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, 12 T1fl OMAHA IiATLY BEE : SUNDAY , TVLY 31 , .1898. VALUES WERE NEVER SO GREAT OR BARGAINS SO ASTONISHING t f MEN'S AND LADIES MONEY NEVER CCOMMANDED SUCH WONDERFUL RETURNS AS IT WILL TOMORROW a LADIES' and MEN'S ' , . 25c an ou b5 25c SILK 5 mm u ' SILK STRING TIES BOSTON PROPRIETORS , S'1OEIE _ BOWS BAND _ ' , r GRAND VALUES BARGAINS TREMENDOUS SALE SALE OF THE GRAND PURCHASE OF ' Through the failure of McGovern & Thompson , , GREAT BARGAINS the great New York shoo jobbers , tbousaiids of IN 111 THE LADIES' WASHABLE the finest shoes in America have bcon silerificed ' 1 S 1 B A S E 1YI E N T. - ' ' t0 the necessity of spot cash , .the wonderful values w a offer AND below are so son s "tti oval and so radically extraordinary , that p SI LKS Full standard SKIRTS WAISTS people are sillsI)1Y dumbfounded at our ability to offer thorn , . German I n dig o IC EMBROIDERY ' , the prices we do in this sale. We beg you to grasp this mare I Blue Pints . velour bargain opportunity. per yard. . . . . . . . . . . _ 2 WASHABLE SKIRTS , , v All Our 5 Oc Japanese Silks y 25e quality of all widths of . t" ? s a 22lnclwswlde-In solid colons-for Lace Curtain Valenciennes Cotton Ireland QOo " ut . dif J Great Bargain Event-200 strect wear-nod c .ening shadesScrim , and Net Top Oriental Laces rt go at-S'aro fuse its , 2 n' eion t styles of wash skirts , giving y an a - . . . . . . g o at and 5 assortment which possibly exceeds that of ' ' d per yard. . . . . . . . . r 2 9 all other houses combined. All materials { ' , C Very heavy , all the finest Imported No r -duck , crashes and piques ; all colors- , . A Twilled handy , German and English light blue navy blue and all shades in ; ; ' , r Bleached Drilling Valenciennes , fine Cr eam S ilk ra pure linen-with extra emphasis on the . ; All Our 65c M o usalll 'no de Solo 10c yard. , . . , . . Chailtilla Lace and Insertions , , ' t , ' pure-plain and trimmed , with and with- .1 ' . . , , , , r all widths , worth as high as 50e ( out flounce. There is not "a lady in the } in nil the newest shudcs- Yard wide 1\ 4 land" who would not show- , Three a ' pronounce our showLadies and : gent-sofa g0 at and Oc , in t'exquisite" ' or t 1Y lovely.u They Percale 310 7.c : g sun1 Four Dollar Shoes . are skirts that sell readily at 2 to ti G , but NOJ { NE SOF DL { 9 2 ; ; 1 quality of all kinds of just to impress upon you that we are never outpriced , out- FOR t ; it : finest Swiss , Jaconet and Cain- sold or outshown , we will offer them at ' Malone Bros. Rochester Makers of Y ' Checked and 1 I brie Embroideries oat Il pure And II oho silk-go Sewing $ l25 at-yard Silk Grcnntjincs-all k Ion r Frame goes worth Plaid at 12c per Nainsook , 5 rand . . . , ' 5c . . 11Iany 3c thousand and yards 5C g - of very - 49C B 9c 9 Bc $125 $ $150 S 50 Sacrifice the Finest Shoes Their Misses in Entire America and Floor Children's , StOCIt ' a . x' t a Full standard 3C dainty patterns Na111S001i , 200 ' . . . . . . . 8,000 pair ladles line shoes h , bind. )1 . . LADIES' ID6d DOLOR SEPARATE SKIRTS' .25c Apron Checked Swiss and Cambric Embroider- ' ad tan n i , lulu and fancy silk vestlit T 40c ON THE DOLLAR . a 9. 5 0 C Gingham tops , linest v1Ci kid button anti lute J ies and Insertions , all new ' ' . e worth 7c at. 4 Ladies s 61ashable Snits shoes , rnnd0 by llnutey Bros. , Thonnts yard , go style patterns , worth up to 75C 11Ia11 tailored suits of duck , linen , pique and crash - C plant Todd , Bancroft & Ca. , Johnson Bros ® o S " i t ' and other swell itnown makers of the hest Best go at 1 all style , blazers , Eton , blouse and i 1 y front lac k0t- a ' , retail at . Such a lot at Misses' and children's slaves S a 7c and Oc I1 ladles shoes such as readily $3.00 t th o $ I25 Black Standard Z tailored lap and strap seams , all colors , , pretty , jaunty and $4.00 a pair , all sizes , all styles , all trCiO never bCCR Or offered at special 6A10 1 Brocaded Silt I and St tin- n1 _ inches Dress Prints effects that give that "dressed up feeling so delightful ' widtbs , all colors , as many as you want , The price tomorrow is a wonder , It Is wide ptt rc silk-at-yard (1111 pieces , no remnants All thehigll grade Embroid -so cool and so comfortable-go on sale at. . . . . . . . . . chotco Monday at $1.50 on bargain squares. theo biggest bnown. 1n children's and wlssea a el'leS In this lot , including , shoes ever known t C The regular retail n rico is about $3.00 a 5 Very line LaWnS and some of the very finest Jaconet 1500 ' To , LADIES pair. 8 C Organdies , full p feces WU and Nainsook match sets , up Dozen LADIES' da y $5.00 sill $6,00 Shoes pair.Ln to handle fact no such slor fine in children's Omaha was shoes. ever able to 10 ether wide , worth FOR -110 remnants- up , If you want to sea the greatest bargain , t t0 50c , g0 at . 