OPtOlM Tin- Ii.mjsthatki) Bki-' Published Weekly by The Hoe Publishing Compnny, Hie HuIIiIIiik, Oitmha, Neb. Price, 6c per copy per year, 12 00. Kntrrcd nt the Omaha Postnlllcu as Second Clnss Mnll Mntti-r. For advertising rates address publlHher, Cammiiri.cntlotis relating lo photographs or articles for publication should lie aid dressed "Kdllor The lllustrntcil lh; Oiiinha." THE ILLUSTRATED BBE. Pen and Picture Pointers YnchtltiK hns again taken precedence over Iiiihu hall iiihI In fact even gulf mid font ball lis n form of conventional eporl. People who have never no much as sniffed salt water ami who couldn't tell n backstay fiom n deacleye lo save tlielr hoiiIs lurd their talk with maritime allusions until Hie stranger from Mars would think us n men of sailors It Is all on account of the America's cup, a lilt of nntiiuuicd nrim in ti tn I sllvcrwnic which was worth less Ihan ir.O fifty years ago, hut for the pos session of which It Is estlmalcil that nearly AMUUIOA'S CUP. THU (IUKAT INTKItNA TIONAIi YACIITINO TI101MIV, II KM) FOR FIFTY YKAUS IIV AMUItlCANH. S 1,000,000 has been spent. This cup simply represents a sentiment, hut that sentiment animates two of the greatest nations of the world. For fifty years, since the day the American sloop outsailed the entire llrltlsh licet around the Isle of Couch In 1811, It has been the desire of the true Urltlsh ON A ipiestlon as to the admissi bility of a deposition for want of notice the court said: "It li stilled by ono of the earliest writ ers lo enforce the rule on this subject t tint even tho Almighty would not proceed to pronounce sentence against our great nueestor without giving him notice, ami. therefore, llrst cnlled to him: 'Where art thou, Adam 7' " Tim Ingenious method by which twelvo dlveigcnt and obstinate minds agree by taking the iiuotlent of their aggregated notions divided by twelve was recently adopted by an experienced juryman while acting ns one of thre" commlFsloners of ap praisal. One party claimed that there was due tt I nt over $3.10. The other eon tended that the amount was only J250. The commission awarded JT.'i only. The astute and veteran Juryman ufleiward explained Hint the three commissioners reached thU result by adding together their three esti mates and dividing the mini by twelve. Within less than a doen miles of tho New York city hall In the borough of Man hattan, a unlet suburban community, has a Jiis lco of the peace who continues to prac tice his calling as a hirher and holds court In a room adjoining his shop. From chair 10 chair he lilt. In one moment plying hU razor or scissors and chattering like a true Figaro, In anrther announcing his Judicial decision with Ih" solemnity of a lord high chancellor. Th - hirbor magistrate, shaving soap In one bend and the scales of Justice In the other, s a truly Imposing ilgure Pat. having been unduly familiar with a eorkless bottle, found himself enjoying a 11 ght's lodging nt the expense of the city. "How long have you been III this coun try?" naked the Judge, the next morning. "Faith, an" IIV imlgh on to given months, yer In nor." replied Pat. TWO IIOIHS CATCH HI.ACK HASS sportsman to see that cup brought home It was III n the (Jiiccn s tup. but has nil. e been rcchrlslt tied and Is held now as n perpetual International i hath lime trophy. Year after onr have the best boat builders of Knglnud and America turned out th highest types of their skill as designers and craftsmen, to be manned by picked irews In 'he races for this trophy, and the American has never failed to triumph Two years ago Sir Thomas Upton came across with his llrst Shamrock and was beaten by Columbia He Is here again with Shamrock II and again Ih Columbia successfully de fending (he cup. On the front page today The llec gives a reproduction of an excel lent picture of this beautiful yacht, taken Just before the start of one of the races two years ago. In the far upper right side of the background Shamrock I Is shown, the two skippers being then engaged in one of their pleasant little ducks of sea manship, each trying to get thu better of the other at the start. A picture of thu America's cup Is also given. One hundred ami forty-live feet above the sidewalk, supported only by a hand bold on the top of u slender ll.igpnlc Is not a berth to Invite. Y. M. Starkey, an Omaha painter, doesn't consider It tnd though, anil modestly disclaims to consid'r IiIh daring climb a feat worth speaking of One day recently It was found necessarv to run a new rope through the pulley at the top of the llagstnlT on The lie:' building. T'lis llagstalT rles forty-live feet above the roof, or 1 ITi feet higher than the side walk Starkey climbed the pole, llxed the ripe and Mulshed by giving the llagstalT a coat of paint While he was at work one of the staff photographers made a . pho'o graph of hltn. Two of the pictures published this week are of catches of black bass one a string taken in a couple of hours from a Minnesota lake by Y. A Webster, nnd the other a black sea bass, taken In the Pacific