Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-05

Barrows who was private secretary to
Bishop Newman, who formerly lived in
Omaha, and he reported the famous New
man-Pratt Mormon debate at Salt Lake.
He is a graduate of Harvard"
Mrs. Barrows was tho official stenog-
rapher Of the congress and, though equally
prominent with her husband as an author,
she was brought out from New York by
the congress to make an official report Of
the proceedings because of her ability as
an editor and stenographer.
MuIIiEan and the secretarysbtp.
The delegate who went straight home to
the hearts Of those he met and who ruled
the convention with an iron hand bossing
president and delegates without discrlmna-
ton, was the secretary, DR.. ]. l.. Milligan.
He has just rounded out 81 years as chap
lain of the Western penitentiary at Allie
gheny, Pa. and the seventeenth year as
secretary OF the National Prison associa-
ton He is as soft and pliable and as APP
proachable and as sociable as a man can be.
and he is just the reverse when he wants
TO be.
A stream Of delegates passed through his
room one morning. after he had stated he
would not again be a candidate for secre-
tary. Each had expressed regret that the
DOCTOR WOulO not again ne CdnuludNo anu
nearly all offered to wager that he would
be. Finally lone delegate filed in
"Dr. Milligan, 1 am awful glad to see you.
I understand they are going to make you
secretary again"
You do. do you; we'll you understand
wrong"
well, I guess they will make you take
It"
'They wontl They won't! You stop that
talk. 1 won't have IL. No. sir. won't and
that settles It," and before the man had
gotten out the doctor had told a number of
good funny Incidents, and proved that he
was as good about bluffing as he was about
looking after the affairs of the association.
DR.. Miligan, among other stories, told
how he stopped smoking. He said: II had
been an inveterate smoker for years and on
the occasion speak Of had just received
from Cuba a lot of tobacco and had it made
into cigars in the prison. was just coming
out of the prison gate with cigar in my
hand when small boy said:
"a Mister, give me light
II looked at the little fellow a minute
and then said to him: Young man, don't
you know it is wrong to smoke You should
not smoke
"''Gwan.' he said amt you smoking
yourself?'
1.-THE boy had the best of the argument
and concluded It did look rather bad to go
around preaching against smoking with a
cigar in my mouth, so quit. Incidentally
DR.. Sharp, a theologian of New York, got
half of those cigars and Dean Fair Of Lon
don got the other half
Shortly after the boy incident I went to
London, and while intended to stop smok-
ing took those cigars with me in case OF
emergency. I met DR.. Sharp on deck and
he wanted to smoke, but he couldn't stand
the ships cigars, so / gave him one. That
one cost me half OF those l had. I offered
one to Dean Fair and he begged me for the
balance Having no cigars easily kept my
promise to myself to quit smoking"
DR.. Milligan has on several occasions rep
resented the government at international
prison meetings in the old country, and he
has visited most of the big prisons an the
continent. He is unmarried, but the con-
vention thought so much of him that 1t pre-
scented him with an elegant diamond pin,
So he is not without admirers
o
System At Joliet.
mo prisoner can escape from Joliet" re-
marked Warden Murphy of that world
! famous institution to a group of delegates
who were discussing prisons in general
Now Warden Murphy is one OF the dele
! gates that Booth tried to have kidnapped
for a center because of his magnificen
proportions and naturally the group con
; cluded the prisoner could not escape II tn,
} warden was at the switch.
mo prisoner can escape for this reason.