Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1900, Page 16

| The Automobile in And Around Omaha by an enterprising constable who wd into service a milk wagon. The constable declared that Mr. Vanderbilt was going the rate of forty miles an hour, but wi to0ing thi preed. replied I was behind a Jersey horse One of Omaha enthusiasti automo bilists was driving through Florence not long ago and passed an lee wagon with a vr of large horse wttached, The dr r MISS MAE MOUNT, IN HANSCOM deprived of admiring pub mechanism pronouncing WITTMANN MYERS ARK. TPhoto by Louis R. Bostwick Wis in A che horses saloon, presumably tilling up the himselt. The after auto driver of the de heavier 1t and incidentally being untied, started full tilt. The auto, " after some quick cided that the fee wi ind turned sharply horses right-of-way distance and the re they ing the cecupants of the Tho of any to In until where the mohile at caleulations, the ice but a evidently RO Wis he ran ind gave They stopped wagon short enjoying of gly vehicle by community off, especially irrepressible small boy predom shol shooter had been the mean horsele automobile s owner an not means envied the the who is ready novelty has worn inates at the always to take a man steering with hi slingshot The remarks of Amers tean urchin are nowhere in the world ex celled for brightness and genuine pea the wit. n Photo by Louis R. Bostwick THE ) ILUSTRATED BEE. ind nofr fthe | Y . i One Omaha 1} f tled out to t hir < | smen has ‘de o) \ bile the 1 | | } or t each would po 1d i 1 hine h I \ ¢ rk ar Colored Woman's Grit | Old Sophia Holmes, the me crestit olored woman of her day, has left a ) il long live; and a record of which het race may well be proud he died in Washit noon O er ol where she had romark of d it tion, as the first colored woman to t given & life position und the United vospecial act of congre turing Lincolt Iministration She wa ha IO 1o it women in the D lon of |1 I depar ment, a position to which she was appoint ed by President Lincoln. One evening 1 1863, in Ve ifter closing hout he found a o i ba which had been wrelessly overl 1 by the em ploy and left out of the vault, Not knowing what to do and fearing to call watchman of whose honesty she was no ure he continued to weep back and forth until it was dark, then she dragged the chest as noiselessly as possible to place beneath a table and lay upon the top a entinel It was p midnight when General Sph ner then treasurer made h nightly round He had long made it a habit to leep in the building and to make a per onal survey of the department at mid night The negre listened and realizing whom It wa called out to him and made her discovery known. Noted for his profanity General Spinner i vd to have made good usge of his powers upon this occasion, and expressed his wrath in fiery volume The frightened woman at his command follow ed trembling to the room above, where at that unusual hour a committee meeting was called. She wa tbhsolved from all blame and allowed to return to her home which she did rejoicing Congress acted upon her deed of bravery and valbr, and subsequently appointed her to a life position in the Division of Issue department to carry packages of money from one employe to another, at the high est salary paid to laborers in the govern ment employ, which is $60 a month This position she retained until her death, always carrying herselt with dig nity which won the re of all her su verior officers On another occasion she detected a man tealing $47,000 from the countir room of the treasury and caused his arrest and the return of the money Sophia Holmes was born in Georgetown Vi, and was married to Melehior Holmes whose freedom he purchased with hei own carnings. He lost his life in the civil war Sophia Holmes was over 70 years of age how much she herself was unable to tell for as much as she was associated with flazure he had no memory for dates Mr. Sample, now treasurer of the United States. requested her to sit for the accom panyving sketeh and as she did so she re marked 'm gettin® ready to die now pects its most time Ccause 'mo gettin my picture sketehed I've been honest and I'm glad to give the world that record.” About Women's Feet Perhaps it will not be believed, but it is a fact that the feet of women reared in average from one to three sizes larger the feet in life a city than of country wamen of equal statior “Let a country born and bred woman who wears a No. 3 B shoe come to the city to live,” said a leading shoe merchant re cently, “and T'Il bet a pair of French heele | opera slippers against a pair of brogans that inside of six months she will be wearing a No. 8'y ¢, and that before the end of two years, or say three years, she will be glad to be able to get into a No. 5 B If you don't believe this just interview all your country bred women friends who have become city residents and you will discover that this is trus ‘Asphalt and cut stone pavements are re ponsible for this peculiarity, just as they are responsible for the increased sensitive ness and enlarged growth of a horse's feot I'he feet of the thoroughbred that has never cantered over anything save the yielding so of a stock farm or the soil of a race cours show a marked difference after the same horse has been driven several years over he hard city street Were it not for the skill of the veterinari and the adjust ment of rubber pads abo the tender por tions of the hoof they would often I obliged to suffer As the soft yielding earth is the only natural thing for man and beast to tread upon both man and beast must suffer mor or less when an artificial substance is sul Stituted. Men's feet are just as much af fected by the transition from country to city life as women's, only they don't noti o It a3 very few men know or care what size of shoe they wear “In the feet of a woman who has alway November WILLIAM H. HOUCK OF TARRYTOWN, N. Y. BRANDEIS AND MASTER | ERVINE, LEOLA muscles in woman are a postal card brought up to our room voman walks those muscles are brought into answering the dual enlargement Much ot the evil effect of city pavements determined neutralized The woman who has wants to bear by care and attention moved to town to attain to Rang the Wrong Bell Signs of the Seasons the season women that which is followed by a silver frost postal card beautifully down stairs more silvery than a frost FREDERICKSON AN URGENT HURRYING