bv V. II. l.nederlch. The difference Is easily noted. Mr Wchstei's largest fish weighing four and one lint f pounds, while Mr. I.aederlch's weighed 331 pounds. In order to get credit fur catching a sea bass the 11 short 1 1 n n must Mirthful Incidents "Have you a trade?" asked the Judge. "Sure an' It's a sailor Ol am," answered the lilshman "He carrful what you say," cautioned the Judge. "I doubt very much If you have ever been to sea In your life." "Hegory!" exclaimed the son of Krln, "an' Is It In n wagon yer honor's afther Ihltiklu' Ol came over from the ould roun thry?" A brief tiled In the supreme court of the United Slates declares that In the court of llrst Instance the Judge was an ex-minister of the gospel nnd Hint In the appellnte court nnother ecclesiastic fresh from tho circuits got hold of tho case and wrote the opinion. It ndds: "The honorable gentle liiaii who wrote had served and grown old In the circuits, expounding ecclesiastical Inw. Having fulled nt that, upon the elec tion of Hon. . mid through the Influence of tho Hon. . ho wns appointed Judge on the supreme bench of , nnd Is now Jurist nnd expounds the Inws of men. On examination of Ills opinion on the points here under dis cussion It will at once be seen that he never understood the subject nt all." A young womnti employed as n stenog rnpher had a beau named Will, to whom she talked some twenty-live times a dny, relntes the Huston Post. The lawyer who labored under the Impression that he was paying for the stenographer's lime wns not pleased that Maggie should drop her work nnd rush frantically to the telephone every time the bell rang, and stand there for llflecu minutes debating whether or not Will ought to have told Clara Hint secret which he knew well enough was none of Clara's business. One day the lawyer left his oillce, am' going to nnother telephom In the building, called up his own otllce Of ectirse, Maggie rushed frantically to (he 'phone nnd answered. "Hello1" said the lawyer. In n miillled -CAUtillT IIV W A WHIISTKK use ordinary tackle. Mr l.nederlch used a s.tceii-ouui'e pole and a twenty four thread linen line It was two and three ipiartcrs I'curs from the time the llsh was hooked until It was brought to gaff, a snuggle well calculated to test the nerve and strength of the fisherman. Iowa editors have always hnd a high plarc in the newspaper world The Hawk- ;i:oit(ii: w post of yoiik pkksidiint OF NF.IIItASKA HANK HHS" ASSOCIA TION Photo by ltlnehart eye Htate has turned cut a few Journa Ms and even a "literary feller" or so, but It has always managed to retain a linn hold on a lot of the brightest and most ener getic hustlers who ever made a paper shlti. According to late tlgures Iowa stands at the head of the list as a newspaper reading state, thete being more papers published in proportion to thu population there than anywhere else In the union. As a rule the papers are clean In tone, neat In appear ance and have not cnly the moral, but Mi- limine al support of the people. Much of tho Which Ripple voice. "This Is a lineman testing the wire. Kindly stand one foot In front of the re ceiver and sny 'hollo.' " Maggie obeyed. "Thank you. Now stand two feet to one side and say 'hello.' " Maggie compiled. "Thank you. Now stand two feet on the other side and say 'hello.'" It was done. "Thnnk you. Now stand on your head and say 'hello.' " Maggie seems to lie somewhat backwnrd in answering the telephone now. "A number of years ago," Bald tho well known attorney to the Detroit Free, Press mail. 'I wan called up In the northern pait of the stnto on nn linporiuut lumber suit. I was anxious to win It for a number of .1 II CONINC.HAM OF LINCOLN, PUUSI HUNT OF NI'HHASKA UHTAII. ()lO CKItS' ASSOCIATION. III.ACK SUA PASS Wr.HillT 331 POUND? CAUOHT UY V I! I,AKI)i:itICIl success of the Iowa edlior Is du to the i dltorlal nsnclatlon, of which 'her' nr" several In the slate One of these, the I'ppcr l)is Moines F.dltorlnl nssrclallon recently held Us twentv-sccoud annual con viillen at Denlsoii. This ns'oclntlnn w-i originally deigned to Include onlv th II -ti en coiinlliM In the upper lies Millies vnlb y. but has since broadened to admit nu editor from any part of the state. It had a most successful session and also had Its picture taken. The Hco reproduces the handsome group today. r. One of the pictures in The llee this week will dispel a popular Impression of th' new president of the United States. So ac customed have people become to seeing Mr ltoosevelt depleted with a srft hat that verv few can think of him In connection with the conventional silk tile Yet In the group which welcomed Admiral Dewov on board the Olympla In New York harbor. The llee photographer caught a snap shot of Presl dent ltoosevelt. then governor of New York with n high hat on. The governor was making n short talk. Tho poise of his head nnd the tilt of his hat show that he has as little regard for the glossy "plug" as hedoes for the soft felt he crushes In his hand when talking politics to a crowd of his western fellow