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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1907)
f In the Public Eye mmam George W. Qoethals. United StntcH senator from Delaware, Major George W. Gocthals was born lB we'l known in Htato politics, having la Now York stato 49 yoars ago, ana been tll Republican candidate for tho ctered the Military Academy nt West governorship in 1890. He was given a Point as a eadet from his native state common school education and soon en la H7I. When the Chlneso troubles tered Into commercial life, and Is now broke out in 1800 Ooethals went over tns of thu important packing es wtth the United States contingent to tabllshmcnt of Richardson & Robblns, Ike allied troops, who mnrched on Pc- ftt Dover, Del., and is also the presi kln to relievo tho legations. In Feb- 'lent of to Mrst National Dank of ruary, 1900, ho was made n major. He Dover. Jn politics Senator Rlchard waa on duty at Newport, R. I., from son is a conservative, and ho is ex August 1, 1900, until Juno 1, 1903, bo- pected to Join tho so-called old lino tag la chargo of tho fortifications nnd Republican senators in tho senatorial the river and harbor improvements at lineup during tho next session of this post. On June 1, 1903, he was ub Iffned to special duty with the gener al staff, headquarters at Washington. He has long been a member of the army board of fortifications and holds an Important placo in the First Divis ion, Army Corps. it Norrlt Brown. Hon. Norris Brown, the new United States senator from Nebraska, 1b not only n young man, but is also a com- author and was given the post of su iparatlvcly poor man for a member or perlntendont of public schools In Call Jtho upper house of Congress. Senator fornla, which he held until 1899. He 'Brown was born on a farm, and during gained international fame when ho his entire boyhood and early youth he published tho poemi, "The Man With worked on the farm, walking many , the Hoc," in 1898. Since that date ho miles to a country schoolhouso in or- has written a number of poems and dor to obtain a common school educa- many magazine articles. He came to tlon. Occasionally ho would get the Now York when his literary fame was loan of a big farm horso to travel the established and now lives in Wester eight miles to school. He persisted in lelgh, S. I., New York state, his Btudles, and in 1879 he managed to it enter tho State University of Iowa, Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks. and was graduated four years, later. Constantin Brun. Minister Constantin Drun, from Den- mark to tho United States, is tho son of tho famous Danish soldier, General Brun. Tho DanlBh Minister has been highly honored by IiIh king, who haB created him a chamberlain, a com mander of tho Royal Ordor of Dnno borg and who has given him the rank of lieutenant of cavalry in the Danish Army. Mr. Urun was first sent as sec retary to tho Danish Legation at Ber lin, where he served from 1887 until 1891, when ho was transferred to the cmbasBy at .Paris. Ho remained In Paris until 1895 when ho was sent to the United States as envoy extraordin ary and minister plenipotentiary. He is a man of marked culturo and has written a number of important stato papers. Charles M. Floyd. Hon. Charles Miller Floyd, governor of New Hampshire, was born in Dorry, N. H., on Juno 5, 18C1, tho son of P.v well Floyd. Ho waB educated in the public schools of Derry, and has for many years been tho proprietor of a large retail business In Manchester. Ho has alio acted as director and vice president of the Manchester Board of Trade. He was a member of the ex ecutive council of hiB state during tho term of Governor McLane. Mr. Floyd in a Republican, and beat his Demo cratic opponent, Mr. Hainan C. Jamc- ton, of the Amoskeag Savings bank nd the Manchester Building and Loan Association. HiB home Is in Manches ter, N. H. Mr. Floyd is married and has one daughter. Harry A. Richardson. Hon. Harry A. Richardson, who was chosen to follow Senator Alice as the HBUiflr ibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbwbbbbbbb AiSsssW THOSE STRENUOUS BEAR HUQ8. First Bear Why was your brother's engagement with Miss Fox broken Iff? Second Bear Well, when she said "Yes," he hugprod her so hard he broke Jhree of her ribs. Congress. it Edwin Markham. Edwin Markham, tho poet nnd lec turer, was born in Oregon City, Ore., on April 23, 1852, but was taken to California when only live years of age. He worked on a farm as a