Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1903, Page 22

2 THE JLLUSTRATED BEE. Bee Publishing Publis eel { ) A ? iblighed Weekly by The Company, Bee ilding. Price, ¢ Per Copy—Per Year, $2.00, Entered n’l the (lmf:hra Posoffice as Second s Mall Matter, For Ady Rates Address Publisher, ertising Communications relating to pnotvgraphs ot articles for publication snould be ad- dressed, Kditor Tne I1llustrated Bee, Umaha ™ (OR a second year the presidency of another national organization of women has been returned to Omaha in the re-election of Mrs. . H. Cole as president of th» W ot Auxiliary to the National Asso- ciation of Rallway Postal Clerks, the an nual convention having been held in con Junction with that of the men's organiza- tion at Washington, D. ', September 15 to 17, Organized at Indianapolis, five years ugo, the auxilary is «imply what its name implies, its object being the betterment of the departmental service, and to this end the women are pursuing certain lines of study and work that they may intelligently co-operate, Of this study, civil gervice re- form has been an important part, and probably no organization of women has accompliThed a8 much in this matter, now being w0 seriously considered and agitated by all of them. Bul truly consistent as an auxiliary, domestic science has had an equal sharc of ihelr attention and these two branches of study are common to all the clerks. The organization now has an Episodes HIE NEW York World relates this I incident of the meeting of P'resi- dent Roosevelt and Governor Mickey last spring: When the president's special train, during kis recent tour of the country, reached Ne- braska Governor J\'h-kr_\' of that state Joined the party to escort the president across the state. The president was de- light-ed to meet the governor of Nebraska and asked him about a hundred questions, political, industrial, social and personal, winding up wit ‘How many children have You, governor?”’ “Nine," answered Governor Mickey, “You are a d--d good man,” ex- claimed President Roosevelt. “You are a better man than I am. | have had only atn And Governor Mickey, who I8 a Methodist elder, gasped with astonishment. sl g A lLondon print says that Mr Asquith, who has just reached his fifty-first vear, may change his name before his next anni- versary arrives, for the political baromcter poinis te stormy weather, the foundering of the present government bark, and the con- sequent Jaunching of a new liberal ship ot state. In that not improbable contingency the Hberals will have to look out for a new lord chancellor, their last occupant of that high office, Lord Herschell, having since passed away. The cholce would seem to He between Mr. Asquith and Mr Haldane, the two most eminent of liberal lawyers. drnest Buch, a waiter of Duluth, has fallen heir to $#8,000 left him 1Ly » relative in Germany, but cannot return to that eountry (o claim the inheritance beca be once told a funny story about the kaiser. THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. approximate membership of 500, not numer- fcally large, even in proportion to the number of women who are legitimately in- terested, “Any (woman) member of the immediate family of an employe or ex- employe of the United States postal sery- fce”” being eligibla to membership, But the organization is still new and under the efficient leadership of Mrs. Cole Is growing in a most satisfactory manner, and then too, all has not been smooth salling for these would-be helpers, any more than it has with other associations of women, and utterly unaggressive though the auxiliary i= it has encountered the obstacle that has ever been the handicap of progressive women--prejudice; but with the earnest- ness of true, womanly purpose, so well known by Mrs. Cole's co-workers in Ne braska women's organizations, this preju dice has been largely overcome, and last month she and her fellow officers and work- ers accomplished a signal victory at Wash- ington It was the Third di<tric(, which included Washington, that has offered chlef opposi- tion to the auxiliary. Such opposition, in fact, as ha« prevented the eztablishment of the woman's branch within its borders Washington was to entertain the men's convention, and =0 the women's meeting was, in a measure, thrust upon the object- ing faction. This ptaved the women's op- portunity, and sc thoroughly did they con- vert these men to the seriousness, dignity and real value of their organization that at the close of their meeting they were as- sured of the