Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1903, Page 22

2 THE JLLUSTRATED BEE. l’ull—ll_;r;;d Week-l; b;' Tixrer Jee l'ublishing Company, Bee Bullding. Oinaha, Neb. [ — Price, be Per Copy--Per Year, $2.00, O Entered at the Omaha Pos'office as Second Class Mall Matter. For Advertising Rates Address Publisher, Communieat articles dres:ed, Omaha.”' to photvgraphs or fon snould be ad- I'ne Flustrated Bee, Penand Picture Pointers URING a number of years {(ho Omaha Commercial club and South Omaha Live Stock e:- change have been in the FLabit of throuzh rgending oul excursions the territory tributary, o= which should be, to Omaha's trade. These have mostly te:n to the west, but this year a ching: in r.il- road rates hes made a greater area of lowa available to Omaha trade, and the effort has been bent in that direction. The most recent of thess trade-compeliing trips was made over the lines of the Chicego & Northwestern in Towa, and three days were very pleasantly spent by a large numhber of representative business men of Omaha and Bouth Omaha in visiting with customers and prospective customeis. Il'y all accounts it was the most snccessful exneditien of the kird ever sent cut f'om Omaha. At all peints the reception was cordial, and much good was done in a business proselyting way. The towns at which stops were made are located in one of the richest roricul- tural reglons known to man, and cnch is a live community of prospcrous and thrifty citizens, all ready to take every advantage of a bus'ness opportunity. Th are the people the Omaha business men are eager to trade with, and the feeling expressed by those who went on the trip is that much gocd was accomplished, which will be noted in the increased trafiic hetween Omaha and the territory included in the itinerary of the expcdition. - O Nebraska 18 noted for one other thing THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. besides education, and that is marksman- ship. It has been a long time since this prairie state’'s people had to go out and shoot meat for the impending meal, but the men who were compelled to resort to that means are still living, and their sons have lost nothing in skill with firearms by being able to get thelr meat with less effort. In this number will be fourd a picture of a squad of filve who took part in the gtate tournament of the Nebraska Sportsmen’s association at Lincoln in June, and there accomplished the feat of brealing 125 targets straight, twenty-five for each gun. This is the only time that this kas been done by amateur marksmen, and only once besides has it been accomplished, and then by a team of professional e The Nebraska squad compriscd Geo Carter of North Platte, clief deputy game warden; P. Ju Hindmarsh of Lincoln, a travellng man; Fred G. Dill3s of Fairbury, a young shooter, but one of g:eat promise; George B. Simpkins, formerly state game warden, and C. D. Linderman, an old timer at the traps in Nebraska. The pro- fergional squad that accomplished thie feat did it in 1981, and was made up of Parma- lee, Omaha; Gilbert, Spirit Lake, Ia.; Crosby, O'Fallen, Ill.; Heikes, Dayton, O., and Faoning, 8an Francizco, Cal. They tried all summer before deing it. —e “In the good old summer time'' people like to get eut of dco s and do things. Golf and tennis, and base ball and boating and all that sort of thing grows monctonous after a few weeks and then comes the gymkhana. This 8 a word of Anglo-. Indian o igin, and means any old thing in the way of sport that is not governed by rules. 8o out at the Country club they heid a gymkhana on the lawn. It was a success from the word go. Young women carrfed eggs on plates and ran the course, and they held spoosns in their mouths and olives on the mpoons and raced. And younz men and some who are not so aw- fully young, either, balanced Lottles on their heads and raced, and ca:rled para- #ols and threaded needles and raced, and did other things equally as requisite of skill and agllity, and finally had a game Episodes and Incidents in AJOR GENERAL ISAAC CATLIN tells a story of ona of his polit- feal campaigns, “l wvoted for A% Zr'; you," said a workingman the day . S after an «¢leotion in Brooklyn, where the general figurcd as a candilate for a county offiec. “I d:da't ‘n end to at first, but one aftermosn yo:1 w re going by my house and you pa't:d my goat, Billy, and guv him an apple, and, says