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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1903)
o THE ILLUSTRATED 31EE. Tno Illustrated Bee. Published Weekly ly The lce pjbllshlng Company, iir Hulkilng. Omaha, Nb. l'rice, Do Per Copy Per Year, 12.00. Entered at tho Omaha Postofllce us Second Class Mall Mutter. For Adwrtlnlng Hates Address Publisher. Corniiiuikatloi: relating to photographs or articles lor j j 1 j 1 1 c :t t j on Htimilil lie. ad dressed, "Editor Tne Illustrated lies, Omaha." Pen and Picture Pointers HE next lieutenant general of tho urmy of tho United titites, Major General 8. H. il. Young, and, by rriiMin of this designation, the head of thonrmy, who will succeed Lieutenant General Miles In August, hni from maket to should) r strap. B.n forty two years of acrviue aiiic volunUHjjing la the ranks of a. I'cuusy Ivuniu. ri'giiiH.iit fur the Civil War. Samuel Haldwln Marks Young entered the TTnlon army an a prlvatu In Company K, Twelfth Pennsylvania volunteers, April 25, lw;L when lie waa a little past LI years of ago, having In en born In Pittsburg, Pa, January 9, ISIO. He wrvrd m Company K only two months, when he was discharged to entir tho cavalry norvloe, being made captain ff horse on September i',, A. He was made a aiajor la September of the year following find n lieutenant K.lonel in October, 1XS4. At Appomattox he was made colonel anil on April t, IXiB, was breveited a brigadier guneml "for gnllnst and meritorious dt tiers during the campaign terminating with the surrender of the In surgent army uriji'r General It. . Lee." General Yontig wan honorably mustered out July 1, VoX. and. Uklng tho soldier's Ufe. be entered tho regular establishment aa a ae.eond lieutenant of the Twelfth Infantry May 11. 1S;. From that time his Tine haa been ronslatent and steady. For twenty flvo years he served In the west against the Apaches iml other savngo tribe t war with the Vnllod States. Indian fight Episodes and Incidents in ETF.I I A. H. WIDF.NKU, tbe Phil adelphia financier. Is so Immersed la business that ho dues not often Ibid time to wander over the groundx of his magnificent coun try place, I ,y a wood Hall, which is decid edly the show plaoe of Pennsylvania, One iy, however, Mr. Wldener had an hour of ldlenoxs and strolled through his huge stables. In a corner he came upon a Utile boy ttha head coachman's son) at play with a fox terrier. The financier and the child muni red the terrier for a while together, and thi, for some reason, Mr. Wldener sail: "Do ytiu knrw who I am?" Yes, sir," said tha boy, "of caurae I do." "Well, who m I?" "Why, yof're tho man that rides tn my father' carrt kges." New York Tribune. Senator Clark of Montana Is a very un ostentatious man. He has a habit of go ing around the streets down town with out much regirl to the niceties of his per sonal awxarnlioe. Ha was walking down Kxchange 4ace the other diy. with hot hat In his hand, a very informal looking "magnate." At the corner of New street Pat Curran, 19 yeans old and Irish, stopped him. "Shlae, Minder?" said Pat, pointing sug gestively at the senator's boots. The latter glanced down, noted tha ahooa 1IICN 8peuker to-be Cannee W I auked In Washington ahost his committee assignments la the If03fil ne)lt congress he said he had not r ' given the question any considera tion. Then he told the following story: "The present condition of things," said Mr. Cannon, "rewinds turn of the first circus I attended. I was about 9 years old and was escorted to the vast aggregation of tents housing the most stupendous, competition-defying, animate and Inanimate collection of wonders the universe had ever gased wpon by an old negro. We mad the round four times, studying the lhma and tigers and elephants and monkvyH nnd one baboon. This baboon was the biggest I have ever seen. It was us large as a big boy. The old negro couldn't Jtiave him. He returned to the cage feur times, scrutln liintT the baboon as stgely as tlie baboon acratlnlEed him. After ten minutes' mutual taring the negro remarked; "'How is your The buboon refused to reply. " 'Look heah.' persistod the negro, 'why fo don yo aay how yo' IsT "The baboon continued te watch the negro silently. The negro thought a while, gased at tha cage bars, and then he be gan to smile. His face broadened and bis teeth gUstaned. Then ha remarked: ing and the passing of superiors In rank, with tho years uf pralriu warfare, made him a lieutenant colonel. Uurlng his prairie campaigns GenernI Young won three distinct brevetships; a brevet mnjor for "gallant and meritorious services in action nt Sulphur Springs, a lieutenant colonel's brevet for like services at Amelia Springs, ur.d a brevet colonelcy for distinguished bravery at Sailors Creek. He was made a brigadier general of volunteers In Iho vmr with Spain and as a brigade cotninnnder served with renewal Shnftcr In Cuba, although he took no rt in active nitrations In the Held. He was hmorably discharged