Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1900, Page 14

2 Tue TLLUSTRATED BEI Published Wee Bee Publishing Company, b nlding, Omaha, Neb Price, b cen s per copy—per year, $2.00 Entered at the Omaha Postoflice as Second Class Mall Matter For advertising rates address Publisher Communlicatior relating to photographs or articles f publication should be ad- dressed “Editor The [Illustrated Dee, Omaha." —————eeeen. Pen and Picture Pointers The picture used for a frontigspiece this week speaks for itself It is appropriate to the cason and will be a pleasant re minder to the true portsman who enjoy a few days' vacation when the quail and the prairie chicken are abroad in the jand While Nebraska is becoming more densely populated each year yet there are many places within the bounds of the state that are known to the man who owns a good hunting piece and a favorite wild game is dog. Hunting a sport that is enjoyed by the clergy as well as the layman and business man 5 Frank G. Carpenter in his letter tells of the great natural resources of China There s big money in that country for those who may be fortunate enongh to gecure control of the vast coal and iron fields, which are soon to be opened to the world. The richest coal fields of the globe have already been mortgaged by a Pekin syndicate which has a capital of $30,000,000 China's copper deposits and its possible gold and silver concessions are aln yond the comprehension of man There are fortunes in building stone and Carpen ter tells how one Yankee will make Chinese tombstones to supply the Amert- can market Great interest 18 being manifested in the battles on the gridiron between the teams representing the leading colleges and state universities, and this interest is not con- fined to the east, as it was a few years ago. Within the last three years the western teams have entered the same class with Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Since the victory of the lowans over Michigan at Detroit, the managers of the Hawkeyes CORPORAL SECOND WITH NATIVE PONY JOHN HOUSER, VOLUNTEER THIRTY- REGIMENT, have been talking of a game with winner of the eastern championship. The Nebraska team has made a very creditable showing, but must wait until it meets the Minnesota kickers before it can be classed among the top-notchers B Nebraska not only furnished a regiment of volunteers for service in the Philippines, but has many young men serving the volun- the teer regiments recruited under the act of March 2, 1869, On another page we print a pleture of a group of Nebraska young men now on duty in the Philippines with the Thirty-second volunteer infantry. They are mostly from Hastings, Neb, and com. pose the Ninth squad, Company L, in chorge of Corporal John Houser, who is also shown in another pileture with his native pony He has since been trans ferred to General Grant's scouts B Mr. D 8 Colling, a Bryan democrat, made a wager with J. Do Wilson, a repub- lican, that Bryan wounld carry Nebraska by 15,000 majority Should he lose he would carry a large banner strapped about his neck and parade up and down the main business streets of Omaha, hurrahing for President MeKinley The wager com- pelled him to cover thirty blocks, or two miles The picture shows Mr. Collins cheerfully paving the wager They are personal friends and both splendid fellows About It might voted People almost be sald that at present the Cecil family is running the British empire Lord Salisbury, head of the Cecil family, will continue to bhe prime minister: Lord Cranbourne, his son, under secretary for foreign affairs; Lord Sel borne, his son-in-law, at the head of the admiralty; Arthur Balfour, his nephew first lord of the treasury and leader of the House of Commons, and Gerald Balfour, another nephew, secre y of Ireland 0 Francis Parkman, the historian, had a Mosaic idea of justice. A friend met him THE one day walking along the street leading v street boy with either hand. “What in the world are you doing, Parkman?" asked the friend. I found that Johnny here had caten all of the apple instead of dividing It with his little brother. I am going to buy another for the younger boy and make Johnny watch him while he eats it.” “ Lord who s slated for th head of the British Foreign office, appears Larsdowne, to have been born to the purple. He been in public life about thirty s and uring that time has been a lord of the treasary, under secretary of war, under gec- retary for Indi governor general of Can ada, governor general of India and