Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1910, Page 9

¢ THE BEE OMAHA, MONDAY SIEDLIGHTS ALONG | WASHINGTON BYWAYS, Ohlo Is represented n the ho veter by of the clvil war whoss records in department two the War ® heen caslon for thelr bravery during that etrug- Ore is General Joseph W of Springtield. The s General lsaac R. 8herwood, democrat, of Toiedo. Mach veleran I8 a staunch cham- plon of the men Who fought in t war, When things are gull around the house show them to have consplenous on more than one oc Kle. n Keiter epublican ot tv met tetling other ase the rtain their money by generals that the on foot to iner fun loving members plenty of action for h‘- of the Ohlo Mas & new scheme pensions of 0ld soldlers, The general who i given this alarming information starts on a still hunt to find out what the other §s up to and to beat him to It, it possible General Kelfer wants to help the old sol diers, .but he daes not want to do IL in cral Sherwood's way. General Sher- wood has a pet scheme to glve old svldiers a dollar & day pension and he cannot tol- erate any other plan fathered by General Kelter Gereral Keifer has-a little the best of the argument at all times because he s a member of the appropriations committee and ie ehalrman of the subcommittes charge of the pension appropriation bill, Unlike General Sherwood, General Kel- fer does not devoto his energles entirely to pensions. He is one of the great de- fenders of the constitution. He shares with Judge Bartlett of Georgia, the honor of taling up more of the time of the house ta explain what the framers of the constitution Intended than the most talka- tive of eonstitutional members of the United States senate. Whenever General Keiter gots started on the constitution the only thing that can stop him is repeated raps of, the spedker's gavel calling time. in | It takes one page of the Congressional | Directory to tell the history of General Keifer's Iife, while General Sherwbod wor | ties along with his war history in about | Iseven-elghths of a page \ | “Gordon Russell can wo more keep off| ker Cannon can be ¢ vepresentatives,” | Texas delegation (han 8 said & member of today. veferring (o the veport that Presi- |aent Tatt 18 to appoint Mr. Russell as fed- |eral judge in one of the Texas distriots. | the | kept a the It s a thing,” continued the Texan, “but it Is a fact nevertheless that this particular district in which Russell is slated for the judgship Is perhaps the only part of the United States where the ad ministration cannot find a republican who is qualified to fill the job. Henhce the | president’s reason for appolating . demo- {erat In the place.’ Being judge runs in the Russeil family. Mr. Russell's maternal grandfather was u judge and Mr. Russell himself was a judge |on several occasions before he came to | congress, so that if he accepts the presi- dent’'s offer he probably will be more at |home than in his present position as a | member of the house. He was elected [judge ot Van Zandt county in 184, but curlous sorved oniy one term.' In 1582 he was | elected district attorney of the Seventh | judicial district of Texas and was re-elected in 1894, The call of the bench became strong again while Russell was serving as dis- triet attorney, and in 159 hé was & candf® | aate and was clected district judge of the | Beventh district and was re-elected to the | same office four years later. He became a member of the house In the Fifty-seventh congress and has served continuously ever since. Mr. Russell Is prominent fn univer- sity fraternity circles, being a member of the Delta Theta and Phi EKappa. oA A R R Expense for Meat in the Diet. The expense for meéat in the home may be reduced In séveral ways, and each housekeepet ¢an best judge which to use in her own case. From a careful consld- eration of the subject It appears that the vatlous suggestions which have bech made on the subject may be grouped under the following general heads: Kconomy in se- Jection and. purchase so as to take advan- tage of the varylng matket conditions; purchasing meat in wholesals quantities for home use; serving smaller portions of meat than usual, or using meat less fre- quently; careful attention (o the use of ‘meat, bone, fat and small portions com- monly trimmed off and thrown away and the utilization of left over portions of cooked meat, and the use of the less ex- pensive: kinds. The cholce of cuts should correspond to the needs of the family and the preference of itssmembers. Careful consideration of fharket conditions is ‘also useéful not only make sure that the meat Is handled and marketed in a sanltary way, but also to take advantage of any favorable change i price