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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1901)
Till'. IM.IJSTK ATlil) Hl'.li Published Weekly by The Hue Publishing Company, lieu Building, Otiiubu, Nub. I'rlco, G cents per vopypcr year. J2.00, Entered nt the Omaha 1'oHtolllcu as Boeond Class Mall Mutter. For advertising rntcH nddrcss Publisher. CotninunlcutloiiH relating to photugrnplm or articles ror pumienuoii hiioii u no mi- d reused 'Editor The I Unstinted I lee. Omnha." Pen and Picture Pointers It In only within tho hint few days thut the Juvenile meiiiberH of society hiive had an opportunity to enjoy real winter sports, such lis coasting, sleighing and skating. Tho frontispiece this week, a snapshot by the Ht u IT photographer of The Ike, Is one that will not only delight the boys and girls but will bring up pleasant memories In the minds of the older members of the household. It Is u characteristic winter scene. It would be dlllleult to find a hap pier, Jollier crowd anywhere. What states man reall.es the responsibilities of his po sition more than the young man at tho wheel? O. S. Hayward, the newly-elected presi dent of the Hoard of I'Mucatloii, was born In West Acton. Mass.. In l8.r.S. and located III Omaha llfleeii years ago. He engaged In C S. 1IAVWARD NEW PRESIDENT OF THE OMAHA HOARD OF EDUCATION Photo by Heyu. the retail shoe business at ouee, which he continued until seven years iiko, when he embarked In the wholesale branch of the trade. Ho has always taken a marked pride In maintaining thu high standard of the Omaha public schools. Charles H, Pickens, the newly elected president of the Commercial club, was horn In Detroit, Mich., In isr.0, and came to Omaha with his parents ten years later, Ho attended the Oinnlia public schools and the llrst money he earned was as a carrier for Tho Omaha Hon. In 1S7I he went to work for the Harris. Taft Sc. Woodman Linseed Oil company, In whose employ ho CHARLES PICKENS NEW PRESIDENT OF THE OMAHA COMMERCIAL Cl.l'll -Photo by Rlnelmrt. omaliiod until 1870, and then engaged as a clerk for the Paxton & tiallagher company. Since the linn was Incorporated in lSO.'i he has been Its secretary, treasurer and gen eral mnnager. In conformity wlththo supreme law of tho laud, tho men who have boon selected to cast the electoral vote gathered In tho B Jl ljj ; BSTr capitals of tho several states on Monday, Honrv. Tesln, Ellhu Thomson, Maxwell Am Jnminry II, to olllclnlly vote for president pore. Slomens, Ohm, Hortz, Davy, nrush nnd vlco president of tho United Stntes. Whcntstono, Hcltnholtz, Ornnime, Stein Theso proceedings were purely formal, as motz. Roentgen, Sprnguo. Plnnte. Mnrconl all tho documents, certlllcatcs nnd so forth Oersted nnd Joule, Howover. two other had been carefully prepared In ndvnnce. hnllnts wcro tnken for comparison with tho Wo print pictures of tho electoral colleges ono Just mentioned. The opinions nf of Nebraska nnd lown, John L. Kennedy twenty-five eminent members of tho Instl of Omnhn wns chosen chairman by tho tuto were embodied In one nnd those of Nebraska doctors and John F. Neshlt of twenty-live professors of electricity In col Toknmnh, secretary. W. R. Harton of To- leges In another. Tho former group plnced cumseh wns chosen ns messenger to curry Mnxwell second nnd Honrv fourth showed tho returns to Washington. Tho Iowa nn equal preforeneo for Hell nnd Edison for electoral collego selected John N. Ilnldwln fifth, nnd gnvo Tcsln tho fifteenth. The of Council IllufTs ns chnlrmnn nnd Ole O. collego professors put Mnxwell third and Roo of Dos Moines as secretary. Ezra T. Kdlsnn fourth, wero cqunlly divided bo Tucker of Wnppollo wns chosen messenger. Iwcon Hprti Henry nnd Ellhu Thomson for THE There wore bIx candidates for messenger nnd after thoy hud been mimed