.
A A A U11A C'/.MJ i\TM.
There Is a anlco of natural outlawry In all
humankind. In thu small boy it manifests
itself in plans to run away and bo a pirate ;
in budding young women it breaks out in a
yc.irnlnu to go camping in the mountains
and pillage neighboring corniiolds and
poultry yards , and in grown men it some
times takes the form of a burning desire lo
thrush a policeman late at nlghl. Perhaps
it Is because In "Kohln Hood" outlawry is
made picturesque , poetic and llkoabln that
that opera enjoys so great a popularity.
Anyway , it .appeals to thontor-gocrs of nil
classes moro uowerf tilly than any oilier work
of its kind , IJclCoven & Smith's opera will
bo given at Boyd's theater nu Thursday and
.Saturday noxl by Karl , Barnabco & Mac-
Donald's Hobln Hood Opera company. On
Friday evening "The Knickerbocker , " an
other production of DcKoven & Smith's ,
ill bo the bill.
Jin ; n ,
< > / fre lln ( urtm uniler Hits heaJ , Ji/tu
ttiitttiicluiMltlutial line , ten c < nti.
WUANK-l'atrlck.aKO 28 ycarsTat St. Joseph
hospital. Itenmlns will ho ahlpued from
iloufuy & Ifeafey'g uudoitnklnx rooms to
1'roeporl , III. , Monday , November li ! , at 4
n. in. , to Union depot.
Mr. Huftua was a member ol hose company
No.O.
Y.1I.C WEEK INAUGURATED
. . , A ,
Largo Attendance at the Association Rooms
Ytstorday Afternoon.
W. II , ALEXANDER'S ' TALK ON OPPORTUNITY
of Polly ttmt l.ciid from tlio
Itrunil Avenue nt Succ < - < Ulinuccs
Within the Urnip of All Olirls-
tlnti Opportunities.
There was n largely attended mooting nt
the Young Men's Christian association
building yesterday nfturuoon. Tills is
Young Men's Christian association Week all
over the country and the different associa
tions have arranged programs suitable for
the occasion , On Monday evening the en
tertainment scuson will open with an enter
tainment by the Shubort Concert company
from Chicago. Next Sunday a scries of
meetings will begin. Uov. Patterson will
deliver the first sermon or lecture at it:45 : p.
m. This week will be one of prajer for tlin
young men , ati.l meetings will be held on
Tuesday , Thursday and Saturday evenings.
Mr.V. . II. Alexander delivered the prinul
pal address at the meeting yesterday after
noon , lie said : *
Mr. Atvxtinilur'rt Address.
"I have chosen ns the text for my address
today the single word 'Opportunity.1 I
know very well , for Us range Is endless ,
that It oifcrs suggestions for n dozen ad
dresses , and because of the limitless possi
bilities I have dared to hope tbat even an
unskilled layman e.in tiring forth something
of Interest and of value. There has i > cen nu
period ot time since GoU whirled out of
chaos this universe of wonders whoso every
moment did not hold for some one , some
where , some kind of opportunity. And on
through the ages till Unite tnlngs shall lose
their form and force , and human efforts and
human aspirations become absorbed in end
less life , Gol's watchful providence will flll
the years with countless opportunities.
' For mo this inspiring occasion , with
hundreds of bright young minds before me ,
is itself an opportunity of the grandest sort.
If 1 shall grasp it and use it In such wise as
to bring you a now idea , or to clothe with a
fairer garment an established ir.itli ; if I
shall rouse to action a dormant talent , or
stir into active life a lax ambition , it will
then have been for some of you a starting
time for effort.
"As 1 stand In vour nrescnce toila.v and
bring to my mind the fact that thopurposo and
the outcome of most human lives are largely
determined during the few brief.years while
youth is merging Into manhood , the impor
tance of prayertul thought , of careful speech ,
of earnest and honest counsel. Is deeply
pressed updn mo. You are standing nt the
ihrcshold ( of maturer life. Opportunities
for good and for evil approach you on every
side. The pathways of folly are fair and
alluring , but the ways of the righteous are
filled with gladness ; they lead to
the kingdom of God. The great
est of young life's problems , at
least for some of you , is waiting to bo solved
The arena for effort is oncn and boundless.
The audience assembled to approve or con
demn extends to the ends of the earth. The
genius presiding is the Great Eternal. The
prize to be won Is life everlasting , and the
wages of failure is death. According to
your'wisdom or error , according to your
measure of judgment , almost as you choose
to have it , the solution of the problem will
be.
Christian Opportunities.