which may be due, for Instance, to a large local supply of some particular kind or eut of meat. In towns where thers jm gfpportunity for cholee, it may some- m‘ be found more satisfactory not to give all the family trade to one butcher; by- going to varlous markets before buy- ing the housekeeper 1s in a better position o 1 Ly i I i | il Reducing the ta hear of variations in prices and so be o position to get the bost values. Order- by telephone or from-a butcher's boy ot the door may be less economical than going to market in person, as the range of -cholce and prices s P of course more | more economlieal, obvious when the purchaser seés the goods and has a chance to observe market con- ditions. Each housekeeper must decide for herself whether or not the greater con- venlence compensates for the smaller range of cholce which such ordering from de- seription entalls, No matter what the cut, whether expensive or cheap, it can not be utliiged to the best advantage unless it is well cooked. Poorly prepared meat dishes are almost inevitably wasted at the table. As an lllustration of the losses arising through unwise selection and poor cooking may be mentioned facts observed in die tary studies carried on by the office of experiment stations. In many families where the income was fairly good the table and other conditions were far from satis- factory. In such cases the marketing was quite commonly done by a child or some one without knowledge or experience. In a particular instance the selection was ex- pensive steak, which later was so badly cooked that It was hardly possible to eat {1t A cheaper cut wall cooked would have | been much more satisfactory as well as Bome Superstitions. hie s¢roeching of an owl inalcates imperd ing calamity. To dream of a fareral is u s g wedding, To droam of & wedding is a s of & tuncral 4 Dalmatia it is an exceedingly susp omen for a ‘cdt to sne:ge culors the hous:. In Lride When you find tea grounds TOUr cup you know that you are oIng tc dave company. If the grounds are soft | ( bt Y wy don't you turn over a new lea “For ecanamical reasons. * 1 don't Rt to epell anathes pegs” ) A great'many country people belleve th-t of a floating in | is & women who is coming; if hard, a man, || It the grounds are long the peison coming 18 tall; if short, the visitor w.ll be short. The last Friday of each month Is the al- manac index for the next month. If the | weather be fair the month will be fke- wise; It foul; 5o will the month be. Have vou white marks on your rals? Put your hands together and :ay this rhyme while in sucoession you touch f nger tips, begloning with the thumb: “A friend, | | @ foe, a gift, a beau. a journey you go. Notice on which finger nals the marks are and you wiil thus gain some jnk!lag of | your fortune. | c— “In Wales it is belleved that if any one Kills & wren he will fall down and break @ bone before the end oL the year. o t | Blow out the candle, and continues long to smoulder weather, 1t it goes weather will be fair. It the wick look for bad out quickly the When a person kills & snake he does well | to considei what kiud of weather he wouid | Jike. 1¢ he hangs the souke up, it will rain; ;u he buries it the weather will be fair, | Whell you have rheumatisni carry a po- tato In your pocket. The potato will be- come hard after a time and bellevers. in | |Jis virtue affirm that this is because of | the rheumatism it has absorbed 1t you dream of falling and are awakened | by the fancled jar of lunding it is a sign that you are going to be ill. 1, huvxuler‘! you awake while still in midair you may | be assured you will continue in good health. | ! It 1s a favorite superstition | that the bacun | wauning of the moon will waste the process of curing ur more than baeon of hegs moon Is growing, | in of swine kllled England® In the away In cooking much killed while the B ST AND BOFT SPRING AR 1& CERTAINLSY FASCINATING - DRINK THE. A- cRoAKmfi TOR ACTHOUGH THE DRINK'S PRESENTIMENT™ Ab OF SOME TROUBLE THAT SO0ON THERE'LL BE SOoMETIN’ DOIN’ : COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY_THE A “SOFT™ ONE. AWAKEN O o Al BRUIN NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW HARR ! DO | HEAR “THE. CROCUSES ) EA ME FROM ™My ‘ HiIS ATTENTIONS WERE “Ho PRESSING, MW a WHILE HIS ATIEMPTS AT CARESSING RERE REALLY MOST DISTRESSING | \ CoOud TELL THAT AT HERALD CO.). . Al Rights Reserved. No other one feature of mediumistic work may be used with such convincing effect as spirit portraiture, especially when in connection with other spiritualistic wanitestitations. This tliustraced ! «ne experience of & wealthy citlgen of 1l He had attended another, and while still an honest (nquirer, had 9ot