Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 15, 1903, Page 30

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e THE JLLUSTRATED BEE P s ——————————— Publiehed Wcrkl;} b'y The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb, Price, 5¢ Per Copy—Per Year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha l:mliuflk‘c as Becond Class Mall Matter. For Advertising Rates Address Publisher, Communications relating to photographs or articles for publication snould be ad- dressed, “Editor 'The IlNustrated Bee, Omaha."” AMES R. GARFIELD, who has been placed in charge of the Bureau of Corporations in the newly created Department of Commerce, is the second son of the late President James A. Garfield. He, like his father, has won his way to the front by his own merit., Personally, he resembles his father very much, Mr. Gar- field is an attorney by profession, and has built up quite a practice. At the time of his appointment to his present position ho was a member of the Civil Service com- missfon. In his new capacity he will have to deal with i(he control of the great cor- porations of the country. In 1890 he mar- ried Miss Helen Newell of Chicago, daughter of the late president of the Lake Shore road. .——Q—_— Jacob eof old had as his promdest reason for boasting twelve sons, all grown to manhood., It was his comfort as well as his pride to have about him these twelve, who in time beeame the heads of the twelve great divisions of the Hebrew race. In the narrative of the bible are found ample ovidences of the satisfaction this patriarch derived from his unique position. Few men have had the same source of content but one of them is Frank Stewart of Tingley, Ia., a retired farmer and stock raiser. He gathers about him an even dozen of robust, hearty sons, all grown to man’'s estate, and each performing the duties of a man in the world of affairs. Recently a reunion of the family was held at the fathet’'s home, the boys belng to- gether for the first time in seven years. These men are scattered from Obhio to Nebraska, all well-to-do, either conduct- Ing successful business of the'r own or holding MBigh and honorable positions in the community where they are located. The oldest is 43 years of age; the youngest is 21, and all were born in Warren county, Illinois. The nine younger boys first seen light in the same hous:. The accompany- Ing cut shows the fataer and twelve sons »s they appear at the present time, Read- Ing from left to right, beginning with the back row in the picture they are: W. B. itewart, aged 86, conductor C., C. 8. Ry, Chicago; W. W. Stewart, aged 41, livestock auctioneor of southern lowa and sorthern Missourl, Tingley, Ja.; F. Stewart, jather, aged 73, retired, Tingley, Ia; J. R. Btewart, aged 43, jeweler, Diagonal, Ia.; B. W. Stewart, aged 28, secretary Cook County club, Chicago; E. M. Stewart, aged 29, eashier for DeVol Hardware com- pany, Council Bluffs, Ia.; A. R. Stewart, aged 34 wholesale grocer, Columbus, O.; J. T. 0. Btewart, aged 31, grade manager, State Industrial school, Kearney, Neb.; L. B. Stewart, aged 36, (twin to W. B.) edu- eator, Cedar Falls, In.; F. H. Stewart, aged 13, principal of public schools, Bartlett, la.; T. B. Stewart, aged 27, student, Towa Btate Normal, Cedar Falls, Ta.: B. H. Btewart, aged 21, Instructor in printing, State Industrial School, Kearney, Neb.; C. R. Stewart, aged 26, stenographer, Lincoln, Neb. il All are staunch republicans, having with the father cast thirteen rcpublican votes at the last general election. Each is an ac- complished musician and a plan is on foot THE ILLUSTRATED IXEE. MRS. WILLIAM BABCOCK. to organize and become one of the at. trastive features of the St. Louls exposi- tion in 1904 as a band and orchestra in one family of brothers. J. R. Stewart, the eldest, is a musical director of long ex- perience. U — The father of this remarkable family was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1829, and the mother, Susan J. Stewart, now deceased, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 27, 1839. They were married in the latter county March 30, 1859. 'Mr. Stewart, although having becn engaged in numerous busincss and financial pursuits, has devoted his at- tention chiefly to farming of which, with the assistance of his boys, he has made a flattering success. He retired from active business life six years ago, when his help- mate for nearly forty years, passed to her reward. At the recent meeting these twelve men stepped upon the scales and tipped the beam at 2,085 pounds. All are of good physique, ranging in weight from 160 to 210 pounds. Five of the brothers are married and have families. All have been graduated from h'gh schools and six of them have wecured college degrees. The father keeps up & regular correspondence with each boy, and his highest eartbly hope is realized when he can mingle with them in a body. —_—— Fifty years of wedded life, forty-two of them spent in Jefferson county, Nebraska, is the record of Willlam Babeock and Mercy Furbush, his wife, look back upon. They were married in Scobarie county, New York, on March 5, 1863, and came to Nebraska in 1860, sottling at what was then called Big Sandy, in Jefferson county. The log house Mr. Babcock then built still stands, about a mile from what is now Powell. It was not the idyllic life of the present time that the young couple led. Nature was kind, but the wild men of the plains resented the intrusion, and in 1864 Mr, Babcock, with his wife and children, bhad to fly for their lives before a raid of the Indians. Peace was soon restored and the family pursued the cven tenor of life on a Nebraska farm. In 1870 a mew home was built, on Cub creek, where the golden wedding was cel- ebrated. Five of their eight children and Episodes and Incidents in OVERNOR Odell of New York was m present the other day -at the f' — hearing of certain charges i agalnst Sheriff Kaiser of RErie county. He asked one witness if he recelved anything for working for the demecratic ticket. “Only a handshake,”’ was the. ioply. “That’'s all anybody can get out of politics,” sald the governor, gloomily. In answer to a similar question another witness sald with emphasis: *“I am a democrat.’” Sald Mr. Odell: “There {s reason to believe that you are not alone, for another great man made this same re- mark on one occasion.” gl - The late Thomas B. Reed was without the fear of man, but he never did have much