Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1902, Page 22

2 THE JLLUSTRATED BEE. Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb. Price, §c per copy--per year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Postoffice as Second Class Mall Matter, For advertising rates address publisher. Communications relatin, to photo phs or articles for ressed, * ublication should be ad- tor The Iliustrated Bee, Pen and Picture Pointers BORGE W. NORRIS, republican eandidate for congress from the Fifth Nebraska district, has him- self to thank for whatever of success or distinction he may have achieved In life. And he certainly has a claim to both, for it is both successful and distinguishing for a republican to be twice elected to the office of district judge in a section of the state where the opnosi- tion wusually has things its own way. Judge Norris has just turned 41, having been born in Sandusky county, Ohio, in July, 1861. Here he grew up, ''s boy- hood being a hard one because of the death of his father when he was quite young. He worked as a farm hand during the summer and attended school during the winter months, until he filted himself to teach. Later he attended a normal school at Valparaiso, Ind.,, and Baldwin univer- sity at Berea, O. During his time as a teacher he was studying law, nad after leaving the university he went Into a law- yer's office for a scason and then to a law school. In 1883 he was ndmitted to the bar, but had no money to start with, Two more years of teaching gave him funds to purchase a library and begin his practice. In 1885 he opened a law office at McCook and continued the pursuit of |8 THE ILLUSTRATED BEE the cultivation of public or private emn- dorsement. He has won public approval by his course on the bench, and his nomi- nation at the Hastings conventiun was a tribute paid to his worth by bis party. __@__ Rain has made a record In the central west since the first of June that is not likely to be forgotten. The streaming skies have awakened metmories of long forgotten fresh- ets, and hoary men are telling the newer generation of the spring floods of '61, and how the river cavorted in the fall of ’63, and the like of that. In this respect the oldest Inhabitant of today has a decided advantage of him who will be the oldest inhabitant in another generation. For the present anclent of days is confronted with no reccerd of rainfall or measurement of the river's height as carefully kept in the of- fice of the weather bureau, nor do there ex- ist photographs by hundreds to suppcrt or confute the stcry of the man who was there and saw it. In years to come, the record made in 1902 will still be referred to, and the photograihs taken by amateur and professional will exist to show things exactly as they were. In this number The Bee prints some pictures taken at Des Moines during the days when the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers were out of their banks, and a couple that were taken in Platts- his profession for ten years, when he was |3 * elected district judge. In 1899 'e was re- elected, and is still on the bench. Person- | ally, Judge Norris is described as one of |} the most popular of men, his popularity | belng due to his well recognizod abhility, his keen sense of right and justice, rather than to any effcrt cf the man himseif in CRAWLING OUT OF A HOUSE IN INTERIOR VIEW OF GEORGE B. LENHOFF'S BOOK STORE, PLATTSMOUTH. SOUTH DES MOINES. mouth the morning after the deluge down there. These pictures could be matched many times in many towns, but they serve as examples of what the western waters can do when excited sufficiently by exces- sive rainfalls. _@,, June 25, 1876, General George A. Custer and one battalion of the Seventh cavalry, U. 8. A., were annihilated in a battle with Sioux Indians on the Little Big Horn river in Wyoming, near where Sheridan is now located. The Omaha Bee was the first newspaper to give the world an account of that terrible affair. Since the news trickled through by courier from the then faraway scene of the slaughter many tales have been told of the affair, of its origin, progress and result. Only one thing is ab- solutely certain: Whatever object Custer had in turning off Reno's trail and com- mencing a detour to the right will never be known, for Custer and all who went into the fight with him are dead. Now the Custer battiefleld is reached by rallroad, and communication with the wilderness of that day is by the swiftest means known to civilization. Along with this develop- ment has come up a crop of long-haired fakirs throughout the west who claim to be ‘“the sole survivor of the Custer mas- sacre.”” No accurate census of these un- | INAPPROPRIATE SIGN IN FACTORY DISTRICT. LAMBERT, PRINCIPAL OF 8. C SCHOOLS AT ELGIN, Neb.