been sufficlently Impresved to ac- «épt the doctrines of spiritualiem without question. While in this state of mind he was referred (o & group of spirit portrait painters In the city of Chicago, and he Went to see these picture-taking mediums. When his turn came he was asked to write a message to some dead person, fold it | along with two blank sheets of paper, all taken from hls own writing pad, and to place them in a sealed envelope, which, in turh, Was to be placed I a book on which he was to rest his hahd during the remainder of the seance, He did this, and while waiting for the reply of his message to appear, he cngaged in conversation about - spiritualistic phenomena with the medium. When a sufficient time had elapsed, he was asked to remove his en velope from the book, and open it and read the reply. He had asked his mother, who had been dead for many years, whether she would sit for & spirit portrait for him. The 1eply was written in Ink and cov d both sheets that he had enclosed with his message. She announced that at a certain future date she would sif for the portrait. He went away from the seance \very deeply impressed, and completely mysti- fled. On the appointed day he returncd, selected a canvas from among a number of blank canvases and had it placed upon an easel. While he sat there looking in- tently &t the bare canvas lights and shadows began to appear, and in less than twenty minutes & completed picture of a woman about 8 ycars old stood out upon the canvas. It resembled the sitter's mother when she was about that age. The man was 5o impressed by this marvelous exhibition of what seemed to him to be supérnatural power that he more than willingly paid the $4 for which the medium had agreed to produce the pleture. In another case a woman, although a pro- fessed doubter, called on these spirit palnt- ers and asked for u spirit portralt of her dead son. Ehe, too, was given a message from beyond the vell, declaring that all was well with the son and that he would be delighted to sit for his picture. In this case & number of calls were necessary b fore the portralt could be completed, but when it was finished she declded that she would ke to have his name on it, and lo! the name immediately appeared, without any seeming natural explanation. She was was in ‘!M’g-l!. nols one seance afiel BYTHE ‘BEAREST CHANCE ) [ A GLANEE ! completely converted to the doctrines of The Tired Business Man BY WALTER' A. SINCLAIR. “What can the werden feed that fastid- jous convict who complained because he was & vegetarian and couldn't get a vege- tarian diet?’ asked Friend Wife “Might feed him an ‘jallbird seed,” sald the Tired Business Man. ‘“We have to be very particular about the way 'we care for our fortunate brethern who can stand up the state for board and lodging, Steady Jobs and protection from criminals break- ing in at night. You couldh't cow this man with a threat of bread and water diet—in fact, he'd probably hall it with de- light if it was all-wheat bread, prescribed as the panacea for every trouble (see ad- vertisement in all eating and health pubii- cations). The only way they could scare that fellow would be to put him on roast beef, fried chicken a la Maryland, Patsy De Folgraw, Virginla sugar cured ham and mutton chops for a week. By the end of that time he would be yelling for his break- fast bran and promising to be the best little prisoner in the pen. “Back when Charles Dickens was wring- ing the imagination with his novels padded out on the horrors of prison life he would dilate on the lack of good rashers of bacon and meat puddings In the pen, and tell of the cornmeal mush and beans which were handed out for food. To Charles the most awful punishment that could be Inflicted on an Englishman was the editing down of his five meals a day. And, soméhow or his characters were always getting into jail and belng put on diet. It Dickens couldn't have filled out his novels with eatings we could have k vest pocket edi- tion of his works and be able to talk about the characters instead of skipping through the volumes to sce that the leaves are all cut, after the Installment man has been paid. “If Dickens didn't pad freely from cook books, he at least had a wad of menus at hahd when he was turning out his immortal works. Whenever he found himself shy on a good situation he had his characters sit down and cat. And, belleve me, that was some eatlng; for, no matter whether they were heroes, villians or comle rellets, they always lald away a side of beef, or a leg of lamb, or a mess of kidney puddings, or a skilletful of -sassingers, washed down Tells Friend Wife a Vegetarian Con- vict Should Have Jailbirdseed. ===y || | spirituatism, Another