50c LADIES' flit fanciest colors and patterns and tto - - 20e . regular kind-yard. I _ 4 WAISTS goat. . . . . fluest misses' end chudreu's shoes In the 3 All of our fine black- w ° world , you will attend this solo Monday. One big lot of all kinds I These s hoes come to all rho new , fancy All S Ilk Satin D ucho S se of F - DOLLAR LADIES S2 silk vesting taps , plaid vesting tops , plush , Ina Muslin , . , 35C tops and lid tops' In all lira new overlaid All the ,7 inch Skirt Em- SHIRT WAISTS go at. . . scroll , Very hcnvy and gunranteed to wear Fruit of the Loom , ' patterns 2 -fm skirts told entire b r 01f 1 e red Flouncing for child- , dresses-go Lonsdale and Utica . ut-yard , etc. ran 's dresses , the finest cam- , $1.50 LADE 1 S ' Io6a Hair ladies finest b lack and tan 65C 75C Good heavy brit and Hauls 0 ol { , that usual- SHIRT WAISTS g 0 at. . , 49 shoes , Inlaid silk vesting tops , silk worked 2 69c l Unbleached ly se 1 i s up t 0 S1 , g o at eyelets , all the finest , newest , most desir- , _ . 32 , able styles in the market today , in Muslin : X.50 LADIES the swell lieu York bicycle worth ' worth . , . , . . . _ _ _ _ . . . 9 8 e $1 2 5 $ 5 0 7c at. , _ _ _ . S H I RT WAISTS go Sat. ; $5.oo , ; 0.00 and $7,00chotco , , U RAPID TRANSIT Il BOLIVIA Wild Ride Over Mountain and Desert in South America. ODD FEATURES OF COUNTRY AND PEOPLE Cnuupleoons l'overfy of Soil and in- hnbllnntN-l'rituhive h'arnting on Ihtrret ' ' ' I'ILdcauN-1'osyns oft hefty I'crcleN. ( Copyrighted , 1S9S , by Frank G. Carpenter , ) oZURO , Bolivia , Juno 18.-Special ( Correspondence - respondence of The Dec.-DurinG the last three days I have been riding behind galloping - loping teams at from four to eight mules over the Desnguadero or Bolivian plateau , and I am now in the mining town of Oruro , away up In the mountains , 600 tulles by rail from the Pacific ocean. I am in a country which is like no other on the face of the globe. Situated from 12,000 to 15,000 feet above the sea , it has a soli , a vegetation - tion and a climate peculiarly its own. Its skies na viewed from day to day are dlf- loront froth those which hang over any part of the United Stales. Its people arc like none we have on our continent , and I seem to be in another world. It is the world an the heights , the land highest on earth on which numerotus cities nail vllliges exist , a very land of thu sky. This region Is one of the little-known parts of the earth. 15'hat it was in the past is conjecture. There are ninny evl- doncee that at one time there lay between these ranges of the Andes a vast inland sea , hundreds of tulles long and in places sixty anti more miles in width. The Des- nguadero plateau , which was a part of this sea , extends from hero to Lalco Titicaca , there at the north it joins to the Puno plains of Peru , and far south of where I now am it unites with the highlands of the Argentina Where I crossed the plateau in going from Lake Titicaca to Ln Paz it was forty-seven miles wide , and the ground was almost as lint as a floor. I found it almost level in my three days' gallop to Oruro , and It seened to me that I could everywhere - where see signs lint the whole plai ° had once been covered with water. I rode for miles over beds of stones and in other places passed over wide stretches of what 500010(1 like sea sand. Sea shells are often found here , and Prof. Agasslz behoved that the water level of this sga was from 300 to 400 feet higher than the present level of lim basin , Today the only large bodies of water found in it are Lake Titicaca and Lake Aalingas or Poopo , which lira connected - nected by the Dcsaguadoro river , Lake Poopo le only n short distance from here. It is a brackish lake fifty miles long by about thirty miles wide , and is so deep that 1l Is now proposed to put steamers upon it , nail It zany be that there will be a line of Ships sailing from it through the nesagua- doro river to Lake Titicaca. Lake Poopo has no visible outlet , and if its waters get to the sea it is by some waterway under ( ho earth , \lodee of ' 1'rnvel , There are tow good roads In South Amer- ica. The ways among the mountains are mule trails , and in many cases steps have bcon cut along the sills of precipices so that you could crawl along within an inch or so of destruction. Now and ( Len a mule falls 3,000 feet or so , and is usually left to lie where It falls. You often have to dismount to help the mules , and