' These Christian associations are socking
young men. Their mission and purpose is to
give them the best opportunities for physical
and mental and moral development ; to fur
nish the means and encourage a desire for
helpful and healthful companionship. "Wo
believe that the All-wise Creator has somo-
'thing in store for the child of Ills care and
lite keeping that is better and nobler and
holier than anything earth can bestow.
When the morning sunbeams part the
mists that hang about the mountains ,
and cap their peaks with gold , wo stand in
awe bolore the splendid vision. Whence
came these great creations } Thrown into
space from thn back of an earthquake , and
caught In paralysis of surprise , they have
stood through the ages. In their ruzged mag
nificence , pointing away to the skies. And
think you. friends , that those great works ,
will last boj'ond a soul's existence ? That
man , who bears God's image , will pass away
forever and these dumb mountains stay !
JJo. no. 'It doth. not .vet appear what wo
shall uc , but this we know , that when Ho
comes , wo shall be like Him , for wo shall see
Him as Ho is.1 With the assurance , then ,
that immortality is before the soul as an
endless inheritance , and that God will leave
it largely to each individual to make up a
record for judgment , there is every incentive
to earnest and decisive action.
.Men with Arms Akimbo.
"Opportunity , the Latins have told us , has
only a foretop ; once let her go by , and no
one can catch her again. The nineteenth
century's civilization has provided scant
place for drones. And Jatncs Husscll Lowell
has truthfully said : 'The busy world shoves
angrily aside the man who stands with
arms akimbo set , till occasion toll him what
to do , and ho who waits to have his task
marked out shall die and leave ills errand
uufullilled.1
"On either side of the valley of Elali the
armies of Saul and Goliath were camped.
Forty times the Philistine giant sent out his
challenge for a soldier of Israel to meet him.
Of all the Hebrew host not one hail dared to
answer. Hut the youthful shepherd cimo ,
and , casting aside a preferred armor , depend
ing only on his simple sling and God , ho
sallied forth to the valley and conquered the
boastful leader. The same opportunity was
offered to every soldier of Israel , but David
nlonu accepted it , and men for thirty centu
ries nave paalscd his great achievement.
"John Wycliffo. standing alone before a
great ecclesiastical council in dofcnso of his
reformatory doctrines , denounced the union
uf church and stale , and setting the bible
above all human creeds ho gave the first
strong impulse to the Protestant reforma
tion.
tion."Tho
"Tho restoration In England , that gave
Charles II. it tl.rnno , drove Milton into abso
lute seclusion. Though relieved in a measure
from political penalties by the act of oblivion ,
the last twelve years of his life were passed
in enforced isolation. And yet * this blind ,
deserted , broken-hearted but illustrious
scholar and poet , conquered despair , tri
umphed over desolation and gave to the
world those throe great poems which have
made his name immortal ,
Kqniil to the
"An unlettered girl , a peasant , in franco ,
received a spiritual impression that she
could save tno glory of her country , Acf
ooptiug the message as coming from God ,
she seized the glowing opportunity , amj
Joan of Arc wont forth to conquer.
"Tho enforcement in the American col
onies by England of the odious navigation
net and the issuing of writs of assistance
created an opportunity for American pa
triots to act. On a public occasion the illus
trious statesman , James Otis , declared that
the use ot such power had cost one king his
head and another his throne.Vith wonder.
ful eloquence ho enlarged upon the rights of
the colonists , and historians allude to the
inspiring event us the opening scene in the
revolution ,
"In later years the Mississippi river .was
tlio western boundary of tiio union , mid a
bolt of land belonging to Spain hiy botivoen
thn American possessions and the gulf. An
outlet by way of thp river was essential to
the development of the western frontier.
Tlmrlght of landing at Now Orleans nad
once been granted by Spain , but in after
years the privilege was withdrawn. When
Franco gained possession of the Louisiana
territory an American amimsador was sent
to Parts to treat for an open river. Ho had
scarcely landed in Franco when Napoleon
was threatened witli a conlllct with Eng
land. Should such an event talte place the
French would bo forced to relinquish their
hold on the territory west of the Missis
sippi. A double opportunity was presented.
If Napoleon should sell what ho
could not hold , albeit at a
miserable price , the money received would
bo that much saved , it Hashed through the
minds of the American representatives that
tno purchase of territory adjoining the
national domain , thus keeping tlio French ,
and the Spanish , and the English , away
from our western and southwestern borders ,
and the scouring for nil time to corno or ab
solute control of thonrtvcr , would bo a strokn
of diplomacy whoso * benefits no one could
estimate. The prlroiva * brought down from
fifty to olovrn and fuhalf million ? of dollars ,
and In nineteen days- , the great transaction
was finished , Delay * would have given us
Encland for a neighbor on the west , as she
already was In tha mirth , and our own free
country would liav * > cn In a pocket.
llnViM w.Mnn nt l ) Mlltiy.