instance of the mysterious art of spirlt pottraiture was that of a man who had asked for a portralt of his daughter, who had died in infancy. He, too, was a doubter. When he visited the place the second time he was told to select a canvas among the dozen or more lying 10osely upon the floor of a room adjoining the seance room. He did so and the canvas was placed in & window. In due time a picture of a beautiful girl about 14 years old appeared oh the canvas, ail in broad daylight and right before his skeptical eyes. After the ploture was dellvered to him he expressed the wieh that there might be a flower in her halr. The medium told him not to worry, that in due time such a flower would appear. He took his picture. That evening a flower did appear in the hair of the chlld In the portrait. ] No oné can concelve of a combination of circumstances that would be mone com- pletely mystitying than those in elther one of the foregoing cases. And vet the ex- planation {s not diffieult even for the un- initiated to understand. In the first place the messages written and concealed In the books were obtained and read by the medi- ums and the answers written through a process of substitution such as is used in the sealed letter und pellet tricks. The data about the people whose spirit portraits were desired was obtained partly through the medium and the runners who had sent the sitters there and partly from conversa- tions with the sitters who unconsclously revealed some of the things the medium needed to know. with several pewster pots of nut brown ale. 1t appealed to his readers' stomachs if not hearts. If some bowdlerizer tried to reduce Dickens' works to the plot and action he would take all the meat out, and there'd be enough to fill a cold stor: warehouse. “But prisoners are daintier nowadays. A poor but honest man, or one who hasn't been convicted, can starve for the lack of his favorite boxed chopped bran, Chawa- bowlowmush, Eatabalahay, Roasted Snow Flakes and the expensive fresh vegetables, but the man in the coop must have them of he'll write a poem to the editor and rhyme out. Evidently from this scream they don’t serve anything but sausage and cold meats in the free lunches at prison bars. “I wouldn't be at all surprised but what the cruel prison keepers don't give the in- mates time to Fletcherize their food morn- Ing, noon and night. Probably a biped in snappy striped clothes isn't allowed to stop breaking rock every hour and take ten minutes of rhythmic breathing. There are no vegetarian food bazars In prison where a convict can have those imitation steaks made of ground beans and nuts, no rice and raisins, spaghett!, spinach and musclefude. He has one advantage, though—no peddler Things You Want to Know Spirit d Magic ~=Spirit Portraitures. all of those ilable contained the same | hicture in hidden outine. They were pro i‘l,.l.“.‘..] 1.,' uny one of several methods, in er of which the Image was ny nvisible in;:un developed, Just as in the case of ore thnary Photographlc paper, exeppt that in Imag e llght would not desiroy the hiaden yroe In one of these methods sulpliate hatoTUer 18 used to produce brown :’-M-;r"hou to produce blue and nitimte smuthe to produce yeliow. With th n e ) Ith the :x.na chemicals the ploture may be made mi “‘".hn’m‘-i but Invisible. When the modium ey the Image to appear he sprays the I th prussiate of potash and the sible ploture becomes | o nstantly a com- | Pleted portrait. s peaying I Sometimes the spraying s done by a eonfederate, sometimes 1t fu s complished by a ) spraying outfit in the window frame ana sometimes by other methods. In the case of the fio 3 | InK after the portrait had h:.r.: L;I :”;:“1”-7 | this was accomplished by s having II:::|; bainted invisibly with another prepuratl |and treated with a very slow developer | Which would not make It appear for me hours. The sitter way led to sugge |m.'!”‘ | bY ‘which sitters ¥ are unwit o and say things tingly led to do Not only is the cany Witiiess through the m artful medium, camera may falsehoods, | taken as led to bear false nanipulations of the but even the Pphotographio prociaim the most astonishing In one instance a picture was of Dr. Hodgson, the great Bulor of fraudulent practic ?'