Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1900, Page 14

o Tue ILustraTED BEE. P'ublished Week by 1 I 'u J ‘ I Entered at the Or I ( Mail Mutter ( " dressed “Editor The (llustrated | Omaha’ ————————————— e e - et Pen and Picture Pointers The frontispicce th ook w made by our staff artist near Weepl Water, Neb on the Hne of the Missouri Pacific railroad I'he engineer of the special train, Mr. L. 1 turton, had been asked to join the part at the rear of the train for a picturs on tor Hanna, stepping off his car, caught the engineer's hand as he pa 1 and said 1 ou are the engineer of this trai nth party, you run me Senator Hannn o oAy e zed man the engineer, Mr. Burton, bei what mall of stature, making th I [ imusually large in the picture. Mr. Hanna has a clear skin, deep brown ‘ nd an oxceedingly genfal and cheerful digposition He has over 6,000 men in his cmple I ha never had a strike There was great curiosity to see him, du to the cartoons of the pre ind vast nun bers of people expressed surpr to fi Mu such a nice, genial looking eldey pentmman . One of the most enthusiastic republican in Red Oak, Ta., Is Master Mark Hanna, whe vas born during the St Loul onvenlon MARK HANNA, RED OAK, Ia BORN DURING REPUBLICAN CONVEN TION IN 1806 NAMED IN HONOR OF OHIO SENATOR June 16, 1806 His father Newton Hanna I a prominent citizen and admircs President McKinley no less than he does Senator Hanuva, The boy mother I a relative of the Jate General Sam Houston of Texas Mr. Newton Hanna has preserved a copy of he mailed republican letter which four yeares ago the chairman of the which was as follow the to national committee, ““Unto us a child is born; unto us a son is given,' his name of ne sity must be Hanna, and in honor of your great victory for McKinley we have emed it not im proper to prefix the word Mark and call him Mark Hanna. He has good blood in his velns, His mother Is a Houston and his father ~well, you know the Hannas are all good men.” Congressman Charles Dick, who was in 1806 secretary of the national commlittee, re plied to this letter, and in conclusion sald “Mr. Hanna directs me to thank you for the compliment and to say that he wishes your son a useful and happy life and will expect to hear good reports of him in the future.” Young Mark is about as lively a repub- lean as 1s his great namesake and during the intervening four years has grown to be a really handsome baby boy, as can be seen by the accompanying picture. He very bright mentally and in disposition as cheery and buoyant as the famous senator ever was is @ Mrs. Emma L. Talbot of South Omaha was chosen president of the Rebekah assembly of Nebraska at the meeting held recently in York. Mrs. Talbot is a native of Ohio, hav ing been reared in Champaign county. She was a school teacher for nine years and married in Columbus, O, woming dlrectly west with her husband, Claude L. Talbot, to Cheyenne, Wyo, and St. Paul, Minn. In 1889 she moved to South Omaha, where she became identified with the Rebekahs, filling nearly every position within the gift of her home lodge from captain of the gree staff for six to eight years to the highest repre sontative to the state assembly and for three years past has held the offices of grand warden, secretary and vice president in that body, and today holds the highest office within the gift of the Rebekahs of the state Although devoted to her home and family THE she I8 an active worker in the church, sec- retary of the South Omaha Hospital asso clation, past matron of the Star, president of the King's Daughters soclety, jastern lady commander of the Maccabees, a mem ber of the Woman's Relief Corps and has 180 been an active worker in the Omaha Woman's club since 1805 D A Nebraska girl who is winning fame td a name in the musical world is Miss M. Lou Ormsby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs E. W. Ormsby of Central City, who I €. JOHNSON, HOLMESVILLE, Neb NEW GRAND MASTER OF NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FEL- 1.OW in re nt public appearances in Paris came nto prominence by finding favor with tal ented diences of musicians and musical riti Mi Ormsby early displayed a tal ent for music and remarkable powers of voice After exhausting the resources for musical training at her home she entered the New England Conservatory of Musi in Boston from which she graduated vith honors in June 184, Later he tudied in Florence [taly, under the noted Vaunnceini, and then went to Paris and is finishing opera under the French teacher, Marchesi, being the only Nebraska pupil with Marchesi. She has a dramatic soprano voice and sing I'rench, German and Italian with a perfec tion of accent her teachers that has Next June Miss Ormsby com en a surprise to pletes her studies, when she will make her debut as an opera singer and is looked upon in Paris as one of the coming stars About Noted People Irederick Lyous, the Milwaukee million alre and ploneer, who recently retired from active business, came from England to Wisconsin in 1845, The Layton Art gal- lery, which he gave Milwaukee, cost $276,- il one of the of in the middle west B Doremus, the Philharmonic society of New recently celebrated the golden of his wedding, received upon his election in 1867 a most noteworthy dis tinction, the entire society visiting his immediately after and serenading No other man in New York has ever such 000 contains best collec tion pictures n (8] lent of the York, who anniversary I veteran presi house him received serena Among the being told of Joseph Chamberlain is one to the effect that while in Paris time ago he saw an exceed- ingly orchid Mr. Chamberlain, who Is an enthusiast the matter of orchids, isked its I'wenty pounds ($100)," the florist, “and it is the only speci in France.” Chamberlain paid over the money and tere up the beautiful flower, ot rare in price soid men \wving ‘I have a duplicate in my own collection and 1 object to a Frenchman owning this.’ B Rev. Edward Everett Hale has uttered 4 shout of jubilation over the fact that five of the heroes selected for enrollment in the Hall of Fame were Boston Latin school boys, “One in six,” he says, “ought even Latin school pride; and this is a list which can afford to leave out John Hancock, Henry Knox, Lothrop Mot- ley, Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner, el Verdl celebrated nis eighty-eighth birth- day recently at his villa in St, Agate, Italy His first opera, “Oberta,” was produced In Milan sixty-seven years ago. He is the author of twenty-six operas, The venerable maestro is devoting his time at present to erecting a home for superannuated Italian artists of all classes. It is being built in to satsfy Milan and will furnish shelter for 100 in- mates @ George Francls Train lives in a very small room at one of the Mills hotels in New York and has not left the building for months. He gets out of bed every morning between 4 and 6 o'clock and spends nearly all his waking hours in reading news pay About 6 o'clock in the evening he Is ready to retire for the night. The former millionaire says that when the Transiberian railroad is completed he will belt the world in thirty days.' B Frederick Macmonnies, whose great work, the fountain at the World's fair was among the attractions of the Jack- son park exposition, has determined that next spring he will take up his residence In New York ard will temporarily glve up mallet and chisel for palette and brush ILLUSTRATED BEL. He is now in Paris at work on the eques trian statue of General Slocum, whi h to be set up in Brooklyn When th ] completed he wil for a time aband n sculpture for painting The public has somehow got the id gays Joel Chandler Harris in a recent in- terview in the Atlanta Datly News, ‘“that I am too modest a great mistake big apple dumpling we close by, I to be healthy, but that is With the exception of a with a of butter know of nothing nicer in a large armcnair and hear your friends kind things about you when they think you're not listening Told Out of Court bowl n to sit say “You ought to be able to tell a straigh story about the affair sald the lawyer tc a witness in an embezzling case “1 don't know about that replied the witness ‘It was a very crooked proceed ing." . Some time ago a well known barrister haa under cross-exatnination a youth from the country who rejoiced in the name of Samp son, whose replies were the causes of much laughter in court, report London Spare Moments “And so,”" questioned the barrister, “you wish the court to believe that you are a peacefully disposed and inoffensive kina ol person ‘And that yoi have no desire to follow the steps of your namesake, and smite the Phil istines? “No I've not,” answered the youth, “and if 1 had the desire I ain’t got the strength at present.” Then you think you would be unable to cope successfully with a thousand enemics and utterly rout them with the jawbone of an ass?" “Well," answered the ruffled Sampson | might have a try when you have done with the weapon.' . The absent minded lawyer that was the subject of a humorous recollection by one of Detroit’s veteran members of the tar fur nigshed him - with another interesting reminiscence “This lawyer,” said he to a Free Press man was quite bald- in fact, he was the the most peculiarly bald man 1 believe | ever saw. The baldness began at his eye brows and furrowed it way clear back to his neck. The growth of hair on each side was quite luxuriant by contrast, so that with his hat off he presented a peculiar. type of manly beauty that had to be culti vated by degrees, like the taste for mush- rooms or Limburger cheese. He was quite sensitive about his personal appearance, and when on the street wore his hat weil down over his head to hide the rear skull ox MISS M YOUNG PARIS, LOU ORMSBY WOMAN STUDYING NEBRASKA MUSIC IN posure profession Though clever and prominent in his he had also the reputation of being rather unscrupulous and ‘tricky.’ “One day when court was not in session he strolled into a basement in his absent minded way He was in a deep study and his hat was well down over his eyes, leaving the rear cranial surface prominently posed **Oh, mamma," chirped a little girl, man's got two **‘What a child!" remarked a lawyer noted for his fund of dry humor and whose knowledge of the absent minded one's shady doings intimate." Happiest Class of People In writing of “The Happiest Class of Peo- ple” in the Woman's Home Companion for October, John Gilmer Speed arrives at the following conclusion: *I have told you who are the unhapplest men, and now it is my pleasant duty to speak of the happiest state Solomon ox ‘at faces.' precocious was indicated it in his petition, ‘Give me neither riches nor poverty.' There is in that, as in most of the proverbs, both defi nition and description—neither riches nor poverty I need say little more