Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 22

THE JLLUSTRATED BEE. e e—— Pubiished Wrekl{ by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb, Price, 6c Per Copy—Per Year, $2.00 Entered at thé Omaha Postoffice as Sn-:nnd Class Mall Matter, . For Adve‘rllnln—g- Rates A:l(iren; I'uhlluh:r. Communications relating to photographs or articles for publication should be ad- dressed, ‘“Editor The Illustrated Bee, Omaha.” NE of the really important bodies which has recently met in Omaha was the missionary conference of dignitaries of the Preshy terian church, who gathered here to consult in reference to the work of th church in the mission field, at home and abroad. While the matters under the con- trol of the Nebraska synod were given foremost attention, plans were also de- bated as to ways and means for forwarding the undertakings of the church in other directions. Nebraska Presbyterians are be- coming an important factor Iin the affairs of the general body, as the local interests of the church are increasing in all direc- tlons each year. With the growth in mem- bership and the addition of new churches, and the like, the added attention from the governing body is natural. Thus the consultation of the workers over the mission matters was of great interest to the members, and becausg of their wide diffusion in the state, of interest to the public as well schools — Another body of missionaries in a large sense which met in Omaha at the same time was the Nebraska Real Estate Deal- ers’ association, made up of men actively engaged In the promotion of settlement of Nebraska. This body is not of great age, but it has taken hold of the task, self-set, THE ILLUS W. C. MORROW, AFTON, Ia DENT OF I0WA OF AGRICULTURE, PRESI DEPARTMENT with a vigor that ing the pre promises results. Sing- of own wares s not a difficult undertaking at any time, and if the wares have the admitted merits of Nebraska real estate, the task is made a pleasure. In pushing their own business along legitimate lines the real estate men are pushing the interests of the people, for it is impossible for the real estate broker to prosper unless the whole state is pros- pering as well. That the business has ad- vanced beyond the methods of the mere boomer is proven by the character of the convention and the breadth and nature of the discussions and the quality of the pa- pers read at the sessions. se one's Addison C. Harris and Miss Mary Lucy Lewis were united in marriage at the home RATED BEE. JOHN C. SIMPSON OF KNOXVILLE, la., BECRETARY IOWA DEPART- MENT OF AGRICULTURE. of the bride in Adams county, I11.,, Decem- ber 16, 1852 They came to Nebraska in the fall of 1872, Mr. Harris having been engaged in farming, which he continued on coming to this state, buying a farm in Cass county, which he occupied up till March, 1893, when his advanced years caused him to retire from active work. Fourteen chil- dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Harrls, of whom ten remain—Veral D., Orville F. of Ashland, Slater of Pueblo, Colo., and R. G. Harris of Omaha, and Mesdames Asa Crane of Lincoln, John Fitz Roberts of South Omaha, Misses Ada of Lincoln, Rose of South Omaha and Dalsy and Marcia of Ash- land. A number of presents were received by Mr. and Mrs. Harris and all their friends extended hearty congratulations upon their fifty years of married life. RSP The Nebraska duck hunters never en- joyed a more fruitful sason than the one ADDISON C. HARRIS OF ASHLAND, Neb just ended. That the provision of the law which I!mits the daily number of birds to a gun to fifty and the total number that one man may have in his possession at one time to fifty is wise is again shown by tha picture published this week of a party of Beatrice men taken as they wore return- ing from a hunt on the Blue. Not that these men are game hogs, for they are not, but only sportsmen who cheerfully comply with the law; in fact one of them writes to The Bee that the party had to loaf in order rot to exceed the legal limit, so good was the shooting they found. It is only another evidence of the fecundity of Nebraska's waters as well as the soil of the state. g Iowa maintains a partment as a part ment and annually state agricultural de- of the state govern- delegates from the county and local fair associations and from counties and from county farmers' insti- tues meet at the capitol and select a board to manage the state fair and publish a “Year Book" of valuable informaticn for agriculturists, This year the board met and elected Hon. W. W. Morrow of Afton December 28, 1002, MRS. ADDISON C. HARRIS as president of the department, an honor richly deserved by him. He owns a mag nificent farm in Union county, which he has personally farmed for many years and in which he takes the keenest delight. At the same time he is a man of culture and broad views and conspicucus in stat affairs in many ways. The board re-elec ted unanimously secretary John C son of Knoxville, who was last year elected to that place. The fact that he was vir