since IS4G secretary of war and yet he is rated a man of moderate talents and is tremen dously unpopular with the people . A very comfortable income is that now be- ing drawn by Count von Walder field marshal the German for in C‘hina commanding officer he receives the equi ent of about $500 a month Amer lean money, besides $750 as field marshal and commanding As an allowance of $2,500 table money, from which he must pay for his entertainments and feed his staff, In addition to all this he has a tain sum for rations, the whole being at the rate of about $45,000 a year. D after 1T arrived in this country on present visit," y8 Bishop Partridge (Episcopal) of Kioto, Japan, who is a gradu- ate of Yale, “I was invited to a university Tub dinner, and was told that I was to speak the toast of ‘Yale University.” When I arose in my turn my fellow banqueters cried vociferously, ‘Never mind Yale, old man talk to us in Chinese.' I entered into their spirit and for twenty-five minutes I orated in Chinese. What did I say? Suffice it to say that T spoke only the court dialect. The strangest part about it is that all present seemed to enjoy it even more than I did.” “Soon my to —_—— The London Dally Mail says that the father of General Kitchener was a strict dis- ciplinarian and that on one occasion when Herbert was at a public school and was working for a certain examination it was reported to his father that he was idling The report did not please Colonel Kitchener and he told the future conqueror of the mahdi that unless he succeeded in passing that examination there would be no more publie hool for him for the present, for he would be taken away and sent to walk in the solemn procession of pupils of a dame's gchool. If he failed there he should be ap- prenticed to a hatter. In spite of these threats young Kitchener failed, and there- upon dropped out of his place in the public school and was seen In the ranks that wilked through the streets, two and two, escorted by the good woman of whom his father had spoken. When he again went in for his examination he passed, and so did not become a hatter, Incidents of the Election Wearied with the labors of the day, which consisted chiefly of explaining to his wondering visitors the causes that had contributed to the over- throw of the party and its candidates at the polls two or three days be fore, the member of the national commit- tee had fallen asleep in the train on which he was traveling homeward, reports the Chicago Tribune, There came a terrific jar. The train had run into an open switch and was bumping along over the ties. The shock threw the committeeman from his berth Hardly half awake, he rose up, crawled back into the berth and muttered drows- ily “I wonder what state we're hearing from now One of the saddest of the freak election bets is that which a New York broker is expected to pay. He pinned his faith to Uryan, and as an unhappy consequence he is doomed to risk his life is an encounter with Joe Walcott, the colored pugilist The manner in which the bet Is to be paid is amusing. He is to approach Wal cott, whom he has never seen in his life, and, tapping him lightly on the cheek, he is to remark in a sing-song voice, “Pat a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man, roll it and pat it as fast as you can.” As Mr Walcott is a colored person of much dig nity and equal dexterity with his fists, the result of this familiarity is expected to be extremely unpleasant. ® Jones, a Methodist of Gentryville, Mo., a few years ago bet a two-months' old calf against a colt owned by Smith, a Bap tist, of the same town, that the prophet Jonah was a Methodist, The bet was finally decided in favor of Smith, on the ground that Jonah was immersed. The same two men made another curious wager hefore the election. If Dockery recelved a majority of 50,000 or less Smith agreed to become a member of the Methodist church for one year; if Dockery's majority ran ran anywhere from 50,000 to 70,000, Jones was to become a Baptist for one year. 1If the majority was over 70,000 all bets were to be off. In the contract they agreed not only to attend the other church in case the bet was lost, but to go through all the ceremonies necessary to join, Jones agreed, on becoming a Baptist, to be im- mersed, and Smith agreed to be sprinkled when the baptismal rite was performed, Dockery's plurality was 47,000 9 Believing that Bryan had been elected an unknown man committed suicide in New York by jumping from the ferryboat Lack- awanna when it