Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1903, Page 25

Thespis and Commencement Day Omaha High School (Continued from Page Four,) class of 18% was the first to send a strong representation to Lincoln, Graduates also attend Michigan In considerable number; two or three are at Dartmouth, an occa- sional one at Princeton and Cornel., sev- eral at Harvard, but very few at Yale. Vassar, Smith and Wellesley are the favor- ites among the colleges for women. The Omaha schools have an excellent rep- utation among eastern colleges and their graduates are admitted without examina- tions in all institutions where other schools are so treated. Harvard, Princeton and Yale receive no students without examina- tion, but on the other hand Vassar takes the Omaha girl graduate without question. It is probable that our schools are better regarded at this institution than at many others for the reason that we have sent there several particularly bright students, and the local school has captured the Vas- gar scholarships whenever it has tried for them. This was against national competi- tion. A member of last year's cl. won a four years' scholarship, and in 1892 or 1893 two young women—Misses Jessie Thain and May Schisby—were the two highest in a fellowship contest. Another Omaha-Va girl who is now in Paris teaching English and perfecting her French and who grad- uated last year from the eastern college, went through the school on a scholarship. Vassar is too wealthy to lose an unusual student. This young woman's mother came to one of the teachers of the high school at the time of her graduation here and asked their advice, saying that she could give for the purpose of her daughter's education only $300 a year. This might do by care at Lincoln, but would be impossible at Vassar. The teacher advised the mother to send her daughter to Vassar and trust to the liberal policy of the college in giving scholarships. In 1892 25 per cent of the teachers in the Omaha schools, or sixty teachers, were of Omaha graduation. It was not until about 1805 that they became so largely employed. One reason for this was that the salaries were lowered and experienced teachers from other points did not as readily come for positions here. In the high school proper Mrs. Flemming is the graduate teacher of Busy (Copyright, 153, by E. B. Warner.) NCE in a while an alde-de-camp, m vesplendent in gold lace and white duck, breaks into the presence of ! his excellency, the governor of British Guiana with an excited look on his face and a couple of telegrams in his hand. ‘“What is it?"* asks the governor, who Is lying in his hammock enjoying a cigar and & “swizzle” after the work of the day. “MacTuork. They've got him again!" shouts the aide. His excellency tumbles from his ham- mock. “By Jove!" he exclaims wearily, “will that man never stop trying to enlarge the British empire? If he were in my place he'd think there's quite enough of it to govern already. Which is it this time— Venezuela or Brazil? “Brazil. Here are two telegrams, one from MacTurk himself, the other from the commandante of Fort Ban Joaquin. Maec- Turk wires that he was arrested by the Brazilians while ‘asserting jurisdiction in British territory.’ He says he ‘yvielded to superior force after making a formal re- Plays by Pupils for Edification of Friends e Numg from Left to Right—Standing: R.J. Buck, H. C, Fille (Chairman of Cla~s Committee), George Shidler, Jeannette Post, . J. Fee, Ethel Syford, T. H. Blson, J. D. Barry, Harriet A. Howell (Directress). In Front Row—Clff Crooks Jean MclLennon, Bessie THE *“INNOCENTS,” UNITVERSITY OF NEBRASKA DRAM Photo by Hamilton, Nebraska, '03. longest standing, with probably Nathan Bernstein next. Besides these there are Misses Stebbins, Copeland, Phelps, Mc- Hugh, Randall, Mackin, McComber, Rock- fellow, Town and Wallace and Robert Lansing. Miss Florence Parmelee is moni- tor of the reference library. Among graduates of the bigh schoal may be named George Heimrod, who won the traveling scholarship in Kurope from Har- MacTurk, the sistance designed merely to insplre rc spect for British rights and prestige.’ " ““That means he mopped up about a dozen Brazilians!" groans the governor. “I sup- pose the commandante shrieks for ven- geance?” “Yes. He talks about ‘unjustifiable gression’ and an ‘armed British." Unless we do quic time,"” ag- invasion of the something pretty sir, MacTurk will have a rough ““He deserves it,” answers his excellency, “but I suppose we'll have to haul him out again, Keep the wires open all night. Telegraph peremptorily to the command ante, saying that nothing must bhe pending inve done stigation and that he will be held accountable for MacTurk's safety, Wire the foreign office to make repr sentations at Rio. Tell MaeTurk to sit tight, hold his tongue and shoot nobody.” Michael MacTruk, the man nations in this manner, and disturbing the siestas of the governor of British Gulana, is a commissioner in the hinterland of British Guiana and one of the most strenuous servanis of the British empire. He is sidetracked into the re- who worries Is continually vard, and who returns to Omaha this sum- mer. Glen Wharton graduated this year from Princeton at the head of his ¢ b Hall Beans, after teaching chemistry in I1daho, has been given a tutorship in the same branch at Columbia. Joel Stebbins has gulned like honors ftrom Illinois uni- versity In astronomy In the graduations of the future the manual training and commercial courses Brown, J. N. Norton, N. k. a ATIC CLUB IN THE CLASS PLAY, Burkley, W. A. Leonard. “THE RIVALS"— will take much more prominent parts. The training has been in three years and will give a full course next year. The commer- clal has not yet reached a full course, but will do so next year. It is probable that with the continuation of prosperity the cluss play will be taken up again next sea- son a.d that Omaha will send a larger number of scholars to the eastern institti- tions. Lone Empire Builder motest corner of the empire that can be found for him, but even so he makes Brit- ish diplomatists sit up late of nights de vising plans to conceal his exploits from public notice MacTurk exercises practically absolute sway over some hundreds of square miles of for wnd swamp and Indians He is not the sgort of man to take orders from anyhbody, ¢ven the governor of the colony ho serves. He acts first and asks permis slon afterward “When he gets bored with his kingdom," says a friend of his, ““he crosses over the border into Venezuela or Brazil and amuses himself annexing territory to the Dritish crown entirely upon his own responsibility He was the man who really created the Venez sent 1B that question was settled he has left Vene- zuela alone and transferred his activities an boundary question and nearly land and America to war. Since to Brazil. He wanders promiscuously over large traets of country which Brazil is ac- customed to consider her own, and dots the landscape with British flags.” I'he Brazillan officials, like most of their kind in South America, are long-suff ring people While MacTurk is industriously planting his flags, t shrug their shoul- ders, sip their aguadiente, and resolve to do something “manana.” But when he shows signs of cstablishing a rough-und- ready administration and collecting taxes, they wake up to the situation and send a file of soldiers after him. Then there is the biggest kind of trouble. MacTurk is a little man, not much over five fect tall, but, like Lord Roberts, he's a “terror for his size Every inch of him is fighat He is the Captain Kettle of the jungle Lithe and active as a jaguar. fearless as a bulldog, stropg as a horse, he fs a big proposition for even a file of sol- dicrs to tackle. All along the border the natives tell amazing stories of his exploite, Onee, they say, he quarrelled with a crowd of Venczuelans in a village ‘“‘pos- ada."” The Venczuelansg set upon him with knives and machetes, but he caught up a heavy mahogany chalr and dashed into the thick of them, wielding it like a club, There were twenty of them, but In a couple of minutes those who were able to move (Continued on Page Fiftcen.)