Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1900, Page 14

THE [LLUSTRATED BEE Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb, nis per copy—per year, $2.00, Class Mall Matter, For advertising rates address Publisher. Communlications relating to photographs or articles for publication should be ad- dressed “Editor The Illustrated Dee, Omaha.” Pen and Picture Pointers Among those who have achleved notable success in the medical branch of Uncle Sam's service In our new possessions Is Dr. A. 8. Pinto, who has been in Cuba for two years, but has recently been assigned to duty in the Philippines and is now en- route to his new fleld of labor. Dr. Pinto was born in Chillicothe, O., in 1872, receiv- ing a common school education. He came to Omaba in 1891, where he took a business course and afterward entered the John A Creighton Medical college, from which he DR. A. 8. PINTO-—-YOUNG OMAHA PHYSI- CIAN WHO HAS MADE A SPLENDID RECORD-—-NOW ENROUTE TO THE PHILIPPINES. graduated with honor in the spring of 1898, Just at the outbreak of the Spanish-Amerl- can war. He enlisted in the Third Ne- braska regiment and was appointed hospital steward, in which capaclity he served three months, when he was honorably discharged and given a contract as acting assistant surgeon in the United States army, and has done excellent service Iin Cuba. He has treated a vast amount of typhold fever in the southern camps and in Cuba, and Is consldered an authority on that disease. To him belongs the honor of the first suc- cessful operation In the fleld hospital of perforation In typhold fever. He has also done excellent work in yellow fever in the past season. The doctor traces his lineage back to Anthony Wayne and seems to have some of the old soldier's determination In him, as his education has been gotten by hard knocks, as he worked his way through both business and medical colleges. His having been kept at one post in Cuba for two years bespeaks well for his work and the confidence of his superior ofMcers. His friends hope to hear good reports of his work In Manila. [ The important incidents in connection with the laying of the cornerstone of the new High school building, November 16, 1900, are shown In the accompanying ple- tures. The Knights Templar and other Masonlc bodles of the city took part in the ceremonies. Judge Willlam W, Keysor, past grand master of the Masons In Ne- braska, was master of ceremonies. Deputy Grand Master R. E. Evans of Dakota City measured the great block with a square and pronounced it perfect. M. M. Ayer of Beaver City, grand senlor warden, tested it with the level, and Frank Willard of North Platte, grand junior warden, applied the plumb. The cornerstone i{s a large stone of oolitic blue Bedford limestone, three feet and two inches long, two feet and six inches in width and with a thickness of two feet and two Inches. On the east face it bears the Inscription, “High School, X CROWD WATCHING THE LAYING OF THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING—Photo by Louis R. Bostwick, THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. Erected 1900, and beneath are the names of the members of the Board of Educa- tion. The south face of the stone has carved on it the following words: “Laid by W. W, Keysor, Past Grand Master of Masons In Nebraska, November 16, 1900.” — Among the articles in this issue of the Illustrated Bee appropriate to the Thanks- glving season is one by Harriett Maxwell Converse, chief of the Snipe clan of the Seneca Indians, which tells of some of the strange and interesting Thanksglving cus- toms that still survive among the Iroquols in their anclent form. These Indians re- turned thanks for all growing things, for the powers of nature, for the elements and for the fish in the streams, the beasts in the forest and the birds In the alr. Among the strange customs were the harvest dance of the virgins, gaining the good will of the fish by marriage with the finny tribe and thanking the tribal totems for the pros- perity of the clan. Several secret rituals have been handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation by these aboriginals, Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks, pastor of the First Presbyterlan church of Omaha, has prepared a speclal Thanksgiving sermon for the readers of The Illustrated Bee which appears on another page. Rev. Jenks reviews the history of Thanksgiving day and calls attentlon to some of the reasons for thankfulness on the part of the American people. About Noted People Richard Croker says that a great part of his success in New York politics is traceable to the fact that he never forgets those who stand by him. “There are men In New York City,” said he, “who have stuck to me since T was 21 years old.” Then he added, grimly: “I don’t think you will ind one of them In want. Never forget the man who has done you a favor.” ——— Joseph Chamberlain usually says his little very well, but he was gullty of a “bull’” not very long ago when in Parllament he was speaking against a bill proposed by another member and turning toward that person sald: “The honorable gentleman shakes his head—I am sorry to hear it.” It 1s sald that the \prlncu of Wales will probably represent the queen at the re- assembling of the new Parllament in Feb ruary. The occasion would prove of great interest and there would be something fitting in the fact that the future king should be thus associated with the first Parllament of the twentleth century. His royal highness first took his seat in the House of Lords on February 5, 1863. He inventor or producer of the most noteworthy fdea or object for the benefit of humanity, The prize 