Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1902, Page 22

] THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. ILLUSTRATED BEE. T Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb Price, e | r Copy—Per Year, $2.00 Entered at the Omaha Postoffice as Scecond Class Mail Matter For Advertising Rate Addre Publisher Communications relating to photographs or article for publication hould b dressed “Editor The Hustrated Omuhn PPenand Picture Pointers OSEPH G. CANNON, who will it L all human probability be the gpeaker of the house of repr gentatives in the Fifty-cighth congre is one of the veterans of the body His term of serviee which will be signalized by his election to the position of presiding officer, will be his fifteenth., Thirty years ago he was electel to congre from the Twelfth [inois d - HON. MARTIN J. WADE. CONGRESS HON. BENJAMIN P BIRDSALL, CON- gring And- eRtiTWO YUt dinod IHES Wl MAN-ELECT FROM THE SECOND GRESSMAN-ELECT, THIRD 10WA one exception, his constituents have 1 IOWA DISTRICT Il!‘\'"li'll"l' ; B turned him by a handsome majority. When b > the Fifty-first congress was captured by town; he sees the huge vans rumbling [owa in the nest congie The Second the democrats Mr. Cannon was one of the along the streets, loaded high with bales dgictrict clected Judge Martin J. Wade of list of leading republicans, and William 4nd boxes, and whenever he happen C lowa City to suceceed Captain Rumple, and McKinley another, who were defeated at fing hig way into the neighborhood of th his by a majority of lw“l‘\ ,‘um‘ Judg: the polls That two years of rest seemed pailroaa vards he is impressed by the long Wade \ man of groat personal popu to have made him stronger with his sup- Jipeg of cars that are being shunted hither Jariny He was born in |"H'vm,'”(‘ Vi porters, for his majorities have Erown and yvon by the powerful locomotive md October 20, 18561 and removed with h each year sinc His election to the pre with all this external evidence he give pa ts to lowa at ai rly ag Whit ent congress was accomplished by a clear jigrle heed to the real cause of it. Omaha he was about 11 v ars old his parent majority of more than 10,000 votes Mr. jobbing trade for the current year will settled upon a farm in Butler coun Cannon has succeeded to the title worn gmount to far more than $400,000.000, and which was then lareely a broad unbroken #0 long by Congressman Holman of Ind this represents only a portion of the freight prairvie wnd the usual hardships of pioneer ana, “the watch dog of the treasury,” with- {hat is handled through the city If the Jife were experieneed He went to dis out the odium of the other title won by the puginess of the factories, the local retail- trict school in winter and worked on a distinguished Hoosier, that of “Objector opg who buy supplies from eastern firn farm in summer until about 20 years old Bin” At the head of the committee o0 gf the smelter, the packing hous and when he entered St Joseph college, Du appropriations of the lower house of con- gther institutions whose business is not bugue Ia ind - studied classies abou gress, Mr. Cannon has practically con- jjgted with the legitimate jobbing trade three year He then went to lowa City trolled the expenditure of enormous sums woepre added in, it might be found that the and entered the university graduating of public money and has well earned his o1a1 for the freight figures had been Lo L. B in 1886, He immediately entered sobriquet. His position in this regard has gouhled. To furnish exact figures is im- partnership with Hon. . 8 Rank and not been an enviable one, for he has had gg¢ible, for the railroads do not care to began active practice of the law, which to antagonize members of his own party, give out itements on the topie, but it is extended into many counties of the state as well as those of the opposition, in his gnown that an average of more than 2,500 In 1801 he was called upon to accept a efforts to prevent ralds of the public exX- ypg are handled through the Omaha yards lectureship in the law department of the chequer, but his record so far has been aaeh day in the year. Of course not all of university, and the next year, upon the that no favor hias been shown to friend or (hege are loaded or unloaded here, but a resignation of Prof. Wambangh, to accept foe. Appropriations must stand or fall on gpreqt many of them are, so that a small chair in Harvard, he was elected to fil their merits He is one of the hardest ,pmv of men is constantly employed in th his chair e till carried much of his worked men in congress, the pile of docu- ork of handling freight. Few busier places practice. and in December, 1883, upon th ments surrounding him in his committee oq4n he found than the loading and unload resignation of S. H. Fairall, he wa room, where the photograph from which jne platforms at the loecal freight depots. appointed by - Gove the picture in this issue was made, show Most of the big jobbing houses are so vacancy on the bench The following fall ing more plainly than words the volume nor Boies to fill the od that switch tracks run directly to he was elected for the long term and short of business with which he is supposed 10 (heir doors and their cars are