tually manager of the most successful fair the state has ever had was sufficient war rant for his re-election again. is as Simp- One of the features of the Elks’ trip to Salt Lake City last summer was the mount ing by a jolly party of Colonel J. J. Dickey the well known Omaha district superin tendent of the Western Union Telegraph company, on a passing water cart, and keeping bhim there while a photographer took a picture of the party in all sorts of attitudes supposed to indicate abject griof and inconsolable sorrow at the defection of a convivial companion. It is a well known fact that a water cart has no terror for Colonel Dickey. George Bruce Cortelyou, Seretary to President Roosevelt OT IN THE history of the news- paper men of the national capital has a man so acceptably and so comyplictely filled the office of see- retary to the president as has George Bruce Cortelyou. 1 doubt very much f there ever was a man who figured in the official history of Washington so constantly under the gaze of the public, and whose duty it is to meet so many men of national reputation, officials and newspaper corre spondents, who was so universally admired for his sterling worth, his manly qualities and his lovable disposition as is the secre- tary to President Roosevelt, Mr. Cortelyou is a many-s'ded man. In addition to splendid training in the schools he has had outside training which culiarly fits him for the close and confiden- tial position which he occupies. When Grover Cleveland took Mr. Cortelyou from the Postoffice department, where he held a position in the fourth assistant postmaster general’'s office, .and placed him in the White House as an assistant secretary, he unconsciously picked cut one of the few men pe- HILE Henry Drummond was call- ing on a friend on his last visit here, reports the New York Times, he was Introduced to a party of American girls. “How very formal you are here when you are introduced,” he said “Now in England we always shake hands Wha do you do here when you say goodbye? “Oh, we kiss,” said the youngest of th» party, a charming girl of 16, “Ah, that's charming,” responded Prof Drummond; “‘suppose we say goodbye right now!" A tramp asked Chauncey Depew for a quarter and, when he got it, begged to know the giver's name was 80 kind-hearted?” “Oh, never mind; that's all right He Insisted, and Depew finally =aid, “Call it Grover Cleveland and let it go at that.” As he was going away the senator asked “Who may 1 say his name in turn But the tramp hesi tated “Oh, I beg you to let me know whom I have had the pleasure of meeting in this happy way."” “Oh, well, call it Mr. Depew and let it go at that.” Depew fanned himself and let it go. B Theatrical people are like least one respect. stock of stories ministers in at Mest of them have a big to tell Apropos is this from the Philadelphia Record “Several theatrical people over a midnight supper were talking about effective photeographs and after all the rest had aired thelr views it was up to Malcolm Williams ‘Last summer, while I was playing an engage- ment in Providence,’ he said, ‘we put on ““Romeo and Juliet,” and I had some photos taken in the Romeo costume, one of which I sent home. I have a great admirer in my little sister Gladys, aged 6, and when Gladys saw the photograph she quite went into raptures, according to the letters 1 received from home. In fact, she wrote one herself, me or rather she printed it which was a gem in its way. ““Dear Mallv’ she wrote, “it was a beautiful picture of in this world especially fitted for the trying, exacting duties of a secretary to a president It seems to me that George B. Cortelyou was designed for the position he now occu- ples, and 1 believe that every man at the national capital will join me in this statement. The duties of the position of secretary the president have been greatly enlarged since the days when Cul ver C. Sniffen w secretary to General Grant and Daniel 8. Lamont filled a like position to President Cleveland. The office today is much more influential than it ever was, and George B. Cortelyou has made it 80 by reason of his splendid ability, his diplomacy and his suavity. Under the most trying circumstances Mr. Cortelyou pre serves an evenness of temper that the marvel of those about him. He never loses his head, he never gets “rattled,” he never says or does the wrong thing. Always a gentleman, because he was born such, he is forever courteous, kind and obliging, but with an unswerving loyalty to his chief. For ten years 1 have known Mr. Cortelyou personally. I have seen him grow, I have newspaper to is watched his progress, and I do not know of any man in the limelight of publicity who has deserved more the things which have come to him than George Cortelyou. Mr. Cortelyou was born in the city of New York, Julj and is therefore 40 years of age. descended from one of the most conspicuous revolutionary and colonial families and his father and grandfather were prominent figures in the business and social circles of New York in their day. The