“V‘:h‘ I,I:A:l"dl:)'“:u.ulld rstand how a face Gt Pbear on the elothing Dut It was claimed that {no combination of circumstances couts .. ! plcture be taken b it el L WO M I:wu:. natural means which v - ace appear on the vest and under the watch chain. Yet Dr. [0 " experiments show conclusively. tharr o’ this remarkable feat may be goo i it eans ¥ be accomplished The art of hoto have had lu"l’»'t";’tllnwl‘n' T et Brentice of a firm of Indiana photors el Thero were a number o o bk of 0ld plates whie! he was ordered to wash and to resory " | future use as negatives. He did o Lt 1 | tailea to get some of the old [Y]dl:“ UHJ:? oughly clean. A bearded gentleman fn a broad-brimmed hat came to have his pie- ‘llllh taken and the esulting negative | showed him true to lite, but In addition to Eis portrait there was a ghostly outline of @ woman In white with flowing vell and orange blossoms. The stranger was shown the negative and was tremendously im- pressed with It. He thought that he had | been honored by some spirit from the be- | yond sitting with him for his picture, At last the photographers decided to embark In the field of spirit photography, which they did with wonderful success until the secret of their art was discovered. There are many methods of surreptitiously trent- Ing photographic plates before exposure, But even after they are exposed they may be changed by the skilltul use of ths re- touching process, by interposing a magio lantern slide between the plate and the light before developmént and by many other methods. But still other means may be used for inducing the photographic plate to declare that which fs not true. For Instance, a tiny pioture may be taken on a transparent fiim, muoh like the image on & moving ploture film. This small image n outitne may be pasted on the lens with trans- parent paste and thus reflected upon the photographlo plate when the exposure for the principal figure is made. By systems of double exposure one may be made to stand face to face with himself, cut off his own head or do any of innumerable tricks that are possible only in the realm of the fourth dimension. The spiritualistic portrait painters and photographers manifest a genius worthy of a better cause. They use the secrets of chemistry, apply the principles of acoustics, electricity, psychology and of every other art that will serve to mystify the people. Even now they are looking toward wire- less telegraphy and telephony as an aid in the practice of their profession.. They be- lieve that if Instruments suited to thelr needs can be produced the length to which they can go in the production of unex- plainable things will be almost limitless. BY FREDERIC J. MASKIN, investi- % 0 spirftual- awakens him in the morning yelllng ‘Veg- at-abo!' " “If he hadn’t broken When the sitters selected their canvasses the laws,” ruled ‘Pomorrow—Spiritualism and Magic. VI, Magioclans and Mind Readers, Friend Wife, “he might still home cooking." “Maybe that drove him to It," retorted the Tired Business Man. (Copyright, 1910, by the N. Y. Herald Co.) be having ———————— The Onlooker ‘ Race track men protest against increased = taxation, which s proof positive that race Brightside and His Boy | BY LAFAYETTE PARKS. “1 seec they are holding a third election for the Hall of Fame," Brightside begins, as the heir apparent rolls in to unlimber his usual cargo of chatter ‘Hanging medals on another bunch dead ones, eh?"* queries Bon, nonchalant pufting a cloud of Turkish aroma toward Father. “This yeatr's list is the largest they have aver had, there belng forty altogether continues Father. “More than two hundred names have been suggested for the honor “Some of them sure to get the hook ' comments Son. “The ginks that get the marble mitt won't be able to contest of the election anyway. 1f they get the count down #Nd out. with no comeback. There won't be any libel sult or bribery inquiries just to get their names in Lk paper after the big contest close: what I like about this Hall of Fame dops ; | Smith ' von That's | of forelgn birth nominated 1 see that John [Smith is on the list,” remarks Father, looking over the entries. | *“John is there with the fame all right,” | admits Son, “but I don't see where they | get away with the forelgn trade mark on | tries under different names, but when they | spell it S-M-1-T-H, take Is from me, he | comes from the U. 8. A. The guy might have been Signor Spaghetti, Herr Smierkase or sSmithowiski when he | 1anded. It doesn't take 'em long to chop off the extra letters, though, for wants a handle It takes a sultcase to carry around.” “John Brown s mentioned In the roll of | famous American men of native birth,” in- terjects Father. ‘After that, If they don't put Bill Jones in the entries it's up to him to | howl,” declares Son. “Jomesy runs those | other two a good second in the city direc- | tory, sometimes taking up three or four Smith may put over ] | pages of small type. | & page or two more, In front in the book, and ought | count some. Everybody knows Bill Jones, | and it that len't fame they've got o show me." “A candidate, that to to be eligible, must have complished