Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 14

Published Week | I'he Bee Publishing Company, Bee Buliding, Omaha, Neb Price, b conts per copy-—per year, $2.00, Entered at the Omaha Postoflice as Second Class Mail Matter For advertising rates addre Publisher Communication relating to photograp or articl for publication should be ad dressed Fetitor I'he Hlustrated Hee Omaha Pen and Picture Pointers In a half-page rot coprint a numbor of exceptionally fine fiashiight pictu f the member of | Creighton Univer Y Dramatic cirele, as 11 tppeared in UThe Celebrated in the university audi torium Waodnesday evenin December 12 'he iner ed attendar ‘ rformer years has causcd the managers to determine upon cking loreer quart in the future, The procecds of the cntortainment will go to vd inn vtain v Che stedents' library and reading room. "Tue faculty of the university tianifested their appreciation of the work of the Dramatic cirele by tendering the members a banquet. The foliowing are the MISE MAR SWANSON GRADUATE OF OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL WHO HAS DIS- TINGUISHED HERSELF IN CHICAGO MUSICAL CIRCLES officers of the crganization President, Dan lel J. Hurley; vice president, John A. Ben rew tz; recretary, Jan es 1. Wocdaird, treas urer, Francis Baliman; busine manager, William P Collman James P. Lane; O'Keefe, property stage manager man, Weir D Carpenter, the special corre The Bee in the Orient, writes China's female slaves. They number m Frank spondent about millions provin and are bought and sold Women sold at the price of girls bringing from $10 upward. Girl Labies are sold to foundling asylums, which every are pork buy them at 20 cents apiece, The slaves of the imperial palace number 3,000 and are 1l eunuchs ¢ No den or study is quite complete now- udays without a stein rail or shelf well flled with drinking mugs. The collecting of these mugs originated stein dinners, or BUYING THE Bostwick. CHRISTMAS HOLLY THE stein parties, which have become a recent fad Each invited guest is expected to bring a mug or a stein upon which his name has been proviously engraved, which he sur renders at the door. When the good things are served his stein is returned to him filled to the brim with whatever beverage the hestess may choose to serve, his por- tion deperding upon the size of his own 'rinking mug. When the dinner is over thid the toasts are said the drinking mug are presented to the hostess. A stein rail can had at any planing mill and the mugs can be had from o cents to §50 y About Noted People In the new British cabinet the men, from a physical point of view, are splendin specimens of the race Half of them are over six feet high and only one could be called small. The latest recruit, Mr. Han bury, is the tallest, but Lord Balfour of Burleigh is a clese second The premier carries mere weight than any The expenditure of the shah in Paris and In Vienna has been so lavish that it is estimated that by the time he gets back to Teheran his tour will have cost him upward of £500000, The shah has fully decided to return to B pe next year for about three months, and half of that time will be spent at Marienbad B Among the inmates at the Soldiers’ home it Hot Springs, 8. D, is Rey. P Daly, who, from reading a newspaper biography of the late Marcus Daly, is convineed that he and the Montana millionaire are brothers. They were separated when very voung and never in found one another Rev. Mr. Daly often read of the western Croesus, but never imagined it was his little brother who left home penniless William Richardsen, who succeeds Gen eral Wheeler in congress, was once sen tenced to hang as a confederate apy. He wasg a soldier at the age of 17, was captured, o ped and was making his way back to the confederacy when he was found by the union troops in the company of a notorfous spy, and was sentenced to he hanged with the spy. An unexpected attack on his cap tors by General Forrest resulted in his rescue. . > No one knows how Andrew Lang gets through such a stupendous amount of work He never works In the morning, generally takes a stroll in the afterncon and dines late. The reason Is that he can write any where on anything. A story is told that he once horrowed a farmer's hat in the train, wrote an article on the crown of it, and at the same time conducted an elaborate argu- ment on the subject of ghosts 0 Michael G. Mulhall, whose death s re perted, was probably the highest individual nuthority on statistics in the world. His computations regarding trade, iIndustry firance, ete, were always recelved with the greatest interest and taken to he about as accurate as it was possible to make such figures Mulhall was born In Dublin In 1836 and was educated at the Irish college in Rome He was distinguished as the founder of the first English newspaper to he printed in South America—the Buenos Ayres Standard, which appeared in 1861, He was a member of numerous sclentifie socleties, the author of several hooks and a frequent contributor to the magazines. D Major General Ralph A. P. Clements, who has lost eighteen oMcers and 555 of his men in the action with the Boers at Magalles- burg, went out to South Africa as the com- mander of the Twelfth brigade of the South African fleld force. He has been more or less prominent in the fighting bhefore and he entered Coleshburg last soring Clements has heen considered ono of the sinee Photo by Louis ILLUSTRATED BEE. best oflicers the in British army He won the distinguished service order and was aid to the queen in 1801 He