Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1902, Page 22

2 THE JLLUSTRATED BEE. Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb Price, bc per copy—per year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Postoffice as Second Class Mall Matter For advertising rates address publisher Communleations relating to photographs or articles for publication should be ad dressed, ‘‘Editor The [Illustrated Bee, Omaha." Pen and Picture Pointers " all the charitable work of Omaha probably none i¢ hetter known ymong the peorer districts and the places where want and trou ble are most often felt than that of the Visiting Nurse association It is also probable that there s no other work of which so little is known among the people generally or that is hrought befor them legs frequently for assistance The association was organized in 1896 hy one of Omaha's best known and best loved young women, who, in devoting her skilled professional knowledge of nursing to a wide personal charity, realized the neces sity of some systematic provision for pro fesslonal care for the city's poor aside from that provided by the cit ind county physicians, and determined to secure it Accordingly a meeting was called of women from among her personal friend all the denominations of the city being represented that no feeling of sectarianism might hinder the usefulnes of the organization she lioned they might effect Twelve women responded to her call and so successful has become the organization that f{te membership now numbers hetween 300 and 400. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these ye have done it fs the spirit which actuates the organiza tlon and which maintains it and every patient is treated as a friend, confidence is unto me' respected and no red tape required or al lowed Realizing that to few is given the talent of ministering to the needy the main effort of the membership has been devoted to securing funds necessary for the proper maintenance of the work and to providing the necessary clothing, food and other essentials to supplement the work of the professional nurses. So qulietly and systematically has the work been done that few even of the association have known the identity of those for whom they have worked The funds have been ralsed largely through securing $1 memberships in the assoclation and by the many other means employed by women In the main tenance of such work & Necessarily the expense has been con- siderable, but the responsibility has been greater, and for the first two yes the best effort of the women was taxed to continue It It was abhout this time that a name was added to the membership list HOMAS BARRY, a Boston lawyer was recently examining a Celtic witness in the Boston municipal court in a suit having to do with an accldent on the street cars Here 1s a fragment of the {information elicited by Lawyer Barry's advice that the witness tell the story in his own words “Well, the man fell In th' str-reet as the car-r passed; thin th' car-r stopped, an' we all ran out The er-rowd gathered ar-round th' man and shouted, ‘He's kilt! He's kilt, Thin Of jumped in, pulled a dozen of the spalpgens out uv th' way, and yells at 'em, ‘Yez thick heads, yez! If th' man's kilt, why In hivvin's name don't yez stand to wan side an' let him have a breath of alr-p!* " > During the trial of a street rallway dam age sult in one of the circuit branches of the supreme court of the District of Columbla a few days ago, relates the Washington Star, an important eyvewlitness of the accldent took the stand in the per son of an elderly colored man. The plain tiff had been Injured while the car was at a street crossing, and one of the attorneys was endeavoring to elicit from the witness Just where the latter was standing at the moment the plaintiff was struck by the ear “As I understand you,” remarked the at torney, after a number of questions had been asked, “you were standing at the street corner dlagonally opposite the polnt where the accident occurred.” “No, sir. 1 “1 guess 1 wasn't," was declared the standng kinder sort the blas from the spot witness er on o It the was while New York the supreme Judge Celora E. Martin of of appeals was court bench that a self Important young lawyer was arguing a mo tion before him. Tiring of the grandiloquence reports the New Times Martin Interrupted him started to render an adverse decision “But your honor does not understand the case state court attorney's York and Justice still urged the attorney, who saw that things were not coming his way Permit me to explain the law. | have THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. MRS W R ADAMS WHO HAS MANAGED THE OMAIIA VISIT ING NURS ASSOCTATION that has since become synonymous with the name of the organization and is known throughout the poorer district that of Mrs. W. R. Adams. Being so situated as to make it possible, Mrs. Adams assumed the position as superintendent