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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1903)
o TIIE ILLUSTRATED HEE. The Illustrated Bee. Published Weekly by Tho lice Publishing Company, LtL'O building. Oinuha, Neb. Price, 6c Per Copy Per Ytar. $2.00. Entered at thi Omuhu Foetofflce as Second Class Mull Matter. For Advertising Kates Address Publisher. Communications relating to photographs or articles for publication should be ad dressed, "Editor The Illustrated Bee, Omaha." Pen and Picture Pointers N AMj nges mankind has paid tne trlbuti' of respect to the man of strength and agility. It is the aim of all youriK men ut least to bo strong and active, and to cxcell In snmo degree In athletic sports, (lumi's of all sorts have Iwen devised for tlio purpose of testing; the skill and endur anco of tho muscular youth, and while all tuny not succeed In winnliiK any particular eminence, all at least come to understand tho principle undurlyiiiK the contests, und know enough of their application to ap preciate I bo ability of those who lo win distinction In their practice. It Is a siiiKiilar commentary on the bent of mankind that the idea hack of this development of tho physical sldo h to establish the lituca of the youth for the purposes of war. To bo littnd for a place In the ranks of tho army tho young man must be as near per fect physically as possible. F.ven today, tho most rigid examination given i.nywhero Is tho phystoal for admission to the army or navy. Hut In the quieter walks of life tho value of a strong and evenly developed body is appreciated, and much effort Is expended in tho direction of training the muscles of boys and young men to the end Uiut they may bo of the greatest possible service. One of the great agencies In this direction la tho Turner societies, either Herman or Ilohomlon, among whose ranks are found many athlete whose physical development and capabilities would be a credit to liny professional. Indeed, the ranks of professional athletes anil acrobats uto recruited In u largo measure from these arhools of Instruction. Tho state contest of the Bohemian Turner societies of Nebraska, held at Wllber recently, de veloped the fact that the work has not been neglected, but that the young men are Jut as active and energetic as were their fatheis, so that the name "turner" still retains Its significance in connection with. Acrobatic and gymnastic exercises. It Is only natural that Omaha should win first price, having tho greater number from which to draw a class for competition, but Wllber, In taking second, showed that the smaller communities ore not lagging in interest. Another form. of outdoor sport that has lecn popular since the very beginning of things Is racing. It matters not what the raco Is, nor Its conditions, it finds followers Episodes and Incidents in uvtiMtN IIUI.I. n rou eh rider SI friend of the president, has Just I l-i.n married at Colorudo Springs and has accepted an Invitation to spend part of his honeymoon at White House. There is no little talk in Washington, by the way, over the fact that such a largo force of policemen Is kept on guard over the executive family. The wifo of a man who not long ago was a prominent official wished to leave cards ut the White House before leaving town, but was sub jected to such officious Interference from the policemen that she departed without doing so. Grim old Oom Paul Kruger, tragic wan derer from tho Transvaal, Is in lonely re tirement nt Menlone. He wears a some what smart frock coat and black trousers, and the familiar stovepipe hat. bound with heavy black crape, and walks with u cane. A policeman disperse the bearers of camera In front of the villa when tho for mer president enters the house dally, about noon, after a morning spent in the garden. The old man Is by no means decrepit and looks in good health. He prefers the com pany of his own thoughts to intercourse with strangers. $ In former years John D. Rockefeller's su pervision of Stsndurd till company affairs took In even the smallest detail. On one oc casion, rommontlnjr on a monthly state ment, he culled a reilnir'B attention to a discrepancy In, rega.d to bongs, articles worth about as much In a rctin-ry as pins tiro In a household. "Iwst month." he said to the subordinate ofllclitl concerned, "you reported on hand 1.119 bungs. Ten thousand were sent you at the beginning of thi month. You have used this month. You report l.ffl! on hand. What has become of the other 6Mt?" Apparently Mr. Ttocke feller's ldc, was: Take care of the bungs nd the barrels will take care of them selves. lXigene If. I-chmfn, tho young Colorado student, who was the first American to be and excite men and women alike. During the time of the bicycle's popularity the "speed merchant" was king. As the public dropped away