it take s hours to go a feu miles. There are la the whole country , which Is one-sixth the size of the United Stales , only 73 miles o t slat o lines , embracing roads to the capital , n the city of Sucre , to Potosi , the ( amour sil- v er mining center , and to Cochabamba , which is a big interior town In what is called the granary of the country. The best road In Bolivia is one over which I have just traveled. I doubt whether there Is a finer long stretch or wagon road In the United States , The dried-up sea basin forma a natural roadbed , We galloped for hours over a road better , smoother nmi harder than any in Central Park , New York , and dashed along at a breakneck pace over the plains on a track that would h ave been accepted as excellent by any American jockey. The only work that seemed to kayo been done upon the road was the picking off of the atones. In some places it was as flat as a floor for miles , and in others there was a gradual rise or fall , but not enough to ] nipede the gallop- i ng of the Wules. 1'Ifty-live LcatloeN on n 11nit Wagon. The dislanco between La Paz and Oruro is fifty-flvo lenaues , or 105 miles , At least that Is what my coachmen estimated the distance. The geographers , who have prob. ably not gone over ! t , put it at 100 miles , but after my ride I am willine to swear by the coachmen , and to say that they have , ! t anything , made 1t too abort. The La Paz stage runs twlco a week to Oruro. It is one of the worst-looking rattle-traps that was ever put upon wheels , and the broken-down carriages which carry passengers sengers from our country towns to the fair grounds would be classed as heavenly chariots beside It. It has six seals inside and ono with the driver. It was the driv- or's seat that i coveted , but I found at the stage omco that the whole inside had been taken for his family by a rich Bolivian nail that the outside seat was already engaged. There was no better chance for the next stage , three days later , and for a time it. seemed that I should have to go on the back or a mule or hire a private conveyance for $150-Bolivian dollars , At this moment my guide , adviser and friend in ways Bolivian , Mr , Sam IClotz of La Paz , advised me to try to get a seat on the mall conch. This seemed to me just the thing , anti when I learned that there was always room for one passenger on it , and that the place had not been taken , I jumped at it , and banded out this $20 which was the cast of the ticket , This was several days before the time for leaving All baggage must be on hand by noon of the day previous to starting - ing , It took three Indians t ° carry my baggage to the station , and La Paz opened Its mouth , figuratively speaking , as the men trotted through the streets with their loads. At the stage ofnco a second dilemma arose. Only 200 pounds are allowed to go with each passenger , It be has more it can follow him on the next stage , with the chance of its be- tug forgotten for weeks , My trunks tipped the beam of the American scans on which they were weighed at just 370 pounds , and It took much persuasion , and that of several kinds , before I could get the ofhiclals t ° consent that it should go with me , At last however , I was told that it would be al right , and was handed a bill for $2170 $ ; extr a baggage , Only twenty-five pounds of bas gage are allowed free with each , ticket , s u that my baggage cost me more than in y faro. A llolh'Inrt Inl1 Cenelt , I am not moro than ordinarily conceited but I must confess that I felt rather prou d that not only myself , but my baggage It s well , were to be carried over the county r with the Bolivian malls , It seemed to m o when I thought of It rather strange tim I rho p0slA1 OAICIeIs should consent to taki e my heavy trunks , but through my news paper connections I have sometimes bee I favored otrlclally , and accepted it as a fact , I tear visions of a glorious red Concor d vehicle , with postmen in Bolivian livery , I may have come before my innocent sour s eye , and I know it was with conscious pride that I told my friends at La Paz that I was going to travel with the mails. I noticed that some of them ruttier smiled at the idea , and that others seemed to pity rather than admire. This at the time I attributed - tributed to jealousy , envy or ignorance. I know better now. I know what the folly- inn mail coach Is. I had my first sight of it at G o'clock of the morning of my start- ing. It was the baggage wagon of the stage , and tire only seat on it was the one with the driver. It was , in fact , a skeleton wagon on springs. The bed was so far up in th air that you