Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1901, Page 14

2 THE JLLU STRATED BEEK ublished Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Nebh “rice, b cents per copy-—per year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Post Office as 8econd lass Mall Matter For advertising rates address Publisher Communications relating to photographs or articles for publication should be ad- dressed ‘“'Editor The Illustrated Bee, Omaha."” Pen and Picture Pointers Nebraska will shortly have itg third gov- ernor of the new century It is understood that Mr. Dietrich will lay down the cares of the executive office, in which he succeeded Governor Poynter in January, and Ezra Perin 8 ge, lHeutenant governor, will wsume the funetions and title of governor, Mr. Savage s one of the men who have con- soon auered the west and made the wild and woolly wilderness a successful pastoral country of happy homes and well-kept farmsteads His fifty-nine years of life have been spent altogether in the west, he having heen scout, farmer, merchant, stock man and lawyer. This latter can hardly be called an ocevpation for him, as he studied GEORGE TO W DISTRIC DAILEY POINT APPOINTED CADET FROM NINTH 10WA law and was admitted to practice In both state and federal courts more as a recrea tion than with any intent of following the profession. He has always been active In pollties, serving as a member of the Seven teenth General assembly and the first mayor of South Omaha before being elected to the office of leutenant governor in 1900, ns The late Colonel D, B. Dailey of Councll Bluffs was a gallant officer in the volunteer army of the north during clvil war, and his military ardor the was cer tainly transmitted to his sons, two of whom served that pines list, managed with the Fifty-first Towa during regiment's campaign in the Philip A third, who was too young to en followed the regiment to Manila and to keep with 1t until it was re- turned and mustered out of the service He has just been appointed as cadet to West Point from the Ninth Towa district His fondness for army life has been demon- strated and his standing on examination was such as to guarantee his future as a soldler, el i Oratory as a fine art I8 gaining a firm footing In the Nebraska public school sys- tem Several associations, made up of various high schools and minor colleges, have been formed, and carry on annually Interesting contests to test the merits and declde the supremacy of the young folks a8 public speakers The old-fashioned Fridav afternoon affairs, when each mem ber of the school was expected to “spenk a plece,” has glven way to ‘“rhetorieals,”’ and the instruction in the use of the voice I8 as eareful and thorough as that given in any other branch The interest in the affairs of the several associations 1s al ways keen, and the winner of a contest fs the reciplent of monv congratulations and some envyv. Recentlv one of these events was held at Norfolk Nebh, the oe englon heing the annual meetine of the North Nebraska High School Declamatory association. John Neumarker. the 18-vear old son of Rev. R Neumarker, won the first prize In the dramatic ¢lass. His train fne has been altogether in the publie schools. Lydia B. Shultz, a 168-year-old mies of Schuyler, won the first prize in the humorous class. She, too, has had all her training in the public schools What to do to vary the monotony of card partles 1s always a source of cogitation and worry to the woman social in stincts lead her to hecome hostess ahout once every often to a little of friends who have banded themselves to- gether for the purpose of killing so many evenings each winter by cinch or piteh or some similar game, The sameness of pro- ceedings at these affalrs palls on all at times, and to break In upon it with a pleas whose 5O coterie ant diversion s the ambition of the woman who is to “entertain’ next. It was this spirit that led an Omaha card elub recently to meet in the garb of Indlans The costumes were singularly accurate and striking, and the effect was brightened by the decorations of the room, and the fact Ya' the pale faces for the nonce disap THE peared behind As a novelty unlque the ochre of the red man in card parties the affair was v — Miss Lora Holmes is a young whom the people of Lincoln ke deep in terest She s possessed of a contralto volce of uncommon excellence, and has b woman in come very popular in the musical and soclal circles of the Capital City Re- cently a benefit concert was given at one of the Lincoln theaters, under the patron age of the leading women of the city, for the purpose of raising funds to enable Miss Holmes to complete her musical education About Noted People An interesting itory 18 told in connee tion with Aguinaldo I'he governor gen- eral of the Philippines offered 5,000 for his head Aguinaldo wrote him: I want the money badly. T will deliver my head to you myself” Later a priest appeared at the palace “Benedicte,” he saild, and turned the key in the lock He threw back his hood. A man with a sword stood before the governor general. The man was Aguinaldo “I have brought Agui naldo’s head,”” he saild. “Take i« and pay moe my reward. Be quick,” he added, “for I am in a hurry." The gevernor general paid % In speaking the other dayv to a retiring senator of his early hopes and ambitions Senator Hoar