establishment of an auxiliary at Richmond, Va, and possibly another in Washington. ¥Even this opposition has hardly been a discouragement, for it has been so overshadowed by the encourage- ment of the other districts. In fact, it has called forth the commendat'on of the highest officials of the Postoffice depart- ment, as tending to the best interests of the gervice, 7 — King Ak-Sar-Ben was royvally recelved and regally feted in his capital city during the week. Never since the inception of the feast has the Omaha fall festivity been favored with better weather, and never, except during the memorable time of 1808, when President McKinley's presence added to that of the Transmississippi and Inter national exposition, hundreds of areat drew thousands of visitors hither, have the crowds been larger. In many ways the show surpassed any of its predecessors, The great daylight parade had one unique feature, that of decorated automobiles, a display of moving color that gave a kalie doscopic effect that could hardly be other- wige attained. These handsomely arrayed equipages, mingling with the soldierly and the bands, made up the prettiest and most satisfactory of the whole list of daylight parades. Another feature which will be longer remembered by the Omaha peopls was the presence of the Twenty-second in- fantry, United States army, in the line. This regiment has come to be a part of the local and is now about to say good- bye ort C'rook (¢t the third time in five yea to take up a tour of service in lands “beyond sea.” Its marching ranks were loudly cheered as they passed through the crowded streets on Wednesday after- noon. On Thursday evening the great iluminated parade, the vent of the carni- val season, drew many thousands of vis- itors to the down-town streets. In many ways it surpassed all previous electrical displays. The theme was one that lent iteelf with peculiar adaptability to the uses of the decorator, and the pictures De- signer Renze prepared to illustrate the sev- eral Longfellow poems chosen were not only bheautiful but appropriate to the last October 11, 1003, degree, On Friday evening the court ball wound up the week. This formal function was even more elaborate than customary, greater interest being added to it by the ad« dition of ceremonious procedure. Like all others, it drew together the representative society people of the state. As a whole, the carnival season was the mosl suceesse ful. &— Omaha's police force, o far as exterior ippearance goes, i€ worthy to rank with “the finest police in the land At the re- cent annual inspection by the Board of ifire and Police Commissioners, the offi- cerg and men making up the force were highly complimented. not only on their ap- pearance, but on their efliciency in the drill, the evolutions and manual being tone through with remarkable precision. splendid appearance finai looking over by the commissioners, and were found to have both uniforms and accoutrements in perfect condition. After the inspec they were grouped in front of the head- quarters building and a picture made for The Bee, men presented a as they were drawn up for tion e il i s The last for the current season of the trade-compelling trips of the Omaha Com- mercial club and the South Omaha Live Stock exchange took the members along th: line of the Rock Tsland in lTowa, where many thriving communities were visited, All the varfous features of former trips were repeated, with some new ones, the chief of the novelties being thal for the time the Omuahans did not enact their famousg role of ‘‘rainmakers.’ Everywhere a warm welcome was extended them, and the general feeling at the end of the journey was that more and faster friends had been made for the Gute City in a commercial way, and Incidents in Lives of Noted People That was some eight years ago, when Buch was an army lieutenant. He told the story at a mess dinner and a brother officer ad- vised him to flee at once, otherwise he would be called to account for lese majeste. Buch left immediately for this country, thereby escaping punishment, but he aggra- vated his original offense by desertion. Hence he will not return to his native land until assured of royal forgiveness. In his address to the Young Men's club of the Euclid Avenue church, Cleveland, on the occasion of his initiation into that select society, John D. Rockefeller dis- closed the secret of his success. He has discloged It forty or fifty times a year for many years, but it will bear repetition, for new generations of boys and young men are constantly coming on. It is this, as Mr. Rockefeller put it: “Forty-eight vears ago 1 walked the streets of this city, a poor boy without a job. I wanted work and 1 looked earnestly for it. 1 got a little job and 1 worked hard and kept that little job. That is the secret of all success. 