Tli: Il.UJSTKATKI) BUK.
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Pen and Picture Pointers
Childhood Is much the same today iim
whet) Cain and Abel played together their
hoylsli games About the on'y change Is
that grownup folks have romp to take more
nf an Interest In tho amusements of t li i 1
rhlldren. In school life this has IIh chief
maulfeMlntloti Through Ihn play-work of
tho klndcrgart' n the child mind Is supposed
to lie diverted Into such channels as make
the reception of Instruction more easy and
the retention of knowledge more certain JAM US LYNCH, PKKSIDHNT INTUHNA
Kvon Hie games that are Indulged In tho TiONAL TVPOdltAPtllCAL UNION
playground are supposed to have a mean Photo lor Th- Hen by llostwlek.
lug, nubile- and elusive, pcrluipi, to one
who Inld away bis elementary text books . . , . ..
some dozens of years ago, yet sllll a ills- r'" " l'""1" " m""'" V" "
tlncl purpose runs through them all. As hlfili onler or Intelligence required of
ever, human nature tends at limes to re- Print.- In In itself a compliment and a
turn to elementary conditions, so thn child roco.nuiendnt Inn. Mr. Lynch has recently
will got back to first principles at times. "mlll, '"' "xK'M'le.l tour of- western
and the result Is that Mr. Hostwlck. In his ''". 1IIiik afier the urfal.s of his era t
search for children at names, found many "-"K v , " ,,,mlm1 1,0
of them doing In the same old way the kwhI of the local union whose members
things tbelr fathers and mothers did when tendered hltn a most cnthusl.ts Ic private
children. We may Improve methods and 'lulu- a notable public reception.
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It, throw It and brand It without assist'
ancc from anyone, then return to the house
and cook a meal Hint would tempt the
pampered appetite of an epicure. She Is
known ns the horse and cattle queen of
western Nebraska.
Miss Pnntotibiirg lives upon the ranch
of her father, tho late John Pnntenbiirg,
nlno milts east of Sidney. She Is a typi
cal western girl, having been born upon the
banks of Lodgopolo creek, within an hour's
rldo of Sidney, and her tastes, Instincts
and training nre In sympathy with the
freedom of the rolling prairies and the
buoyancy of outdoor life. It Is said that
she Inherited these traits from her father,
to whom the dangers of his career as a
freighter In the early days between Sid
ney nnd the lllaek Hills had a strange
fascination. He that as It may, she Is
not like other girls. It Is of record that
sho can cook a meal, which Is true, but her
fancy doesn't run that way. It Is hinted
even that she once embroidered a stork,
a bull frog and some cattails upon a thing
called a "splasher," and that tho work was
so execrably done that tho neck of the
frog was longer than that of tho stork, but
this was when she was very young, and
was a tnsk Imposed upon her by wny of
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make little advnnce nlong the lines of
school play.
Some most eminent Ohio people hav
passed through the west of lute. Anton':
them President McKlnlev and utrtv. the
sad ending of whose trip Is we'l known lo
all. and (Jovcrnor Clcorgc K. Ntish, with a
distinguished parly of Ohio men and
women, whose pleasure was marred by tho
SomctltiUH it happens that the artist Is
i.n the spot at the right time. Then he
"cts a picture that no amount of patient
posing would take. One of the Illustra
tions In this number Is the result nf this
happy combination of circumstances Most
people are familiar with the habits of
calves, especially young calves. Their In
stinct Is to suck and anything that Is
warm or has any sort of taste at all ap-
lllncss of the governor. This week Thn Hee I",,,Ih " "'"' "" " r,,,,,'"t ,lrlvo tho
pre.PiitH a simp shot photograph of Oov 'ntry '' The '"' Photographers
enior NiihIi lis he stood conve-slni: wIMi HIIW 11 m0Hl remarkable exemplification of
Mayor Moores of Omnli'i, n's-i an nhloau this InHllnet of the calf, coupled with child-
on the morning of his pusj-n-e through '' Innocence The surprlso depicted on
Omaha. the face of the little girl may be due to
the fact that one of the calves has almost
President Lynch of the International swallowed her left hand, or It may be
Typographical union Is one of the newer owing to the sudden appearance of n mnn
men of national prominence In labor clr- with a camera to lake a snnp shot at a
eles. Ho has long been known within tho scone which cannot be duplicated In tho
cm ft of which he Is n member ns n man city.
of uncommon nblllly. but II Is only since ?
his elevntlon Inst year to his present high It Is said of Annie Pantonbiirg. 1C years
position that be has attracted general at- old, that sho can go out upon tho range,
tent Ion. To be given the leadership of a catch tho wildcat horso In tho herd, rope.
