Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1901, Page 12

Tue ILLUSTRATED BEEK Published Weekly by Company, Bee The Bee Pablishing Bullding, Omaha, Neb, I'rlce, b cents per copy—per year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Postoffice as S8ccond Class Mall Matter, For advertising rates address Publisher Communications relating to photographa or articles for publication should be ad- dressed “Editor The [Illustrated Dee, Omaha."” Pen and Picture Pointers During the holiday week the pedagogues in Towa, South Dakota and Nebraska met in their several state conventions to dis- cuss matters of interest to teachers. Our staff photographer furnishes the readers of The Bee with a half-page group of fine pie tures of prominent people who took part in the lowa convention which met at Des Molnes. The frontigpiece shows the new officers of the Jowa State Teachers' asso- clation. A. W. Stuart, the new president of the assoclation, has been principal of the Ottumwa schools for twenty years Superintendent U. 8. Conn of Wayne, the new president of the Nebraska State Teachs ers’ assoclation, has been identified with Nebraska schools for ten years. He was for merly an Indiana teacher, where he grad- uated from cne of the I ading normals and U. 8. CONN, WAYNE, Neb,—~NEW PRESI- DENT OF NEBRASKA STATE TEACH- ERS' ASSOCIATION. recelved some special university His extensive experience as an institute instructor gives him a wide acquaintance among the teachers of the state, —— Willlam Miller Beardeghear, the president of the Towa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames, was born In Dayton, O., November 7, 1830, He spent his boyhood on a farm and was educated at Oterbein university of Ohio and afterward studled at Yale. He was president of the Western college of Toledo, Ia., from 1881 to 1880 and was superintendent of the Des Molnes city schools from 1880 to 1891 and president of the lowa State Teachers' asso- clation ir. 1804, He was United States In- dlan commissioner in 1807-98. He has been president of the Towa State Agricultural college at Ames since 1801, D training. Among the plctures in the group of the lowa State Teachers' association is that of President George Edwin MacLean as he ap- pears at his desk in the president's ofMce of the Town State university., Before ac- cepting his present position he was chancel- lor of the Universiiy of Nebraska. President MacLean was born in the Nutmeg state at Rockville August 31, 1850, He Is a grad- uate from Willlams college, Yale Theolog- feal seminary and the University of Leip- zig and studied at the University of Berlin, He carries the title of LL.D. from Willlams college. In 1874 he wedded Clara 8. Taylor of Great Barrington, Mass. He was a min- Ister a short time and served the Memorial Presbyterian church of Troy, N. Y, In 1881, Later he was professor of English language and literature in the Unlversity of Minnesota, @ Recently representatives from the differ- ent labor organizations in Nebraska met in convention at Lincoln and organized the Nebraska Industrial and Labor Bureau. George H. Updegraff of Omaha was elected president of the new organization. Al- though only 30 years of age, Mr. Upde- graff has had a large amount of experience in labor matters. He is a native of Penn- sylvania being born at Johnstown. He be- gan rallroading on the Pennsylvania rail- road at Harrisburg March 15, 1885, and was on the Pittsburg division from 1880 to 1805, coming west in 1896. He has been in the employ of the Union Pacific rallroad since the fall of 1807; he is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen aad s secretary of lodge No. 128 in Omaha; he is also secretary-treasurer of the Joint Pro- tective board of the Union Pacific system & Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, the pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, N. Y., lectured before the Towa State Teachers' assoclation on “The Quest for Happiness' and later visited Omaha, where he filled the pulpit at Kountze Memorial church for one service. Rev. Hillis will soon visit RBurope on a vacation of several months. After his re- THE turn he expects to visit the west and lecture. He was born at Magnolia, Ia., September 2, 1858, and was educated in the common schools, graduating from the lowa college and Lake Forest university and Mc- Cormick Theological university, He was married April 14, 1887, to Miss Anna Louise Patrick. He entered the Presby- terfan ministry and was pastor of the Pres- byterian church at Peoria, 111, from 1887 to 1890 and then went to Evanston, 111, for four years. In 1804 he succeeded the lat» Prof. David Swing, as pastor of Central church in Chicago, from which he was called to Plymouth church, Brooklyn, N. Y He is an author and has written several valuable