—AD- VANCED GYMNASTICS AND PRI- MARY DRILLS. mitigated liars has ever been taken, but, if it were possible to enumerate them, it is July 27, 1902. ERNEST NYROP, GRAMMAR ROOM, ELGIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS—CADETS AND INDIAN CLUB AND WAND DRILLS. not improbable that they would outnumber the gallant band who rode to death under the intrepid leader. But Custer’'s fate will long be a theme for talk and story in this country. On July 4 at Sheridan a grand cowboy festival was held, and one feature of it was a reproduction of the Custer fight, under conditions very similar. In- dians, cowboys and frontiersmen mingle in the mimic warfare and gave a large number of visitors a most vivid idea of what actually took place on that dreadful day in “the year of an hundred years.” . G Jupiter Pluvius has frowned on picnics around Omaha with uncommon severity this year, and has either drowned them out be- fore they got started or very soon after they were under headway. One of the few that escaped was that of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Elks, and they had an ideal day for an outing. It may also be accepted as a fact that they had an ideal outing. All manner of picnic games and sports were indulged in, and the affair wound up with an al fresco banquet, at which the Elks and their guests sat for some hours, enjoying life as only a well contented wearer of the antlers can. IN THE RAILROAD YARDS AT DES MOINES. Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted People L. JACKSON, M. P., who now be- comes @ peer, is remarkable for a siow, measured utterance and an Imperturbable serenity, says the Londen Daily News. When he was chief secretary for Ireland he baffled the pertinacity of nationalist mem- bers at question time by repeating, In reply to supplementary questions the answer he bad just read to the question on the paper. Thus: “The honorable member cannot have noticed the nature of my reply to the honorable member for —. My answer was—.," Then he would read it again. Occaslonally Mr. Jackscn would get as far as a fourth or a fifth repetition and would carefully state, to the general amuse- ment, the number that he had reached. All this was done with a perfect freedom from impatience and a masterly deliberation that were fully appreciated by a laughter-loving house, P Anecdotes of the elder Dumas abound at the present moment, the celebration of the centenary of his birth having led to a general search among reminiscences. The following Is very characteristic of the great writer: Dumas, it is well known, was coften in financial difficulties and was well acquainted with the ways and methods of bailiffs, One day a per- son called upon him and asked him to subscribe 20 francs toward the expenses of burying a balliff. “Twenty francs to bury a balliff?"’ quoth Dumas. “Well, I'm not in funds just now, but here's 40 francs. Go and bury a couple.” —— In his bo .k, “All the Russlas,” Mr. Henry Hurman gives an interesting description of the bedroom of Cszar Alexander II, which is kept exactly as it was cn the morning he left it. He was brought back an hour after he left it, bleeding to death from injuries inflicted by the assassin’s bomb. As the rcom was, so it remains. The half- smoked cigarette lies upon the ashtray ina glass tube. A little revolver lies before the mirror. Upon each of the tables and upon & _veral chalrs is & loosely folded clean hand- kerchief, for it was the czar’s wish to have «ne f these always within 1each of his hand. There lie all his tollet articles—a few plain bottles and brushes. It is all modest be- yond bellef and the brushes are half weorn. + It was on the veranda of a club where the commanding figure of the ex-speaker of the house of representatives Is often seen end always welcomed. The doctor, famous for anatomic skill and gastronomic expert- ness, was recounting his feats of carving to the engireer, sa;s the New York Times. “On cne occasion,” he remarked, “when I was a medical student in Philadelphia, I earned the undying gratitude of my land- lady by carving Into satisfactory portions for twelve persons one reed bird.” “Humph,” replied the engineer, It must have been a Tom Reed bird."” ol Cov rnor Odell told this tramp story at the Oriental hotel, New York, last Sunday cvenirg when the conversation turned from polities to znecdotes. “I was in a country hotel up near New- burg ope evening when a tramp came shambling in about 9 o'clock and offered to do any chores to pay for a meal. “‘What kind of chores do you expect to find to do this time of night,' asked the boniface. “ ‘Well, boss, it ain’'t my fault I'm so late, said the tramp. ‘The freight was 8o slow I thought I'd never get here at all. If you'll wake up the railroad people I'll get in earlier next time.' “The msn got his supper’ The English papers are full of stories about Kitchener. One of them tells how General Delarey described one of his in- terviews with Lord Kitchener, in which he made an earnest endeavor to obtain an armistice during the progress of nego- itations. “I