Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1902, Page 26

2 THE JLLUSTRATED BEE. Published \Ver—kl{ by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb. Price, bc per copy—per year, $2.00 Iintered at the Omaha Postoffice as Second Class Mall Matter, For advertising rates address publisher Communications relating to thlmzruphn or articles for iblieation should be ad Adressed The TIllustrated RBee Omaha ftor Pen and Picture Pointers ECORATION each year at DAY reminds us once least of the sacrifice of the soldiers who made up t Grand Army of the Republic whose deeds are blazoned upon many pages of American history As their day recedes in the vista of years, the per spective, growing steadily longer, may ren der them and thoir cause smaller, and th haze of passing events may obscure the magnitude of their deeds, yet when we stand face to face beside the low green mounds, decked for the day with wreath and bunches of blossoms, all the mist of years {8 swept away and again the grandeur of these men and the principle they supported comes to us &o distinctly that we are not amazed that it outshines all else. “The world will little heed nor long remember what we say her sald Lincoln at Gettysburg, long ago, “but it can never forget what they did here.” Prophetic words, Indeed, and finding their fulfillment annually in the offering of flowers and tears at the graves of the dead brave in whose memory the cherished chieftain gave them utterance. Each year sees the list of soldier dead grow long each Memorial day finds new tents spread on fame's eternal camping grounds, each year the march ng line of voterans | shorter and its ranks thinner, but the work which they began has fallen into loving hands, and the nation will turn as!de for one day at least each year so long as the light of liberty burns clear and bright throughout the land to pay a tribute of loving gratitude to those whose watchword was “Liberty and union flag!" one country, one —® And while the graves of the soldier dead whose last sleep is beneath the sod of the land they loved so well, are covered wi'h earth’'s brightest flowers, those “who went down to the sea in ships” and who up their lives for liberty on the water ara to be remembered Beautiful flowers are scattered on the waters, to be drifted by wind and tide, and finally lost on *“old ocean's melancholy gray expanse.” In this way loving hearts will manifest their senti- ment toward the dead whose resting place Is not known beyond the fact that thoey sank to peace at sea. It is the idea of Mrs Armitage Forbes of Charleston, 8. (., who gave UST discharged from the hospital where he had been cp rated upon for appendicitis, reports the New York Times, a young man met a friend the other day ““Congratulate me,” said the frend. “Har- vard has made me M. A" “That's nothing,” answered the ex-pa tient. “I've been made M. A., too.” “By whom?"' asked the friend in aston ishment. “By Dr. McBurney,” was the reply. “I'm Minus an Appendix he station at Savannah,” says a traveler through the south, “is surrounded in all directions with a lot of sa'oons and cheap restaurants, In great illuminated letters over one of these saloons was the sign: ‘“*‘Open all night.' ““Next to it was a restaurant bearing with equal prominence the legend, ‘We never close.’ ““Third In order was a Chinese laundry in a little tumbledown hovel, and up'n the front of this building was the sign {1 great scrawling letters: ‘Me wakee, too.'" D Flippant people sometimes refer to that sedate and proper member of Yale's austere corporation, Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twichell, M. A., of Hartford, Conn., as “Joe” Twich- ell, reports the New York Times. This, his latest story, told by him at a St. Patrick's day dinner, may perhaps {'lustrate why people speak so familiarly of this loved and very lovable apostle of the Congregational faith: “lI became very much interested in a chance companion on a rallway train,” sald Mr. Tw “ell. ‘““He was plainly of Italian birth or .xtraction, and I so remarkcd to him. ““Where were you born?" 1 asked “In Genoa,"” replied the young man ‘“And what is your name?" “Patrick Murphy."” “How In the world dld you get that pame?’ I asked instinctively “I took It,” replied the y¢ ung man “Why did you choose such a namo-?" ‘“‘Because I wanted people to think I was an American,” was his reply A married woman living has been having the greatest late in inducing her husband to order certain out at Lakeside dificulty of to remember things for the househo'd THE ILLUSTRATED MRS. ARMITAGE §8. C WHO PAYS A TRIBUTE SAILOR DEAD. JRBES TO THE has succeeded in intcresting a sufficlent number of women, north and south, to make sure that the sailor dead will be re membered even as are their brothers who fought on the land It was right they ccntended for, the one on land, the other on sca, and alike shall they share In the gratitude of the whole people of a united country. >— Events of the last three years have brought Memorial day much nearer (o the homes and hearts of the people. Many of the new graves that will be strewn with flowers on Friday are