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DUNT NKIIKASK A STATU KCLKCTIC
MUDICAL SOOIUTY
punishment for riding her broncho wlthr'
a bridle. Slnco then all of her "fancy
work" has been dnno In tho saddle. Sho
has assumed personal supervision and
management of the ranch, with Its thou-
OOVHItNOH NASH OP OHIO AT THH
UNION STATION, OMAHA Photo for
Tho Hee by Hostwlck.
sands of broad acres and hundreds of head
of cattle and horses, anil takes no more
Interest In the spring styles In skirts or
tho prevailing modes of headgear than as
If sho were In truth a cowboy.
She lives with her Invalid mother and
her two brothers and a sister. One of her
brothers Is older than she, but, notwith
standing, she Is the controlling spirit of
the ranch. Sho docs nil the buying nnd
selling. It Is she who keeps tab on tho
markets and determines when a consign
ment nf stock Is to be disposed of, and It
Is with her that the neighboring ranchmen
confer when tho brand of a maverick is
in dispute. Sho Is credited with knowing
every cattlo nnd horso brand in western
Nebraska and aouthern Wyoming.
M. n. Ketchum, M. I)., Phar. I)., of Lin
coln was olected president of tho Nebraska
Stato Eclectic Medical society at Its recent
mooting. Ho Is secretary of the Lincoln
Medical college and a well known prac
titioner of hlB school of medicine. Dr.
Ketchum Is 1.1 yenrs old. He was gradu
ated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy
at Toronto In 1SS0; from tho Eclectic Medi
cal Institute at Cincinnati in 1SS2, and has
taken courses In special branches of
surgery nnd medicine since.
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Literature
Clovclnd Plain Dealer: Of course 1 tnude
n case of mistaken Identity the basis of my
novel.
It was my Intention, understand, that
the heroine mistake the villain for a Iloston
terrier, nnd fnll In love with him.
Clever, was It not?
Hut to my chagrin 1 unthinkingly made
tho heroine a greater character than 1
could well control. In despite of all I
could do, she mistook tho villain for
Adam's off ox and gave him the laugh.
This necessitated a complete reconstru -Hon
of tho local color nnd some portions of
the dialogue, nnd the book which I hud ex
pected to write In two weeks has already
consumed nearly a month of my time.
A Bachelor's Reflections
New York Press: Thoro Is nothing like a
now bnby to knock women's clubs nnd poll
tics out of a womnn.
For a week after her minister comes to
dinner tho averago womnn feels good
enough to sny her prayers In bed.
If women renlly looked like the fashion
plates claim they ought to hydrophobia
would become tho national dlscnse.
Tho most truthful woman In the world
will mnke her husband's proposal a lot
more romantic than it really wns when she
tells It to another womnn.
It Is a wonderful thing that Hrownlng
could keep the girl ho wanted to marry
watching for his love lettors when she
liadn't printed her poetry yot for him to
quoto from.
Banking
Detroit Journal: Tho now director was
positively revolutionary In his devices.
"Instcnd of paying nil this money to de
tectives for entchlng defnulters," snld ho.
"why not use It to effect such nn Incrense
of snlnrles as would place our help beyond
tho necessity to defalcate?"
The old directors sneered wltherlngly.
"You evidently don't understand bank
clerks." said they. "Why, If we were to
raise wages that way, probably almost every
man In the house would fall dead, nnd then
where should we bo?"
This mnde the now director feel very
foolish, of courie.
Unsatisfactory
Philadelphia Record: "Mose," snld Mr.
Subbubs, "I want you to clean out my cel
lar tonight."
' 'Deed, mlstnh," Mose protested, "I
knln't do no wuck lalk dat at night, sah,
dnt would bo sntlsfact'ry to yo salt."
"Why not? You've often cleaned out my
chicken coop nt night."
"Yes, snh; but I reckon dat wusn' satis
factory to you,' sah."