boy and tried cattle ranching. He was marrleJ in 1897 to Miss Anna Catherine Mur phy. Ho obtained prominence as an Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks, wife of tho VJco President of the United States, was a Miss Cornelia Cole, 'laughter of Judge Colo, of Marysville, - Sno ,lrst mct Mr Fairbanks when tho latter was a student at the Ohio Wcsloyan University, nnd tho two young people were co-editors of the oollege newspaper. They were mar ried early, Mr. Fairbanks having just graduated in law and being admitted to the bar at Cleveland. Mrs. Fair banks soon moved to Indianapolis, where she has had a home ever since on North Morldinn street. She has fivo children four sons nnd a daugh- ter. The Vice President's wife is not ed as being a model housewife, as well as n charming hostess, in the official society of Washington, where she has a mansion on Dupont Circle. it Cardinal Merry del Val. Cardinal Raphael Merry Del Val, the pontifical secretary to the Pope, was born In London on October 10, 1805. He is officially considered, however, as having been born In Spain, as his father waB at tho time of tho boy's birth socrotary to tho Spanish Embas sy In London. Cardinal Merry del Val was educated In England and nttend od both Ushaw and Durham Colleges. He speaks French, German, Spanish, Italian and English, nnd is considered ono of tho best informed diplomats in Europe. Ho is very Influential with tho Pope, who depends much on hiB ndvico in regards to affairs of state and church outBlde of Italy. He has a magnificent apartment in tho Vatican itself and is in almost daily attendance on tho Pope. Nev York City's Board of Health re ports a remarkable increaBO in pneu monia, tuberculosis and cancer above tho number of cases a year ago. Jehn W. Daniel. Hon. John Warlok Daniel, senator from Virginia, was born in Lynchburg, Va., on September 5, 1852. While atiU a oollege lad tho great civil conflict broke out, and Senator Dnnlel entered the Confederate Army, where he did conspicuous service until tho final sur render. Ho finished the war as adju tant general on General Early's staff. Immediately after tho war closed Sen ator Daniel began the study of law, and In a short time was admitted to tho bar. Ho served both Ih tho House of DelegateB and the Senate of Virgin ia, and wns sent to Congress in, 1885. Ho finally was given tho post in the upper house of Congress In 1887, where ho has remained over since, nnd has now until 1911 to serve in his present term. He haB written a number of law books and his home is in his na tive town of Lynchburg. it F. Augustus Helnze. F. Augustus Helnze, tho well-known authority on mining engineering, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Decomber 5, 18C9, nnd graduated from the Co lumbia School of Mines in 1889. He went West to Montana when the min ing fever was at its height in that state. He soon came to tho top as a raining export, and has made a fortune and a splendid reputation as a mine developer of unusual talent. He has been very active as a Democrat in Montana politics. He Is a member of a number of clubs In New York, Mon treal nnd Helena, Mont. Mr. Helnze is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. it Nicholas M. Butler. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, was born at Elisabeth, N. J., on April 2, 18C2. He gradunted at Columbia College in 1882, nnd has since received honorary de grees from nearly every noted insti tution of learning In the United States. He began his connection with Colum bia University as assistant In philos ophy in 1885. Ho has become famous as an educator and has written several volumes and numbers of pamphlets on the problems of higher education. It was because of this that President Butler was sent to the State of New York to the Paris Exposition, where ho arranged and directed the exhibits on educational matters. Mrs. James Bryce. The Hon. Mrs. James Bryce, wife of tho new British Ambassador to the United Stntes, has already earned a hearty welcome in official Washington, whero she will ,of course, occupy an important placo In tho round of hos pitality for which tne city Is noted. Mrs. Bryce was Miss Elizabeth Marl on Ashton, daughter of Thomas Ash ton, Esq., of Fordbank, England, and she received a splendid educational training at a period when girls wore not sent to college as frequently as nowadays. Mrs. Bryce was married near Manchester, England, in 1889, anil has traveled extensively with her fam