of nurses, in which capacity she has for tho last five years devoted her entire time to visiting and investigating wherever a needy case has been reported, doing inestimable good and winning the gratitude and confidence of scores who through misfortun tem porary or otherwise, have been reduced to the necessity of aid During these years Mrs. Adams has refused all remuneration for her efforts, which she gives for the love of humanity alone and so made it pos- sible for the assoclation to accomplish what it has with the small resources that have been at its command Early in May Mrs Adams gave up her chosen work to return to her former home in Ireland for definite visit, the report she the April work the sults that have been Seventy were an in- submitted for greatest re- accomplished cared for, 597 patients sent to the hospl friends and burial pro cases During Mrs. Adams’ the work will be continued by mem- bers of the ind an effort will be made the membership 1,000, believing that with income the work could be made showing vet two patirnts five three four visits made, tal and vided in absence to association iso to increase to the women this annual entirely solf-supporting D Miss Louise Ormshy of Central City, Neb who is studying music in Paris, is making most enviable name for herself in the French capital The June number of the Paris World, an {llustrated English maga zine published in Paris, has this to say of Miss Ormsby and her attainments An American girl who has surely a bril- liant career before her s Miss TLoulse Ormsby, dramatic soprano, who has fust EDWARD S. LORIMER OF BROOK INGS, 8. D., GRAND COMMANDER SOUTH DAKOTA KNIGIHTS TEM PLAR completed her Miss Orms youth 1 Her voice fine timbre perfect She came from Nebraska three years ind - went at or to live in a I'rench family, with the advantage lady of the house was also her diction teacher Miss Ormsby has plenty good common sense, which, it is beginning to be understood, is of immense value even to a prima donna She has never allowed her- self to become enamored of social life in the gay American « my in Paris, and so has lived entirely among French people, vith the magnificent result that she speaks French without accent, an accomp!ishment three years v has everything in her favor, fine figure, fire and enthus m Is harmopiously developed, 1s of and quality, and her French is in Paris ago private that th of S0 necessary to a successful career in oper and one very seldom attained by American students Miss Ormsby 1s a hard worker. She has a repertoire of fifteen operas, in any of which she can appear within twenty-four hours’ notles She sings Marguerite in Faust,” Elsa in “lLohengrin,” Elizabeth in “Tannhauser” and La Reine in ‘‘Ham- let.’ Befor coming abroad she was a graduate of the New England conservatery of Boston, so that education latd tion She singer the basis of her musical on a good solid founda- is has been a 7y in exclusive the past winter pular drawing-room I'rench circles during one of her recent suc- cesses being chez la Baronne I zes Miss Ormshy has received speels pralse ind encouragement from Massenet Saint- Saens and from Faure of the Opera Ha pily, she has not caught the American mania to sing at the Opera or the Opera- Comique, and die—artisticallv, what hap- pens for so many. Miss Ormshy very gen- sibly plans to go to Rouen, to Brussels, or some of the other provinelal cities, or else to America, where real talent {s appre- clated and applauded She will certainly be some day a great and well known artiste and I predict for her a success attalned only by the few The celebration by the five Ingwersen brothers at Clinton, Ta., of the fiftieth an niversary of their arrival in America a notable occasion They have been not merely the witnesses but active partiel- pants in the developments and achleve- was THREE GRADUATES Staff Artist, FROM ST ments of the most wonderful half century in history From the day they first cressed the Father of Waters in 1852 until now, they have seen the expansion of a na- tion, then almost ready to be embroiled in a struggle fcr existence, into the most magnificent the world ever knew; they have seen the opening up of a wilderness and its growth into an agricultural empire the like of which nowhere else to be found; they have industry in all its branches take the impetus of the vigorous life on all sides and expand with wonder ful results Millions of people have made their homes west of the Mississippi river is seen since the five Ingwersen brothers came young and lusty emigrants from Germany to make their homes in a new world In the prosperity of all these brothers hav. shared, and their old age, which is 1 ke Macbeth's winter, “frosty but kindly,” finds them surrounded by all the Scottish thane misscd in true friends and loving de scendants. Their celebration at Clinton was an affair entirely unique in its way but one that serves to point a useful moral as showing the great reward which to crown a well spent, useful life comes Mirthful Moods of Bench and Bar here of court of appeals “Motion terrupted ded some the latest dec in whieh it denied justice that ?