Local Problems that Confront the English Legislators
ONDON, May 22. (Special Corro-
fully vindicated, we may hopo, both before not a very long one, for the adulterated favoritism nor ns a prlzo of scholarship
o. I.'.,.,... At ., ii li -i.i the mothor country and tho big republic artlclo Is cortalnly of tho two tho more so much a? In recognition of heroic servhc
spniiuoiue.i in an mo pernios oi ..i,i,i.... ... , ...,., A i .i... i a.i vi i. i. .1.1
T
I ii... ........ .. i i. ........ i i.,ii.. across the border. vitiating both to body and mind, and ono of In tho slums. And at tils time It would
-L from the other side thrust and- Ullt 'his Is a digression. What I Intended tho worst effects of what is called "chcml- bo difficult to find anywhere a body of i.ien
i.n ... it... i rt 1 l.w., to 11. nt If fulfill.. .,nHfnntl.. ,n t.u.pi, 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 rrrt n f 1 . , n 1 1 1 r I li n nnnrld nt lllrt
ilenly Into the mazes of Kllgllnll 1 ruiuiivo u ine mme expunnun .in " .-.- it linn 11 lunula o" iiv.ii) iiiu ..m. u I... .....f,...i. j ...v ui
would be likely to get a iiulck and royalty was that It la scarcely moro than vicious purposo of Its concoction In stlmu- lowest class than are tho men who as Hng-
life,
clear notion of what lOnglnnd Is and nf tho
forces, good and bud, which are guiding her,
there Is none quite so favorable as this
flowery month of May. Parliament wres
tles at this time with Its annual bill of
charges, which, partly because of tho ac
cession of King Kdward, and still more
owing to the long continuance of a badly
bungled war, Is much bigger than In ordi
nary years, and has called forth, In conso
qiiouco, more thnn thn usual amount of dis
cussion nnd protest. Hut when you romo
to think of It, the people ought not to
grumble at having to vote Kdward a few-
land's spiritual peers belong todny to what
Is generally held to be the very highest
class.
a quibble to hold that but a fraction ol latlng rnthcr than allaying thirst.
those come from the people so long as all ciillilreii anil (lie (ii-imler.
of them come In one way or n.l ither out
of tho I'cxoiiiccs of the count.; nnd, lu
any case, why should tho ICngLsh pcoplo
dodge this question? Many of thera do not
It Is an article of faith with tho average
I.-....1 t ..,,..,1 ....i,lll..r. flint p,..nllu
Is a paying Investment and when people of "J "rlk home and have been sent pathles not so far above the common p oplo
this class want lo , Unci, tho argument to 'y thelr parents to fetch It And of course, nor so bi nd to their needs as democracy
an American they gently hint tint whiH "rihlnB of the growler" by Juvcni o In Ame lea has though then, to be
the llritlsh forms of government, both agency Is what this measure alms especially I'orhnps their Interest Is, n part a bread
national and local, nmy cos. nmo than l Temperately Inclined Americans and but er one, but largely it Is an ln-
ourH In pay. they Im.dly aggregate as much "ho have not been In Kngland with their t Interest, handed down In nerve and
when organizations like Tammany Hall UL'8 "I'on can lorm no tuea oi mo exieni .... ............. ......
Hut tho real temnernnco measure of tho
present parliamentary Bcsslon Is ono which "'"Hrliiii Spirit.
prohibits tho Bale of any kind of Intoxicants Strongly, too, are the Lords' temporal
to children under 1C. Thoso below this ago tinctured with this humanitarian spirit.
limit must not bo served, even though they rnese llritlsh peers are in their Bytn-
lieu hi fiiiii.iiiii'iin iiivv I ,i in iii.i .1 y (iirii, - .1.1 i it ...
thousands more than the good Victoria was .... ,.,,,,, ,,. ,1.,r..,.l,lrfl utnuiincs. to which in working class families thoso w,,o, to bo sure, have had special lm-
allowed, considering how much moro they ,,,,,. ,mn ls t,,ml,teil to another dlgrcs- which depend upon tho ordinary beershop ""nltlos, but who In connection with these
nre expecting to get bnck In trndo from tho Hl()l , Hnlf-defenHe. Hut one of tho (list for their Biipply children are utilized In hnv11 n,so lmi1 ,l10 xporleneo and discipline
livelier regime he Is likely to give them, things a qulel-llvlng American hnB to learn this kind of service. Ordinarily, on this nf "onrt .which naturnlly roMilt from scolng
And what If royalty does requlro this year hl n Kay ,,lty uU ij(,n(i a to icsWt lovel of life, those who drink beer In the ,,,,low ,,'p,n ,,1"so ,,10' wero "1'llgrd
something like $2.r.00.0nn to keep up Its t,.ml)(ll,, Iin,i, no less, with such a mass family circle think no more of sending little care for. Upon this point of tho rein-
fllHH 1111(1 featllerS. WhCll. nS tile C innce HOT ..! liil..-r.,ulln. tni.lro .mllnlm- l,l, mini li., .Tnlmnv nr Mnrv In iM.t It Minn nf ' " " " llllirni-n 1 nilllll
of the exchequer Is enreful to tell us, "the w, XUIUld stick to his toxt ns n corre- sending them to tho grocer's for a
proportion of this derived from taxation Is Hpoildent learn to do this.