tin; motion to decide who should ho messenger liy lot W,,H carried. The choice full tipoti Mr. Tucker Finnk (J. Carpenter, thu Hpechtl corre spondent for Tho Heo In tho Orient, fur- nlHlieo nn Interesting letter on the richest mini In East AhIii. lie recently pnld n visit to I. nn Wltn; Hong, the multl-mllllounlro of Kwnn Tung, who ownH u wnllud city nnd drinks ten worth $21 u pound. In IiIh won- dorful palnco ho hns nn opium simctum nnd tropical gardens. Chlng Chans, who began as n boatman, has JiiHt died worth '$3,000, 000. Ills funurnl cost jr.0,000. In China tho rich men are supposed to provldo for nil their poor relatives. About Noted People A number r.f letters written by Jenny Mud to a friend In Itnly between the years lSir and 1871 hiive recently come to Unlit. They nro full of Information about the "" nnd muslelnim of her time and con- tain much frank comment on the prima donna's contemporaries. An Italian pub lisher has purchased the collection nml will shortly give It to the world In hook form. Edmund Harton, who Is nt the head of the Mrst federnl government of tho Australian commonwealth, Is a native of Sydney, Is Bl years old and has for many years been nn nble lawyer In New South Wnlea. He has been net unjustly styled the father of the new commonwealth. In tho II ret federal convention, tthleh was held In IS'.i". he was tho senior representative of New South Wales nnd ho was olio of the frameri of tho original commonwealth hill. 1 Tho death of Representative Clark of Now Hampshire Is the last In the longest mortnllty Hat that hns ever been known In any rnr Kress fourteen In all Including Eppos anil Wise of Vlrglnln, Ermentroiit and llarmer of Pennsylvania, Settlo of Kentucky, Iloffokor of Delaware, Daley of Now Jersey, Chlckcrlng of New York, Oreen of Nebrnska, Ilnlrd of Louisiana. Illand of by n county Judgo on a county treasurer's of Intoxication." A somewhat similar In Mlssourl, Dlngloy of Mnlno nml Dauford bond. The county treasurer was Skip- doflnlteness of legal conclusion mars a ro of Ohio. with, who skipped with the funds, nnd the cent verdict of a neighboring Oeorgla Jury, 4 county Judge, who was Hurt, brought the to tho effect thnt "We, tho Jury, find tho Tho king of Italy, himself a very early action." defendant nlmost. guilty." Equally as un rlser, wnlked Into the olllco of ndmlnlstra- - certain and ambiguous as these statements Hon of tho royal household the oilier morn- A decorator employed to fresco tho by laymen Is the opinion In nn early Mury Ing nt 8 nnd found only n scrubwoman nt county court room In a certain western land ense, which "acknowledges the corn" work. Ho nsked tho first clerk, who nr- courthouse printed In hold gilt letters over by saying that tho occurrence referred to rived nt 8:30, when tho other clerks wore the Judge's chair tho words "Ignornntla took plnco "nt a former sitting when the duo, "Wo nre all due nt 8, your majesty." Juris non excusat." This legal maxim, so court was full." "Ah, nnd It Is now 8:30," remnrked tho king peculiarly approprlato to a templo of Jus- quietly. Slneo then there has not been n tlco, wns very pleasing to tho mcmhors case of tardiness. of tho bar, but for boiiio reason tho Judge "Thero Is said to ho n lawyer In Phlln- cnusod It to bo obliterated nnd replaced by dolphin," snys tho Philadelphia Record, tho words "Flat lustltla. runt coelum." "wl possesses n trick of tho votco to Toledo, went to Chicago he registered at. the Crand Pacific ns Sam M. Jones, N. P. When asked what N. P. stood for ho said: "That Is my title. It stands for nonpar tisan In politics. With the twentieth cen tury I have thought of nddlng two more letters to tho tltlo, mnklng It N. P. A. T meaning nonpartisan In nil things. You fl0. I l"11' very little education when I was a boy- not mnro thnn six months