citizens. lion 0. W Post Just elected president of the Nebraska Hankers' association, was born at ."'uniberlaiiil. Guernsey county. Ohio, Jinuary 20, isr.l. nll( N snn nf William K. and Sarah S. Post. From Cumberland his parents moved to Missouri and shortly after the war was begun, moved to Hlooinfleld. In. Mr. Post wns educated In a district school In Iowa nnd nt thu Troy High school, anil although only II years of nge. li enlisted at Illoomllelil. la., for 100 days' service In the Fifty-fifth In fnnfry. He studied nw In the office of Hon. tr rt t' . ... . . . i inverse or iiioomueiii, la., and wns ndmltlcd to the bar In 1S71, and shortly nfterwards moved lo York. At that time ho wns the only nttomey located In tho county. In 1ST.' he was elected Judge nf the Fourth Judicial district and wns re elected In lS7f. He wns nlsn Internal revenue collector for the stnte of Nehrnska. the Current of reasons, and I stralncu every nerve to get a verdict In my client's favor. I had every hope Hint I would succeed till the opposing counsel put nn old bnckswoodsman nn the stand whose testimony wns particularly damaging lo my client's case. I believed then, and I believe now. that the old man wns lying, but to prove It was nnother mat ter, as he told a straight story nnd stuck to It; so I was rather discouraged when he was handed over to me to he cross-examined. " 'You understand, nf course,' said I, 'tho solemn obligations of the 0nth you gnve when you took the stand?" "lie merely grunted In reply. " 'I suppose.' said I, blandly, 'Hint yon umlerstnnd the nature nf an oath?' " 'I guess I do.' ho urmvlo.l " 'Well, give mo an Illustration of your Idea of nn oath.' nnlil I. "I wns totally unprepared for what fol lowed. The old man shifted his quid of tobacco, took a firm grip on his chair nnd ripped nut n string of oaths that threatened to rnlse tho roof. It wns simply nwful. I hive heard hnrd swearers In my llfo, hut unililng to compare to thnt. Tho pro fanity he UBcd would have kept a slx-mule 'cam on the Jump for a week. Ills exple tives were highly picturesque, abounding fertility rf invention nnd unlimited lung power "When the Judge enught his breath he lined the fellow for contempt nf court, and when I nddr.ss.ed the Jury I mn.le tho point lint he couldn't be believed under oath and wo,, my case, I could nfford to he charl table, so I prevailed upon the Judge t rP. mil the ntio against the old num." Judge William Yost cf llrcetivllle Ky who Is a candidate for the Kentucky court of nppenls, Ih one of the biggest men In the stnto physically, at least, for ho stands (1 feet n Inches i his stockings and has n pair of shoulders like tho-e of a profes- MKS. IIKI-KN A IIOHHS OF YANKTON, PHKSIDKNT W It. C OF SOUTH DA KOTA. Mr. Post has the reputation of being one of the shrewdest nnd most successful bankers In Nebraska. In addition to being presi dent of the First Nntlnnnl bank of York ho Is nlso president of tho bank nt Heno dlct, the bank at liradshaw. the bank at Wnco, the bank at Houston and the lllue Illver hank of McCool Junction, York county. On January 1. 1S77, Judge Post wns married to Miss I.nura McConaughy of Mount Pleasant, Pa. Ills family consists of one son nnd four daughters. Ono of tho most Interesting meetings tecently held In Nebraska was the North Nehrnska Methodist conference, which convened nt Nellgh. It was presided over by Hlshop MeCabe, and spent four very busy dnys In nttendlng to tho business of tho grent district. Tho people of Nollgh took much pains to entertain tho visitors and well sustained their reputation for hospitality. Law slonnl prize-fighter. The Judge Is n grent Jolur and when in this city recently a hoot black called rut "Shine, sir!" tho Judge looked nt him vacantly, pretending to be draf nnd dumb After severnl minutes of sign Inngunge he understood. He leaned ngalnst a building and the b y went lo work. Another bootblack appeared and thu one nt work said: "Youso needn't stop; dls Is nil mine." "Sh-h! He'll henr yer," whispered the other. "I'm gcttln' 5 n shoo for desu scows," wns tho other's reply In n loud voice, Thu second boy looked so nstonlfhed nt his frlend'H boldness thnt the latter laughed and said; "Sny, yer chump, he's d -nt nnd dumb. Soo?" Tho other boy. win. had hi en looking with all his eyes at tho giant. 1 lurtcd nut In a loud tone nf admiration: "Say, he's a big ugly lookln dlvll, ain't he'" This was too much for the Judge and he broke Into a laugh. Tho boys looked for an Instant at him mid then lied down the street, caving t, jmK-e with but ono shoe polished to look for another bootblack to make equally presentable thu other "scow." Did His liest Chicago Tribune: In tho temporary nb sence of the nnswers-to-correspondents d tor who was on his vacation, tho sport n, ulltor had been detnlled to keep tho department going. ,i..r,vnM,0,l' ,Hl'nt 1,1 11,0 WW "vo tho Zi "!l VUu wonl Aran. tho sacred hook of the Mohnminednns." And this wiint he wrote In reply: r, .n'8 ,r"1,al,1' irruption of 'also ' "n'1 lmH reference to Its third-rate