works. Smith of the South Dakota university, occupying the chair of Modern Languages and Pedagogy, just elected president of the South Dakota Edu- Prof. Giorge M. cational association, is a native of ne and an alumnus of Colby college, Water- ville, Me. He has held his present p si tion In the State university for the last ten years. Previous to going to South Dakota he was prominent in educational work in the east, being principal of large high schools near Boston. He spent a year near Glessen, Germany, studying philoscphy and pedagogy. He was principal of the Canton, N. Y., Academy previous to coming west. During the ten years Prof. 8mith has been in South Dakota he has won the esteem and regpect of the educators of the whole state He has contributed much to the literature of the state, being one of the authors of “The History and Civil Government of South Dakota,”” “The State and Nation” and “Elements of Pedagogy.” His addresses and lectures on current topics have made him well and favorably known even be- yond the limits of his adopted state. His «lection was unanimous—an honor seldom conferred upcn anyone by the educators of the state. About Noted People Charles Rollinson Lamb, the architect of the Dewey arch in New York City, is a grandson of Charles Rollinson, who was the most prominent steel engraver of his time, and who, when the committee waited upon him to engrave the set of gold buttons for the suit in which the first president of the United States was to take his oath of office, did the work and rcfused compensa- tion, saying that the honor was sufficient. —_—— R. H, Stoddard, the poet and critic, though feeble of body, is still sound of mind. At the recent Authors’ club dinner to E. C. Stedman he rose to make a speech, but his feebleness was so apparent that he was urged to sit down and talk, and he did so. He related his first Introduction to Mr. Stedman in the Tribune office by Bayard Taylor, and told some reminiscences of the acquaintance which followed. Congressman Bailey has appeared at a Washington function resplendent in a dress sult of irreproachably good form, and there ie fear that when he returns to Texas his constituents may call him to account for PROF, DENT OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA EDU- CATIONAL ASSOCIATION. GEORGE M. SMITH—NEW PRESI- abandoning the full-skirted coat which is 80 popular among citizens of the Lone Star state. Mr. Bailey is understood to have concluded that the spike-tailed garment is more in harmony with the dignity which, as a United States senator, he will put on March 4 i Chairman Payne of the house committee on ways and means has a very small idea of humor and “Private” John Allen often has fun wi'h him. The other day the latter said to Mr. Payne: *“I just made a little invest- ment that netted me 160 per cent.” ‘“How did you do it?" said his deeply intercsted hearer. I bought a 2-cent newspaper for Sulzer and he paid my car fare.” Payne looked at him blankly for a moment and then said: “Call 2 cents an investment? Humph!" [ — Queen Wilhelmina is sald to be rapidly converting her nation to temperance in the matter of drinking. Drink s one of the curses of Holland, and the que'n's father, her predecessor on the throne, was ac- counted the champion royal drunkard of Europe. The young queen's most notable convert is her intended husband, Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He has been known as one of the most confirmed drinkers in the corps of young officers. Queen Wil- ILLUSTRATED BEE. GEORGE H, UPDEGRAFF, OMAHA AND LABOR LEAGUE. helmina never touches any alcoho.ic bever age. R - Chess players particularly will be in- terested in the fact that J. H. Blackburne, whe I8 a native of Manchester, England, celebrated his fifty-eighth birthday re- cently. Mr. Blackburne is lest known as a blindfold player, but he has during his thirty-eight years of chess taken part in many great tournaments. In matches he was beaten twice by Steinitz and once by Lasker, but in four annual cable matches with America he has scored two wins and two draws against Pillsbury, America's champlon. -—— Perhaps, says the Washington correspond- ent of the St, Louis Globe-Democrat, there never was a public man more thoroughly belied by the cartoons that Secretary Hay. He is represented as aping English man- ners and dress. He is referred to away from Washington as affecting English cus tems. The other day a visitor In Wash- fngton, a man given to observance of “form,” stood on the steps of the White House and surveyed the cabinet equipages drawn up In line awaiting the close of the meeting within. *“Gool heavens!" he exclaimed, “who is the cabinet officer who doesn’'t know better than to let a white coachman wear a moustache?”’ A newspaper man standing beside answered: “He {s the last man you would guess. And he is a man who would never think it worth while to notice whether his coachman wore a moustache, much less to express a preference one way or the other. He is Secretary Hay.” If it was left to the newspaper correspondents to select in the administration the officials of minimum exclusiveness, of least personal ostentation, the ideal American gentleman, a rousing vote would be given for John Hay. Told Out of Court In 8. L. Powers’ story at the Middlesex Bar association dinner, relates the Boston Record, the lawyer tried the case for the complainant., She sued a middle-aged gen- tleman for breach of promise. He married another girl. The jury retired and the de- fendant also went his way. The jury re- turned. The defendant did not. The fury found for the plaintiff in $800 damages. The lawyer met the middle-aged gentle- man a few minutes later in the lobby of an adjacent hotel. “Squire,” sald the latter, “how did the Jury decide?”’ “Against you,"” was the answer. “I didn't think they would do that,” sald the middle-aged gentleman, musingly. “What's the damages?" “That ain't so bad!"" he exclaimed on he- ing told. “Squire, there's that much dif- ference between the two women.” —— One day this week, relates the New York Sun, counsel for a street railway company was questioning men called upon to act as jurors in a suit in the supreme court, in which the plaintiff sued to recover $10,000 for personal injuries sustained by being Jolted off a car. Eleven men had been ac- cepted as jurors, and the company’s lawyer turned to the occupant of seat No. 12, a prosperous looking business man, and in- quired: “Have you any prejudice against rallway companies?" “None,” was the prompt reply. “Do you know of any reason why you could not act as a fair and impartial juror in this case?"’ street ‘“No, sir.” Counsel was about to accept the man, when he suddenly faced him again and asked: ““Have any of your friends or relatives ever been injured or killed by a street railroad company?"” ““Yes," responded the occupant of seat No. 12, “Who?" interrogated counsel. “My mother-in-law,"” responded the man “Did you or any of her relatives sue the company for damages?"’ ‘““No," responded No. 12, “my wife was her only relative on earth, and we did not sue."” “Why not?"" inquired the surprised law- yer. “Well, her life was insured for $15,000, and—" “We will excuse you,” remarked the law- yer, PR A lawyer of humorous tone of mind laid a trap for an opposing counsel recently and PRES IDENT OF TiiE NEBRASKA INDUSTRIAL the latter immediately fell into it. The former was defending the will of a deceased gentleman, and a doctor swore that the testator was in a dylng condition when he signed his will The defendant counsel then proceeded to show, by quoting medical authorities, that docters disagree as to the precise moment when a dying man is struck with death, some affirming that it is at the commence- ment of the disease, others at its climax and others still affirming that we begin to (ie as soon as we are born. Instantly the opposing counsel thrust in | REV. NEWELL DWIGHT TOR PLYMOUTH CHURCH, BROOKLYN ~PREACHED IN KOUNTZE MEMORIAL CHURCH, OMAHA, DECEMBER 30, 1900. HILLIS—PAS- with, “I should like to know what doctor maintains that absurd theory.” “Dr. Watts,” came the grave “who said: ‘““The moment we begin to live We all begin to die.” The reply convulsed the court and audi- ence with laughter. answer, The trustees of the National Library of Ireland have just purchased the fee book of Daniel O'Connell. This little volume, in its hundred or so of pages of parallel columns, laboriously prepared by the hand of the Liberator himself, shows in pounds, shill- ings and pence his early struggles. O'Con- nell was called to the Irish bar in 1798—the year of the rebellion—and seven days later he got his first briet—from a brother-in-law ~—who retained him to draft a declaration on a promissory note. The only other busi- ness he got that year was also given to him by a kinsman—a cousin—and it was of the same kind, The fee on each occasion was £1 28 9d. It was in one of his earliest cases that O'Connell made the retort that at- tracted attention to him. He was cross- examining an awkward witness, who de- clared that he had drunk nothing but his share of a pint of whisky., “On your oath, now," thundered the young counsel, “was not your share all but the pewter?" O'Connell’'s fee-book is an interesting record of his rapid rise in the profession. For the first year, as we have seen, his incoma amounted to only £2 6s 64. Next yvear he earned over £50, and the year after he made over £400. According to mem- oranda made in his own handwriting his income in 1803 was £4 and in the fo!