Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 27

2 THE JLLUSTRATED BEE Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb. Price, bc Per Copy—Per Year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Pogtoffice as Second Class Mall Matter For Advertising Rates Address Publisher. Communications relating to photographs or articles r publication snould be ad- dressed, Editor The Illustrated Bee, Pen and Picture Pointers RIGADIER GENERAL SAMUEL 8 SUMNER, who will command the Department of the Missouri upon his return from the Philippines, is the third member of his family to attain the rank of brigadier general in the regular army of the United States, and the seeond to command the Department of the Missourl. If predictions now freely made are confirmed, by the time he reaches Omaha he will be the second of his name to become major general, for it is said that he is to be made a major general in July, and he will probably not reach Omaha be- fore August, YO SU— General Sumner is the son of Major Gen- eral E. V, Sumner, who in the carlier stages of the clvil war commanded the second army corps, afterward commanded by Gen- eral Hancock That corps altached to the army of the Potomac and saw con- slderable service. At that time both Sam- uel 8. Sumner and his brother, E. V., Sum- ner, brigadier general, retired, were upon the personal staft of their father as lieu- tenants. In 1864 General Sumner becamo captain of the Fifth cavalry, his brother having been made captain of the Firgt cav- alry in 1863. Both brothers remained in the cavalry service from that day until the retirement of General E. V. Sumner in 1901 As colonel during the Spanish war he com- manded the Department of the Missouri for a short time. Gereral Samuel Sumner at the beginning of the Spanish war was colonel of the Sixth cavalry. He was made brigadier general of volunteers and com- manded cavalry at Santiago. For this able administration of duty he was made major general of volunteers and commanded a Jdi- vision of cavalry. At the conclusion of hostilities in Cuba he accepted the detail of military attache at the court of St. James, which he held until his regiment, the Sixth cavalry, was ordered to China, when he requested to be permitted to re- turn to his regiment. Upon the removal of the United States troops from China he went with his regiment to the Philippines, where under General John C. Bates, he com- manded a department of the army, and was in charge of the troops which received tha surrender of General Juan Cailles, a Fili- pino insurgent general, who was not a Fili- pino, but a French East Indian. He was appointed brigadier general in the regular establishment February 4, 1901, and has since had command in the Philippines. For all of his forty-two years of service in the regular army of the United States Gemeral Sumner is one of the youngest appearing general officers in the United States army, and is said to be one of the most able and energetie of officers. He has risen to his present rank entirely through the line, bearing the same relation to the cavalry in this respect that General Bates bears to the imfantry, for neither of them since 1861 have lost through staff appointment or otherwise thelir position in the line, — Nebraska rivers have a bad reputation for sudden rushes in the spring, but the amount of damage they do is nothing in comparison with what is reported from other states. Out here the snow never gets very deep on the ground, and doesn’t lie in huge drifts under the lee of sheltering hills, waiting for the first warm days of March to set it off into floods. It is the ice in the rivers that makes the trouble. When the sun be- gins to approach “the lin2," and the tem- perature goes up with a bound, the streams are guick to respond amd break their icy fetters with a snap that usually means trouble and work for the bridge bullders, An ice gorge is the easiest thing imagin- able to ereet, but a desperately annoying thimg when it is once well built up. Onpe big cake of ijce lodges, and then another, and a third, and so on, and there you are The water is dammed up and the low banks of the river are soon overflowed, and the temporary lake covers the low grounds, often floating large pi»ces of ice far away from the siream on which they were formed. But the gorge doesn’'t last long The ice of which it is formed is rotten und soon the weight of water piled up is more than the barrier can suitain, and away goes the whole affair with the most destruc- tive swoop. Bridges and similar structires are swept away, and much havoc is wrought by the waiers as they hurry along to the all-receiving Missourl, and within a day or two the little rivers of the state have resumed their normal stage of guietude. It fsn't every epring that witnesses the ruin shown in the pictures in this number, Lat often enough it happens. ! SR Ruth Rebekah lodge of Omaha gave a de- lightful entertaiument at its lodge room Jast Saturday night, one of the features of which waz a dairymaids’ convention. A bevy of the pretty members of the order, clothed in gonventional dairymald costume was THE ILLUSTRATED DEE. REV. C. P. HACKNEY OF ASHLAND, Neb. MEMBERS OF RUTH REBEKAH LODGE, light Photo by a Staff Artist. and equipped with milkpail and stool, formed a body that added much to the pleasure of the evening, and aliowed The Bee's staff photographer to make one of his best flashlight photographs. —_—— The presence of the Iowa School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs ard the Nebraska Deaf and Dumb Institute at Omaha in a large measure accounts for the great num- ber of mutes who have their homes at Omaha. These people have found their way into many avenues of useful occupa- tion, and find little ¢ifficulty in transacting such business or pursuing such vocations as are not absolutely barrel to them by reason of their physical deficiency. They extraot a great deal of pleasure from life, not a little being derived through the ex- istence of clubs to which the deaf mutes alone are admitted. In this way they are relieved of the restraint that might come from association with people who would not understand their situation, and so are allowed a greater freedom in their social intercourse One of these organizations in which Omaha and Council Blufis share jointly is the Friday Night club, whose members are all, with one exeeption, deaf the exception is the hearing wife of one of the gentlemen. There are twenty members and all but one are connected in one way or another with the faculties of the schools for the dea! in Omaha and Council Bluffs Nowhere else in the country are two state schools for the deaf so near as to make such . an organization possible, and this makes it the only one of its kind in the world. The abject of the club is social and it meets every other Friday, alternately, in Omaha and Council Bluffs at the homes of its members. At their gatherings the buzz of conversation is noticeably absent, but by means of the rapid finger spelling and the expressive gestures of the sign lan- guage the ‘‘feast of reason and flow of soul” is just as much enjoyed. Musicales, of course, are not on the program and the plano is “conspicuous by its absence,” but March 22, 1903, I. 0. 0. F., WHO TOOK PART IN TH E “DAIRY MAIDS' CONVENTION—Flash- otherwise all the conventional amusements are enjoyed. The president of the club is Prof. F. C. Holloway and the secretary Prof. J. Schuyler Long, of Council Blufls, and Prof. Waldo H. Rothert of Omaha is treasurer. The members are Messrs. and Mesdames Waldo H. Rothert, Charles E. Comp, Lawrence James, Messrs. Louis Di- vine and Loyd Blankenship and Miss Craw- ford, of Omaha; Messrs. and Mesdames J. Schuyler Long, Frank C. Holloway, J. W. Barrett, Zach B. Thompson, Lester Pound and Miss Gohlinghorst, of Council Bluffs. The club was entertained last Saturday night by Superintendent Stewart and the matron, Miss Johnson, at the School for the Deaf on North Forty-fifth street, where the accompanying flashlight view was taken Rev. C, P. Hackney and wife ¢f Ashland, Neb., were married on September 14, 1836, sixty-six years ago. Father Hackney, as he is called in his community, was born August 11, 1814, in Fredrick county, Mary- land, near Harpers Ferry. At the age of 22 he emigrated to Ohio and settled at Deaver- town and was there married to Mary Lurge, who was born near Trenton, N. J., October 17, 1819, and came to Deavertown in 1824, Father Hackney was ordained to the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1852, and officiated as such at different points in Wisconsin until 1878 when he came to Nebraska and settled near Waverly, in Lancaster county. In 1880 Le moved to Ashland and has resided there ever since. He joined the Masonic¢ lodge at McConnelville, O., in 1846. He has been a member of eleven different Masonic lodges in the fifty-reven years of kis Masonic life and has served as chap- lain in every lodge of which he has been a momber He now holds this office in Pomegranite lodge No. 110 in Ashland, and although past 88 years of 2ge, frequently attends lodge meetings. He has officiated as chaplain for the Ashland High school at the commencement exercises for four- teen consecutive years and has been chap- lain of the Grand Army of the Republic for twenty years. He is at present and has been for a number of years city mis- sionary of Ashland and is very efficient 1n relieving the indigent. Origin of Modern Joke “It is well known ameong joke writers,” sald the antiquary, “‘that there exists in the world only seven jokes. All the rest have been made, and still continue to be made, from these seven. But it is not so well known that there are only seven anecdotes, out of which, by ingenious blendings and twistings, the unnumbered thousands of the world's anecdotes are created “l am an amateur or loving collector of ancecdotes When I come upen ene that is strange to me I delight to trace it back to its source. I get the same plcasur: out of this that an etymologist gets in tracing back to ifs Sanskrit root a dizputed word. ““Some time ago I heard of an anecdote about Charles Lamb. Lamb, the story went, was on a jourmey and the time was that of the publication of the ingenious stories for children that he and his sister, Mary, had written in collaboration. Lamb #aid to one of his fellow travelers ‘* ‘Have you read Lamb's tales? ***No, but I have a black sheepskin rug,’ the other replied. ““This anecdo.e struck me as preity good and I tried to trace it back. For a long time I was unsuccessful, but last week my search was pewarded; I found the from which the Lamb was derived ‘It was a story of a traveler on a rainy day who had left his wrap in a stage coach After he had gotten out he m ssed the wrap and told the driver to go inside and inquire for it. The guard, putlting his head within the door, called: ‘‘Is there a black mackintosh here?’ “*No,” was the reply, ‘but there are two red McGregors.' '—Philadelphia Record, story