from tho wheel, tlio interest in the racer went down, until he has almost disappeared. The coming of the motor jir ! (1 vehicle has revived some of tho Interest in (his form of racing, but It I doubtful If the pitch it formerly attained will over bo eiualcd. In some parts of tlio world, notably in France, much attention hus been paid to motor racing, but the danger to participants and spectators alike has been so marked that the authorities have been compelled to Interfere to save lives. In the recent attempt to race from Paris to Madrid the lows of life in the enr'v stae of the run was so great that the undertaking was stopped by the police. In no part of the I'nitcd States has any such race tieen undertaken, nor Is It likely that It will be. In Omaha the first races be tween autos were held last Sunday. While there are a great many of the machines In use In this city, none of them are of the racing type, und consequently the exhibi tion wan unattended by any of the elements of danger that have maikel the motor races in other places, ltut the big road machines are capable of being driven at u reasonably high rate of speed, as shown by the fact that In one race three tniltM were covered ut a rate of thirty miles nn hour, which Is surely fast enough fcur the average man to want to to on a turnpike. Frank 10. Huilard of North Flatte, who has-boon called ufion to direct the affair of the grund lodge of Mi sons of Nebraska for the next term. Is a Mimi of thirty years' experience. He was given thi de grees by Fremont lodge No. 15 In 1873. In X he was given the Royal Arch degrees by Deuel chapter No. 11 at Grand Island und In the same year was made a Knight Templar by Iebanon commandery No. 6 also at Grand Island. Ills connection with Masonry has been active Blnce the first tMjd he has been called upon to hold high ofilco In the division of the fraternity on several occasions. He was grand high priest of tho Itoyat Arch Masons of Ne braska during 1895-6 and was grand com mander of the Knights Templar of the state during the term of 19J2-3. Mr. Iiul lard Is a native of Pennsylvania, being born at Montrose, that state, in January, 1X4H. He has been a resident of Nebraska since 1S71, with the exception of four years, when he was stationed at Cheyenne. All this time he has been In the service of the Union Pacific company and has been chief clerk In the office of tho assistant suerlntendent of the western district of the Nebraska division since Its establish ment in ISO. At the twenty-ninth annual communica tion of the grand lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, held In Deudwood on June 9, 1903, Hymn P. Dague was elected grand master. Mr. Dague Is a resident of Dcadwood and received his blue lodge de grees In Dead wood lodge No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, In 1S9J. II swarded the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, Is a self-made student. His credentials were Indisputable, for they allowed a per centage higher than those submitted by a score of other students. Naturally, he had to submit to the Inter viewers of boys' Journals and "success" papers, so that his career might be the In spiration for other struggling youths. "How did you manage to work your way through college so successfully?" asked an Important rcprtaentatlve of a very unim portant Journal. "Hy keeping my shoulder to the wheel," replied Lehman, tartly. Tho answer will be appreciated when It Is understood that young lhman worked his way through Yale with money earned In pushing an Invalid In her chair for 25 cents an hour. The Imdon Chronicle snys that a good de'il of surprise Is expressed at the fact If It be a fact that Iord Curxon should wish to extend the term of his vlceroyalty In India. When he took up that exalted position he was in his fortieth year, and It was admitted that he might spend five years in the east without unduly handicap ping his political career. Ixird Curson ac cepted un Irish peerage for the Hieial reason that he would be able to retu; n to the House of Commons, but the op portunity will not. In the course of nature, last many years, for his father, Lord Scnrsdale, to whoso title ho will succeed, will be 72 next month. In his present position Iord Curxon works fourteen hours a day. He starts In the early morning, works till half past 1 or lunch time-he gives an hour end a half to the numerous guests he has, then he works again till dinner time; at 10:30 he leaves his dinuer guests, goes to bis study nnd remains there till 5 o'clock In the morning. He seldom spends more than an hour and a half lu the open uir each day. And he works at this high pressure wher ever he may be uu bourd a steamer, In a subsequently pasFeJ through all of the chairs and In 1S91 was made master of the lodge. He occupied the