We all know what the alternative is -that middle state where the income safely exceeds the expenditure. Then a man can be happy and he have a good temper and a robust digestion—it does not make much difference what goes on around him. He is safe, and for the time being at least his family is s cure. The best thing about this happle state is that it has within it such a tre mendously large class. It is not only a man here and there that belongs within it; the t | G ! GENERAL DANIEL E. SICKLES PPhoto by Louis R, Bostwick. ' [ In this country it em- brace 1l ot the great middle class And the ve reat majority of them do not even kr l theirs is the happiest state; they 1o Ircam how well they are off. Some i then being wrong-headed men, envy their richer neighbors; some others throw a their valuable sufficiency in the en deavor to get riches; some others get riches, ind then are not as happy as they were be- fore. Let those who are in this happiest tate continue in it if they can, for the world at large and the country at home has great need for them They constitute the great conservative force—the force which pre- vents the democratic country from going pellinell to smash; they represent the solid which between the of a honesty stands midway too rapid social reform and insatiable greed of the unscrupulous who look upon the whole world a gold mine that belongs to them by right of In- heritance or purchase. Happy should be the land where this class is very great; and it is greater in the United States than anywhere else in the world.” Small for Its Age Moments Pat called as the Cow and Pail for of whisky, when conversation ensued hetween and himself madness the as London usual one his three the following the landlady Spare morning at pennyworth Pat—This is good whisky, mum? Lady--Yes, Pat. Can you guess the ag of it? Pat-—No, mum Landlady—Well, it's thirty years old Pat (eyeing the threepence worth)—Oim a-thinkin' it be moighty small for its age, mum He Made a Shrewd Deal ‘It is all right to talk about the robber railroads, but we get robbed once in a while ourselves,” said the right-of-way agent to a Detroit F s man. ‘‘The railroad that I am working for has been engaged for some time in straightening out the curves on its line and the work has kept me busy getting the necessary right- of-way of the farmers whose land we run through. There is nothing that will in- crea the value of a farm so much as an impression that a railroad will need, some of it But 1 got along fairly well until last week, when, to straighten out a bad curve, I found that we would have to buy a few feet from the farm that adjoins our right way The moment 1 set eyes on that piece of ground 1 saw that I was going to have trouble with the owner, for upon it was a newly made grave. I hated to approach the man, but a railroad can't afford to be sentimental; so 1 put the case before him ““What!" he cried, ‘disturb those hallowed bones? ‘1 am solutely orry,” I answered that is on.’' old man protested with tears ind threatened to take the mat into court, the last thing that I desired to do, as I wouldn't care to say what a jury would do after a lawyer was through with them. 1 argued with him and finally got the land that we desired by paying him five ‘but have it is ab- the land nece that the grave “Well, the in his eye ter sary we times what it was worth “INow sald 1, after the papers were passed, ‘I suppose you will remove the re- mains at once?’ ‘‘Guess not," said he “'Well, T guess you will!’ said I, sharply, ‘that land belongs to us now.’ " ‘Wul,’ he drawled, ‘I don't suppose the A VISITOR TO OMAHA October 28, DURING THE LAST WillEK ol' hog what's buried thar cares whether he is removed or not.’ “Say! that old sharper ing there but a measly hog the hallowed bones had buried noth and then shed tears over till T weak ened. “Well, it was on me; after advising the old fellow to be careful in the future and not bury any more of his relatives near our right-of-way, I left."” S0, Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News dry subjects. Egyptian mummies are The product of a tight shoe or of an oak tree is a-corn The average lazy man is too lazy to worry about his laziness. A heart full of grace is better than a head full of notions. A woman will pardon want of sense quicker than want of manners There is more style about sfome board- ing houses than there is grub. If you would be paid according to your own idea of your worth, get necessary. Some people talk a long time before you can get at what they are trying to say. With the exception of a neglected husband MRS. EMMA L. TALBOT, SOUTH OMAHA —NEW PRESIDENT OF THE NE- BRASKA REBEKAH ASSEMBLY--Photo by Petersen, there is no sadder spectacle than a neglected wife, The hand that rocks the « radle can seldom throw a brick to hit anything in sight. Never judge a man by the silk umbrella he carries; he may have left a cotton one somewhere in its place. The Sultan Detroit Journal “What,"” asked the sultan, casually, “is the meaning of dun?"’ “Done,” replied the imperial tutor in English, quite misunderstanding his majesty “is a principal part of do.” “Ah, 1 begin to understand!' the monarch, starting violently, powers imagine if they dun me they will eventually do me!" Then the royal brow darkened order went farth that the personally review his troops massacre later in the day. muttered “The enough and the sultan would in a sham 4.