Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1902, Page 26

“© — THE JLLUSTRATED BEE. Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb Price, 6c Per Copy—Per Year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Postoffice as Second Class Malil Matter. For Advertising Rates Address Publi<her, Communications relating to photographs or articles for publication should be - dressed, “Editor The Inustrated Iee, Omaha.” Pen and Picture Pointers RIMEVAL man was a hunter from very necessity He had to learn to stalk and enare, to trap and take, or go without food and clothing Savage man has also been compelled to exist under much the same stressful conditions, although a rudi mentary knowledge of agricultural possi bilities has Iin a measure ameliorated his situation in this regard Among other blessings that come with civilization Is the condition which makes it possible for man to live and not pursue the chase as a means of living. But civilization is only a veneer after all, and in man’s breast still linger certain of his old savage impulses, emo tions and desires not shaken off when he stood upright walk and shed his tall Among these primal instinets that of hunt to ing is probably first. At least it is more general In its manifestation Everybody has at one time or another felt the im- pulse to go forth and slay something; to take a gun and tramp woods or stubble fields; to hide among reeds and fens, and to take the life of any bird or beast un- fortunate enough to come within purview of gun or other instrument of destruction Civilization circumseribes man's destruc- tive tendencles in this as In other direc- tions, and legislation, born of greater or less wisdom, has hedged about the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fishes that are in the waters under the earth with such provisions as tend In a measure at least to restrict the slaughter and thue preserve them in a little security of life. Open season is the for the hunter, and it is no longer mere slaughter, but the highest development of the instinct of wooderaft that enables him to gratify his time propensities In the way of killing game. Savage man would soon starve to death were he put to get his game under the game conditiong as civilized man. And then the element of true sport that actuates the Episodes and Incident RUNETIERE, the French ecritic, was recently asked for a contri- bution to a eymposium, the ques- tions being “What do you think of the intellectual influence of Germany?”’ and “Is that influence still existent and justified by its results?’ M Prunetiere made this scorching reply: *“I am not a &lot machine from which by drop- ping your penny you get a package of cigar- ette papers, a cake of chocolate, a matured opinion on Shakespeare or a criticism of Bismarck. I admire those machines, but am not one. Go to them and get your pen ny's worth.” S G— G. A. Henry, the writer for youth, who died a few days ago, got letters from ad- mirers all over the world asking for his autograph and offering criticism of his books In a story of the Peninsular war he made two boys disgulse themselves by staining their faces with iodine Shortly after the book was published he received a letter from a boy who said he was a chem- ist’'s assisiant, stating that while that speclal incident was represented as taking place in 1808, lodine was not until 1811—three years later. —— The Hon. W. Bourke Cockran and Mr F. P. Dunne are to be among the speakers discovered Where Nature Spreads Her Most Lovely Color THE modern hunter was never known to the savage. With him it was merely a matter of business. In the modern instance tha beast or bird is at least given the chance of life that comes with being shot at only while in moticn. True, this is a mighty slim chance under ordinary circumstances for the hunter has developed wonderful skill and is almost as certain a visitation of death as the average duck cares to meet up with its migration It is more the joy of hunfing than the killing of the game that gets the city man to forsake his omfortable surroundings for the he muet spend in the open, discomforts such as being occasionally soused in cold water and other inconveniences he must endure in order to get “a good bunch of birds,” but on mere days the birds are toothsome and give srome gus tatory delight to those who cannot “‘go hunting,” so they may be set down as more than an incident of the trip after all 0 Nebraska has long f place where water fowl may be hunted in and fall In the fall particularly birds, in prime condition from a spent among the rich feeding in the north, delight to break the journey south by loafing for a few days around the shallow streams and In the glorious grain fields of the Antelope state Carefully framed laws give these birds protection which some think is rather too broad, but which the more conserva- tive of hunters think is admirably designed to rerpetuate the that has made the state famous, been famous as a spring do the summer grounds long shooting One of the greatest of all game birds is not known to Nebraska, but Towans have in times past enjoyed the hunting of it, and still it may be found in some of the deeper wooded hills in the southeastern part of the etate. The turkey, native to America, roamed the woods in early times from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippl river, but is now confined to the