could almost walk under it without stooping. The wagon bax was nut over six inches high , and how it was supposed that a ton and a half of mail and trunks could be put into it I could not see. I had my baggage berried out , and it went in at the bottom. The other pieces were plied on top until there was a mountain - tain of stuff on the wagon. It now looked more like a hay wagon coming to the barn in ] harvest time than the royal mail A rawhide rope was bound round and round the baggage , being run through hooks in the sides of the wagon boil , and the baggage - gage was covered with canvas to shield it from the rain. By this time the mules were in their places , and I was told to climb to my seat beside the driver , It was at least seven or eight feet above the ground , and the soft aide of the board was the only cushion , until I Improvised another - other of some blankets. The coach rode , however , very comfortably , and the springs were as good as any I have ever tried. A great discomfort was the lack of cover when it rained and snowed , as it did soy- oral limes during the journey. At such times I could only put on my waterproof and my Bolivian cap. This latter Is a knitted - ted nfair , covering the head and face , with holes for the eyes , nose and mouth. It makes one look actually devilish , but 1t 1s such a comfort that It should be adopted for winter traveling and alegh riding in our country , Coaoluuan and Male , My coachmen in livery worn in fact Do- livlan Cholos They were halt breeds , a cross of the Spaniards and the Aymara Indian - dian , and as cruel a mixture as you will find among the races. They had no sypma- lhycwlhatover for the mules and their treatment - ment or then was so cruel that I several times protested against it , ' In the first place the harness was twisted all out of shape. There was not a tug that was straight and not a collar that fit. As a re- suit the necks of the animals were raw and stire , and this became worse as we went an the gallop over the road. I remember one little yellow mule who had lost two patches at skin , each as big us the palm of your hand , from the front of his shoulders before - fore he was put into the harness. 1 oh- jected to taking him , as there wore other and better mules In the corral , kilt h ° was hitched up all the sane and was given one of the hardest places in the team. This was just below roc , next to the wagon fill right under the driver. We started otf on the gallop , but tbo llttlo fellow soon began to lag behind , Then the torture began. The driver cut at him with a whip , which brought the blood to the hide at almost every place it touched , and the helper , who ran along with the coach and whipped up the dais mules , picked out the little yellow fellow as ills special workPo had not gone five 0111ea before the back of rho mule's legs were bleeding in a halt dozen different places , and I could see that hl a collar was red from the blood of the sore s on his neck. From thno lp tbno I notice d that the driver when he found 11TH , whip - plug and whistling Palled to stir up th e , mules took up a heavy tug with an iron chain and ring at the anti of It and-rattle d ds It , This never failed to frighten itiq mule s mules into increased speed. As the llttlo yellow fellow again tell behind I found the secret of the inspiring sound of the tug and chain. The driver swung the tug about his head and brought 1t down with a terrific thud upon the little mule's back. It is a wonder - der it did not break the bones , for the heavy iron chain hit him on the spine , and t e pain must have been intense. The blow in this case did not break the skin , though I saw subsequent ones given to other mules which made bloody gashes in their backs. We changed mules every fifteen or twenty miles and rarely had a team that was not. more or less scarred and bloody when we got through , Country IloeiN of BellvIa. During the trip I had some chance to get a taste of the country hotels of Bolivia. Tim stations where we stopped to eat and sleep were more like cow stables than hotels. As a rule , the mules were housed in the courts on which the oat-story huts forming the hotel faced. None of the rooms had windows and the floors were of mud or stone. In some cases the beds were ledges of sun-dried bricks upon which a mattress bath been laid. The only light I had was the candle I brought with ma and my candlestick - dlestick was a spot of melted grease , which I dropped on tlho table or a chair before setting - ting the candle down. There were always several beds in a room , and I hind roommates - mates In the shape of native Dolivians