those of young men, born in moet cases since the close of the tragedy that gave birth to the day These boys Ike the others, gave their lives in liberty's cause, and their comrades, kin dred and friends will come to their graves with the same fresh sorrow that found its expression thirty-five years ago when the comra'es, kirdied and friends of the dead of the great war for the union knelt in mournful reunion at the cemeteries and consecrated a bright May day to the end that the soldier will not bhe forgotten In his narrcw hceme, Still wlll the solder's bedy be quictly lowered into the grave, still will the little spurt of flame and shary report of the rifle announce the fact, st'n will the bugle sigh “‘go to sleep” in th sadly sweet notes of “taps,” and still will lovingly lay wreaths on the rest ing places of the soldier dead B This determinaticn forever fittingly honor th» soldier received a significant ex- emplification at Council Bluffs, when the monument to Colonel W. H. Kinsman was dedicated on May 17. Colonel Kinsman went ouat from Council Bluffs in 1861 in the com posterity to A. B. ANDERSON, M. D, Y—NEWLY ELE PAWNE PRE DENT NEBRASKA STATE MEDI CAL SOCIETY pany of which General G. M. Dodge was captain. He was a lawyer, just beginning his career as a practitioner, but he became a soldier of unusual excellence, as is ar tested by his rise through all the vartous grades from private in 1861 to colonel command of the Twenty-third Towa in- fantry in 1863. He lost his life at the head of his regiment during the battle of Black Bayou in that year. When the lowa com- mission to locate the positions of the Hawk- regiments Vicksburg during the operations of that great campaign began i's work, the grave of Colonel Kinsman located and marked. The exhumation the remains and the reinterment at the foot of an enduring monument was a labor of love on the part of the people of Council eye about was of Bluffs. The ocrasion was made the means of publicly expressing the feeling of grat itude and honor for a brave man nearly forty years after he had made his great sacrifice for his country A shaft of en- during granite will hand the name of Kins man down to generations yet to come, n tribute from those who knew him when he went to war D Docters of medicine realize that on the intcrchange of experience depends the ad- vance of their profession in science. No other means affcrds such cpportunity for this comparison of experience and ideas as docs the meeting of the medical societ Here they r cases, giving in detail treatment and result, and listen to crit! cism cr suggestion from their fellow prac- titicners Recently the Nebraska State Medical society met in Omaha for one of these scientific sessions, interspersed with such relaxations as theater parties, seven- course dinners and the like afford. Before the adjournment officers for another year BEE. E. B FINNEY, M. D.,, LINCOLN NEWLY ELECTED PRESII NT OF NEDBRASKA HOMEOPATHIC MEDI CAL SOCIETY were ch sen, Dr. A. B. Anderson of Pawne« Dr. An 51 ‘years old, twenty-five mem association City being selected for president derson is a native of Illinois and practiced medicine yvears at his present home Hi¢ ber of the American Medical and has becn before honared by his brothers in the profession. has is a — At the same time the Nebraska Homeo- pathic Medical association held its annual session in Omaha, for the same purpo-es as actuated their brethren of “the old schocl.” At the close of two days of profiiable in tercourse the society elected its officers for the next year, choosing Dr. E. B. Finney of Lincoln president. Dr. Finney is a v ung man, being born at Weeping Water, Neb in May, 1867 He was educat2d in Phi!- adelphia and New York, taking a thor ugh course in medicine and surgery before b began his practice at his present home, Ralnmakers are not a new thing in th west. Catlin fcund them ameong the Man- dan Indizns when he visited this country the early part cf the last century, search g for material for his great ethno- graphical and ethnological work. Among the Pueblo Indians the Spaniards found the custom of cffering prayers and sacrifices to prepitiate angry gods who controlled the precipitation, and the custom prevails tc day among the Mexicans, Christians though they be. Neb Kansas and other western states were much edified a few years ago by the work of expert dreamers, who bom- barded the atmosphere through stovepipes stuck through holes in the roofs of sheds shacks or box cars, the sides cf tents and the tops of covered wagons, all making rain. This merely shows the importance which the pecple of this great grain-grow aska, Gleanings from the Story Tellers’ Pack while down town, relates the Duluth News. Every day there was something forgotten and the meals were growing more scanty as a result A few days ago she handed her husband a letter as he made a run for his car, say- ing that it was not to be opened until the afternoon. He remembered it just as he finished his luncheon that day and opening it he read “lI am forced to tell you something that I know will trouble you, but have thought of it for some time. 1 feel that it is my duty My mother taken into the secret and she, too, John, declares that it is best that you should know. I cannot keep this to myself any longer.” to do so has been KINGSTON HARBOR, ST. VINCENT Hubble's face grew ashen and was taking an upright position turned over the page and read “We have not a pound of butter in house. Send me some this afternoon.’ The request was complied with. his hair when h-° the After a large wedding in Washington the “best man’ started at hardly an hour's notice for South Africa, relates the Wash ington Times. On his return Washing ton, after an absence of some eighteen months, he received the warmest sort of welcome from his old associates. A din- ner given in his honor afforded the first oc- casion since the wedding for donning even- ing dress and in the midst of the evening, having pocket party by Where occasion feel in for something, he drawing forth a had it come it there? His fellow of suggestions to seemed satisfactory. Early the next morning the truth flashed across his mind He called upon the clergyman who had performed the marriage ceremony. “You remember the fact, I suppose,” said the visitor, “of marrying Mr. H and Miss G - about a year and a half ago?" “Oh, very well,” answered the clergyman i them constantly. They attend church,” to his waistcoat electrified the $100 bank note from? Who had put guests had all sorts offer, none of which see my WHERE THE TERRORS OF VOLCANIC DESTRUCTION HAVE LATELY REIGNED 1002 R B M'CLENNON, WHO REPRE SENTS YANKTON COLLEGE IN SOUTH DAKOTA ORATORICAL CONTES AT HURON mmg region attach to rain. The fact that the trip of the Omaha Commercial club members through the South Platte country wan accompanied by rain brought to them the appellaticn of “rainmakers’ is a tribute of respect and not of derision. That trip is prophetic of prosperity for the state ana all its people One of the really important conventions held in Nebraska this year was the meeting of the Z. C. B. J. at Wilber. This was the national grand lodge session of a Bo- hemian benevolent society, which brought together 164 delegates, representing 7.000 members in Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Towa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesotua, Nebraska, Oregon, Wisconsin and Okla- homa. Frank J. Sadilek of Wilber was chosen for president. One of the Import- ant steps taken was the adoption of a by- law admitting women to membe rship in the order on equal footing with the men Many visitors accompanicd the delegates to Wil- ber and during their stay were entertained with amateur dramatics, a banquet, at which over 400 g down, and in other ways P Public interest has been attracted to the of group Amcrican islands known as the Lesser Antilles by reason of the terrible voleanie and seismic disturbances whien have recently cecurred there and the fright ful loss of human life and destruction of property which have followed The ac tivity of the volcano Pelee continues, and there is no telling wh the end will be One of the pictures this week is of the beautiful harbor of Kingston in the is'and cf 8t. Vincent, where the people have heen rerrified by the acticn of the ve lecano Sou friere Then I hope you will pardon a rather delicate question, asked in strict confi- dence. How much did you receive as your fee on that occasion? “I will return frankness with frankness and the clergyman smiled whimsically. “It was the strangest fee that ever came my way. After the c¢ remony the best man, with a profusion of thanks slipped into my hand a small sliver of plug tobacco wrapped In a wad of paraffin paper!" B “I wanted the influence of the congress- man from my district in a certain matter, ¢iid a Michigan man, quoted by the I troit Free Pre “so I hied me down to Wachington to have an interview. He was boarding at a private house and had a room off the parlor I was asked to sit down and wait while a colored man took In my card and, as the door was left ajar, I heard the congressman say as he looked at my card “‘Blank? Blank? I think I know him Is he in liquor, James? I don't think so, sir.’ ‘*Does he look shabby? “*‘Well, you may call it shabby.’ ' ‘Seems to be hard up, does he?" I think he does, sir.’ “‘Yes, he is probably here to strike me for at least $10. James, diq you tell him that T was in? “‘No, sir. I told him I'd see it you were." * ‘That's right. You may return to him and that you are sorry to announce the fact that I left for Boston this morn ing.’ And won't be back for ten days.' “Yes. sir.’ y " ‘And meanwhile your advice to him is to drop in and see one of the other repre sentatives from my state bt ¢ | sir.’ “I was duly turned down ind out,” laughed the victim, “but I got e en next day, when I encountere d the g¢ nan on the street. He tried to dodge me, but 1 walked up and slapped him on the back and said “ ‘Hello, old boy! I h d a little matter that would have put $15.000 in cash into your pocket, but, not finding vou at home yesterday, I turned it over to Representas tive . ‘‘The you did!" gasped my dear old friend, as he turned all of colors, ind we have been as strangers since that day -~