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2 THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. October Tur [uLustrated Ber b ng since the close of the Chi- postoffice. He sent In 5 cents (o0 i | ——————— — lapancse war, might have resulted in once, but did not know it until yesterday -} massacre of every foreigner if it had when the check came, accompanied by a Published Weel 1 T'he Bee Pu L € tated by the Boxer upri letter of explanation I'his was the first Con Bee | ledir e 1, N time that Resoner ever knew he had given Une Sam too much money. He says the Price, 5 con s per ol | About Noted People covernment will stil e indebted on it Kntered &l the Omaha Postof econd ik i accounts to the Wheeling postoffice, for Clags Mail Matt on Napoleon Parent, the new premier pe qoes not intend to cash the check, but 4 Quebec, has gone from the bottom to the wi|) have it framed and hung in his home For advertising 1 s | op of the political ladder in the province 4 4 gouvenir of Uncle Sam's squarent : - the last ten ye 1590 he was Known and honesty Comn it b to only a few of ywe at the bar and or articles for publication should be ad« ., Soypn iy wour years later he was elected dressed Editor ‘The [Ilustrated 1 v Omaha.” mayor of Quebec and so well pleased the Woman as Iceman - tizer that when he was chosen premier ALl 2 AN The latest field of ind ) ! H N H . . ate Ie of industry, heretofore suj "L‘“ Zl"d I’Ic‘l” C l'(”"“” S Duniel AL Sell of Gettysburg, Pa., claims bosed to belong exclusively to the male sex { A% & frontispiece (his week we print a (e distinction of being the smallest fireman o be invaded by women is that of the ice home plcture of Mr Draper mith, the nothe United State Danny the fireman man At Kensington, one of Philadelphia’s newly elected president of the Cobraskn A% he ds called, is 3 feet 8 inches tall, some pleasant susburbs, Miss Mary Morris is en { Nalaration: ot Watetits Et) ho Bite it cars old and has for some time been a %aged in supplying the people with cooling l office as th aanime otoe i the of the Gettyshurg fire department cubes for their refrigerators and is one of omelt of Nobrusks e " i firemet parade in Reading two yvears 'he most prosperous of her guil S0 ac Ohis, tia X soarol neni Tolod " o received o badge for being the small- Customed have the people of Kensington be { thoush not ¥ oy p oy P fireman in the state and has been simi- ¢ome to Mi Morris and her fine large team 1 16l e hie § : rly honorcd on o her cecasion that the matter has ceased to be a wonder Bttt have mads her 5 valiuahle At i . and rain or shine the housewives look for TRt a 5 Wi Hetatel h b Onee apremier of Ttaly, Signor Crispi is ward to her daily trips. This was not the | ith o honih o 9 much the public eve now This | case, however, when the innovation was be { and. thouxh d atl 3 Byt a1 \ omething of a ble ne. one would think ®un Often cold looks met the courageous He " \ g o0 the & \ Had hen o ofMice, the Iznor had several Young \u‘u.u,m Some even went so far as formerly been hoers in looal affaire. ang MATTOW escapes from assassination. After to say, “The audacity of it—a woman ped S LS A S L B the last, in 1894, he took to wearing a coat dNng ice In two or three little communi | gl I dintly Se i s irtep OF mail under his clothe ind had his car ties the matter was even adjudged by the man b i i G B lage transformed into a4 miniature arsenal, term “scandalous but all these comments rminer fled ; £ He also took the precaution of having his Nave ceased long ago All of the old cus q own monument erected in o4 Nanles ceme. 10mers of Miss Morris' aged father remained k- ',"' ‘,"‘ i AL LR AL, wmd it is £l to be seen, with jts @nd new ones have been almost daily a Vot kn renii ot (Ethe: Ontatin al0:- wiiah E J . Mary Morris s 19 years of age. She | oo she Hited dus e nil- 1800, Paw Hi Coleman of Delaware, who has just well known in the vicinity of her home ‘ Women i the State Federation are borrer JCHE0ed from his annual tramp incognito, where she was born and where her father { qualified to . Helelr ot ay jlr-' one man told him stories about John Morris, and her mother passed their | . himself, and that he was taken for a peddlar, lives Her education is above the average | He A, O Hirst. DD Lt D the 1t v shoemaker, a carpenter, a school teacher, Always bright in school, her natural quick pagtor of th First Methodist Epigcopal took agent and the advance man of a ness stood in good stead and her pleasant church of Omat has been in the minigtey C'FOY One young wogian thought at first smile aided in making many customers dur Tor the: fant o\ Wb e has flled foad. e was “a bum," and admitted as much. ing the first season Children ran after hin shouting ‘Old After her father's illness, which has con REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR CONG Kriss! On ton of a mountain he met an REV A C HIRST D L. L. D). NEW PASTOR OF FIRST METHODIST EPIS COPAL CHURCH g pulpits in Columbus, Chilhicothe and Cineinnatd, O, Pittsburg, Paand was called from the pastorate of the Trinity Methodi church, Cincimnati, to the presidency of the University of the Pacific He was then four years at Simpson Memorial church San Francisco and wa transferred 10 Centenary church, Chicago, where he re mained five year and from which charge he comes to Omaha, Few clergymen of the Methodist denomination have had bhetter APPOINLMents, more prosperous pastoriate or more successful career Dr. Hirst is profound scholar, a clear, vigorous, up-to date thinker, o graceful cloquent and forcible speaker and a preacher of great power. He is also a lecturer of rare ac complishments and his platform work ha met with unstinted praise 'he community and the First Methodist church are to e gratulated upon (he pifte quisition of thi preacher This week we print an arvay of heauty that cannot help but interest the women readers of The IHlustrated Bee The pittures of feur of the most prominent leader of fashionable society in Fort Dodge, o are reproduced in o neat, artistic design which Lo very effective in bringing out the dif ferent sty of bheanty I'he weet hittle miss, sitting on her royal throne holdin scopter in her hand, is Mi \lice Brook daughter of Mr. and My Brool who wa crowned queen of the floral parade at Lin coln, Nebo Miss Utie MeKay, queen of 1h recent floral carnival at Missouri Valley la ig one of the most charming young women o that ety She was born and reared i My sourt: Valley, being the daughter of B A MeKay who for year ha heen Wi Kknown and successful busin niat | city M MeKay will raduate fro High school with the class of 1901 The men composing the legislative del gation on the Douglas county rep ticket are introduced to the reader of The Hlustrated Bee by They are all so well identified with 1t} different intere of the county that th need no further introduction Frank ¢ Curpenter wri China preat conspiracy to drive all tho foreigne out of the country This me n headed by the empress dowager and of the high Chinese officials were impli in it Phe conspiracy, which has aged farmer who quoted Schiller While the American Banker association \ i in Richmond it had the doubtful vleasure of listening while Rev. John D Tasper delivered his famous sermon on “The m Do Move I'he venerable colore preacher, who is now nearly 90 years of a consents to deliver the ermon and was rewarded by having such a cong wion as he had never before seen, consisting of the banker with their fashionably dressed wives and daughter He was listened e vith close attention, though his hearers al time had some difficulty in restraining o tendency to smile at his quaint sayvings . Lord Waolseley, the retiving commander of the British army, is not tall, but compactly i neatly made, with a slight, boyish fig ure He ha v large head Except for a mall menstache he is clean shaven and hig face s notable for its high cheek bones and bright blue eye which meet the world with traight and frank expression. He is keen e alert and hi dres I8 correct and mart in every detail He has had an vnazing amount of good fortune If he had not fallen into a covered pit while leading v charge of his men during the second Bur mesoowar in 1852 he would most assuredly bave been shot down, for not a man in the front ranks escaped death In the trenches betore Sebastopol in 18G4, after a hard day's fighting, a friend came across his insensible body among o heap of corpses awaiting burial. Anxious to see his comrade prop erly interred he carvied the supposed corpse to his hut, where, thanks to the warm wood fire Ensign Wolseley presently gave signs of returning life On one occasion a ball passed through his forage cap without in uring him. He Fas been wounded in no less than twelve places by shell splinters and in the Crimean war a bullet passed literally through his body and out, causing a wound of no importance. 1t was healed in a few day ¥ | Tries to Be Honest George Resoner of Muncie, Ind., has re celved a cent cheek from the Treasury department at Washington, D, ¢, in pay ment of an excess settlement made by him fourteen vears ago, when he was post master of Wheeling, a small town four mile northwest of that city At that time Resoner made his usual monthly re port and settlement through the Cincinnati WRECK fined him to his home for some two years Miss Morris found that his business was fast dwindling away owing to the neglect of em ployes. So ghe resolved to attend to its de talls personally So. in company with her 13-year-old brother she undertook to supply patrons At the close of this season she finds, instead of ‘the deficit