equally beyond tho frailty nf wanting a
part of the evening for courting purpose.-).
nut nt this point tho law steps in, de
creeing, in what Is called the Shop Hours'
act, that young persons under IS shall not
bo employed more than seventy-four hours
a week. And this net further requires Hint
a notlco of this humane limit shall b
posted in the shop. This that youthful
employes may have their bill of rights al
ways before them, nnd may thus bo em
boldened to claim tho same. It nppears.
however, that this wholesome law has been
flagrantly set nt naught. At a recent
period, after a special visit of Inspec
tion, Infringements of It wero reported to
the number of 2.1,000. Tho rule seems to bo
to work shop assistants not twelve hours a
day, with two hours extra for Saturday, as
tho law provides, but from fourteen to six
teen hours n day. Hence this wholesome
Inquiry by tho House of Lords, and the
probability, ns nn outcome, Hint an act will
bo passed, which, besides limiting the
hours of those employed In theso shops,
will strike deeper nnd moro effectually nt
this evil by limiting the hours of the shops
themselves.
only $lfir,.000."
Wluit (tie CiiIiiiiIi'm Ciiiiliiliiile.
This, for the whole population, amounts
to something less than half a cent each
have more to sny hereafter nnd some of
111V VleWR. T Hill Klll-C. wilt nnaapnu Ihn nmrll l.llllllllll f V r,ini.ll
i. mi illatrlnt nf - ' -...
I'lirlliinii'iit In WiirlihiK.
ii mi II ii it umriii' In
V V 7 Z V; f novelty, however fnr they may fall short
London u count wns mnde, nnd whnt It n. tUn i ..r I V !
alwinml iciiu lm t It unnlt 1 I I n.A Iac j
lo one specially Intercut cd as I am, u ()lt(r()(I im,il(, U8(! () cl.rml(B ()f ,hU
kind within onH- a few hours, and It I J to
reform movements. Wes minster hall, In
which Patllameiit meets. Is chlelly of con
of tho standard of lmninculacy. Hut what
I want to especially note nt this time Is
Hint tho House of Lords Is Just now giving
prnctical proof of Its hiimanltnrlnn
. .... It .... . A - ....... .... ... ...w... v..... .,,,, 1 , nil . , I lmi MI..It., f
,er ..., . ..... ... ,n.......... lpi, , ll8 tlm ,,cn , ph ; : : : : proclivities in an Inquiry it ls conducting
lean will natural y Inquire from what ,, who u tlflr wltIl lor lmtB f oT ugh n d lt h t ho hi si do o t nkl ug , ,a(0 hmn Q whch
source the big balance U derived.' Fro,,, f 8r.rlltnllu,a etmvUemcy. ' 111 J 'j ' " '' " (tores) are kept open over hero nnd the
tho country It must surely come n some u f()W (f n; fttfr to a Ins r e, ng this .o-called Children s nxcC9slvo lonKths o , tlurlnB wlltoh ,
way. for It has not trnnsp red ye that the dinner hours, are Just now bestowing nu.re ym;Lr"u 0 , consoquenco shop assistants (tho sales-
rllf BUM ...,n..lnl l.An. . . . 1. I 1.
nttetitlnti Minn UMiinl uniin niei.Kiireii ulilli
are pnylng It In bonuses for KngllBh titles, ,,,,.. ... ,,,.,.initv nniirt Bnnini life. Thus In moments of happy relief from . ... U1. .