emptied or erm, and was again elected in 1 98, and be familiar. Mr. Cannon was 66 years of glled with little or no intervention by is still upon the bench. Last January he age last May, and Is a native of North (eams. but quite a number are so situated announced that he would not ve a candi- Carolina, Guilford Court House, famous in {hat their goods must be hauled back and date for re election and would not accept historical annals, being his birthplace. He gopih hy wagon. In either event, it takes @ nomination At the time of his appuint has long been a resident of Illinois, and an to handle the packages, no matter how ment h had no opposition, being ap was state's attorney from March, 1861, 10 {hey are put up A staff artist made a pointed upon petition of the bar of the December, 1868, morning call at some of the places where district and since then he has never had ¢ freight is handled, and in the resultant an opponent either for the nomination One of the really important functions of pictures the reader will get a good idea of O the clection, the republicans nev life in Omaha is one that attracts very the volume of business and the method of having placcd a man in nomination against little notice from the average citizen. He jis dispatch him. When appointed to the bench he was hears the snorting of the big engines as . compelled to resign the professorship in they draw heavy trains in and out of There will be one lone democrat from the law department, but continued to des .~ Episodes and Incident OW THAT “Uncle Joe' Cannon so much in evidence as a lead- pear to have shortened his life On the deep discomfiture have given him pain, but it does not ap- his destination in a bee line, to the guide's ing candidate for the speakership piano “The Mocking Bird” could easily b ¢ they are digging up stories about thumped out in variations for half an even When Dan Stuart, the sporting man, was the Danville statesman Among ing, and the number of variations seemed in London seeing the sights a few years ago others is that of how he arose in his place to be limited only by the endurance of the he was present at a function in the guild asion to make an ex- player or the audience. The leading violin hall A large person arose habited in in this rather in the crchestra would soar away in a gale splendid robe uch as some of our justices in congre tended speech He 8 on one oc sententious fashion aker, 1 have of imitation bird notes, so that you felt wear Who's that?” gasped the man who lived long enough ' “Hear hear,” certain he could never get back to the pulled off”" the Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight velled a wicked democrat, and such a storm tune again, but with a few gyrations he at Carson City That,"” said the sport who ;-f laughter broke out that Mr. Cannon was gracefully returned and again took up the had Dan in tow is the gent whose whisky forced to take his seat recognizable part of the song After “The You drink in America; that is Thomas Rob é Mocking Bird" we had everything “with ert Dewar, sheriff of the city of London.’ Abdul Hamid, sultan of Turkey, has just Vvariations.” “Annie Laurie” meandered erift, did you say Sheriff; yes, sher celebrated his sixtieth birthday. Thirty- &1l over the piano, twisting and untwist- iff After silently contemplating the dig four Othmans have reigned in Turkey and *ng its thread of music from the tangle of nitary for several minutes Dan remarked the lonkest relgn was less than fitty yvears, \bterloping chords, and “Home, Sweet “Sherift! Just imagine that fellow going Solyman 1 having sat upon the throne from Home, had all the sentiment knocked out up against Bill Dalton and a posse down in 1520 to 1566. Only one sultan in the ninc of it under the hands of the variator Indian Territory teenth century, only one in the eighteenth ~ ldsten to the Mocking Bird” survived al . and only one in the seventeenth ruled of its afMlictions, and it can be heard now The pope, on Tuesday, November 4, says longer than Abdul, and most of his prede- ©ccasionally in a hand organ, which Mas- (he London T slet, had occupied the chair cessors have been slain or put in chains cagni sayo is the truest test of good musi of 8t. Peter longer than any of his prede before their friends were able to wish them . cessors except Pius X It is a singular many happy returns of their sixtieth birth Jjohn D. Rockefeller. head of the Standard fact. cited by some as a testimony to the day 0il corporation, has been elected to hon- Inerease 1 healthiness of Rome hat the two . orary membership in the fire patrol of 10nKest reigns recorded in the annals o John Marshall Haslan, associate justice North Tarrytown. N. Y. Whén he received Papacy should have heen the two last, tha of the United Biates supreme court, on De- the offclal dacument notifying him of the of Pius IX, whase pontification lasted for cember 10 will celebrate the twenty-fifth honor conferred the multimillionaire came 'hiTty-one year and seven months, and tha anniversary of his accession to the supreme as near looking pleasant as he can aad he ©f Leo XII1, who has worn the triple crown bench. He was appointed by President remarked with some pride Now is the fOr twenty-four