Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1902, Page 22

] THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb. Price, 5c per copy—per year, $2.00. intered at the Omaha Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter, For advertising rates address publisher. Communications relating to yhotographs or articles for publication should be ad- dressed, ‘‘Editor The Illustrated Bee, Omaha.” . . Pen and Picture Pointers DMUND H. HINSHAW, republican E nominee for congress from the - Fcurth Nebraska district, s an- b J other of the young men who have grown up with the west. Like Judge Norris, the candidate from the Fifth, he began his active life on a farm, went from that to the profession of teacher, and from that into law. In each vocation his carcer has been marked by painstaking effort and zeal in the accomplishment of what- ever task has come before him. Mr. Hin- shaw s a pative of Indiana, being born In Henry county in 1860, His boyhood was spent on the farm. At 16 he taught a coun- try gchool, and continued to do so for sey- eral years, teaching in the winter and work- Ing on his father's farm during the summer, until he tad accumulated money enough to pay his way through college. He attended Butler university at Indlanapolis, and after being graduated from there in 1885, came to Falrbury, Neb., hig present home. He was elected superintendent of public schools of that town, but resigned in about a year to take up the study of law. On being admit- ted to the bar he formed a partnership with Judse Leotton, and togother they huilt nn a profitable business, In 1895, when Judge Letton was elected to the bench, the part- nership was dissolved. In 1889 Mr. Hin- shaw was elected a8 clerk and attorney for the city of Fairbury, and again the follow- ing year. He has served as member of the school board and as county attorney of Jef- ferwon county. In 1898 hé was the repub- lican candldate for congress from his dis: trict. His present nomination was gained after a protracted struggle in convention at Beatrice last June, 343 ballots being taken before a nomination was made. Part of the soldler's trade is to know how to shoot. In fact, this is a most es- sential qualification, and to perfect the knowledge of his fighting men In this branch of their craft Uncle 8am expends a great deal of money each year. It is now argued by some critics of army methods that not enough attention is pald to tar- get practice. These would have a rifle range attached to every post, where the enlisted men could be tralned In actual firing as well as In the manual of arms and company maneuvers. It ig obviously impossible that such a suggestion could be put In practice, for very few of the Army posts are so located that a range suf- ficlent for the use of modern high power rifies can be secured. At Fort Crook is what was once pronounced the best rifle range In the United States, and yet it had to be abandoned because the Sarpy county farm- ers living within' two or three miles of the butts complained of the danger to thelr live stock from the steel jacketed bullets that fly from the Krag-Jorgensen. It was all right as long as the army used the 40- caliber Springfield, with the leaden ball, but with the high-power gun the Bellevue range had to be abandoned, and for the same reason Uncle Sam’'s “single men in THE ILLUSTRATED BEE barricks” have to be content with going through the motions of firing except dur- Ing two or three weeks of each year, when they are marched to some place in the wilderness where they can fire and not feel that they are putting in jeopardy the life of some Inoffensive plow horse or bossy cow. After this practice, the leading man of each company at target practice is assigned to attendance at the departmental competition, from which ten are chosen to take part in the army competition —— Conditions of target practice are made a8 nearly as possible those of actual serv- ice. Two days are spent in preliminary firing, one each at known distances and - ekirmishing, and then two days at each style for the competitive record. . On a man's total for the four days depends his standing. At known distances the firing is at 200, 300, 500 and 600 yards, at a rect- angular target. At skirmish firing the targets are silhouettes of a man stand- ing, kneeling and reclining. This is really the spectacular feature of the competition. Each competitor has three of these sil- houettes before him. He is given a certain number of cartridges. At the bugle’s sound the line starts across the flield at a run. Another bugle note, and all drop and fire, Again the bugle, and the charge is re- sumed.. This i{s kept up until the charges have carried the competitors all but across the range, and the