"The union sticcon nt Chattanooga com
pleted a scries ol' victories ttiat placed
Ulvsses S. Grant among the greatest of mili
tary loaders. A change In the head of the
army was urgently , demanded. The presi
dent saw the opportunity , gave Grant the
position , and the capture of uco nt Appo-
tnattox was proof of a wise selection.
"But who amongst us , yen may nsK , will
bo given such grand opportunities } That
cannot bo answered today. It need not bo
ntwvcred today. U hn't essential that
great opportunities , shall come. The Lord
will not call for ton talents , where only one
talent was given. The sin ful woman In the
city , who wet Christ's feet with her tears
and wiped them with her beautiful half
the hard-working widow , who placed her
mlt-s with the gltts which the rich men
bought ; tlio affectionate Mary , who tin-
nolntcd her Master with the costliest oint
ment she had ; the Samaritan peasant who
slopped by the wayside to bind up the
wount's of a stranger , will share just as
laruely in the blessings of heaven as will
those who , with larger opportunities , per
formed greater deeds.
"A star burst * through the veil at night ,
And twinkles till iliudawn ;
'JlieMititolysun Hoods earth with light ,
And lo ! the star Is gone.
"Itut star and HUH alike were placed
Ilyono nnrlmiiKlni : will ;
Tlimrspheri's thn ( irual Creator traced ,
He shapes their courses still.
of MUillrutituil ICIVurtH ,
"Opportunity and effort may both go for
naught , if those natural laws which require
adaptation anil illness In the doer for the
things to bo doim bo left unconsldored. Mis
directed efforts will yield disappointment ,
and a lifetime of labor may have little to
bring pleasure , when the gaze Is turned back
ward , at its close. The parents of Sir Isaac
Newlon wore desirous that lliotr son should
remain on the farm. They had cherished
the hope that his own inclinations would
lead him to do so. Hut his mind was too ac
tive , his ambition too aggressive , his aspira
tions too lofty for so quiet a life. Helonged
for the college , the opportunities for culture ,
the companionship of scholars. Hut In spite
of thcso longings ho was kept on the farm
till ho proved to bo utterly useless In any
capacity whatever , and llmilly. though re-
lucianuy , ho was given a chance In college.
Once rightly started tie pressed his wav up
ward and onward till he stood near the sum
mit of his lofty ambition.
"Tho way to success may sometimes seem
narrow , but the hardest hurts , alter all , are
gotten in the oyways , when wo turn aside
for n little to grasp at their seeming en
chantments. Judgment and prudence are
stately companions , and often. It may bo too
often , wo escape Irom their 'dignified guid
ance to float on the wings of impulse. It
mu > bo essential , as discipline for action , to
indulge in these pleasing excursions , for
they oftcnest end in disappointment , and
disappointment brines us back to reality.
God has given to each one a place in this
universe of His , and in that place , wherever
it may be , He expects him to act. We shall
have aspirations , for the soul is immortal ,
and its natural trend is Godward. Wo shall
have ambitions , and carnal desires , for
privilege , for power , for glory , for praise ,
for temporal gratification of every kind , for
thesoarothoattribtitcsof humanity. We can
break through the bounds of a present en
vironment and wont onr way upward when
ever wo develop a fitness for the duties of a
higher sphere. Thogospel of Jesus encourages
temporal advancement , and urges the in
crease of talents , but ittells us to temper
impatience , to make alUve can out of things
within reach lest wo waste our. lives in at
tempting lo gain the impossible. Now the
spirit is man's crowning glory. Poised on
Its white , glowing pinions , it hovers above
earth's transient bonds , and bending Its
gaze on the hcavous , seems anxious and
eager lo go.
"And the highest possibilities of thisspirit
are placed within reachi of the peasant as
well as thornier ; thoi'comn wlihin toucli of
the humble , the meek , and the lowly , the
bond and the free.
Msiku the Most of Opportuuttlrg.