I, ‘Iif the general's so soclable as all that he must have my vote." il e - Count Cassini, the Rus:ian ambacsador to this eountry, has long desired to ebtain a diplomatic siation in Paris or London He is said to feel that his prostige was damaged by his fallure to prevent the United States from sending the Kishineff petition to 8t. Patersburg. Consequently he is not expeeied to resume his res’dence as ambas-ador Ia Washing'on, but merzly to present his letter of recall on his return from his pregent vi‘it to Burope. Alexan- der Isvelsky, lately Rus iin minister to Japan, Is spoken of as his probible sue- cessor, ——— One of the rcal Ameriean men who found his way inte the pages of real American fiction has just died at Oakland, Cal. He was James H. Chaffes, and Bret Harte made him one of the he o.s in “Tennes- sce's Partner.”’ For eighty years he lived and for fifty-four worked with his jartner in the California mines and claims, true always, with never a cloud appearing on the horizon of their frien’'ship. It was this friendship that drew the attention of the story writer, and Chaffee will live long in fiction. e isllfsioe Outside of Mexico there is a general fm- pression that because President Diuz is now 73 years old he must be failinz and that at best he cam last but a little \ime longer. “On the countrary,” says a nan who has just returmed from a business trip to the sister republic, “half a minu e'~ talk with the general wiil dispel any su:zh notion. He is of Oaxaca Indian blood, a tribe noted for longevity and physical prowess. He sits his raddle with oli-time ease and from all appearances can stani #s much fatigue as when he rode into Puebla conqueror of the French thirty- five years ago. His son, Porfirio Diaz, jr., is now a man of affairs in the Mexican financial world.” PSS, Contrary to gemeral Dbelief, the young king of Spain is quite a muscular fellow. He proved that to Prof. Lorenz during & recent visit of the famous specialist at Madrid. The king received the surgeon. The queen mother was present at the audience, during which Prof. Lorenz happened to remark bn the: wonderful muscular development of her =on. ‘“See whether I am strong,” said the king, and he proceeded to pick his mother up. Then he carriced her around the room three times, Gleanings From the LFRED HENRY LEWIS was dis- cussing polities and politicians when the name of a2 Tammany man of some praminence was mentioned, relates the New York Times. “Mr. Blank is too susplclous,' said Mr. Lewls. “He thinks everyuue is trying to injure him. Ie is as suspicious as George Bidde's dog.” “And how about the dog?’ asked a lis- tener, who expected a story “Oh, the dog,” sald Mr. lLewis, “was so suspielous that he went threugh life side- ways for fear gome one wou!d kick him.” N S Thomas Nelsen Page. the novelist, has a great liking for colored propl®, and they, in turn, lke him. ‘““Moses Stebtins is a good friend of mine,” Mr. Pag: s2id at a dinner party. “One morning I met him on h)teeback, and he was chuckiing. ‘ “What's the jcka, Mose? I suid. “'De joke is, sah,’ he answered, ‘dat Ah've jes’ won a quahtah f'om dis yah hoss'. “*How did you win 1t?' 1 inquired. “*Ah won hit dls a-way: Dah wuz a white papeh on de road, an' Ah sez to de hosa dat Ah bet a quahtah he gwine ter shy at de papah. De hoss he take de bet, sah, an’ den he lose hit, fo' de fosl animal shied like de debil.’ ' *Well, you've won the bet, Mose, but you'll have some difficulty in collecting it,’ sald I, ***‘Oh, no, sah; no, sah; no troub’e 'bout dat. Hyah, hyah, hyah! ANl's gwine ter collect de bet all right.’ ‘““*How on earth will you collect it? “'W'y, tomorrer de mahster he's gwine ter gimme a dol'ah to buy feed fo' dish yer nag. Well, Ah jes' keep out er d: feed money de quahtah w'at am owel m-.'" —_.,,\}__. Miss Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, na'rate! recently at Atlantiec City an episode in which she shared during a visit to the Insane asylum at Norristown, Pa., that she made some years ago. Miss Barton went all through the huge and well kcpt asylum, and not extraor- dinary happened till she was departing. Then two men, conversing carnestly te- gether, came over the lawn toward her The first, lifting his hat politely, said: “Madam, I am the angel Gabriel, and I have been sent here by our Lord to inquire of base ball, which was broken up by an enthusiast driving his whizz cart