1 have worked hard all my life and 1 have succeeded in keeping my job." _Q_—— Two of the most emincnt lawyers at the Philadelphia bar were the late Benjamin Harris Brewster and his half-brother, Frederick Carroll Brewster, Both had held the office of attorney general for the state, and the firet had been attorney general of the United States. They had not heen on friendly terms for many years, It ie sald that on one oceasion & mutual friend tried to bring them together, and finally Frederick C. consented to bury the hatchet, and sent Benjamin H. a card Gleanings From the CTER DRESSLER, an old Penn- sylvania politictan, and long the coroner of Allegheny county, had, among other truits, a peculiar fondness for free railroad passes, and never let an opportunity of securing one go by, On one oceasion he was hearing the evidence In 4 rather celebrated case when a neatly dressed, gentlemanly ap- pearing young man was called to the wit nesn chalr, Looking him over carvefully, the coroner asked: “What's your “George Blank.” “What's your occupa- tion?" “Becretary of the Young Men's Christiun assoclation.” Turning to his ‘John, have Hne 2 name? clerk, the coroner whispered: we gut any passes over that Goern Alifred Wallace, the oectogenarian ish sclentist, who ¢ alms he can prove the earth to be the center of the universe, lived In his youth in the Moluceas, Ore af his neighbors fn those remote islands was an ol sailor, and of this aged man Dr. Wallace sometimes tells an odd story, In & certain port the sailor had been in- vited to a dauce. He accepted the invitn- tion, and all through the cvening he bounded in a hearty and uncouth manney hrengh darees of every kind. But he wore no gloves, and hence, the ¢’imate belng tropical, his large moist hands left staing on the white raiment of the ladies One, @ little vexed, thought she would take him to task for this, “Pou't you think, dancing se much, you ought to wear gloves?" she said. “Oh, that's all right,"” he answered wash my hands when I'm through.™ R “Slurring remarks had been made by an editor about a mayor in a southern town," sald General Joseph Wheeler, in speaking of people who know how to get out of em- barrassing positions. “The mayor was a big, stalwart man, the editor slender, un- dersiged and timid. ‘If it wasn't for the dignity of my position 1'd wipe you off the face of the €arth,” declared the mayor, ‘Get out of town, for U'll certainiv do s when 1 finish my term.’ YThe editor did not leave town, but went to work. He abused the mayor more soun: engaged in politics and at the next convention secured for himself the mayor- alty nominasdon. The incumbent, who had been up for renomination, was furious, and nguage lurikd. When he had exhausted ! the little editor sald, very meekly: ‘*Mr. Mayor, it's this way. The moment you #tep out 'l step in, and your respect for the dignity of the office again will pro- tect me from violence,' "’ AR e Bdgar Van Ettan, vice president of the Boston & Albany railroad, says that some time ago he introduced a new system for getting information as to the destruction of farmers' property along the line of the vaflroad, A blank was prepared to give the name of the animal killed, the kind of ani- mal and other information. A space was containing his name, with the words writ- ten underneath, ‘“At home on Monday evening, May 1. By the same messen- ger Benjamin H. sent a card in rveturn, which read: “Benjamin H. Brewster also at home Monday evening, May 1" This ended negotiations. -— Warren Beebe, aged 82 years, died in Somerville, N. J., September 30. For many years he was engaged in the hat manufac- turing busginess in Newark, with a store in New York. Among the patrons were James Gordon Bennett, George T. Morris, Daniel Webster and Horace Greeley. He is said to have been the first to manufacture silk hats, and in his store on Broadway, it is sald, was used the first French plate glass window seen on that thoroughfare. RS Dr. Paul Richter, the recently appointed professor of anatomy in the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts, was formerly an assistant of the eminent specialist in nervous disorders, Prof. Charcot, at the Baltpetriere. For him he made a number of sketches demon- strating hysterical symptoms. While doing this work he was led to adopt the maxim that there can be no perfect beauty with- out perfect health. He noted pathological features in many well known works of art and concluded that faulty models were responsible. He accordingly advises his pupils to aveoid the usual ateller modecls and seek for the lines of human beauty among the acrobats in the circus, the blacksmiths and the partially nude laborers at the docks and in the fields. “Beauty in action” is his motto, —_— The fame of Charles A. Conant, the Story Tellers’ reserved for an answer to the following question: “Disposition of carcass?’ A flagman whose duty it was (0 make a report on this blank wrote opposite the Iine last named: “Kind and gentle,”’ Some Philadelphians visited Richmond, Va., and, asking as to the use of this and that large building. were told in every case that it was a tobacco faetory. An aged negro gave them the information, and they, tiring of the mounotony of the reply, pointed to a white frame bullding on a hill, and asked whose tobacco factory that was. The old fellow replied: "Dat, sah, am no fact'ry. Dat am S'n John's 'Piscopal church, where Marse Pat- rick Henry done get up an’ ax de Lawd (o Eib him liberty or gib him deaf.” “Well, Uncle,”” asked one of “which did the Lowrd give Lim?" Pears to me yo' must be strangers here- the trio, “bouts,” he answered; “else yo'd all know dat, in due time, de lLawd gahe Marre Henry bofe When Lord Kitchenet was in Ireland he visited at the Wishing Well at Killarney with two plain, elderly spinsters. Beside the wel! sat an old Irish woman who locked up into lLord Kitchener's handsome tace and asked: “Phwat are you wishin' ger? former Washington newspaper correspon= dent, seems to be sure, He was sent to the Philippines by the secretary of the treasury two years ago to study the cur- rency needs of the islands and it was.on his recommendation that a distinct coinage system was created for the Philippines by congress, The first shipment of the coins sent to the islands were immediately called Conants. They are even referred to by the Manila newspapers as Conants without the use of the quotation marks, In Hong Kong and other near-by trading ports the coin is called Conant, and thus it will not be long until his name is carried to the uttermost parts of Asia, for the new cur- rency is rapidly spreading through the channels of trade and commerce in the Orient. —\@__. = Senator Dubois of ldaho, during the days when he was practicing law in Boise City, Wwas on a certain occasion sternly repri- manded by the judge of a court in that city because of alleged contempt of court, and in addition was fined in the sum of $50. The next day, according to a custom fol- lowed in the Idaho courts, the judge called upon Mr. Dubois to occupy the bench for him during the transaction of some com- paratively unimportant business, After the Judge's departure from the court room Mr, Dubois exhibited an instance of that re- markable presence of mind for which he has ever been noted. The future senator said to the clerk of the court: “Turning to the record of this court for yesterday, Mr. Clerk, you will observe re- corded a fine of $50 against ene Frederick T. Dubois. You will kindly make a note to the effect that such fine has heen re- mitted by order of the court.” Pack “What do you think I good-naturedly inquired. “Och, thin, for a beautiful YOoung swate- heart, of coorse,” said she. He pointed to the two spinsters, stood at a little distance and said: “Don’t you see I have two with me?' wish for?” he ‘who “Ah, thin it's the grace o God you'll be wishin' for!" replied the sympathetic old woman. —_—— “Private” Johu Allen is responsikle for this one: Last year there were & number of claims for dumages brought against one of the raltroads in Mississippi by the farmers in a4 certain county of that state, These vlaims arose out of the fact that many hogs had been killed by the trains of the railroad in question. A mixed commission was formed of railroad men and others to determine the equity of these claims, Among others questioned by.this commis- sion was an old darky who eclatmed to have b:en an eye-witness of the annihila- tion of one hog. Said the chairman Zeph: Tell us, in as few words as possible, how this hog was killed.” 0ld Zeph shifted a huge cud of tobacco from one cheek to the other, cleared his of the commission throat, and then replied: “Well, sah," said he, “as nearly as I kin make it out, it wus dis way: De traip tooted and den tuk him!™