some real service ountry, I believe,” Father explains “Then the guy that invented (he gin rigkey ought to get by a couple of lengihs in the lead of the field,” asserts Son. “An other winner able to canter in under wraps Is the boy that came across with the neai- food delicatessen emporium, ry female manager of & Harlem flat to thiow together w six-course dinner while hubby Is scraping off his wiskers." “There are a great many restrictions that might make it impossible for sach persons o he nominated,” Father hesl tatingly offers o ev w Nix on putting up the high bars on a | stunt that ought to be meant 1o encourage “Amoug the four famous American men | the youth of the land 1o igvent some use- They may have him in other coun- | that | ") fitst imported the makings of the name nobody | make o | but Jones s further | his | thus enabling | ey, | track men are just like other human be- | ing. i ‘‘Candidates for the Hall of Fame." | Their Latest Tabloid Sketch. e e The comet Is now backing up, drasllnl‘ its head behind it. Evidently the tail does | wag the dog at times. ful thing that would prove a blessing to posterity,” explains Son, throwing out his chest like a Fourth of July orator. “Some | kiddo there with the gray matter might | think up a patent collar button that & | chap could jab the ends of a collar on without twisting himself Into a knpt like a circus contortlonist. You never can tell, Pop." “The man that bulit the Brooklyn bridge |is on the ilst,” Father says hopefully. | “His cosey corner In the Hall ought to| I be next to the guy that sprung the first | rubber plant,” Son urges. “Why is & rubber plant like the Hrook- | iyn bride: Father asks, with the peculiar Innocence of old age. one end of asserts Son 10, by the Notice the claim that men reveal them- selves in their autographs. Um! More often In the figures above the autogiaph. | Official statistics from Kansas show that ! one marriage in eight is a failure. No wonder they raise Insurgents and things other than corn With suburban passenger rates boosted | 20 per cent on the one hand and train hands talking strike on the other, the Job| like local commuter is rapidly qualifying | for a place in Fox's Book of Martyrs, | See a proposition to syndicate all navies in the Interest of world peace. Immense. | Always dld admire that quotation from tes Furioso:" *“We'll all be equal | Brooklyn,” iu'up}nllll. both is planted in N. Y, Herald Co.) Bit unkind for an esteemed contemporary to recall that another former president of | the United States made a world trip thirty | odd years ago and that, although he cov ered more of the earth than Colonel Roose- | velt, fewer persons heard about it. Well | ihat was General Grant, somewhat known | A as a soldier and alko as the silent man, | | R Then again, the press agent had not been developed as now. ‘ HAD A REASON. Mayor of Woodbury, the police to watch for the appearance of the comet nightly and notify all citizens | who have so requested of the fact. That's ‘ ; all right. They strive to please. A citigen | | here desiring to go fishing should simply | | have to notify the policeman on post, who would call him at b o'clock in the morning | and have a tomato can full of freshly dug worms all ready as well | N. J., has ordered Governor of New clined extr | no when Fort to ask for Mr. adition on the ground 0of that defendant was In the state the so-called consplracy to ereate artificlal scarcity in beef was effected. Of course not. Besides, a wan couldn't be In | Jersey J. Ogden Armour's that there s has "Does she keep on the right side of her’husband 7 “No, the left. He's blind on that widar™ J | all the states affected at the same time. Why not have some sort of a Tom Tid- dler's Ground, free from all interference, where gentlemen who do business on a large wscale may meet and plan things without later on facing Immunity baths and kindred unpleasantnesses? Further Interest is lent to the momentous question, “Do they ever come back?' by the fact that in St. Louls, which s In the | state of Missouri, Colonel Wililam Jennings Bryan was met by a reception committee of the Farmers' convention, a cour'>sy not extended to either President “Taft ir the secretary of agriculture, Mr. Wilkoi ——— Daily Health Hint. e After living for several months on simple foods, In addition ta increased good health, it will be found that an increased bus- ceptibility of taste amd a keener relia have been acquired. The Lawn Mower. 1 watch with feeling most serens The wheel that turns at morn; "Tis not propelied by gasoline And does not need a horn -T E M @‘4 —~ She—And do you promise that you'll never gtop loving me, darling John? He—Only at meal times, lovel