ous husband, and is noted in London for her tact as n hostess and for the clever aid she has given her husband in his political and diplomatic career. Mrs. Bryce Is fond of out-of-door life, and especially of mountain climbing, at ono time being president of the not ed Alpine Club. Character of Hand Clasp. Those people who clasp their hands with two fingers between the thumb and finger instead of tho usual one aro probably very deceitful. To lay the left hand fiat In the lap and clasp tne right firmly over is a sign of obstln ncy. j Business capacity Is shown if the left lingers aro curved Inwards. To clasp the hands together very tightly, running tho fingers down as far as they will go, shows, it is said, that the character is sincere, but if the lett thumb bo uppermost, and the right little finger concealed In the left palm, a Bccrotive nature, though not one necessarily untruthful, Is denoted. Thoughtfulness nnd consideration for tho feeling of others are shown if, when tho elbows aro placed on a rtes:c or tnblo. tho thumb and first fingers nie clasped tightly. A keen intellect and great self-confidence are possessed hv tho man who interlaces his fingers nnd then places his hands, palm downwards, flatly on his knee. To clasp the hands in tho ordinary way, with the right thumb uppermost, shows that one is born to rule. If the left thumb comes upper most, the owner Is born to be ruled. When tho hands are allowed to lie loosely on tho knee, with each set or fingers joined and barely touching the other, it shows weakness of charac ter and indecision. "The Turn ef the Bslanee." There is now and then a book which, the reader feels, is rather a public ovont than a literary event, no matter what its literary Importance may be, and such a book Is the lutest fiction from the pen of Mr. Brand Whltlock, tho Mayor of Toledo, and the like minded successor of tho uncommon man known in life as "Golden Rulo Jones." A literary mayor Is no such exception to the ordinary mayor that we need greatly wonder at him; wo have such a mayor in New York, whose study of "The Oligarchy of Ven ice," is of perhaps even more value than his study of street-cleaning, or seems nt least the effect of a greater devotion to the subject. But the may or of Toledo Is n lawyer of such proved ability that he obliged the State of Ohio, through suits In the courts, to revise its entire legislation on a point of municipal government, and a poli tician of such practical wisdom that he carried hiB election against the unit ed strength of both great parties and all the great laterests, and is not merely the author of political novol which two Presidents of the United States have pronouncod the best Am erican novol of its kind. He has, therefore, a sort of right, as ho has un questionably the courage, to accuse tho nature as well us the fact of our crim inal administration, and this he has done In "The Turn of the Balance," a book which for the present, at any rate, distinguishes him among the lit erary mayors. His method is as far as may be from muck-raking. He does not find men worse than their system, but mostly better; even the criminals seem to him better than their system, though he does not romance thorn; and as for the prosecutors and judges and jurors and wardens and executioners, he does not apparently wish to expose any of them to public execration In nielr personal quality, or to drive them from the places which the like average of men would promptly fill. But, as the ad ministrators of the law aro in power, he would appaiently have them rec ognize their inalienable personal rela tion to the subjects of tho law. He de nies, unless we are reading into his ac cusation something not specifically phrased there, that they have, or can have, any official relation to their fel low men which will exempt Uiem from personal responsibility; and perhaps, though hero again he is not specific, he feels the ludicrous disproportion or the penalties to the offences which no one can sit through a session of any criminal court and not recognize with amazement. Just what he would have done practically at any moment he does not say. He docs not say just how he would have the police officers or the justices at the police courts of Toledo behave with regard to offend ers taken in crime; and we have no means of knowing how far his own of ficial actions can bo made to square with his personal convictions. Possi bly he believes that as n novelist his affair is to make his