woods of the south- ern states and a very few localities along the Father of Waters. More majestic than any fowl of the open pralries, wary as the wild goose, fleet of foot and powerful of wing, keen of sight and hearing, and more difficult to hit than his size would indi- cate, the turkey is the ideal game bird Hunting him in the proper season is ac- companied by the keenest zest the sports- man knows, and when the hunt is rewarded by a twenty-eight pound gobbler, such as fell to the gun of Captain Billings of the navy recently, the joy of the chase is made perfect. Chase means exactly what one must do as a rule to overhaul a turkey, at the celebration in Baltimore Md., on St. Patrick’s day, March 17, 1903, of the one hundredth anniversary of the organi- zation of the Hibernian society of that city This society is the oldest of the race so- cletfes of Baltimore, and it has had a con- tinuous existence, its membership includ- ing nearly every Irish-born citizen of prominence in the century that has passod. John Oliver, of its members, and its president at the time of his death, in 1827, left a large sum of money to found the Oliver Hibernian F School, which has been the means of educating thousands of children one A reason can generally be found for every- thing. Everyone is aware of the fact that General Grant was addicted in an abnormal degree to the smoking habit. General Jam & Grant Wilson, in a recent address before the historical society of Philadelphia, ac- counts for his in this regard. Among the yarns spun by the speaker was excesses the following: “It seems that after one of Grant's great victories he was seen riding down the line with a half-smoked unlit cigar in his mouth. In reporting the affar the war correspondents one and all men- tioned the incident of the half-burnt cigar. “It was not long after that every express ILLUSTRATED EDWIN A. ABBEY, AMERICAN ARTISY WHO IS PAINTING THE CORONATION Photo Copyright, 1902, by F. Gutekunst for the birds usually see the hunter long before the hunter sees the birds, and the rest of the day is often spent in follow- ing a well-defined spoor without a single chance for a shot Calling is uncertain and stalking all but impossible. Now and then a fortunate hunter locates a roost and gets an opportunity to shoot before the birds are fairly awake in the morning, but such events are nearly all numbered with traditions. Older hunters will appre ciate the pictures which are given with the duck hunting series in this number — Luther Drake of Omaha, who has been chosen a member of the executive council of the American Bankers' association, i one of the thirty men into whose hands the work of the association has been placed The executive council has, since its organization, been the body which has finally passed upon every measure adopted by the association, and to it has been re ferred every matter which the association desired action upon. The council holds two sessions each year, one in April at New York, and the other in the fall at the place where the annual meeting of the associa- tion is to be held. The association is com- posed of banks and bankers of the United States, every legitimate bank being eligible to membership. At present there are asso- ciated in the society 6,700 institutions. It from the north brought the general pack- ages of cigars, until there were 20,000 cigars eived at camp. Up to that time Grant 1 in the habit of smoking but two or three cigars a day. But with this un- limited supply and feeling that as th 'y were gifts he could not give them away, he started to smoke them wholesale, and thus acquired a tremendous appetite for to bacco."” ® Lord Kitchener has recalled an old story told of him after the Egyptian campaign. During the brief period in which prominence society tried to lionize him, without much success, a young dandy approached him with a handkerchief on which he begged Kitchener to write his name. “Your sis- ter's, T suppose?’ commentcd the general, as he surveyed the flimsy thing my owrn,"” answered the young gentleman “Ah,” commented the man from Khar- toum, “what is your taste in hairpins?" Dr. Richard J. Gatling, the well known Inventor of the machine gun, who is now at work on a motor plow, celebrated the forty-eighth of his mar- riage to Miss Sanders of Indianapolis at St famous anniversary Louis on October 24. Mrs. Gatling's parents were Kentuckians Her sister was the mother of General Lew Wallace. Dr. and BEE. LUTHER DRAKE OF EXECUTIVE BANKERS’ OF OMAHA BOARD ASSOCIATION MEMBER AMERICAN was organized about 1870, and twenty-eight persons have held the office of president Under the present rules the presidents are elected annually The object of the or- ganization is to advance the members in all are discussed, interests of its Legislative matters rewards offered for the ar- rest and conviction of persons who rob or defraud banks, and a union of effort made in all Mr. Drake has been connected with the Merchants' National bank of Omaha since its organization in 1882, when he became assistant cashier. At that time the bank had a capital stock of $100,000. Today he is cashier of the bank, with capital stock $500,000, and a plus equal to its first capital stock. the ways lines its sur Edwin A. Abbey, been selected American who to paint the coronation ture that intended ta hand down to re- motest posterity the glories that attended the