In nll-and wanting a title I founded tho do- Kri'" of N- ii'inin... it Mnrvi.mii n v..irnn inourni. man of St. Louis, died on Tuesday morning. A pocullnr nccldent led Mr. Markhnm to locate In St. Louis. He left his homo In the east In tSIO, intending to go to Cali fornia to engagn In gold mining, but tho hunt on which ho made the trip down tho Ohio river grounded on a bar nnd wns not telensed for two weeks, too late for Mr. Markhnm to loin other Callfornln trnvolors on n boat bound up tho Missouri. Forced to remain In St. Louis until the departure of another boat, he formed business con ----- ' - - nections and decided to remain. - j. Prof. Charles Vllllors Stanford, who suc ceeds tho Into Sir Arthur Sulllvnn ns tho conductor of tho Leeds muslcnl festival. Is n native of Dublin nnd hns held tho chair of music in tho University of Cnmhrldge since 1KS7. In 1883 he received his doctor nte of music from Oxford nnd wns nftor ward professor of rotnpnsltlon In tho Roynl Collego of Music nnd conductor of tho Ilnch choir. Among Dr. Stnnford's works nro nu opera. "The Veiled Prophet," tho II brelto of which Is drawn from Monro's 'I.alla Rookh;" "An Irish Symphony," 'The Vovnge of Mnelduno." "Fifty Irish Melodies" and old songs. A veto was recently tnken by Tho Elec. trlcnl World and Engineer on tho twenty flvo grentest nnmes In electrical science during tho Inst century. Tho participants In tho ballot wore 277 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers who were requested to arrange tho nomcs In tho order of supposed excellence. Tho following list, thereforo. shows not onlv tho men who wero chosen, but nlso their standing In the esteem of tho Institute Fnrnday. Kelvin, Edison, noil. Morse, ILLUSTRATED 15EE. T'sv fi ' cWSrWimU il 1 r i; Hl t jbbbbf ICft w j KHb 4KV'fHBBBAWiHb: i v vJ!jiflH BWHIIBHIH CjOVHHNOH DIETRICH fifth, accorded Hell and Morse equal honor ami ranked Tesla llfteenlh Told Out of Court The recent case of Sktpwith a 1 list Hurt, n legal publication records, "was an nctlon A mnn who may or may not havo boon n tramp, but who wns nrrnlgncd recently In n Minnesota pollco court on n chnrgo of vngrnncy, tried to disprove tho chnrgo by proving by "two competent witnesses" that ho had taken n bnth "at no very remote dato." Something, possibly tho suspiciously unccrtnln "no very remoto dnto" mndo the Judgo persistent, nnd after reflecting ho decided thnt tho defendant would havo to provo nlso Hint he had worked, "where- upon," It Is recorded, "tho dofonso at onco collapsed." A S The following verdict wns recently ron- sound Involved In tho skilful control of dered In n Florldn enso of replevin for a tho voice. It Is said thnt a barrister prac houso that hnd been removed from tho tlsed In tho nrt and rhetoric of nddresslng plnlntllT's lnnd: "Wo, tho Jury, do find In tho bench enn gather nil tho waves of said caso of M. against n. thnt tho do- sound from his thront Into n focus nnd lo fendant shnll pay tho plaintiff 50 for the posit It In tho orlflco of tho Judge's ear house taken and that the defendant retain with tho general effect of n bomb." tho hovso, but, If tho defcmlnnt does not pay tho $n0, ho shall return tho houso to tho plaintiff nnd pay costs, hut no dam- T'10 Inquisitive Young Mnn sat next to ngos." 