years, eight months and Hayes at the commencement of that gen- boyhood dream of my life realized. I am a ™MoM than a fortnight. Until November 4 tleman's term. Justice Harlan is one of fireman at lost, after sixty years of patien had not attalned the years of Plus Vi the best preserved old men in public life walting No policeman can now fan me who died in exile at Valence in 1799 The He is 09 years of age, but, although of gi- outside the fire lines in North Tarrytown, ‘radition that St. Peter had been blshop of Zantto build. is as ensrgotic and Jively as & 8t least. If he tried It 1 could turn the Rome for iwenty-five years was the origis boy. He daily takes outdoor exercise and hose on him of the saying addressed to succeeding popes is one of the most persistent frequenters - on their accession, “Thou shalt not see t of the golf links. He rides and walks much years of Peter,” a prediction falsifie r and frequently makes the journey from his _ ‘When President Roosevel A tur- the first time by the late reign, and home in Mount Pleasant to the capitol on X¢¥ hunt in the neighborhood of Bull Run to © in the present ca The reigni foot His towering form and springy stej battlefield a couple of weeks ago h n4 pontiff, despite his grea ge, 1 been sur make him one of the best known figures MF Hayden, with a guide, left the tu 1 in longevity by two of his predece R Nachtaston run and plunged into a streteh of woodland. sors, 8 m, who died in 652 at the s After they had walked some miles Mr. H ge of 107, and Gregory 1X, who, at the da The death of the author of “Listen to den said to the guid You've lost your of his deatd 1241, had attained the ag the Mocking Bird,"” at the ripe old age of Wway Not a bit of i was the repl (3] of 99 76, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is Yos, you have The sun is in the sou é proof that the 478 variations upon his cap it this time of day and we should be goin General Miles says that the most reck tivating and ever popular song did not due east Mr. Roosevelt said I alwa less display of individual bravery he worry him To hear its pleasing melody follow a man who steer he woods | iw was during the civil war, when a reg converted into inpumerable kinds of mu- the sun or stars I'll follow your leader iment was marchir hattl led by sical hash and some kinds unmusical may ship, Mr. Hayden He did so and reached young colonel Shells began to fall an SAMUE hver a co p to the h 11so been professor of medical juris prudence in the College of Medicine of the vniversity ber of the American Bar association and of the M He has de place I for any « had been candidate for congress, but persistently refused, d profession tirement f purpose of entering active practice. Since Strength his elevat refused to make campaign speeches, de claring it do so. Pr campaign December 7, 1002 L. M. SMITH OF GRANT, Ia g . MRS. SAMUEL M. SMITH OF Ia. IRANT urse of lectures there each year : e partners there for about ten years. He was elected to the nch of the Eleventh judicial district in 1803, He remained on the bench until 1900, when he resigned, in part on account of ill-heal*h. He then re- sumed the practice of law, in which he is present time. Since 1865 He was president of the lowa association in 1807-8, is a mem dico Lezal society of New York, NOW engaged at Clarion with his son Judg: Birdsall has a family consisting of his wif¢ livered public lectures in many & le had never been a candidate @nd five children. He has been twice mar- fMce except the judgeship, but ried, the first tiiae in 1878, and the second importuned for years to become !ime in 1888, His first wife died and thereafter he married Miss Belle Johnson esiring to devote himself to his ©f Clarien. Judge and Mrs. Birdsall have When he announced his e a fine home at that place. His resignation the from the bench was on account of failing but he is now in splendid physical from the bench it was with jon to the bench he steadfastly condition and in the recent campaign which resulted in his election, made many to be improper for a judge to Speec hes. The nomination and election jor to that time he engaged in came to Judge Birdsall as to few men work, especially during the cam- Speaker Henderson had been renominated paigns of Governor Boies unanimously and there was never a When th be only or . thought in the district but that he would o next congress meets there will continue in the harness to the end. Hls w new face among the repub- declination of the nomination after he had licans from lowa, that of Judge Benjamin waited nearly six months and had got into P, Birdsal Towa str 1. who will represent the Third the middle of the campaign surprised the ict, so long represented by whole country. The delegates who had Speaker Henderson. He will be one of the pominated Henderson were recalled in con- voungest « f the lowa delegation, as he was vention and they nominated Birdscll on the born in Weyauwega, Waupaca county, Wis., third ballot His nomination healed all October 26, 1858, and is therefore in his factionalism in the district and he received ferty-fourt h vear. His father was in the a plurality of nearly 5,000 over ex-Governor lumber business in Wisconsin, The family Boies, the most