"We are apt to complain because some
things about us are not to our liking. And
.vet , I am sure that there isn't a young man
here tonight who does not know of some
other young man whose life is not half as
enjoyable as his own. What a glorious time
wo could have in this world , if instead of
magnifying burdens , regretting misfortunes ,
and pointing out evils , we should loll God
how thankful wo arc for His blessings. Who
knows that the sweet little blossoms which
temper our sorrows and soften our hearts ,
are not His fair angels of mercy ? Who
knows that the millions of stars in the
heavens arc not the bright homes for His
children } Who knows that the sym
phonies coming from nature are not the deep
echoes of heaven's great chorus ? Oh , friends ,
that wo might bo impelled to lay hold on the
present opportunities ; to do with a will what
our hands ilnd to do and leave all the rest to
our MtiKcr. If discouragements come , seek
to overcome them. George McDonald once
said that 'lie who Is able to put a disap
pointment beneath him stands upon it a
conqueror. ' Lifted to n loflier plane , to a
nobler experience , ho will often receive more
tangible benefits than another who , escap
ing adversity , rejoices in easy fruition.
"Tho world is botlor loday than it was
three centuries ago. The principal avenues
10 fame and to power layover the fields of
conlllct. Men's praises were iriven to mili
tary heroes , and the sword was a passport to
favor. But. today , near the dawn of the
twentieth century , the heart and the mind ,
philanthrophy and literature , virtue and
truth , science and art and capital and labor
are the principal factors in progress. Carlyle -
lyle said of Schiller : 'Ho has conquered
kingdoms , ' and another , referring to iheso
conquests , remarked : 'These kingdoms
which Schiller conquered were not from ono
ration at iho expense of sufferings to
another ; they wore soiled by no patriot's
blond , nor wet with an orphan's tears ,
They are kingdoms conquered from the bar
ren realms of Darkness to increase tlio happi
ness , tlio dignity and the power of all man ;
new form ? of faith , new maxims of wisdom ,
now images of beauty 'won from the void
and formless Inllnito , ' a possession forever
lo all the generations of earth. )
"And these promising Holds for effort are
open to all who scok them. They am open
to you. Go into ihom with courage. Ifonco ,
and twice , your foot slip back , go on. mid on ,
forTiatlnnco will bring you a perfect work.
Hfiinombor that grandeur of character can
only bo founded on Justice ; that the loftiest
triumphs are the triumphs of truth ; that the
grandest Inheritance Is a place In Ilia kingdom -
dom of God. "
( jcneriil AnNucIiitlon Work.
liobcrt Wcidensal , a member of tlio inter
national committee of the Young Men's
Christian association , spoke of the grand
work that has been accomplished during the
past year. Ho deseribed the labors of the
international committee and said ttiat tho.y
' liad expended $15,000 more tins year than
for any previous period of the same time
They were in debt this amount and lie
hoped the associations all over tlio country
would respond liberally and help liquidate
this indebtedness. Ho told of the ctiarltuble
educational and iivllgious work of the as
snciatiou and urged the members torenowci
efforts.
Superintendent Oner made a short ad
dress and asked the members of the Omaha
association to givenil ihoy could to the in
ternatlonal committee. He reported that at a
recent mooting they had raised 75 for the
benclU of Hcscuo hall.
DoWltt's Witch Hazel salvo cures idles.
CUTTING OFF ITS EXPENSE
Methodist Missionary Conference at Minne
apolis Prunes Appropriations Closely.
REV. DK , PECK REFUSES A TRIP ABROAD
Depleted Condition of Conference I'mid *
the. Itciison Nobrimkii'it ItrprcaeutnUvo
Itvclles n Tulo ol Woo The
Allotments of Cmili.
MiNXE.U'ous , Nov. 12. Something of a
sensation was created in the Methodist na
tional missionary conference yesterday
when Kev. Dr. , f. O. Peek of New York , ono
of the corresponding secretaries of the
oftlclal board and who had been designated
by that body to tuaUonycai's.tour of the
mission fields of Asia and Malaysia , rose
to n question of personal privilege and
announced that he had decided to re
main at homo. A trip of this character
Is ono of the few rich oieklncs that
fall once In a lifetime to those high up
In the mission movement , and no ono
of them , whether bishop or plain elder , has
over been known before to refuse to embr.tco
such an opportunity of seeing slrango lands
at thp expense of tlio society. Hence the
murmur of surprise and astonishment that
creeled Dr. Peck's announcement. Ho went
on to say that while the board itself had
made no suggestion in the mailer , ho had
come lo Iho conclusion that in view of finan
cial stringency and the depletion of the con
ference treasury it would he neither wise ,
prudent or right to incur the expense
that his trip would Involve , which , in
addition to this , ho felt that ho was
needed at homo and could bo of
boiler service to Iho cause until existing
conditions had passed away. When ho had
csmncd his scat Bishops Foss and Fowler ,
Dr. .1. M. Uuckloy and other delegates ox-
n-csscd tholr satisfaction and appreciation
of the New Yorker's magnanimity and his
sclf-sacrillco fpr the cause.