'ho Self-Reserved Lnwyr.r In the limited oxpress, rotates tho New York Sun. The Whnt Is "a rensonahlo stato of Intoxlca- Inquisltlvo Young Man tired of looking Hon" apparently Just missed precise deflnl out tho enr window soon nfter tho train U m I JlfSfl bj HHHHBf. L " rJLTVHp T ! FLASHLIGHT OF CONTESTANTS IN HASKET HALL CAME HETWEEN UNIVER SITY OF NEI1RASKA AND OMAHA Y M C. A. TEAMS AT OMAIIA-Photo by Louis R. llostwlck. DELIVERING COMMISSION TO NEURASKA Hon by n coroner's Jury In Mississippi, which stnted In Its verdict that "We, tho Jury, II nd that deceased came to his death by a stroko of an ensthoiind trnln, No. 204, on I. ( R. It., nt Fentress, Miss., In Choctnw county, on the 117th day of No vember, 18H8, he hutiiK In a reasonable state which a certain mcnBuro of his success In United Stntes supreme court prnctlco Is duo, Tho trick consists In waking n Judgo, Whether It Is a common prnctlco for tho high dlgnltnrles of tho federal supremo bench to lndulgo In n nnp In tho course of a long nnd tedious argument, such hap- ponlngs nro not unknown nnd It Is well for nn nblo logician of tho bar to bo pro- pared for It. Tho trick of waking n sleepy Judgo would seem to bo something In tho naturo of slnmmlng n law hook under his noso or connecting his personality with the current of nn olectrlc battery. Hut tho trick Is oxplnlned ns purely n mnttcr of .tiituiary '20, 11)01. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, left Albnny, nnd he turned to tho Self-Pcs sessed Lawyer for amusement. "PlenFiint dny?" snl.l the Young Man by wny of striking up n conversation. "I nm not much of n Judge of the weath er," wns the reply from his seat companion. The Inquisitive Young Man was quiet for some moments. Then he broke loosu ngntn. "Goln' far?" he nsked again. "Fnr enough," nnswered the Man of Sslf Reservc, "Fnr ns Iluffnlo?" wns the third question of the Irrepressible. "Perhnps so. Perhnps not," wns tho re ply. For n long tlmo tho young mnn was si lent. Ho spent the Hying moments tracing his full nnmo with his little finger on the window pane. Suddenly the Self-Reserved lawyer spoke to htm. "I'm finding business good nfter election," snid ho. Tho Inquisltlvo Young Man wns much flattered by the condescension nnd tho re mark of the Inwyor. Ills Inst question came easily. "What Is your lino?" ho nsked. "lilting holes out of porous plnster-i," was the reply, nnd two or threo thoughtless persons who sat nenrby In tho enr smiled. Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News: Some society women nro works of nrt. They who mlsjudgo nre npt to bo mis judged. Somo cooks manage to get fat while wast ing away. If a woman's fnco Is a poem It should bo a llneless one. Ono wny to becomo round Is to ent plenty of squnro meals. Ability Is tho nrt of doing only whnt wo nro cnpnhlo of doing. If a mnn Is nblo to stand nbuse he Is nblo to stnnd prosnerity. Tho man who owes his shoemnker cannot call his solo his own. It takes a good artist or a good nctor to drnw n good houso. Sllonco mny bo golden, but It won't pay tho expenses of tho drummer. A man mny ho nblo to nrguo with n womnn, hut It never does nny good. Mnrrylng a man to reform him Is llko drinking whisky to destroy It. Tho flvo great powers love, money, ro vengo, nmhitlon nnd n good dinner. Somo peoplo hnvo been on tho stage all their lives and still long to ho actors. Nino times out of ten when tho un expected happens wo bring It on ourselves. Novcr attempt to bully a Judgo or Jury unless you hnvo previously bribed them. Tho Inventor of n Enlt cellar that will always hnvo salt In It will supply n long felt wnnt. A west side phrenologist clnlms ho enn tell what n Inrrel contnlns by examining Its head. Tho wagon tongue snys never n word, hut It gets there nhend of tho rest of tho out fit It might be well for somo pecplo to mnke n nnto of this. Error Dotrolt Journnl: "While error," wo re peated, ominously, "writhes In pain" Hero Error Interposed with n derisive laugh "Somo gnznboos," sho observed, sarcastic ally, "don't seem to recognize tho gennlno danso du ventre when they see It!" Sho guessed sho knew enough, sho would hnvo us particularly to understand, not to dopond for her popularity upon nny nrchalc stunt, nnd this wo took to bo nn obllquo thrust nt Truth, who still merely rose ngnln, nnd then only when crushed to earth,