merve at poker, reports the New York Times. A few may still recall a little game in a back room in Portland, when the limit was a dollar and a certain sharp-faced lit- tle man sorely vexed the great speaker of the house. The little man seemed to be getting all the bad cards, which he threw down with exclama- tions of dlsgust. At last he made & jet, and all the players dropped out except Mr. Reed, who eyed his own three aces com- placently and raised him heavily. The Mt- tle man snickered, and came back with an equally heavy raise. Mr, Reed opened his round, little mouth, blinked his little black eves and gurgled with uncasiness; but he shoved his chips onto the pile and put an extra red on top. The little man covered the red, then deftly swept the whole of his stack onto-the board and eyed the great man with a superior smile. Mr Reed lurched back in his chair, looked at his opponent severely for a moment, and-—quit. Then the little man spread out a pair of trays and gathered in the winnings. «why, confound you, eir,’ roared the speaker of the house, “you ought to join T. P. O'Connor says that one of the fun- niest experiences that ever John Dillon had was while he was on & tour of this country. Mr. Dillon is of very slight frame and looks rather melancholy. He and Parncll appeared on the same platform in an eastern city at a tijpe when famine threatened Ireland. After the meeting the chairman took Mr. Dillon by the harl and with tears in his eyes said: “Ah, Mr. Dil- lon, when I heard Parnell speak I was not moved. There, I said to myself, is an arie- tocrat who knows nothing of suffering, but when you, Mr. Dillen, got up 1 shed tears. There, 1 eald to myself, is a man who has known hunger. He has hunger in his face.” [ - Joseph QGlrouard of Spencer, Mass., has grown weary of his debtors who cannot afford to pay him what they owe and the other day ampounced that he would give OLD KIT, THE FAMOUS MARE OF THE HARMON FAMILY AT BEAVER CITY, Neb. descendants to the number of thirty-eight, all living in Jefferson county, were present at the celebration.’ Both Mr. and Mrs. Babcock are in good health and bid fair to celebrate many more anniversaries of their wedding day. The good old family nag, Kit, property uf W. H. Harmon of Beaver City, died recently, and the members of the Harmon family feel as though they had lost a val- ued friend. A part of the history and achievements of Kit, as Mr. Harmon re- lates them, may not be uninteresting to the readers of The Illustrated Bee. Kit was purchased by Mr. Harmon twenty-six years ago, being 10 years old at that time, making her 36 at the time of her death. She was the mother, grandmother, great-grand- mother or still further removed ancestor of over 100 horses. All of Mr. Harmon's March 15, 1903. WILLIAM BABCOCK OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, Neb. boys have been fitted out with colts that could trace their lineage back to old Kit. Aside from being a faithful, kind and trusty animal for all these years, her influence upon the financial affairs of the Harmon household have been remarkable. Mr. Har- mon says that a very close estimate will place the amount received for her offspring at not far from $2,000, not including a farm of 160 acres in Kansas and a fine quarter of Nebras<a land that he purchased with her colts. Her descendants are scattered over many states and some of them are known to be in Canada. For several years Kit had grazed at will over the pastures that her lahors helped to secure. Mr. Harmon feels a sense of sadness when he visits the old homestead and misses the familiar form the the faithful old animal whose services to her master and her country were xsell rendered. the: Lives of Noted People receipts in full to all who applied, pro- vided the debtors would aver they were unable to meet their obligations. ‘‘No mat- ter whether it is $10 or §100 or $1,000,” he declared, “any man who says he cannet pay it hall bave a receipt. I want to fee! kindly toward all the people and not have them burdened with any debts to me.” Mr. Girouard is a French-Canadian, who made u fortune in the livery business and after- ward built up a finc trade in importing Canadian horsee, bringing in about 10,000 during his carcer in that line. There was great jubilation on the floor of the house when news was received there that Congressman Ball of Delawarc had been elected one of the gcnators from that state. Later he was escorted to the senate chamber, where the congratulations took such noisy form that President Pro Tem. Frye felt called upon to give a few warn- ing taps with his gavel. Dr. Ball will be one of the youngest senators. He is not yet 43 and graduates to the upper legisla- tive branch after ouly two years' service in the house. During the afternoon he had oc- casion (o give illustrations of the pronoun- clation of the name of his colleague. “It i A-lee,” said the mew semntor, as he ac- cented the last cyllable distinetly. D s Dr. Anders Sven Hedin, the illustrious traveler, who lately returced from a won- derful Asiatic journey, was born at Stoeck- holm on Febrvary 19, 1865. Stockholm, Upsalq, Berlin and Halle contribited to his education and his first expedition was through Persia and Mesopotamia in 1885- 86. In 1590 he was a member of King Oscar’s embassy to the late shah of Persia and in the same year began a journey through Khorasan and Turkestan. In 1893 he started on what proved to be a four years' ex- pedition through Asia from Orenburz to Pekin via Lop-nor and Thibct, and his late journey through much of the same country and including severe trials in the¢ Gobi desert was begun in 1899 and ended only last ycar. In the directory of the Fifty-eighth con- gress, just out, Senator J. Frank Allee of Delaware describes himself ‘“‘as president of the Bay State Gas company.” thus an- nouncing his identification with Addicks, Mr. Heyburn, the new Idaho senator, is de- scribed as “‘not effected by the silver craze of 189G.”" Representative Ames of Massa- chusetts is probably the only member of congress who gives the name of his grand- father (Benjamin F. Butler) and also that of his father (Adelbert Ames). The new scnator from Utah in a six-line sketch takes pains to say that he was “‘married September 17, 1884. to Alpha M. Eldridge.” He thus makes the attack of the Utah re- monstrants an endeavor to ‘‘correct the record.”

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