that stared her in the face last year, a handsome profit to her eredit \s aru she suid the other day when speaking of her work, “everybody has given me the kindest treatment, Only Two customers we ¢ angry because 1 took the route and after expressing their views about a woman who would do such a thing, quit It is but fair to say that neither of these two was among the first-class cus tomers, persons buying large bills Once my feclings were somewhat hurt at the theater in Kensington when two young men cried out, ‘How would you like to be the lee girl?” but after thinking over the mat ter 1 ‘ided they were only 2-cent theater dudes and it didn’t make any difference “Yes, I am happy happy because | didn't fail and helped my fathe the family Papa has be invalid. My younger sister de the house work and Willie goes with me on the trips A\ stable boy takes care of the horses. We all work. Father also carries on a coal busi- ness, but the men drive the two wagons and I merely look after the accounts and see that the custon A Smooth Drummer A French commerical traveler was ex pecting a large order from a country trades man, but had the misfortune to arrive in the town on i fete day, Finding the shop cloged be inquired as to the whereabouts of the proprietor, and ascertaining that he was attending the fete, about a mile out of the town, set out after him. When he arrived there a balloon was on the point of ascend ing, and he saw his man stepping into the car Plucking up courage he stepped for ward, paid his money and was allowed to tuke his seat with the other aeronauts Away went the balloon, and it was not until the little party was well above the tree tops that the “commercial” turned to ward his customer with the first remark of And now, sir. what can 1 do for you in calicoes” parents were Quakers livelihood young Morlan the family his father and the rest of ‘0 bedridden for education of six months and my older brother is also an supplemented attendance Coming to Nebraska IS649 his first Burlington Plattsmouth s are properly treated, He spent the and this end of the business has also kept month of June Louisville He commenced the practice of law Saline county, moving from wis on the bench in the old Eighth district, Burlington Of sturdy, industrious and boundless industry have char- bringing him the highest repute with his fellow professional fore them and exhibited AT PACIFIC JUNCTION, la.—Photo by NEBRASKA DISTRICT Hon. W. S. Morlan--- Candidate for Congres candidate the v good judgment of the republicans of the Fifth district, that in looking about for a man to represent them in the great political contest this year, they should unanimously settle upon W, Morlan, who by birth, experience and sym hy is better endowed than any other man in the district to represent all classes ably and honestly in the national le ature Pointed Paragraph Chicago News: Indus good luck. ry is the mother of It is a poor brand of charity that sticks to the finger When the spider captures a fly he con- siders it net gain, Ceremony wus invented by a wise man to keep fools a distance, It's difficult to keep your circle of ac- quaintances on the square, Solitude is better than company—when the company is not congenial. Umbrellas are great bluffers; it's a case of put up or shut up with them. When it comes to wrestling with his first moustache the youth ig apt to get it down Most men wverry over their trials, but the lawyer worries when he doesn't have any The candidate who is unable to dodge issues had better give up the job and go to work. Some people are so constituted that they are unhappy unless they have something to worry about. A man should have plenty of backbone for himself —and plenty of ham bone for the rest of the family. Matrimony frequently resembles a be- ed city; those who are out want to get in and those who are in want to get out. Alviays speak to your barber when you meet him on the street If you don't he muy get even by cutting u when in his chi The av geowoman is not averse to he- ing looked after, for she is nearly always conceited enough to think she commands every man's admiration Prepared to Back it Up Chicago Tribune The hypercritical stranger with the banged hair stepped in side the shoemaker's shop, on the window of which was the sign: Deformed Feet a Specialty We Guar- mtee a Fit,’ I presume,” he said, “you carry on two separate kinds of business here—supply ing the demand for deformed feet and giving fits to anybody who may happen to be out of fits.” No, sir,” replied the shoemaker. “'They both go together. Abner,” he continued turning to a club-footed hoy who was dozing near the stove, “throw a fit for the Zentleman,' Which Abner at once procecdei to do With a realism and verisimilitude that filled the strange caller with horror.