mauler's chair for live yeurs. He was fine of the best mas ters Dcadwood lodge ever had and, as ho was nn enthusiastic Mason, he gave an added Interest to all affairs M.isoni and inspired the members to greater effort. In 1'9 he took the Itoyal Arch degrees ami after pausing through th in.ermedi tie chairs win elected hih priest in !.X!7. He took the Knight Templar degrees In 1911 and at the present time is generallisimo of Dcadwood commandery. He took th Scot tish rite degree. In 1SSO and In 1S9'i was elevated to the otllce of knight c ltnniander of the Court of Honor. In 19 U he Will made an honorary thirty-third degre Mason in Washington, D. C. Mr. Dague was burn In Wayne county, Ohlj, on a farm near Wooster on Friday. October 11, IS 3. His parents moved to Minninpo'.l, Mini... in the sprinif of 1S.13. Blnce then until April, 1X77, Mr. Dague made his hnmc li that city, graduating from Its public schools. In 1ST" he went to t'-.e Black Hi 1 and took a position In one of the Deadwood hanks, remaining in the bunking busin ss uat'l 119.1, when he went into business for him self. In 1XM he became anistant cashier of the First Nutlmal bank, which posi tion he held unlil If-9-1, when h- left th? banking business to enter busine s for h'm Belf, and now represents several of the most prominent fire insurance companies In the I'nlted States In the Hills. He was married In June, 1879, to Mary K. Hoy of Minneapolis and they have had three chil dren born to them, one boy, who recently attained his majority (and whj has the proud distinction of being one of thj few Masons who have had the third degree con ferred upon them by their own father) an.l two girls, one of whom Is a young woman. Bruce Fleming of Missouri Valley. Ia., Is a young man who is winning his way in the world. He In a native of Missouri Valley and Is now 25 years old. After being graduated from the high school of his native town he attended the University of Nebraska and there took the course In the law school, and is now Just entering on the practice of his profession at his home. His father, Mr. R. Q. Fleming, is an old time railroad man and Is well known In Nebraska, having been employed for many years as a conductor on the Union Pacific. iJiwrence T. Plllsbury of Fremont Is an other Nebraska boy to win high honors In tha scientific world. He was recently given the William T. I.uak memorial prize, which Is offered by the Bellevue Medical college of New York annually for the beat original scientific work done by any member of tho student body, Dr. Plllsbury Is now at tached to the house staff of Bellevue hos pital lit New York. He was born at Fre mont In 1874 and after being graduated from the high school there took a course at the University of Nebraska, taking a degree there. He then studied medicine at the Gross Medical college In Denver and was given the degree of doctor of medicine there. . For some years he was In the serv- the Lives of Noted People railway or when resting at one of his temporary dwellings during his tours.. And yet those who meet him as his guest can scarce realise that he is so terrible a worker. The president of the New York Stock exchange is one of the most Important personages in the groat metropolitan city, for upon his action sometimes depend the fortunes of thousands of financiers. That position Is now held by Rudolph Keppler. He has completed recently his fifth term of service. He spends an hour a day prob ably In the executive offices of the ex change, the remainder of his time being taken up with his own business at 2!5 Broad street. He receives no salary us president of the exchange, although like work at any other financial institution would command a handsome reward. Canon Cattley, who died at Gloucester, England, the other day, used to tell h story of how on one of his visits to Gloucester Mr. Gladstone kept a rule of the cathedral In the letter while breaking it in the spirit. Mr. Gladstone was con ducted over tho building by a verger named Cross a man of unusual culture whose account of tl features of Interest was more Intelligent than such expositions usually are. The statesman, highly pleased, tendered a tip of half u sovereign. The man respectfully doclined the gift us against the rules. Mr. Gladstone dropped tho piece of gold on the floor. "There." bo said, "the rules -will not prevent you from pickiug it up." And tuey diUu t- Colonel Mills, superintendent of the West Tolnt academy, has a reputation for stern ness even among army men. Years ago, when lie first took command of the post at Buffalo, he found tluti station exiremely lax In discipline and It was no secret among his friends that he proposed to work some reforms. Shortly after his installation he was one day annoyed by the receipt of a telegram from a subordinate off ou a fur July ", 