I'lMinlii Knlfn with 11 VoiiKR.tncn.
The pruning knife was again wioMcd
vilh a vengeance in making the mission tip-
iroprintions today. Piteous appeals for at
east last year's allowances were made by
ntiny of the presiding elders , but the non-
'erence was obdur.Ue. and even in iho few
cases wticro a disposition toward llbor.illty
seemed to bo manifest Bishop Walden ,
the "Holtnan" of the committee , was prompt
with objections and protests and a demand
for fair play all around. When Kansas was
cached Dr. Bcntley of Kansas Cily said
that the western part of the state could not
tnssihly stand a cut , for in it tlicro were
lumbers of people that were actually in
want of bread.
On the call of Nebraska Dr. Huntingdon of
Lincoln road statistics showing that there
were many ministers in thp conference whoso
salaries wore loss than $ -01) a year. Nc-
jraska. he aaid , was being filled up with
starved out Now Englandcrs , who had been
stranded by the financial depression.
A hundred thousand of such from the
regions east of the Mississippi had come
into the slate in the past year , and things
were going from bad to worse. It had taken
twenty acres of wheat to put fitt into the
farmer's wallet. In ono case that lie know
of an honest Methodist farmer who took 100
jushcls of wheat to the elovalor. It was
.ho production of twenty acres of land. All
ic got for It was $31. With this he paid his
taxes and half of his urocery bill and went
ionic without dinner because there was not
i nickel left in his pockets. These and sim-
lar stories produced a profound impression ,
but all the same the appropriations were
scaled 10 and 15 per cent on last year's
grants. The appropriations of Iho day in
cluded the following :
llolininlan and Hungarian , I'lttsbur ; ? . . . ? 1,110
RastUhlo 'A' 23
I'hlludolphla i 450
Itultlmorn 8.940
( luncnil Jllsilons , Vermont 1,300
West Wisconsin -1,450
Wisconsin 4,00 ( )
llluclt Hills 0,400
Now Mexico 11,550
Now Vorlc. east 700
Oregon and 1'uset Sound 1,000
Chinese , California 7.H70
Now VorU i.uuu
Southern California 1,000
ilni'iincHf ) CIIIIHC.
The Japanese cause was championed by
Bishop Goodsejl , who niadoun earnest appeal
for a liberal appropriation. Ho sruvti figures
sh'owiiiif tno success of the church among
the little Japanese and said that 1,100 of
almond-eyed orientals had become members
of the Metnodist Episcopal church In the
last year from this district. Later in the
day ho made a warm speech , repotting that
the work among the Japanese in the
Hawaiian islands should over nave ueen
abandoned as it was when Dr. Fisher re
turned to this country. Ho thought it very
lamentable that the Japanese converts'
should bo obliged , as they are , to send some
of their own numbers to those islands to
carry on the work among their own people
when it is really the place of the conference
to look after the mutter. Ho protested
against turning this fruitful field , which is
in charge of iho California -lislvict , entirely
over to other denominations and urged ap
propriations and re-establishment of the
work. A committee was appointed to con
sider and report on the situation.
There was a prolonged conference tonight
between the board 'of bishops , Missionary
Bishops Taylor , now of Africa , and Richard
Grant , of Now Jersey and Anderson nnd _
Fowler of New York and Chicago , regarding
tlio future of the mission wont in South
America. The two gentlemen last named
have for many years maintained between
them what is known as the "Bishop Taylor
Fund" for especial work in Cincinnati. It
is now proposed to bring this work under the
direct control of the board , and tonight's
conference was for the purpose of securing
an understanding with Messrs. Grant and
Anderson , Tlio latter intimated their will-
incness to bring the mission and its prop
erly , which is valued nt f..lO.OOO , under the
control of the conference , subject to certain
stipulations.
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The Great Central ranto weekly Cali
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E. L. LOMAX ,
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Iitvlonn lii NUIIID it lid Condnrl.
Thomas Lawless wont to his homo on
Tenth and Nicholas streets yesterday after
noon and proceeded lo chastise his wife.
His mother-in-law interceded and she was
knocked down. A brother-in-law shared
the same fate , and then Thomas grabbed n
hatcuot and said lie was going to give the
coroner a wholesale job. About this time
Officers Hyan and Uavcnoainp appeared on
the scene and the belligerent man was placed
under arrest. Lawless Is charged with as
sault and battery and Mrs. Wetterford , his
wife's mother , Is held as complaining wit
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