was in the middle of the North river. He was middle-aged and ILLUSTRATED BEE. FAITHFUL DEMOCRAT PAYING AN ELECTION BF poorly dressed. Climbing over the bow he said to the crowd: “Ladies and gentlemen, Bryan is going to be elected and I might as well do it now." A fellow passenger grabbed him, He divea off without another word, nearly dragging the passenger with him The boat was stopped, but he sank before as sistance could reach him kit “Aun‘ie” Fields of Harrisburg, Pa., an aged colored domestic, who had long suf fered from heart disease, was awakened by the cheering of the republicans Tuesday night. Putting her head out of the window she sked who was electe When told that McKinley had been elected by a great ma jority she cried “Hurrah for Old Glory!" and fell over on the bed dead ‘ Spectators along Olive street, between Ninth and Tenth, St. Louis, were aston ished about 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morn- ing at a young white woman walking proudly down the street hanging on the arm of a huge negro. The young woman carried a large banner, on one side of which was inscribed: “I'm sorry I'm democrat,” and en the other side: “Bryan is dead to the world.” Following them were about fifteen laugh ing young women of the same party., The ssion was the result of an election bet. The woman was Miss Kitty Brossart of 2642 Washington avenue, a clerk in the office of a local magazine and astic democrat, and Si Clark. porter in the office of the same a republican. H. E. Nichols an enthusi colored, a magazine secretary ot HARRY BRASKA TEAM TUKEY UNIVE MANAGER ISITY Or rooT NE- BALL the mag ne, is also a republican and was the maker of the bet with Miss Brossart. R The sense of humor of the Tenderloin Broadwa relates the New York Times, is nearly as broad as the blocks near Forty- second street, so Wednesday night Broad- way smile at first mystified, then under- standing when two young men and a wheelbarrow appeared in the middle of the street The young men wore long duck outer garments and Panama straw hats. One rode and the other wheeled him. He who rode had attached to his person a sign which, he explained, he wore merely for protection. It read: Ry A . 2 2050 83889 -8 9 . . . . I VOTED FOR M'KINLEY. . . . * DON'T SHOOT. L . . % ol i - . LI I B D I D B N 2 I Tho loser wore across his back TR Wl SR SN MR M G R Sl S S GF g SR S . . » I AM A BRYAN FOOL. . . . . HIT ME. . . . B> 2 8. 0. .99 9 A5 A2 8 2 The advice was taken by a crowd of newshoys. The winner of the bet was Ru- fus B. Nassar, a member of the Seventh regiment. He who walked was Steve Floyd, an advertising man, The start was from Forty-fourth street the Gerard hotel, in The party went down Broadway to the Rossmore and then back again. In accordance with the bet—3 to 1— the winner wheeled the loser one block out of three. A feature of the parade was the liberal use of eggs in the hands of temporarily hostile friends Told Out of Court Crimsonbeak—1 got eminent lawyers on a law the other day. Yeast—Were their opinions the same? “Yes, $25 each.” the opinions of two certain question of A witness in a New York court named Iish, when asked what his occupation was, said: I follow the sea,’” and the lawyer, who was questioning said—right off-hand, without “It's low i moment’s hesitation, mind you: eminently proper for a fish to fol- the sea." >— A Missouri judge, sy ing disrespect- fully concerning the opinion of a learned college professor as to the power of suction exerted by moving train upon a boy standing beside the track, said: “Neither courts nor jurie required to believe it, If they the wphagi of their eduli- ties must be abnormally enlarged do A literal copy of the allegations of what the plaintiff's attorney endorsed as a Petion” against the *“Illinois centeral Raail Road Companeny,” is as follows “1, the plaintiff m i who sues for as next friende of W S , who is un- der 21 years of age and her Son and his father is dead 2nd says that sald de- fendany by its agents and servents or im- ployees to wit, one mr Taylor did on or about January 1900 arest or have arrested November 18, 1000, and foulceley imprrisioned for him vid w S Selverel days and Knigh in the Princeton Jail county of Calwell Ky 3 says said Companey by it ent 0 gervents or imployee of said Companey or defendant illinois centerel Raail Road Companey did gave Whiskey to Said Boy W - 8 and made him Drunk and u comsious and helpless and While in 11 condision put Said Boy in Said Jail il priveing him of his free right of libert