* @ two sions of is held—" with costs,"” the the ision than aga'na In ‘Have y u any later In a house under a Texas where of false name ting up a difficulty One of them case men went a them introduced and succeeded in get with some of the family said he for a fuss and, he was going to have it, and that he could kill four five people be- fore they could stop In the row which followed he drew his gun upon a son of the and the mother partly opened door at that ment, he turned It upon her and fired He was charged with assault with intent to kill The d¢ fense was that the shooting was accidental In addition to the facts, it proved that the accused th rmed with a Winchester Rem ngton x-shooter and a box of cartridges, while his companion armed with a Smith & Wesson pistol and a Colt six- shooter, also wearing a breast of of an old plowshare tied on his body with ropes. By rea of this very unusual of circumstances the theory was urged unsuccessfully to one was can by or him family as a m above was was at time gun, a was 32-caliber and iron was plate made ind son combination of accident of the supreme court Second district, is a tall man with a tender relates the New York Tribune. Not long ago he caught an impostor just as the fellow Justice Marean heart was performing the last act of a swindling trick on him. The Brooklyn judges tell the story as follows One day a shabby and loquacious indi vidual walked into the office of Judge Marean and said Judge I'm in hard luck. I want a couple of dcllars to get a Turkish bath, a meal and a shave, and then I'll be in decent condition to visit my The friends handed money was over at once with the courtesy that distinguishes the judge In his dealings with his fellow men Then it occurred to the judge that per- haps he had been a bit hasty in giving the visitor money. He looked out of the win dow and street straight say saw the man Grabbing his hat nto a saloon and with a wave of the men. Drink went the two-dollar Forward surged Just the hobo's getting cold circled the shoulders and Judge Marean sald as he picked up the bill ““Not with my heading for Court he followed him heard the fellow hand with me. bill eight “Come on, pe Down counter. loungers vitation on the or ten of In- arm thirsty firmly, as words were a of quietly long the but over money ® Senator Deboe of Kentucky tells a story of an episode in Bourbon county, in his state, A worthless, drunken fellow, who was a com mon nulsance, was arrested and brought into court He demanded a trial by jury and the court ordered that a jury be im paneled On the next day, when the court met, there were gathered in the jury box twelve of the hardest, most disreputable characters in the county, “What does this mean asked the judge “Well,” said the sheriff I knew that the prisoner was entitled to be tried by a GIRLS WHO TOOK PART IN THE jury of his peers It was pretty hard work to get them, but in case any of these won't do, I have few around a whisky barrel The court looked at the jury. The a more outside.” the prisoner hovering and at case is dismissed,”” was all he said When Lord Chief Justice Holt presidoed the court of the King's Bench, relates Mirror, poor, decrepit old creaturs brought befcre him, charged as a criminal, on whom the full severity of the law mplary be visited effect “What ship Witcheraft.” “How it proved?” ¢ a powerful see {t."” handed to the bench It small ball of variously col ored rags of silk, bound with threads of as many different hues in the was ought to with ex is her crime?”’ asked his lord is has me spell ired spell.” was ApT a These were unwound ind unfolded, until there appeared a scrap of parchment, on which were written cer- FLOWER PLAY AT ST CATHERINE'S CATHERINE'S ACADEMY—Photo by a Staff Artist. July 6, 1902 ACADEMY-—Photo by a MISS LOUISE ORMSBY OF CENTRAL CITY, Neb.,, WHO HAS WON DIS TINCTION IN PARIS tain characters now nearly illegible from much use The judge, after looking at th paper charm a few minutes, addressed himself to the terrified prisoner. “Prisoner, how came you by this?' A young gentleman n'h rd, gave it to me, to cure my child's ague.” “How long since?" \ Thirty years, my lord.” And did it cure her?” “h and many others.” The paused a few moments, and then ressed himself to the jury Gen tlemen of the jury, thirty years ago I and some companicns, as thoughtless as my self, went to this woman's dwelling, then a public house, and, after enjoving our- selves, found we had ne means to dis charge the reckoning Observing a child ill of an ague, 1 pretended I had a spell to cure her I wrote the classic line you see on a scrap of parchment, and was d of the demand on me by the the poor woman before us posed benefit.” charged of sup- gratitude for the