accession of Edward VII to the English throne, is the third of a family of painters, his grandfather having been an artist, his father a merchant with artistic tendencies His own talent has been manifest since boy- hood, although his early work was in black and white. From wood engraving and hook and magazine illustrating, Mr. Abbey took has is shares at any depth up to twelve inch The plow will not only plow, but harrow, roll and seed the ground at the same time thus saving one-fourth the cost of pl anting s did not leap to his emi- a naval commander by one bound began like the rest of the nation's at the foot of the ladder serving successively in all grades from midshipman upward. Many will be interested in this ac- count of a mutiny on the old Ke arsarge, of which he was in 1866 executive officer. Fifty sailors had mutinied and gone below to the gun deck, where they huddled to- gether in the dark ready to blow up the corvette if necessary. Summoning the ship's writer, who had charge of the watch mus- ter, and arming himself with twelve pistols (they were of rather ancient pattern), Dewey started for them. The ship's writer carried a lantern and the roll. Reaching the mutineers, the destined hero of Manila bay, facing them with a cocked pistol in Admiral Dewey nence as He heroes --Fall S cenes in Pastures Near Anita, Ia.--Photos by a November 30, 1902 he the gave world any knowledge of his mastery in oils He had studied colors in America and Europe, but had done no publi vork, prior to the exhibition of his “Holy Grail” panels at a Paris exposition in the §0s. These won for him fame, but the foundation of his fame had been laid long before. For many years he has made his home in England, although he comes often to America, and still has a warm attach ment for his native country Hi clect to paint the important coronation pictur was as much of a surprise as an honor, fo he had no notion that he was even being considere In fact, he had not been pr sented to the king prior to the time w he was summoned to receive from his n esty the announcement of his choice Even then the Bevond an king merely said debate was very brief the fact, the chamberlain will att detail then Mr. Abbey has worked 1t his Morgan Hall, with less persistence, and hepes to have spring e everything used at the that burglary nouncing “My nd end to court Since home more ture completed a little nation he hasn't loss by by says the hit o coro except crown mighty glad about to his worry or fire of one of the historical objects temporarily in his Mr. Abbey also has the imission to decorate the new state capitol building for Pennsylvania. He has not fully d« some charge erm- ined if he will do the work. He was born in Philadelphia in 1852, — Nature is after all the great artist, and her most worthy imitator has never quite equaled the beauty of her work No- where is nature more lavish with her dec- orations than among the hills and glades along the western rivers. Here in spring- time and in autumn she spreads a wealth of color, rich and riotous, but blended with a harmony that scems defiant of rules, but is pleasing in result beyond ordinary expres- sion. Two autumn scenes in lowa pastures are reproduced this week. Only the of the landscape can be given in the half- tone, but the imagination can supply the rich tints of the goldenrod, the deep green of the grassy slopes, the tender browns and reds of outline the autumn foliage, the hazy blue of the Indian summer heavens and the wondrous blending of light and shade that comes from the mountains of floecy clouds floating lazily through the soft October air Pcet and painter alike despair when viewing such scenes. Only when photography is perfected to the point where color as well as figure may be preserved by a snapshot up water colors, and was known as a she- will nature be accurately taken when cess by his dainty work in this line before decked in her finery - ] . ) » l T O Q f N » » in the Lives o ote cople Mrs. Gatling have three children, all of ecach hand and the other ten tucked away \\.hum, as well as their parents, live in New in the breast of his coat, said ‘‘Call the York. The celebrated inventor thinks his roll!” The first name happened to be John new plow will revolutionize agriculture on Jones. Through sheer force of habit he the great farms of the west. The plow will answered “Here." be run by a gasolene motor of sufficient The cue thus unwittingly given was fol- power to propel the machine with the lowed by the rest of the mutinecers and by the time the roll call was completed they had realized their folly and at Dewey's command came from their retreat and sur- rendered. Governor Odell New York never have squealed. oIt says a had republican, been beaten,” “he would He's a thoroughbre and he got his thoroughbred lesson from his good old father. One day, years ago, when the governor a boy, his father said to him: ‘“‘Ben, do you know what a thoroughbred Well, T'll show you > Well, th me'—and he picked up an ugly looking, low-bred pup and gave him a gentle shaking, causing yelps and barks and kowls to rend the air—‘this is not a thor- ougbred."” Then he picked up the other, a fine looking, handsome young dog, and shook him hard, not a sound coming forth, ‘There,’ said the father, ‘that's your thor- oughbred, my boy; be a thoroughbred, and whatever happens don't squeal.’ " was is? See those two dogs