said “Before 1 came to congress I had built up a law practico that brought me an income of $20,000 a vear, and T had every reason to belleve that the practice would grow to $50,000. T bad saved from my income about $100,000 and T believed T could keep my practice ind still attend to my duties in After more than thirty years in the publie service T find myself at 75 with my law practice gone and the accumulations of my young days dissipated. [t is remain in congress and attend duties and at the same time to an outside business.” congress impossible to to one' continue . When John Plerpont Morgan travels he has a train of five most ¢ antly ap pointed coaches at his dlsno Instead of merely a private car he has a whole train that is under his exclusive control When he was at Washington a few days ago to visit Senator Hanna and other friends his train remained in the unfon atation There we only elght persons in the financinl magnate's party, but they kept the lar force of servants contin ually emploved Although most of the time the Morgan party was at a hotel, the chef prepared the meals and had them ready at the appointed time More than LORA HOLMES CONTRALTO, LINCOLN'S FAVORITE who 1 were once the only persons delicacies prepu comprising Mr. Morgan's age enjoyed the the servants personal entour . Captain J. M. Brooke, who designed the Merrimac, is now professor emeritus oi physics at the Virginia Military academy Lexington, Va. He enlisted in the United States navy as a midshipman in 1841 anad was graduated from Annapolis in 1547 with the first class sent out from the Naval academy. During his term of service at the Naval observatory in Washington he in vented the deep sca sounding apparatus which has since been generally used, ana In 1858, while in command of the Unitea States vessel Fenimore Cocper, he made the sounding in the so-called “Brooke deep,” off the coast of Luzon, which wa the first of the deep sea soundings H. was the inventor of the Brooke gun . Turf, Field and Farm tells this story about the late Charles P. Clark, formerly president of the New York, New Haven & “When the late Robert Bonner purchased Maud 8 he sent her to Charter Oak park to be trained. One day a friend of Mr. Bonner left New York to visit him at the park, but found that the train did not stop at that station. The con Havtfora railroad ductor was polite, but said that he could not go against orders A\t New Haven a halt was made, and Mr. Bonner's friend tried to bribe the engineer with a $10 bill, but in vain. He was then told that Presi- dent Clark was on the train and he went to him ‘Why don't you see the conductor?' asked Mr. Clark ‘T have, but he will not disobey orders. ‘Why not then go forward and bribe the engineer? ‘I tried bribery at New Haven, but it would not work." The absence of evasion was the best policy. Mr Clark not only gave orders to have the train #topped at Charter Oak, but promised some day to see Maud 8. He had witnessed the little attempt at bribery, and the frank confession of the offense seemed to please him." —_— Colonel A. J. McClure, who has just re- signed from the editorship of the Phila- delphia Times, does not intend to be idle. “I think,” he “that T will have all the chance to write that I want. For some time I have been solicited for a great many more articles than T could undertake, and that {8 the sort of thing I am most apt to get at now. I have no idea of trying a book. I have my name on five, but I never Intended to write one; they are all of them books by chance, not intention. The first two are made up of letters T wrote from the Rocky mountains and from the south to the New York Tribune, while my work on Lincoln, which T suppose is the most pre tentious of them all, is composed mainly of a series of letters which 1 addressed to ten papers throughout the country in my dispute with Nicolay over the stand which Mr. Lincoln took in the inatter of Hamlin's renomination As for that last one about the making of presidents I can only tell you that T hezan the articles almost against my will, and was urged into writing three, and then five, and then seven, and then nine stories before T fully realized how the num- ber of words would total up.” Stories About Preachers The preacher's theme was lates the Chicago Tribune After the benediction one of the strangers in the gation asked an usher what the pastor's name was “His name is King," said the usher. ‘Wil you introduce me to him?" “With pleasure. What is your name?" “Daniel.” The usher introduced “I am glad to meet the stranger says, “Daniel,"” re- cong him vou, Mr. King," sail “I'm vour subject." B John Fox, jr., in his study of “The South- ern Mountaineer” in the April Scribner, relates that a traveling evangellst Mr. 'mes, once stopped at a mountain tavern and told the story of the crucifixion. When he was quite through an old woman who had listened In absorbed silence asked: “Stranger, vou say that that happened a long while ago?"