reader feel and think about the matters he touches, and resolve each one to try for some thing better than our actual system, if TT is as black as ho has painted it. George Hnrvey, in The North Ameri can Review. To Prove He Was a Sport. A Denver hotel man tells tho follow ing story, and says It's true: A few days age a bride and bridegroom from the country registered at the hotel. "What aro your rates for room and board for two?' asked tho bridegroom. "Six dollars," wns the reply. That was satisfactory, and the two got a room. When they decided to leave, tho bridegroom asked for his bill. It was $24. He was staggered. "What!" he ejaculated. "Twenty- four dollars! That's an outrage. You said ?G." "Six dollars a day," came from tho clerk. "Six dollars a day." "Six dollars a day!" tho bridegroom almost shouted. "I thought you meant ?G n week." The clerk simply smiled. Finally tho bridegroom paid over the money. "Now," he said, calming down some what, "wait a minute. I want to go up stairs. Keep that money lu your hand." Tho clerk didn't understand, but ho decide ' to humor the man. The latter soon returned with a camera. Aiming it at tho clerk he took a picture. "This Is the highest priced placo I ever stopped at," he explained. "I just wanted a picture to show my friends that I was a real sport here in Den ver." Then he and his bride gathered up their telescopes and went out. SUBMISSION. The rose Is beauty Iewth, And never asketh Whf j The streamlet onward Arret With nover frot nor dlfn. Tho sun Its bright gold iUnrsth In lovo o'er everything; Tho bird ns sweetly slngath For beggar" as for king. Thus e'er pursue tuy part. And Jong not to le Treat; Truo greatness la, dear 'heart. Submission to thy fate. Kathleen Kavanaf-h. Jlmmle Defines. "Jlmmic, you may stand up and toll the class what a pull Is." "Yes'm. Me fadder runs a saloon." "Yes." "De alderman in do ward backs hiia." "Yes." "Along comes a big snowstorm and leaves two feet of de beautiful snow on do sidewalk." "I see." "It lays dere for two days, and folks wade through it and swear, and den a copper comes along and orders it cleaned off. Me fadder smiles and do copper bluffs and de snow stays right dere. Me fadder telephones to de al derman, de alderman telephones to po lice headquarters, and dat copper is transferred for de good of de service, and de Fourth of July comes along and melts de snow. Dat's what is called a pull. What is called a pull-pull Is de fact dat de alderman and police head quarters stand up to de bar and drink what dey want and tell me fadder to chalk It down." Joe Kerr. A veracious Eastern contempor ary declares that Senator Leland Stanford once had a colleague who could never discover even how to vote. because of his Inability to comprehend the drift of parliamentary practice. He could only clutch the nearest bystand er and whisper hoarsely, "How's tho parly going?" Once, entering the cham ber just as a roll was being concluded, the Callfornian halted in much per plexity. The secretary called his name, while floor and galleries turned in quiringly toward the troubled figure in the centre of the doorway. Tho great mine-owner frantically clapped his hands, and, grabbing a mischievous Imp who answered his summons, gasped In a stage undertone, "Which way do I vote?" "Aye," wnispered the boy, and when tho secretary again call ed the name of tho junior Senator from California), the Senator rnised his head serenely and, looking aroim- with calmness, echoed, "Aye,." a lren zied rush of the Democratic Senators and the earnest expostulations of the Democratic senatorial whip alone pre vented this unconscious apostasy, and the next morning the monkey-like page had a bad quarter-hour with old Sen ator Harris of Tennessee, chairman of the Democratic caucus. "Of course you did it on purpose!" and the Con federate brigadier shook his long fore finger at tho eleven-year-old head. "And now I tell you one thing, my sow; if ever you vote the Senator wrong again, you leave tho Senate!" REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. What a boy learns In college -is de termined by the cube root of what he spends. it If there was a law suit against go ing homo early nights, everybody would be there. The average man gets more fun out of betting his money and losing It than making it by working. it A woman can never understand how a man who is careless about partial? his hair can be successful in business. The early customer catches the bar eain. """ir