every night. Before going to bed the woman who kept the hotel always came in and collected lected a dollar for the use of the bell and a dollar for dinner. We started at 5 every morning , and at 430 ; I was usually up and ready for the cap of tea which was made for me before leaving. This , with a couple of biscuits , constitutes the breakfast of all the hotels of Bolivia. Our regular breakfast - fast , which we had at 11 or 12 o'clock , was more like a dinner than a breakfast , It began - gan with a vegetable soup and followed with two or three stewed dishes , all of which fairly swam in grease. The dinner was of the same order. Before leaving La Paz I bad taken the precaution to have a lunch put up for my use on the road. Tills cost me tea Bolivian dollars , but it seemed cheap enough when I found It was about all I had that I could cat eh tire road. Such were the accommodations on one of the most traveled roads of tills country. The tare on the male trails is far worse. As to prospectors nail those who get away from the beaten tracks , there is often no chance to gel anything , The only places where you can sleep are in tbo huts of the Indians , and they will not allow you to come in if they can possibly prevent it. They do netlike like strangers , nail money seems to be no inducement to them , The only way to gel a night's 'shelter in such cases Is la tell your muleteer to unsadclla and to go in and take possession of the best part of this hut , It there Is anything at hand which is eatable - ble , take it and give the Indian some money for it. If you ask to buy It he will refuse , and even 1f ho Ilan plenty will say lie has nothing. The chances are that when you leave in the morning , having paid him for your night's ' lodging , ho will ho pleased , bu t lee will offer you nothing and x 111 give as little as ho can. As a rule , they are cowards , nail they will submit to a great deal of abuse without flgbtine Poorer 'I'htut Clalun , I have never seen a country where the people have to work so hard for a hare living - ing as on this Bolivian plateau. It Is bail enough in China mud India , whore the poorer classes live In mud huts and till to the utmost their little patches of land. But In those countries the land will produce - duce three crops a year nqd tine laborers get something for their work. Here it is su high , tlust only potatoes , barley and a grain culled qulaos , which Is much like bird seed , uati wbibh makes a very lair Inuuh , > fll / srpw. The barley does' not ripen , and it Is raised chiefly' for fodder' for'tho ' mules dorkeys or cattle. The potatoes are very small and few in a hill , and the soil Is such that it is only here and there that you find a patch thatcan be farmed. The effort to get land that can he cultivated at all is so evident as to be almost painful. The stones huvo been picked from a great part of the plateau. We passed long stretches of country where there were vast plies of stones scattered over the fields , and in several places I saw Indian women going along bent double picking up stones in the gathered up skirts of their dresses , and thus carrying them to the piles. Much of the plateau is covered with a scanty growth of grass. Upon such places there are herds of sheep and llamas feeding. Each herd is watched by an Indian shepherdess - herdess , who has a spinning spool in her tunnd and keeps on spinning while she tends her flock. She uses a sling to keep the animals from straying , and with unerring aim sends a stone straight at the llama or sheep that steps onto the fields of her neighbors. There are no fences in this part at Bolivia. The cattle in the fields are , no a rule , staked or hobbled by tying a rope about their front legs just above the ankles. You often see a drove of donkeys so fastened , and horses and mules are tied in this way all over Peru and Bolivia. 1 Such farming as Is done is after the crudest - , est methods. I caw no signs of mnnuro being - ing anywhere used , though there were great. piles of it lying at every stable , where we got a new relay of mules. I have been told that the natives know nothing of the uses of fertilizers , and that they only bring up the land by letting 1t lie fallow and by a ietation of crops. The tools are in all cases of native make. The only American tools I have seen are llartford axes. Potatoes - tatoes are dug by the women , who use little strips of iron shaped something like an arrow - row with a wide , fiat stem. This Is grasped in the middle with the band and the woman beetling double scoops the potatoes out of tine hills. Barley is cut with little sickles with saw teeth