names of George Bruce and Peter Crolius Cortelyou are intimately associated with the typefounding industry in this country and for nearly half a cen- tury they conducted as partners the lead- ing type house in the world. Among the friends and associates of Secretary Cor- telyou)s grandfather were Horace Greeley, Henry J. Raymond, Hugh Hastings, Thur- low Weed and others of the Brooklyn coterie of journalists and politicians, and the open-handed hospitality of Peter C Cortelyou, sr., in his beautiful home on the heights in Brooklyn and at his summer residence on Staten Island made him one Gleanings From the Story have been lots you, but I think it would nicer if you had your pants on —_— . Street Cleaning Commissioner Paul Igle- hart came back to the city hall this week from a gunning trip in Anne Arundel county, relates the Baltimore Sun, and brought with him a supply new stories told in the historie old South River club The that particularly took Mr. Igle- bart's fancy was that of the Irish servant girl who one day asked her mistress what was the meaning of the word “kismet.” After thinking a little while, the mistress said “Why, fate." A day or so afterward the mistress dis Bridget hobbling down the stairs in great pain and walking very cne Bridget, it is another for covered evidently lame “Why. what on earth is the matter with you?" she asked “Oh, sur ma'am,"”’ got bunions on my kismet." was the reply, “I've ‘“‘Between presidential terms,” said Sen ator Depew, “President Cleveland hunting in the Adirondack forests one time He took along Chick Bruce for a guide Chick one of the best guides in the mountains. They were waiting for a shot at a deer Mr. Cleveland on a log with the muzzle of his gun resting against his heart Chick saw where velled “Here you that gun loaded?"” I guess it humbly Chick grabbed the guu and found it at full cock. Then he turned indignantly Mr. Cleveland and said Suppose that gun had gone off and you had lLilled yourself what do you think would have happened to me? Durn you, don't you know I'm a re publican? went is sat fairly ol i was and old f the gun blamcd Mr. Cleveland replis is," to B They were talking about Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree at the Waldorf-Astoria, re- lates the New York Tribune. There were three men in the party, and the news had just come in that their former comrade had died at Hot Springs, Va. Just then a tall man, thin-faced and smooth shaven, with long hair combed back of his ears and his baldness hidden by a sloach hat, joined the circle, and handed to the mem- bers of the group nearest him a paper with the corner of the page turned down “*See (hat said the tall man, as he pointed to an article headed, ‘“Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree dead. Heart trouble cause of death. Statesman, journalist, pro- moter and humorist His long career in the public eye. Well known in Texas, New York and Europe.” The others simply glanced at the paper They had heard the news “Well," said the tall man, “‘the world will laugh less for having lost ‘Tom.’ That's what ““He used to tell some wonderful stories,” remarked a small man, who looked as if he had not yet got his growth. *“He could always go you one better. I remember one I've always called him time how he upset Lord Lonsdale, when that Englishman was entertained here on his way home from an expedi i'n to Alaska His lordship was regerded by some of his admirers as a wonderful ex- plorer. He was quite a lion. I remember in particular a dinner which was given in his hcner by Hermann Oelrichs “Well, Lord Lonsdale told many thrill- ing stories, and an audible ‘oh!" went around the table when he finished telling of a petrified forest in Africa, in which h found a phants number of petrified lions and ele- As the Englishman lapsed into si lence and the applause sank to an echo all looked to Colonel Ochiltree to defend his nationality and beat this petrified lion story ' ‘Texas,’ said the colonel, after a pause, has its petrified forests, but al'hough they contain no petrified lions they are remarkable for having petrified birds fly ing over them.’ ‘ ‘Nonsense!' said Lord Lonsdale that is impossible Such a phenomenon is con- trary to the laws of gravitation.’ ‘Ah, that's easily explained,’ responded Colonel Ochiltree, quickly “The laws of of the most popular and best beloved men in the community, George B. Cortelyou's home training and associations were of the best and after attending public and private schools he graduated from the Hempstead institute in 1879, and at the age of 16 entered the State Normal school at Westfield, Mass Completing an advanced course in study there, he was graduated with honor at 19, having prepared for Harvard university. Instead, however, of taking up the Harvard course, as he fully intended, he entered the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, where he pursued several courses of study and tutoring in English literature classes of teachers from the Cambridge High school. While in Boston he b« came a private pupil of the late Dr. Louis Ma formerly conductor of the Philharmonic society of that city. During his musical studies Mr. Cortel- you took up phonography and became one of the best phonegraphers in the country He came to Washington in 1891 as private secretary to the fourth assistant Tellers’ Pack gravitation down there are petrified, too. “Well,” remarked Congressman Morse of Kentucky, quoted by the Philadelphia Press, “you fellows have told a bunch of mighty stale stories and perpetrated a pun as an atrocious climax. I think I can tell one that will break up this party. It is suggested by my Yriend's reference to mint Julep. 