and I'm sure the colonies nre not footing u0..a(.. j,t nn imiilcnt and ovon the 1,10 liitcrmlnable HIhIi question and from '
this royal bill. These, one Is surprised to ,m trrnrH ,)f tlls ,Rappolntlng war will tlulr larrt''s "vor tho South African war Fairness requires tho ndmlsslon Hint In
lenrn, yield the mother country senrcoly ,maH ft(,r u tlm(, , H(j, wj tho .,rot). are the members of tho Houso of Commons tho Inrger businesses there 13 HUb ground
anything but glory, unless you count loy- lpm nt tm yivlnM iw ,,nor ,j the ever oeiMiplcd and It Is a noteworthy fact that fr romplnlnt. They close a little Inter
nlty and a little trade. Mr. Laliouchero Is m,tlvu cr,lmi ,niiiln to be dealt with Jl,9t llt 1,H tl,no ,h" 1,01180 of UuU ,s " ,w''' ,ut ,0 ntono fnr this thpy onon
at this lime twitting Canada upon her As one or the speakers at a Kagged School making Itself useful In n similar way. Not at a later hour In the morning, tho big cs
rcnilssness In not undertaking to pay the meeting tnld the other night "Tho scrip- stiielly with temperanco legislation, but tabl shments scarcely ever befnro 8:30, Bnmo
troops she has sent to South Africa, and ,,.,. f ,, ,. , ,, folltu, , ,,. , u, nt any rate with measures tending to but- o them not until !. Very general, too. for
he pounces upon the Canadians. I suppose. ,,,, of , .. ,,,, tllP ,,rltlRh ,.nrHament M ,lfp- ,T"l fnc,1 ' e ,lmt ,hls "'Jwu" 1 I f ? mntl,s,ln ,ho 'Par- 8 "
not because they nre "tinners" beyond Hie ,,, , ri.njZ this revolutionary ,mll'h abused house of llritlsh peers, so weokl linlf-hollday; far more fo In this
other colonials, but became, perhaps, In fiu.t obstructive In tho caso of political reforms country than In our own. Hut amongst
sentiment no less than geographically they ,... it,,,,, ,,, ,.,, ,miU. nf 80 leh f "fifth wheol" In leglsla- smaller shops these regulations are do
aro nearer Kngland than the others. "Wo , At ' , l,r,'80l,t 'V,1 , . . T tlon generally. Is very likely In these dnys cldedly not In voguo either In London or
hear much of colonial loyalty-1 should like "w makers, proverbially .low. but like the . ,,e ,,. nlon(. t0 Unes Qt BOC,a, ,n tUo prov,nce8. 0n the contrary, tho lit
to henr moro of colonial cash." So this mllls ,no B"s nlwnB grinding sure, is r(,((irn 0, , f0r this Is that there tie tradesman seems to dislike nothing so
dating critic expresses himself In this ""favoring to provide In two ways ngalnst ,8 KOO(ily sprinkling of bishops In It. In much as clnslng up. Excepting In snmo
weok's Truth. Hut all do not aceopt ns tho ,ho ''vlls "f ,,,,, ,,r,,,k tranic. Ono mensuro rjU,r tmn tlil would not have been a privileged parts of the big cities, ho does
strict truth the views ro Jauntily aired by '"""res that slnco the people will drink rt,ason fr expecting Miclal good out of "nv his shutters up over the Snbbnth, but
Mr Labouchore In tho Journal of that beor as most of thoni will who haven't l een ,.,, .aznrcth of social caste. Dut the on other days, thinking perhaps Hint Sun
name. In this caso our neighbors on the driven by gout to some less feeding stlmu- rliurcli has changed In these times and the day observance has earned him tho right
north will hardly do so and when thov hint -they shall have malt beer, or shall at t,Bhnps nro of n different class. It nlmust to week-dny Indulgence, he seems to revel
retort to this lllng thai blood Is of more 1(11,81 1llow frm tho lubel whether thoy nre seems now, Judging from the elevation to In tho latest Imnglnnblo hours nnd Is in
value than money nnd that In giving their getting, Instead of malt beer, a bovorago the see of London of one of tho grea'est cllned to act as though the young people
best hoiih to tho umpire they hnvo g'ven that is only llavored with Hint grnln. This workers amongst the London poor, as though who stand behind his counters wero not
all that could bo asked they will stand la a decided step toward temperance, though promotion wero In future to bo not by only above the need of fresh air. but were
The final ngents In this reform will be
the Lords nnd Commons who sit nt West
minster, but the movement wnB stnrted, ns
so many good movements nre, by the lords
nnd commoners who constitute whnt Is
called hero "Tho LIttIo Parliament of
Spring Onrdens." This Is tho London
County Council, n mixed body of a de
cidedly reforming temper, In which n fow
men like Will Crookes, n dock laborer, rub
elbows In authority with peers of tho realm
nnd masters of finance llko Lord Welby.
Tho present month has been budget time
with this llttlo Parliament nlso, and 1
wns careful to bo present when tho esti
mates of this governing bonrd of London
wore passed upon. It wns n regular love
feast, with not a kick or squeak from
anyone; quite different from whnt occurred
when tho budget wns presented In the big
Parliament.
About $21,000,000 Is what this body
oxpects to raise and disburse In the
yenr to come. It administered upon nearly
that much In tho past yenr. nnd. would
you believe It. so ndmlrnbly were Its nffnlrs
managed that It met all Its expensos and
carried over some $2.10.000 to help out on
tho year now beginning. This bnlnnce
represents Just nbout what was earned by
the fow tram lines which wero recently
municipalized. Tho London County Council
has only been In oxlstenco a dozen years,
but In that tlmo It has wrought marvels
for this big city both materially nnd In Its
social life. HENRY TUCKLKV