on to the diamond with a bit ef Scotch and seltzer for a player. The staff photographer was busy all the afternoon, but his camera could only catch a few of the things that was done, and none of the fun that was had. While the “swell set” was having a good time at the Country club, the other end of local socfal life was doing itself proud at the Krug park, not far away. The annual newsboys' picnic has come to be a fixture, Juet the same as Fourth of July and elec- tion day. Its fum isn’'t based on a desire to get away from sports that have palled, but it is of the hilarious gort, just the same. Probably the greatest provocative of mirth and bruises the newshoys engage in fs the shoe and stocking race. The con- testants bare their feet and legs, and shoes and stockings are indiseriminately mingled fn a heap at a given point on the course At the word the runners tear to the pile, each to secure his own shoes and stockings, and returning, eloth his feet properly, the one doing it first to receive a prize. The camera only gives a faint idea of the scramble around the shoes and the hustle to get back and get dressed first. It can give no notion of the fighting and tearing and rough and tumble work of a general nature involved in this event. But the newsboys did other things at their outing, and above all they had a good time. O -~ Willa Sitert Cather is one of the four or five Nebraska women who have made a reputation outside the state for their liter- ary afttainments. The most of her work has appeared in the eastern magazines, Scribner’'s, the Atlantic, the Cosmopolitan, Harper's Weekly, the Critle, Lippincott's, the Youth’s Companion and the New Iing- land Magazine being prominent among the list of publications which have published her short stories and poems. *‘Jack-a-Boy,” a story that is considered her best, ap- peared lately in the Saturday Evening Post. The publication of her volume of poems, “April Twilights,” is announced for this August 9, 1903. week by a Boston publishing house. M¥se Cather is a native of Virginia, having been born at Winchester. Her childhood was spent in Red Cloud, Neb. She graduated from the University of Nebraska in '95, and her first literary work was done during her years at the university, in doing the book review and dramatic criticism for a Idncoln morning parper. IHer first short story was accepted and published by the Overland Magazine when she was 16, After leaving college she did magazine work in Pittsburg, later going to the Pittshurg leader as a sub-editor. All last year she was in Eu- rope. Arthur I, Sheetz, who was elected secre- tary of the International Federation of Commercial Travelers' Organizations at the fourth annual meeting of the federation at Mackinac Islands, Mich.,, last week, was born in Indiana in 13 and came to Ne- braska in 1887, Since the latter year he has been continuously identified with comimer- cial travelers, for five yecars as salesman for an Omaha jobbing house and since 1892 as secretary of the Wesztern Travelers' Acei- dent association, which he organized, and the national headquarters of which were moved in 1889 from Grand Island to Omaha, The duties of his new pozition will not in any way interfere with his work as seere- tary of the accident association. The inter- national federation includes all the leading commercial travelers' organizations of the country, representing a total membership of 150,000, It maintains an information bureau, having data regarding undesirable risks, ete., for the benefit of the traveling men's accident and other insurance com- panies. Its legislative committee has done good work and is now preparing to push a bill through congress making ‘‘preferred’” the claims of commercial travelers, and to have the legislatures of states not yet hav- ing them pass rigid fire escape laws ap- plicable to hotels. The railroad committee has also dome good work, the latest being the securing of interchangeable mileage books, which go on sale September 1, good on all trains in the Waestern Passenger association’s territory. the Lives of Noted People much to the amusement of Dr. Lorenz and the embarrassment of her majesty. seileras Greatly te his own regret and much more to that of his comrades in Maine, General Joshea L. Chamberlain, the department commander, has been compeiled by re- newed sufferings from his wounds to give up the intention to attend