formidable campaigner in moved to county. There the father lived on a farm Young Ber schools in Towa went City in 18 academical Towa in 1870, to Alden, Hardin the state . yjamin had attended the pubtic i Wisconsin and on coming to Another of the weddings for which the to the State university at Iowa bells rang in 1852 was that of Samuel M 71, and finished a course in the Smith and wife who were united in matri de He then mony at Clifton, Mich. They now make artment in 18 read law with C. N, Nagel of Alden. He their home at Grant, Ia., where they re was admit ton. He | ship with ted to the bar in 1878 at Hamp- cently celebrated their golden wedding yracticed for a time in partner- Mrs. G. D. Follmer, wife of the commis- M. J. Furry at Alden. In 1884 sioner of public lands 2nd buildings of Ne- he moved to Clarion, Wright county, where braska, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs he has sing four or fi They werc as the fire they showed just a Suddenly in front yelled to live fo waved his sword in the air and places ‘Move up, move up. Do you want prefe ¢ lived. He and Mr. Nagel were Smith. in the Lives of Noted People ve men would drop at a time. old confederate ram Merrimac So well » comparatively raw troops, and known was Marmaduke on the coast as a » became more and more deadly fighter that when it was given out that he ymptom of hesitation. was to have command of Bogota the heir youthfuful leader rode out vessel was crowded with applicants for on the crew. Marmaduke gave the nce to Annapolis men for officers and rac- to old American man-o'-warsmen for the rever?” General Miles che terizes this as ‘“‘a specimen of utterly aban- crew He had his pick and the crew that doned cour In comm nent repub to defeat g ley high t: were aroun of them, when talking to party friends made light Finally the of St. Lou non looked around to be sure that there were no li there is nc is there?" ley “Wel Joe,” said A young ington not borrow $250 at the same time tendering his note endo The teller not cash 1t perfectly g should fail Mr. Canno the commi have to go times a yes certain 1l hardly ask know Tt I suppose I refuse to $250 was fo Captain Henry H. Marmaduke, who is in charge of t Panama ar the Colomt is a typica ewy. He h fighter and oast of a He comes ¢ experience age.”’ he gathered was one that any commander . might have been proud of on with a host of other promi- licans, “Joe” Cannon went down Here o ”’ t R K ere is a pe cture James eene after the passage of the McKin , . 2 i ey ARERS o po the Wall street speculator, drawn by a ariff bill. He and Mr, McKinley # ~ 3 v writer in the Cosmopolitan A man past d the day after election and each o “4o)) “grenger, with a marvelously well- shaped head; hair and beard half gray bushy eyebrows; fierce, feline eyes—cold, with a curious menacing look or gleaming with sardonic humor—made restless as a caged tiger by the wear and tear of a steners but Pearce, said: “Bill, jjpaiime of stock gambling, vet with nerves » use of us lying to each other, ¢ gia0): cynical in his views of men's “No, Joe,” answered McKin- , ,¢ives: possessing a literary style of res 1 its o ain’'t it Bill?" “Yes. markable lucidity and distinction, yet has the future president. bitually overstrong of spoken language; a ¢ man of culture, yet a crony of racetrack habitues; coldly calculating as a Talley~ rand, yet impulsive as a schoolgirl; a surpassingly keen judge of security values, yet often an investor in worthless shares possessing the great gift of patience in his campaigns, yet the most dashing opers ator in Wall street extravagantly gen- erous with some who serve him and in- credibly insensible to gratitude with others; often distrustful of disinterested friends, and as often victimized by not overplausible adventurers: full of contradictions as of abilities—such is James R. Keene of the Waterloo they had met » two and the late Major is found themselves alone man went into a bank in Wash long ago and said he wished to rsed by Congressman Cannon said he was sorry, but he could he note “The endorsement is ood,” he said, ‘‘but suppose you to pay we could hardly call on n. You see, he i¢ chairman of ttee on appropriations and we before that body two or three ir to request favorable action on ion Therefore we could Mr. Cannon to ‘make good,' you e stranger said quietly: “Then better tell Mr. Cannon that you iwccept his endorsement The rthcoming ir a hurry General James Grant Wilson to'd this story in Philadelphia the other night as one of General Grant's favorites It was at the battle of Shiloh. There was in the ranks a tall, finely built volun teer from Ohio. It was the first time he had seen active service. When he heard the id who proposes to reorganize roar of shells and saw his comrades fal'inz ian navy and make it effective, he lost courage, droj ped his gun and startel 1 southerner—tall, lean and sin- for the he Colombian cruiser Bogota at rear 18 the gamecock look of a born ‘Here!" thundered the general in com the putation on the Pacific mand, ‘what are you running for? man who makes good his looks The man turned his head and shoute f a Missouri family and his first back in naval warfare was on the fool! Because 1 can't fly yvou darne A