wears a medal with clasp for gallantry in the Kafir anl Zulu wars, and a medal with two clasps fcr his noble bearing in the great Burmah eam paign. In 1896 he was commander of the South Wal Borderer ind just before th Boer war began he held the titles of actual Heutenant colonel and brevet colonel, H has been in the army since 1874 B When Robert 7. stewart was governor of Missouri it was in the days when every- body drank whisky, and the governor was no exception to the rule. Yea ago, when the prince of Wales was on a visit to this country, they gave a grand ball in his honor in 8t Louis. Governor Stewart came down from Jefferson City to honor the event with his presence In the course of the evening the enthusiastic governor drank rather too much. He became enthusiastic He and the prince were seated on the plat form, while the heauty and aristocracy of St Louis swept past in gorgeous review. Stewart’s feelings and hosom swelled Eventually, in a mighty impulse of glow and glory, he administered a tremendous slap upon the prince’s back, exclaiming with intensge animation “Say, prince, don't you wish you were the governor of Misszouri?"” Told About Preachers The bishop of London, becomes a gentleman of the cloth, is patient man under ordinary circumstances, but has no toleration for a windy speaker At a re cent public gathering he was wearily lis tening to one of these aflictions when he turned to a fellow sufferer and said: “Who SR n’'t know,” was the reply “I do,” said the bishop savagely “He has many aliases, but his real name is Thomas Rot." B A Scotch divine took one of his parish foners to task for bis non-attendance at kirk; the man said “I dinna like lang sermons with some wrath, replied: “John, ye'll dee, and go to a place where ve'll not have the privilege of hearing long or short sermons.” “That may be,"” be for lack o' pa The parson, aid “but it winna s0ns John, A good story is told man of Oxford, Mich. on At Rev. Mr. Hage- the annual meet- ing of the Congregational church the ques tion of hiring a preacher comes up. At the t one, when the question came up, Ha an was rather anxious. man, a good old deacon, aros “All those in favor of retaining Elder Hageman for another year -at the sameo salary—will please rise.' Not one and Hageman felt about 2s mean as mortal man could feel, but the chairman roge again, putting this question: “All those in favor of keeping Rev. Mr. Hageman at an increase of salary will please rise.’” Every one rose. the good elder that they Joking with him, the scowl on his face broke awuy into a broad grin-—as an iejcle breaks away in sparkling water before the beneficent rays of a warm sun. Some of his best friends had planned the scheme which worked to perfection The chair- saying: rose, When it dawned upon had been only i He was a Scotch minister in a small country parish, relates Lippincott’s, and he was sometimes put to it for fresh pasture wherewith to feed his flock. One day, how- ever, he bethought himself that he had never thoroughly exhausted the subject of Jonah and his heart rejoiced. Jonah and the whale was the sort of thing wherchy vou could easily drag out of a sermon {ts allotted two hours. He in full was career TWO LITTLE TOTS AND SANTA CLAUS. ki STEIN PARTIES, and had reached triumphantly the anatom- ical peculiarities of the case. “*‘An’ what feesh do ye think it wad be?" he cried in stentorian tones. ‘“‘Aiblins ye think it wad be a haddie? Na, na, it cu'd nae be a haddie for to tak a big mon like you in his belly. Awee, alblins ye think it wad be a salmon, for deed I doubt if they ever salmon vonder. Aweel, aiblins ye're thinking it wad be a big cod—-" Here an aged and weary voice piped up from the body of the church: “Aiblins it was a whale?" “An' the deil hae ye, Maggie Macfarlane, for takin' the word out o' the mouth o God's meenister!" Pointed Paragraphs News: Pride insignificance, see Chicago surrounds is the fog that The history of mankind is an immense volume of errors. It is a woman, and not her wrongs, that needs to be re-dressed. To keep a house warm in winter give {t an extra coat of paint, A ‘hool teacher says he whips h.s pupils to make them smart. All the world’s a staircase, on which all men go either up or down, Honor follows those who precede it, but it flees frem those who pursue it, A man who is the unhappy victim of December 1900, LATEST FAD-—Photo by Louis R. Bostwick home rule says he would gladly exchange his better half for more satisfactory quar ters, Unless the whole mind is given to a task it cannot be accomplished well Great motives cause great efforts an! great efforts result in great happiness There is beauty in a wrinkled face, pro viding it is not wrinkled by selfishness A drunkard's nose is a lighthouse (¢ warn others of the little water passing b neath, No matter how fmportant you may thin' you are today should you die tomorrow the busy old world wouldn't even mis you. It is folly for a | of fond lovers to gaze inio each other's eyes in public and try to persuade themselves that the o! serving public isn't next. A Distinction Chicago Post: u're wrong m calling her a new woman,” asserted the man's wife. “She doesn’t belong to a lot of cluhs, she isn't crying for suffrage and she doesn't want to invade man's field of labor." “True,” answered the man, “but it's the only adjective T can well use. I dare not call her an old woman and she cortainly isn't a young woman, so I use new in the conparative sense She's not so old as some others." A NEWSBOY'S CHRISTMAS FEAST—Photo by Louis R. Bost wick,