18 to be never less than 100,000 francs and may be double that sum. __@__ For years that are many the people of Sa- vannah, Ga., have been talking about erect- ing a monument to General James E. Ogle- thorpe, the founder of their city and state, but until now nothing has come of it except that there are very many business assocla- tions and charitable and social organizations bearing his name. Spencer C. Shotter has now made a practical beginning toward the larger object by giving $1,000 for a monu- ment fund. The monument will be placed in one of the numerous beautiful parks which Oglethorpe lald out in Savannah. N0 Nt During the illness of the late Prof. Max Muller at the end of last year public prayers for his recovery were offered in a Hindoo temple at Madras—a distinction never before given to a REuropean. Similar services were also performed in other towns in India, including Benares, the center of Brahmanic learning and orthodoxy. When the news of his recent serfous illness reached India all the priests and pundits of Benares assem- bled together and agreed to offer prayers on his behalf in their sacred temple. An American who has just returned from a visit to Paris says that while in a cafe there one evening he met Pierre Lotl, whom he describes as “‘a puny, ugly and untidy little wretch. To the lover of the sad prose of this Don Juan, who has written so very much concerning his personal conquests over women, the first glimpse of the man him- self is a shocking disappointment.” —® Chauncey Depew and Andrew Carnegie fell into an argument the other day re- garding the latter's countrymen. The canny Scot dellvered himselt of what he thought was a finisher and the senator replied: ‘““The reason you Scotchmen are a race of dyspeptics is because you are such a dis- putatious lot that you won't even let your food agree with you.” Told Out of Court A talesman who was called in a murder trial in Kansas was asked whether he had any prejudice against an alibl plea on the part of a man accused of crime. The talesman replied that he had not. “Do you fully understand what is meant by the term alibi?” he was asked. “I think I do; yes, sir.” ‘““What do you understand by it?" The talesman reflected for a mo- ment and then, with a hesitancy indicative of graveness, replied: ‘‘An alibl—is when the fellow who did it wasn’t there.” 7 o “During the course of my career in the CORNERSTONE OF R. Bostwick. and I can get cheap rates. Don't forget to hold him and see about a cheap ticket to here for my man.'* R, The Green Bag says that it occurred to OMAHA KNIGHTS TEMPLAR WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONIES AT LAYING OF OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING—Photo by Louls R. Bostwick. wore the splendid scarlet nnd ermine ducal robes over a general's uniform. . I, Daniel Osiris, a Greek millionaire residing in Paris, has instituted a prize on the lines lald down by Mr. Nobel, though his offer is for Frenchmen only, except in a Paris expo- sition year, when it becomes universal. He has set aside a sum to be awarded every three yoars In perpetuity to the discoverer, police department I have seldom come across anything more humorous than a letter recently recelved at the detective headquarters,” sald Captain of Detectives Lohrer of Cleveland. “We arrested a man wanted in a city not 100 miles from here and we wired the marshal to come at once and get his prisoner. He wrote us a letter and said: ‘Please hold —— for one week. There is an excursion to Cleveland then THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW the late Hall McAllister shortly before his death that it would be a good idea to pur- chase a memorandum book in which to jot down the items of his daily expenditure. “I can compare notes from day to day,” he sald, “find out how much I spend, and 80 learn to regulate my expenditure here and there.” So the book was bought. After the great lawyer's death his execu- tors, while going over his effects, came November 25, 1900. THE NEW OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING—WILLIAM W. KEYSOR, PAST GRAND MASTER OF MASONS IN NEBRASKA—Photo by Louls across the book. Interested to know how far successful McAllister had been in ‘‘reg- ulating his expenditures,’” they opened the book to find this, the sole item contained therein: “To one memorandum book, 25 cents.” Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News: A smile {s the reflection of a light heart, A hodcarrier mixing mortar is a sublime character. The crying of children in bed iz one kind of sheet music. Abuse is doubly painful when wit is uscd as a conveyance. Some men are brave in great dangers and cowards in little ones. Hens are the most cheerful of fowls, yaot they brood a good deal. Never judge physicians by undertakers bestow upon them. Man was made to mourn and woman was made to see that he keeps it up. Soclety is, after all, but a conglomerated mixture of mysteries and miserles. Wise is the man who makes all he can- saves all he can and gives all he can. The world {8 not ruled by the so-called rulers, but by the people who make the rulers. Every time a small boy gets a whiff of the odor arising from the kitchen he proceeds to get hungry. If unable to decide whether to buy or hire a horse, bear in mind that of two evils you should choose the leased. The St. Louis barber who pinned a news- paper around a customer’'s neck and gave him a towel to read was just a trifle ab- sent-minded. It a woman has only three lines to write on a sheet of notepaper she can't resist the temptation of writing two of them on the side margins and signing her name upside down over the date. the pralse