and thereby in the damage to the Plainti in the Some of Nineteen hundered dollar Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News A a well-wisher, traveler in a deser There is no better mirror than a trica and true friend. To believe that a task is impossible is to make it so. Of all the practices of love, praise is the most treacherous, A man gains strength every time he admit his own weakness, Every man you meet is willing to admit that he was once a fool A public speaker isn't necessarily a thivf because he takes the floor An old bachelor says that weeds are not weeds when they become widows Some veople are like clocks: they are go ing all the time, but never get anywhere Every man is bound to hear the truth o casionally even if he doesn’t recognize it Pharaoh's daughter wasn't a broker, but she got a lictle prophet from the rushes on the bank. Don't think because a man is shert of stature that he was brought up on con densed miik. It is the easiest thing in the world to see that wealth is a curse-—so long as the other fellows monopohize it. It's a poor horse this the year that doesn't bring a light oveccoat to the three-ball merchant. Quaint Features of Life A traveler reports Honduras as mixture of jungle and cocoa and of rubber bugs, vampires, snakes and crocodile of all manner of things that creep and crawl and sting and bite. Here, in every hamlet and city, are to be found men from ditferent lands, mostly outlaws from their own coun race at cason of a curion. gigantic forest, ot trees, of try. Chicago, Boston, New York and P'hila delphia all furnish their quota ingland, France, Italy and even faraway Russin have their share . An American in Berne, Switzerland writes: “The more money one deposits in a bank here the less interest is paid upon it. The largest bank in the city has a gigantic printed sign posted near to the paying teller's window, which states the rates of interest upon various amounts Sums up to $1,000 draw 4 per cent interest per annum, from $1,000 to $3.000 3% per cent is paid, while if one has an account of more than $3,000 he receives only 4ty per cent."” . Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Munyan of Vineland, N. J., are the parents of a wonderful baby girl. Although only 17 weeks old the infant weighs fifty pounds. She measures two feet and four inches around the waist and is two feet six inches in height. The arms are ten inches in circumference and it takes a string fifteen inches long to encircle one of her legs. Many mothers have vigited baby Munyan, whose name is Nellie, Munyan, who is a thrifty farmer is quite proud of Nellie, his fourth child and, while his wife holds the youngster, de lights in measuring her Dr. John 8. Halsey, the has assured the parents healthy condition. She half pounds at birth before visitors family physician the child is weighed in a ten and a Many ludicrous misunderstandings oc curred in the taking of the census. One question was indicated by the remark “length of residence,” which was expected to show how long the people living in various localities at the time of the census had been there. When the reports came in it was found that many of these queries were answered in figures this way 20x40 16x30, ete The enumerators had gone around with a foot rule and had measured the length of the residences of the people they counted 0 “I have two suits for my two boys,"” says a Philadelphia man “one new and expen sive; the other very old and ugly and worn. They own these suits in common and the boy who gets up first in the morn- Ing wears the good one as a reward, Both boys are fond of dress, and so i cheme works well. The minute I shout ‘Boys, get up,’ they spring out of hed and make a rush for the new suit. Sometimes they reach it together, when there will be a hot fight over who's to wear it, and T have to come up and restore order with a hairbrush B Some months ago a number of public spirited citizens of Berkeley, Cal.. offered to pay into the town treasury the $1.800 received annually from liquor licen "8 On this condition a prohibition ordinance was adopted, and the saloons received notice that they might have three months in which to wind up their busir At the expira tion of that time the $470 necessary for the first quarterly payment was raised. but it was held in hand to await the attitude of the town authorities toward the hibited trafc. That attitude was of Indifference. As much liquor was sold as betore, and the citizens' committee refused to pay the money. pro one \ >