and such rude hoes as are used have handles so short that the workers - ers have to bend close to the ground to use them. Tim plowing is nil done by oxen with rude wooden plows , to which a point made of a lint iron bar about two inches wide is fastened , A long tongue or beam extends from the plow to the yoke , which Is tied to the horns of thin oxen , the weight of pulling the plow being done with the head and not with the shoulders , as with us. Freight 1l'ngrN of tile jtnll'S , I have given you some idea of how freight Is carried hero by wagon. Very few goods are taken from one part of the country to another on wheels , The greater part is carried on donkeys , mules , llamas or on the backs of men and women , There are no baggage wagons or drays In La Paz , We met with none on the road to Oruro , although - though we passed droves of animals loaded with all sorts of burdens. There were scores of donkeys carrying bundles of coco leaves on their backs to the towns further south. There were llamas loaded with bundles of silver cro stalking proudly along uvllh cooked ears , nail there were many trains of mules carrying goods of all kinds. Eaclt trait was managed by one or two Indlau men and women , wino walked wither or behind the animals , and who , as far as I could see , never ride them , Most of the women hind bundles on their backs and not a feu carried little babies there slung in shawls. All prospectors here use mules for traveling over the country. All supplies for the mines must be carried through the mountains in this way. The macbfnrry for tninhng lu Bolivia must be made in sections , no piece of allied can be larger than a 1111110 can carry on its back , and ovel'y bit of machinery has to be carried In thla way , The merchandise which our exporters in- lead for Bolivia should be put up lg boxes d or bales of about 100 pounds each , so that two of the packages will just form a load for a mule. Otherwise the chief centers of Bolivian trade cannot be reached. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Gossip ABOUT 110'11) PEOPLl3 , The death of Charles Levi Woodbury of Boston recalls the old story in which ills father and ltaesler , the great coast surveyor - veyor , figured. Hassler applied to President Jackson for such an increase of salary that the latter pointed out that it would exceed the remuneration of the secretary of the treasury. Hassler , drawing himself up proudly , said ; "Mr. President , you can get fifty Woadburys ; there ( s but one Hassler. " Mr , Poppe of Germany , with his wire and a friend , went to Monte Carlo recently to wln a fortune on a aura system of betting devised by the friend. They lost $2,000 anti determined to commit suicide. The three sat on the beach at Antibes , then walked Into the water up to their necks ; each held a revolver and at a word from Poppe put it to the head anti fired , The Poppes were killed instantly , but the friend survived long enough to tell the story , Rev , Mr. Bovan , once pastor of the Brick church in New York City and now pastor of a church in Melbourne , Australia , says that on the eve of starting on his famous Mid- lothian campaign Mr. Gladstone called and asked for books bearing on the provincial church councils of the elevenths and twelfth centuries. Asked by the astonished bibllo- philo why he wanted such books at such a time , the area' . stn'-csman simply replied : "Oh , I am golns to take them with ma to road lu the train. " On the day of Gladstone's funeral ar- rangeuunts were made in the little village of Lower Culling to ring a muffled peal in memory of the deceased statesman , Tine bells were muffled and all was made ready , but not one of the ringers put in an appear- ance. A local paper explained the next day that all the landowners of the neighborhood - hood are tories and that the bellringeru , who belong to the laboring class , would have become - come marked men by taking part in such a manifestation of respect and revcrenco for the grand old man , A Washington woman wile has just r0- turned from Omaha relates in the I'ost "that she heard of a remarkable name out there. It belongs in the Estnbrook family , and when one says Estabrook in Nebraska It is flu if one said Leo in Virginia or Adams in Massachusetts. Tile owner of the name is a grandson of old General Estnbrook , the family's pioneer across lho Missouri. 