told him,” said Delarey, “that I considered it extremely unfair for his columne to gallop about the country after my commandoes, while I was here to dis- cuss the possibi'ity of a peacful under- standing with your people. My men were deprived of their leader, and placed at an unfair disadvantage. It was no good, though,” continued the Boer' general. “Kitchener turned to me and replied, ‘General Delarey, I am not aware that anyone asked you to come in. You can g5 cut again tomorrow if you like.' " Christian Dewet seemed thoroughly to enjoy describing how he tackled the man of Khartoum over the continuance of English occupation of the country with & large military force, which, he protested, would be an undesirable charge on the resources of the country and a handicap to its speedy development. “I told him,” sald Dewet, “that I must stipulate for the withdrawal of the whole of your army at the earliest possible date after the signature of peace” Kitchener's only reply was: “Don't be childish.” A New Zealand officer is authority for another story, {llustrating the same la- conie, business!ike traits. He had been sent to Pretoria. While he was enjoying a pipe a ragged looking ‘“‘gentleman in khaki” came along the l'ne. The stranger wore no star or other dis- tinguishing marks, and did not look In any way impressive. Passing in front of the young officer, he asked, ‘“‘Colonial?’ “Yes,” was the reply. “Which?" “Third New Zealand.” ““Ab, you are to join Plumer." The stranger then began to talk of “in- side orders’” in a way that surprised the New Zealander, who remarked that he was awaiting just such orders from Lord Kitch ener. “Well, you've got them I'm Kitchener,” was the unexpected reply. —— While at Oyster Bay Mrs. Roosevelt re- ceived a letter from the publisher of a rather sensational periodical inclosing a check for $500 and asking her to write a brief article for h's next issue upon the management of a home, the training of children, the experience of a mistress of the White House, or any other subject she might find more ‘‘congenial,”” the “honorarium’ therefor being enclosed. The letter and check were returned without comment. i Attention has been rccalled by the fill- ness of King Edward VII to the fact that, in recognition cf his keen personal inter- est in the work cf the medical profession, he was unanimously elected, four years ago, an honorary fellow of the Royal Col- lege of Physicians (London), and formally admitted to the degree. This honor to a layman is very rare, and he is the only henorary F. R. C. P. in England. He iz surpassed, however, by the queen of Por- tugal, who is a regularly qualified M. D., having studied and walked the Lisbon hos- pitals as an ordinary student. _@_ Charles H. Hull of Marshalltown, Ia., a grandson of Commeodore Isaac Hull, who commanded the frigate Constitution in her memcrable fight against the Guerrierre, visited the Charleston navy yard a few days ago, for the purpose of seeing the ship on which his grandfather fought. He made himself known te the officers and every opportunity was given him to look over “Old Ironsides” thoroughly. Mr. Hull made the trip—his first visit—to the Atlantic coast chiefly to see the famous old vessel, and on his way he visited the commodore’s grave at North Murray Hill cemetery in Philadelphia. At the navy yard he was shown over the ship repairing works, and by way of comparison after his visit to_the frigate, was taken aboard the modern cr ser Newark. When he left he was given a relic from Constitution. __@_._ Joseph W. Ogden, a well known New York banker, is going to build a church for the Presbyterians of Chatham, N. J., as a memorial to his father, Rev. Dr. Joseph M. Ogden, who was their pastor for fifty years. The family is one of Dr. Ogden’'s life-long friends, W. C. Wallace, who was a classmate at Princeton, will finish and decorate the interfor. This is a good way to keep green the memory of a fal hful minister. _®_ The peace agreement between the British and Boer leaders is an interesting docu- ment., It is typewritten, and is probably the first instrument of the kind which has not been written by hand. Not the least interesting part of it is formed by the signatures of the Boer leaders. These are naturally in various styles. Louis Botha's is described as being in a “fine clerkly hand.” The others are all somewhat rougher, and Delarey’'s is stated to be the rcughest of all. By the way, he splits his name up into three syllables, thus: de la Rey, while his redoubtable colleague f the late free state signs himself Christian de Wet, also with a small “d4.” —— Colonel George Bliss' home, 64 West Thirty-nineth street, New York city, has been sold by his widow, Mrs. Annis Casey Bliss, to a real estate firm. It is a strik- ingly individual house, and one must hope it will not be torn down. Colonel Bliss had lived there for thirty years at the time of his death, in 1897. »”