the national en- campment of the Grond Army of the Re- public in S8an Francisco this month. General Chamberlain was six times wounded, thrice severely and once, it seemed at the time, surely mortally. He was promoted by General Grant to brigadier general on the field at Petersburg In June, 1864, for great gallantry, and he was selected by General Grant to recelve the formal sur- render of General Lee's army at Appo- mattox in April, 1865. PR S The late General Cassjus M. Clay was a graduate of Yale, a member of the class of 1832, Semetimes he would tell of a rebuke he once gave to an impertinent classmate. He was sitting in his room, writing a let- ter to a young girl. Three or four of his friends were with him. One youth, who pretended to be absorbed In a book, was slyly reading the somewhat ardent sen- tences that flowed from the Kentucky stu- dent’s pen. Clay suddenly became aware of this impropriety, but he made no =ign. Only he wrote in his letter: “I would be more frank than T am-—I would say more than this—but there is an Story Tellers’ into the state of your spiritual health. Eefore Miss Barton could reply the sec- ond man spoke wup: “Pay no attention, madam,'’ he said, ‘‘to this person. 1 am God, the Father, and 1 assure you that I assigned no one to such an errand.” S Charles Frohman is laughing over the naivette of a woman friend whose young daughter wanted to see “a beautiful play, with lots of ginger in it,” reports the New York Times. “I'd rather you didn't attend the theater just yet, dear,” sald the mother., “I'm afraid the influence of some of the pres- nt plays is demoralizing. What s this par- ticular cne?"’ “It's very exciting, the boy next door told me; it's a sort of Buffalo Bill play, full of fights, and gambling, and murders, and things." “Oh, that's all right, then,” was the re- ply in a reassured tone, “1'll gend one of the maids with you. I feored it might be a seciety drama.” sl A New York newspaper man was dining with David Bennett Jill! at a bachelor friend's apartment recently, relates the impudent cad looking over my shoulder, reading every word 1 write.” The youth referred to in that way leaped to his feet. “Clay,” he said, ‘““you are a Har. I haven't been looking over your shoulder, and I haven't read a syllable of your infernal let- ter.” R — Johu Ifuston Fi.nley, who in 1f92 enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest col- lege president in America, and who later was appointed to the chair of politics in Princeton university, attributes his success to knowing a trade, “If what success I have is attributable to one thing more than another,” he said, ‘it is my knowledge of setting type and read- ing proof.” In connection with his experience on the proof desk the professor relates an amusing occurrence: “There was a traveling printer who de- clared he could set up anything that could be read, and what he couldn't read he would set up anyway. A preacher had sent in a porticn of his sermon for pub- Heation, The introduction read, ‘Much ben- efit can be derived from the words taken from the chapters read in your hearing this morning.” In the manuseript the word ‘chapters’ had been abbreviated ‘chaps.’ This word caused the printer to produce the following police-court version: ‘“ ‘Much benefit can be derived from the wads taken from the chaps tried In your hearing this morning.” " Pack New York Bun, and Mr. Hill asked the newspaper man what he thought of the political outlook for the next national cam- paign. “What wiil the issues be?’ he inquired. “Tariff, Philippines—" The newspaper man interrupted by a shake of his head. “No?"’ said Mr. Hill in some surprise. “No,”" replied the newspaper man. *“I think it will be ‘Race Suicide,” with Roose- velt on one ticket and you on the other.” —— Ex-8heriff “Tom" Dunn, at the Demo- cratic club a few evenings ago, quotes the New York World, told this story of the late Police Justice Duffy: Duffy, while vis- iting an up-state jail, saw a prisoner whe had a rat in his possession. The magis- trate said: “Ah, you have a rat, T see.” “Yes,'W sald the conviet; “I feeds him every day. I think more of that rat than any other living creature.” ‘“That proves,” said Duffy, sentimentally, “that in every man there's some good im- pulse if you can only find it. How came you to take such a fancy to the rat?" *'Cos he bit the warden,” said the con- vict, cheerfully,