- lowing years £775, £840, £1,077, £1,7113, £2,198, £2,736, £2,951, £3,047 and £3,808, respectively, This record throws much light on the incomes at the Irish bar nearly 100 years ago, for in 1812, when O'Connell was making nearly £4,000 a year, he was still quite a young man. Short Stories Well Told Tommy Atkins had taken a Boer prisoner, and, the two getting friendly, talked about the prospects of the war. ‘“‘You may as well give it up; you will never win," said the Boer. ‘“'Cos why?" asked Tommy. “Because we've the Lord on our side,” sald the Boer. “G'arn,” said Tommy, with great contempt; “why, we've three lords January 6, 1901, on our side, and one of 'em’'s made a bloomin' hass of 'imself!” He had refused to throw away his cigar when she requested him to dispose of it, relates the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It was on the hotel plaza, and the cigar was an unusually good one. “Do you know what I'd do, “if I were your wife?" “Something atroclous, of course,” he an- swered, ‘“What would you do?"” “1'd give you slow poison."” The man smiled. “If you were my wife,”” he said, “‘I'd ask you to change that slow poiscn for the fastest kind known to the drug profes- sion.” And he went on smoking. —— she snapped, There is a story going the rounds at Mr. Sibley’'s expense regarding his last cam- paign, says the Washington Post. The re- publicans were holding a big rally at Oil City, and one of the features was a mighty procession, wherein the marchers were fur- nished with immense rosettes, large and gaudy as chrysanthemums, a photograph of Mr. Sibley reposing in the giddy bosom of each of these lapel adornments. An Irishman in the parade had imbibed copi- ously of the fluids that make political events a howling success in most American communities, and straggled away from the marchers. His path became so rough and thorny that, when discovered, his apparel was much bedraggled, and the magnificent campaign badge had slipped its mocrings and turned a somersault, ‘‘Bejabers, Joseph,” he exclaimed, when he awoke to the situation, “and can it be possible ye have flopped ag'in?"’ —_— Riley and Nye played jokes on each other continually, relates the New York Press. In a smoking car between Columbus and Cincinnati an old farmer came to Nye and said: ‘““Are you Mr. Riley? the train.” I heard you was on “No, I am not Mr. Riley. He is over there.” “I knew his father, and would like to speak with him."” “‘Oh, speak with him, yes. But he is deaf, and you want to speak loud.” So the farmer went to Riley and yelled: “‘Is this Mr. Riley?" “Br, what?" “Is this Mr. Riley?"” ““What did you say?" “‘Is this Mr. Riley?" “Riley! Oh, yes!" “I knew your father!" *‘No bother.” “I knew your father!" “What?" “I knew your father!' “Oh, so did L.” .._@__ Representative Landis of Indiana did a good deal of speaking through the wes during the campaign. In one town, whl» he was at the hotel waiting to take a train, a little old man came into the room and asked for a private audience. Landis thought he had some political information of value and “shooed out the other people. : “I have a great invention,” said the visi- or. “Well,?" inquired Landis, “It is to prevent hydrophobia." “Well?" ““There is milllons in it.” ‘“Well?" “I'll give you a share it you will get congress to adopt it as the official hydro- phobla remedy." “But where will the money come in?" asked Landis, The visitor whispered, confidentially, ““Why, don't you see? We will collect a royalty from the government for everybody that doesn’t have hydrophobia.” “Much to my regret,” wound up Mr. Landis, “I was compelled to decline the offer. There certainly was millions in {'— if we could collect.” Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News: woman's bow {deal. A harness dealer calls his storeroom a bridle chamber, The thermometer is a fair example of a sliding scale. A railway ccllision is certainly a bump of destructiveness. An egg is best when fresh, but it's differ- ent with an office boy. Admit one absurdity and a dozen others will demand an entrance. Many a man has ruined his eyes by using glasses other than spectacles, Accord is necessary to enable the hus band and wife to pull together. The more you crumple paper money, the more you will find it in-creases. Adversity is apt to bring a man out especially at the knees and elbows. Love ig blind. That is probably the rea- son lovers never run up big gas bills. Many a fool gets through all right by looking wise and keeping his mouth shut. The miser may carry his gold to the edge of the grave, but he must leave it there, The marriage tie is a A mar should never attempt to shoot off his mouth unless his brain is properly loaded, No man should object to thick soles on his shoes, as the objections will soon wear away. It is sald that a Texas murderer asked that his execution be postponed because of his poor health, |