* “Yes safd Mr. Barnes, “almost 2,000 vears ago." “And they treated Him that way when He'd come down for nothin' on earth but to save 'em?” “Yos. " The old woman was ecrying softly, and he put cut her hand and lald it on his knee “Well. stranger.”” she said, “let’'s hope that hit ain’'t so." —— One of the southern bishops enjoys telline the following story on his own daughter Strongly imbued with her father's doc- trine she had grown up a strict Eplisco pallan and had never attended a revival or camp meeting In her life, although, as her younger brother remarked, “The woods were full of them.' When she was about 18 she went to visit an old friend of her mother's in New York and her hostess, after much nersuasion, prevalled on her to go to hear Tom Har- rison, the famous hoy evangelist. “But, Mrs. Burnett,” she had finally ob- fected, “suppose he would speak to me, 1I'd be so frightened T shouldn't know what to say." “Why, Virginia,” her hostess had re- plied, *“‘the church will be so crowded that nothing {8 more unlikely than he should single out either one of us." But the girl's fears were realized. As the great preacher left the pulpit and passed down the alsle, exhorting first this ILLUSTRATED BEE. one, then that cne, he the where the bishop's daughter was seated “My dear child,” he said earncstly ai you a Christian?"" ““N-=no, sir,” she replied, “I'm an Episco palian.' With a twinkle in his eye the evangelist passed on without another word paused at pew " — “One morning.' says the Rev. David M Steele of Brooklyn, “a man came to me with a letter written on stamped paper and signed with the name of a clergyman of my church in a town in Massachusetts, His story, told in great embarrassment, was that he had run away from home. Accord- ing to the letter, his aged mother was dy ing with grief, and the appeal of his rec- tor was to the man to come back at once The minister's check for $8, drawn on a bank In this same town, was inclosed with which to pay car fare. He was distressed and was anxious to go, but the difficulty was he had been in New York only five days, knew no one and could not be identi- fied at any bank. Would I cash the check’ 1 told him to come tack In a coupls of JOHN NEUMARKER—WINNER AT NOR- FOLK ORATORICAL CONTEST. hours, and meantime I telegraphed inquiries to the Rev. C——, The answer came: ‘Do not know any such man.’ When the fellow returned he was arrested, and in his pocket a neatly kept memorandum book was found containing the name of nearly every clergy- man in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. This had been his route. On each page of the book there were four columns, headed, ‘name, date, amount and remarks,’ and in these were such entries as, ‘The Rev. R———, $4. Got after an hour's work.' ‘The Rev, S——, no good. Can't work.' ‘The Rev. T §6. An easy mark.’ The dates ran back through three years.” Prattle of Little People One of the young women connected with Hull House, Chicago, was recently showing a collection of photographs of classical pic- tures to a street urchin, and when she came to a copy of the “Sistine Madonna" she asked: “Do you know what that repre sents?’ Yes,' said the boy, “that is Jesus and His mother.” “Did you notice,” ¢ tinued the teacher, ““how beautiful their faces are? You cannot find such beauty of expression in any other picture.” *“But it's the rims around their heads, ma'am, that glves them aw ' interrupted the boy. —— “pa “Yes." ‘“That Mrs. Flipley was here today, and guess what she sald about you.' “Oh, T can't,” the old gentleman replied April 14, 1901, LYDIA SHULTZ—WINNER AT N()RFOLI?‘ ORATORICAL CONTEST. beginning to get intercsted. ““What was it?" “She told ma she thought you were such a handsome-looking man and held your age so well” “She did, eh?" he replied, pushing out his chest and pretending that it didn't any particular difference to him what had said. “But,” the sweet child continued, “ma told her she ought to see you in the morning be- fore you put in your false teeth and got th» side hair slicked up over your buld spot.” B A popular Cleveland doctor tells this story of a bright boy, his own, who had reached miake she the mature age of % after an early career marked by many wild and mischicvous pranks. His restless nature has made him some thing of a torment to his teacher at tim s and one afternoon not long ago she kept him after the others were dismissed and had a serious talk with him. Perhaps she was a little afraid that her admonitions were fall- Ing on stony ground. Anyway, she finally said: “I certainly will have to ask your father to come and see me." “Don’t you do it,”” said the boy The teacher thought she had made an im pression. “Yes,"” she your father.” “You better not,” said the boy. “Why not?" inquired the teacher ‘'Cause he charges $2 a visit,” scamp. repeated, “I must send for the id Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News pressure Shaking hands is a social Query—Can a pretty woman be a plain cook? The blackboard is the original board of education. Better a dinner without meat than a do- mestic broil. The average girl’s ideal man is one who will propose, Giving advice is like kissing- and pleasant. It is truly a fine art to wear new clothes unconsciously. inexpensive When fortune is on our side popularity always bears her company. It's a wise plan to try on your good reso- lutions before passing them. A man never seeks a woman's society be- cause he thinks she needs him. “‘All flesh is grass,”” remarked the hungry vegetarian as he tackled a juicy steak. those who do not depend upon good luck. The luckiest people in the world are FANCY DRESS CARD PARTY GIVEN BY MR. AND MRS. WOODS, 13256 SOUTH THIRTIETH STRRET.