1Yhen tine child was born his parents desired to give him the names of his two grandfathers , General Estabrook's name was Experience- General 13xperlenco Estnbrook. The other grandfather's name was Asad. It was the intention to give General Iistabrook's name as the first name , but at his particular ro- tquest the other grandfather's ' name led oft , anti the luckless boy was actually christened Asad Experience Estabrook" IIiIJGIOUB , Two Baptist seminaries nail three Baptist colleges are seeking presidents , The Hindu Tract society has Issued ° circular warning the people against listen. lag to Christian preacberu. Tile watchword of tutu Utah Christian 1'n ' ? deavorurs is : "Something tor everybody t ° do anti everybody doing something. " I ) . Lamson , president of the American board , Is said by someone to be "a liberal In theology by the liberals , and a con- servalivo by the conservatives , and loved by nil , " It Is stated that over 40,000 of the work e of Ur. Channing have been given away b Y tbo Amsrjcan hlrritnrlxa association In a recent years. The gratuitous distribution in England was quito as large. At the National Congregational council $ which closed its sessions at Portland , Ore. , recently a considerable portion of the time was given to the coaslderation of a plan for the federation of denominations and for consolidating - solidating the annual meellags of the benevolent societies. ) The Watchman states that "there is a more rapid increase of lsaptiats on the con- I . of Europe titan ever before in the history of the world. Several cllurehes in France , with their pastors , have come over to Baptist ranks and openly ulliad themselves - ( selves with the Baptist denomination , " , At the close of the Endeavor convention l at Nashville when tine bleho t called for a message from Bishop Arnett of the African Methodist conference the two old men , ex- 1 4 confederate and ex-slave , white and hack , t f south and north , stood with clasped hands , , before the audience and nil the people gave vent to cheers. Chairman Landreth of the Endeavor convention - ; vention at Nashville said : "It is hard for us who have been born since the civil war ' to believe that there over was a clvll war. And if there hnd beer suchh Christian En- , denver conventions held nortb and south , prior to 1860 , as this , there never would have been a war. " i Tim amount of that money Afro-Ameri- cnns raise for church purposes is bewilder- t lag , The Baltimore Afro-American says that in llaltbnoro rho Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal church ! s building a church to cost $70,000 ; St. John's church has contracted - tracted to purchnso a parsonage for $ : ,560 , I and thin North Street Baptist church 1s col- " letting funds to build a $10,000 church , $5,000 , of whicik it has in bank. Tito Afro. American adds : " Wo wonder , considering the poverty of many of the members , where tile mauoy tonnes from to mcct their heavy expenditures , " The contributions for the last year for foreign missions of the Presbyt ° rian church ( have been $881,000. On million doflara is said to be necessary for the next year , if a debt would ho avoidetl. To rneot tills sum there must be an average Increase in Con- tributlona of 20 per cent. Moro that 33 per cent of the receipts of the board or foreign missions the last year have coma through teh women's boards and the young people's societies , 'I'nn of a IClnd , i Detroit Free Press : "I boy a nee wan , Gllhooley. " v "I'hsvat is ut , Dinny ? " "l'hwut's th' dlftrunce bechune a cow bell nn' ' a selilay help" "Lavu Inc think a mimlut. "nov yes got at ? " "I hay not , Dinny ; phwat is th' tilf- ( rmnce ? " " 911' sound , ye dom fool , . F "Ali g'wan ! " "Say , Cllhuoley" I'Ph tnt ? " "hero comes Moorphy , iuov yes Ivor met 'Im ? " "I hov not" "Would yes like to ? " "An ye pluze. I know Casey 'n' ylrslit nn' another fool an' I might es wall be t interjoced t' Moorpby off he's 'or ( rind , " "Boot how'li I Interjooce yoz ? Moorphy's deaf 'n' thumb. " ' 1'd like t' mate 'Ira th' more lur thot , ' "lily ? " "I knew a deaf 'n' domb mon onct , an' liked 'tin rule much. " 'Pity ? ' "lie wuz so sbmart makin' aft hand remarks - marks , ' " ' " "All g'Wanl" BI nn u IIb it , , A quartet of church folks called at a western hospital the other day , relates the liuffalo Exprtss , with a respectful request to he allowed to sing to 1.110 patients , Thu bustling woman superintendent gave tl a do- aired permieslel. One of the singers attracted - tracted tutu attention of the superintendent by his uneasiness , She thought his ( nee was familiar , but failed to place him. Florally , after n couple of bongs lad beau sung , her curiosity got the better of her and , walking over to the man , she said ; "Haven't I seen you scmevhero before ? " "Sh-h , " ho whispered warningly. "I'm with Dean , the undertaker , . , f.