time allotted for the practice run is exhausted. The bugle sounds ‘“‘cease firing,” and th» competitors I[ne up. Any cartridges remaining un- fired are counted against the soldier hav- ing_them, a certain number of points being deducted for each shot not fired. Hits on the several targets count at different values, those on the reclining figure being highest and those on the standing the lowest. It I8 the desire of the men of course to hold their fire as much as pos- sible in order to get a good opportunity at short range on the reclining figure. In this excellent judgment must be shown, for they have no means of knowing just what the range is, and are only allowed a few seconds to adjust sights and fire, so it really requires much skill to determine what to do with the cartridges in order to get rid of them all to the best advantage. Now and then during the run a competitor will rise and fall out. That is a signal that bis quota of ammunition has been ex- hausted. In this number is printed a pic- ture of the rifle’team which representcd the Department of the Platte In 1891. It shows Gunsling ‘Davidson, who became fa- mous throughout the army for his abllity at skirmish firing. His sobriquet was gained from the peculiar manner he had of hold- ing his Springfield by thrusting his left knea through the sling. He had a wonder- ful faculty for rapid firing with a sing’e- shot gun, and so would hold most of his ammunition until he had reached short range, when he would riddle the reclining target. Some of the scores he made this way were truly phenomenal, Davidson once won the army competition, giving him two gold medals, the second being for the departmental championship. Other mem- bers of the 1891 team of the Department of the Platte won distinction as marks men, ——— The Omaha bowling team of whom a picture is presented this week, have for two years held the local championship, having twice won it by playing through the games scheduled by the league and coming out with the greatest percentage of victories. Individually the team is strong and as a team it Is well nigh invineible 80 far as the Omaha tenpin game goes. Scores made by this team compare very favorably with those of expert teams In other citles, and the members really feel that their distinction has not been lightly won. The sudden rise of bowling as a popu- James Smead, Guy Furay, H. W. Lehmann, OMAHA BOWLING J. C. Read. Willlam Wigman. August 3, 1902, TEAM— CHAMPIONS, 1901-02. G. Orenberger, A, 2d; E. Chynoweth, 17th; 17th; J. W. Davis, B, 16th; H. Lloyd, G, 7th; J. O. Halen, C, 7th.—Names reading H, Jensen, E, 7th; A. J. Merrill, ¥, 17th; 2d; R. N. Davidson, 16th; J. Droney, D, from left to right, beginning with standing row, P. B. Spencer, E, 17th; B! Drechxlar, C, 17th; J. W. Mayer, G, 17th; 1. N. Hill, G, RIFLE TEAM, DEPARTMENT OF PLATTE, 1891. lar amusement has caused some Sugges- tions that it will find as sudden a drop some day, but there is no indication of any decline in its popularity as yet. On the other bhand, although essentially a winter game, dealers in material and equipment say the summer has seen its steady extension, and that when the season opens more people than ever will be found bowling, Mirthful Moods of Bench and Bar HAT reminds me of an experience I once had in Towa getting rid of & German talesman,” sald one attorney to a group of others sitting In the appellate division of the suprems court last week, says the New York Tiues, walting for court to open. “My client was a rabid prohibition- ist, and the prejudice was so strong against him among the Germans, who composed four-fifths of the inhabitants of the county, that I could not hope for justice from ome of them. “While my opponent was trylug to keep them on the jury I was trying to get them off. It was a hard fight, and I was doing my best to save my peremptory challenges, but whest we needed two more jurcrs, and I had but cne challenge left, th> sherifft summoned a German to the box. His ac- cent suggested a line of attack. ‘Do you understand English? I asked. “‘Yes, very well,’ he answered. “‘Do you never. experiemce any difi- culty In a clear comprehensicn of the t 1 I continued. i What? e asked “ ‘My interrogatory is whether or not the generally accepted vocabulary of the lan- of the country in which the pro- of our courts of law are con- is well enough comprehended by so that after hearing testimony in language you will be able to give weight to it vietim, with a dazed expression, did Answer, a titter went around the court the judge tried to s a smile and the opposing counsel, red in the face, objected, but the court told me to go on. “'Do you not find me sufficiently per. i i splcuous?’ I asked of the talesman. “‘What 1s that?” he inquired, while a quite audible laugh disconcerted him, The judge called for order. “Is my lack of clearness or your ob- $aseness accountable for the want of com- Prehension on your part? I continued, “‘I don’'t understand,’ he answered. “‘That's English,’ I replied. He looked appealingly at the judge, and I made a Mmotion to exclude him because he did not understand the language. My opponent laughed at my motion, but the court sus. tained it; but, I think, rather to expedite matters than because he thought I was right. The result was that we got a jury while U had one peremptory challenge left, and my client got a verdict.” — e - In a town ia the wildest part of the Transvaal the cashier of a bank is an in- dividual who for a time acted as a Judge Some years ago. One day recently he re- fused to h a check offered by 2 stranger, says London Answers. “The check 1s all right,” he said, “but the evidence you offer in identifying your- self as the person to whose order it is drawn, is scarcely sufficient.” “I've known you to hang a man on less evidence, judge,” was the stranger's re- sponse. “Quite likely,” replied the ex-judge, “but when it comes to letting go of cold cash we have to be careful.” ' ———— Justice Gilegerich of the New York su- preme ccurt, who has & fine summer homo on Staten Island, Is fond of sailing, and a few days ago he Invited a friend of his, a lawyer, to go down the bay with him. At the start the wind was quite brisk, but Soon freshenéd into a gale, and caused the little craft they were in to toss and Toll in a manner that soon caused the lawyer's features to twist into expressive contortions. Justice Giegerich, noticing his friend’'s plight, laid a soothing hand on the latter's shoulder and said: “My dear fellow, can 1 do anything for you?' v “Yes, your honor,” replied the lawyer in plaint've tones, “you wil] greatly oblige me by overruling this motion." —— At the lawyers’ club the other day . State Senator E. W, Wakelee, who practices law in New York and politics in New Jersey, was Introduced to a veteran lawyer who has an antipathy to New Jersey. “Ah!" said the old lawyer, “you come from across the river. I remember I had a dream some years ago. I was standing at the pearly gates when a man applied to Bt. Peter for admiss'on. " ‘Where do you come from? asked the gatekeeper. “‘From New Jersey,” replied the man " ‘Well,’ sald- the saint, ‘You are the first man from that place who ever got here.' " “The story is probably correct,” replied Mr. Wakelee, blandly. “‘That was before the republicans got comtrol of New Jer- sey.” S Judge Henry McGinn, who was recently elected state senator in Portland, Ore., tells this story: Two days after the last elec- tion, when the returns showed a very close UNION PACIFIC BRIDGE AFTER THE WIND STORM OF JULY, 1877. race betwsen McGinn and Dr, Harry Lane, two Irishmen met. One asked the other: ‘“How 1s it, Mike, that in so manny votes it should be mick an’ nick atween Hinnery an’ Dock Lane?” “Well, I'll tell ye,” was the answer, “They’re booth very onpopiiler min, an’ it ye knowed wan, ye'd be certain to vote fur th’ other, an’ booth av thim are d—d well known.” \ AP Ornd A jolnt committee of the recent session of the louislana legislature visited the State penal farms at Angola and Hope for the purpcse of reporting on the work done by the b-ard of control. The members of the committee spent some time talking with the negro convicts, and presently one of the negroes” récognized a member of the com- mittee, who is a rising young lawyer, not a ‘housand miles from New Iberia. “You know Mr, B——1" inquired cne of the gentlemen. "“Yaas, sah, I knows Mr. B—— weil. He's de one Cua gent me heah,” replied the darky, with t'*fln spread all over his face. The gentleman had not heard of Mr. B— officiating as a prosecuting attorney and wanted to know how he came to send the ccnvict there. “He wuz mah lawyer, sah.” Mr. B— acknowledged that the drinks Wwere on him, provided the incident did not get any further. The Irish courts have invented a new punishment for recaleitrant hughands, which consists in requiring an abject apology in the public prints. The following is a sample: Apology: I make an humble apology to my wife and family for my past condyu('l. which was cruel. I'beg to say that what 1 stated in court was untrue and want this to be publithed in the Cork County Eagle, - Music’s Power Boston Transcript; fond of music. stance— Brady—You dor’'t call his horn blowing musie? Grimes—It has been very enjoyable to me. I got Tinnerman to keep at it nigh and day, and the result was that I boug the house next door for $1,000 less tha the man who lived In it asked a week or two before. Grimes—Yes, I'm There’s Tinnerman, for in- ¥ / . i