1003. Ice of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. In the hospitHl at Pueblo, and In charge of large camps established by the company. He left Colorado last year to complete his studies at Hcllevue college. New York, en tering th" senior year. His thesis, whlrh won him the William T. Dusk prize, the highest in th" gift of Hcllevue, was based on bacteriological research, and has been published in some of the leading medical J ui r ti ,1s. On- of th" June weddings in Nebraska whlh attracted considerable attention was that of Mr. Jacob Wolf of North Platte to Miss Kculah Gwendolyn Klson of Platts mo'ith. It was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents on Wednesday, June 24. In the presence of a large assemblage of relatives and friends, Rabbi Schawl) of St. Joseph. Mo., pronouncing the ceremony. Tie nffalr was nr.e of the most pretentious In a pedal way in the annals of 1'latts inouth and wns nvide the occasion of much rejoicing nnd merrymaking among the members of the wedding party. After the ceremony and the festivities that followed, Mr. and Mrs. Wolf left for a ling wedding tour of the eastern watering places. Schuyler's high school was a little be hind the others of the state In graduating Its class of llnfi. but the picture published In this number tloei not indicate that the members of the lass are one whit behind the others so far as mental attainments go. If the faces are any Indication, the IHtSl o'nss of the Schuyl-r high school Is one that any community might feci proud of. This Is the natural season for picnics, ii nd one of tho most hilarious of all the list was that hold In a private grove In the northwestern part of the city a few days ago. Some charitably Inclined young women decided to give a few urchins whose homes In the city are not pleTSHitly located a good time. These women didn't wait for help, but slmi ly loaded up a couple of trolley cars with youngsters of every shade and condition of poverty nnd hauled them away to where the grass is long and thick and green, and where the shade is cast by trees that were growing ticfore th5 white men came to Omaha. Hero the little folks were turned out to do whatever they elected, und If nt nny time the fun seemed to lag or fall short, the women who engineered the affair took a hand and the result was that the old grove never heard such shouting and laughter as on that day. All.,t) regulation picnic acces sories had bc'i-saf" V.W, and the sul.rttun tlals and dalirf Ts go to make up a picnic lunch wes lenty, so that each hungry stomach vrJy filled, as in till like lihood (hey were ncr filled before. And. finally, when the sun had gone down on the most enjoyable day any of them had ever spent, the promoters and the bene ficiaries climbed back into the trolley cars, and the picnic was over. The Bee photog rapher went out during the afternoon and preserved some of the fun by making sev eral pictures, some of whioh are repro duced In this number. lough, which read: "Will not report today, as expected, account unavoidable circum stance." The tone of the message was not at all to Colonel Mills' mind, and he wired at once in reply: "Report as expected or give reasons." Within un hour the following message came over the wires from a hospital in New York: "Train off; can't ride; legs oft; can't walk. Will not report unless you Insist." The colonel did not Insist. Sir Henry Campboll-Tlannerman, or "C.-li.." as he Is called by his colleagues, was allowed even by Mr. Parnell to be a "very good fellow." He Is one of those Scotchmen who can thoroughly understand a Joke and he 1b the first to appreciate the Irony of fate which has made the descend ant of a family who were hereditary ban ner bearers to the kings of Scotland leader of the advanced radical party. It is often Bald that "C.-H." would have made au ideal 8Hiaker, but fate decided otherwise, and though he may not be an ideal leader no man Is mo personally popular, not only with his followers, but with his opponents, among whom, by the way, sits his own brother, James Alexander Campbell. J. A. Chaffee, famous ns the original of I'.ret Harte's ptithetle story, "Tennessee's Pardner," h:is been placed In a sanitarium at Oakland, Oul. Chaffee has lived since 1HJ9 in a small Tuolumne county mining camp with his partner, Chamberlain. In the early days he saved Chamberlain from the vigilance committee by a plea to Judge Lynch when the vigilantes hud a rope around the victim's throat. It was the only case on record In the county where the vigilantes gave way In such a case. Cham berlain was accused of stealing the miners' gold, but Chaffee cleared hint, as everyone believed Chaffee. The two men then settled down to live where they have remained ever since, washing enough placer gold ! maintain them. Both are over 80.