1 of you the story of the origin of the post suppose none ever heard mint julep?" There was a stampede from the cloak room Everybody went save Brandegee the new member from Connecticut, elected to fill vacancy. To him this story was told “In the early da s in Kentucky a stranger stopped over night with a distille r, who had some fine liquor and a very notabhle spring of water. Growing about the spring was a quantity of mint, The stranger mixed the mint with the liquor, spring water and some sugar, and he and the distiller got far into the night repeating the dose “Next spring the stranger passed that way again; a woman came to the door ‘Where's the old man?' the visitor asked ‘Dead,’ replied the woman “ e ad? ‘Yep:; a fellow came along here last spring and taught him to put grass in his licker and it finally killed him.' U Among the many stump speakers who in- vaded the middle west during the first McKinley campaign, says the Philadelphia Ledger, was Corporal Tanner the well- known pension attorney At one small town in Illinois he was suddenly and the physician who had directed, among other his feet in hot water “I don't think that would do any go d faid the corporal with a serious .AIT “Why not?"’ asked the doctor with some taken ill been summoned things, that he soak feeling. Glancing down at his artificial substi. tutes, the other replied ! They were both shot off in '63 at Gettys. burg.” 1 B Impervious to criticism though by no means oblivious of it relates the New York master general. Mr. Cortelyou's record in the Postoffice department, known to Gen eral Maxwell and Postmaster General Bis- sell, came to the notice of President Clevi land, and when Executive Clerk O'Brien resigned to assume charge of the Wash ington bureau of the Boston Transcript Mr Cortelyou was transferred to the executiy mansion and was appointed stenographer to the president November, 1895, and three months later was promoted to the position of executive clerk to the president. It may be justly said that within the administration of President McKinley the importance of the office of secretary to the president grew to the dignity of a cabinet position, and in many essential particulars it is so regarded today. There is no ms: in public life today who so intimately en- Joys the confidence of President Roosevelt as does Secretary Cortelyou, and should the bill creating a Department of Commerce become a law there is no man would so ably fill the position of secretary to the new department as George Bruce Cortelyou EDGAR C. SNYDER. Times, Thomas B. Reed, according to his intimates, hardly relished the title of czar" so generally conferred upon him in the days when as speaker he ruled a frac- tious minority in the lower house of con ETess, “‘It is an epithet, not a sobriquet,” he once remarked to me,” said a friend of the ex-speaker the other day; “but one occasion when he title. “We walking avenue one day, dashed up to driver called “ ‘Here thrown I remember really enjoyed the were along Pennsylvania when a newspaper wagon the curb near us, and the to several newsboys y'are, boys, new extra. the czar!’ Bom! at ‘‘Aw, g'wan,’ replied one of the urchins That's a fake, Here's the czar comin’ up the street,’ “Mr. Reed shook with convulsive appre. clation of the newsboy's idea that there was only one czar—a certain ponderous man from Maine."” — The friends of a wel) known West Side woman -are quietly laughing over the pat retort which she made to the butcher the day before Thanksgiving apropos of the fes- ’,”' turkey, relates the Cleveland Leader She went into the meat market to pick out the bird for the Thanksgiving dinner, and there found a number of her all on the same errand bent turned upon the keys this year, dressed neighbors, Conversation high prices asked for tur- and the butcher, as he a bird for one of his customers, re varked casually that it was a funny thinr that the turkeys didn't have any galls this year It Is easy to account for that,”" said the Woman. “It's the butchers who have the gall this year, asking such exorbitant prices for turkeys.” The butche check, and desk to r's loquacity received a sudden when the woman went to the for her turkey the cashier, who is the butcher's wife, turned upon her & cold and haughty shoulde r, refusing even to look upon her, Since then this woman persona non grata at the butcher pay has been shop ¥}