as major grr.cml of volunteers and appointed brigndicr general of volunteers with assignment to the Philip pines. Jlo w.ls made a brlfcjUhr gouerul Cnttrd 8ites nrmjf, January 2, 1?i0. nnrt n luujor general of the permnnent establish ment February 2, 11. His efficiency mal. ma great an lmpionslon upon the pjiil'jt nrd hH supcrlo-n that when the bill crest ing the new military general staff be-nrne a law General YounR was at once selected as the head of the war board and waa called from his work In the Philippine: to Washington to take tip tho task of re organizing the army along the new lines, nnd now he comes Into the highest rank In the army, a distinction held by very few soldiers since the creation of the army. Nebraska'a volunteer firemen ac-ain pre an exhibition of their abUty to handle the apiiaratur with which they are equipped to fight flames, and showed their expertcess and dexterity, speed and agility at their annual tournament at Norfolk. It was an occasion notable In many ways. All the compEnies represented entered Into the spirit of the affair with the seal and en ergy that marks the volunteer fireman In all his undertaking, and each did all in his power to make the races and other con tests go well. No phenomenal records were made, for there were no profemionals en caced In the contest, the events brine; bona fide tests of volunteer Bremen's ability and not contests between sprinters who follow the came for a 11 veil hood. The people of Norfolk did all that could be dene to were dusty, but remembered he had an appointment with the Ilaniman attorney a at his ofTVoe. ' "No haven't time," be said. And the boy grunted savagely, "You mean you ain't got the price, don't yer. Mister f The senator told the story on himself when he signed the check for tie.WW.an) about tea minutes later that paid for 500 miles of Oregon Short Line. New York Times. There la a town In western New York." says ChKuncey ML IV pew, "that bears my name, and tn this town some persons by boring tapped a natural gas well and there upon formed The Dewey Natural Gas com pany, limited. Mr. Cnoate and I met abort ly after this on a public occasion, when both were set down for specclies. He had the last word. Arter dealing with other matters be drew from hU pocket the prospectus of the gas company and revd It. Then he looked the company over, looked at me. and, reading the title at the head of the prospectus, queried with quiet emphasis, 'Why limited V Boston Post. ft IJke most other true and great soldiers. General Joseph Tlooker, to whose memory a splendid statue was unveiled in Boston recently, had no liking for the character of a fighter who fights hist for the sake or fighting. The words "Fighting Joe" are Gleanings From the To' sho' la wise, Mr. Baboon. I know why yo does say nuffln'. Why. If you done say one word dem white mens wud hah yo" out nolo' corn so quick yo' won't know whar yo" come from.' "The weather," continued Representative Cannon, In closing the conversation on tho chairmanships, "Is too warm to hoe corn." Andrew Carnegie brings each year from Seatland a new collection of Scottish stories. One of last ynar'a gathering con cerns a very Ignorant farmer. "This farmer, over a glasa of whisky, sympathised one day with the complaints of an old friend of his. a peddler. The ped dler said the times were always hard In Scotland; the people had no money there; It was a poor place to got Aloug in. "What you say Is true." the farmer agreed. "Why don't you emigrate to Aus tralia, Taviab? .Australia's a grand plaoe, by all aooounts." "It used to bo," tho other returned, "but It Is so no longer. Australia Is as over crowded now as any other land." "The coast may be," admitted the farmer, "but the Interior I'm sure Is not. Go to Australia, Tavlsh, and push Into the In terior." "r the Interior," said tho peddler. "There's nothing there but kangaroos. entertain their (ruests, having made the moat liberal preparations for many days Ix'fore, and carried out everything in tho most minute detail without a hitch. Had weather interfered with the track to the extent that the moat exciting feature, the hub and hub race, had to be abandoned, bnt the race against lime, the ' wet'' and "dry" hose raen, the coupling contests and the ladder climbing were all strenuous enotipli to set the blood of the most sh'K gish to flowing. The water fight was en tertaining, but tv one-sided to be exciting. The great parade; of the firemen was one of the preltlert ever given by the assenta tion. On Thursday at Athuitle, la., will be cele brated 1he fiftieth anniversary of the wed ding of Mr. and Mrs. 8. j. Krcugel. S. j. Krenpel was lion In Denmark May 19, 120. Mr. Krir.gcl (nee Marie Anne ChriMletison) was born Decemter 11, W-7. They came to this country In the month of June, 1x70, an J fettled on a farm In Shelby county, Iowa, where they lived for nineteen years In ISM) they removed to Atlantic, where they have since resided. There are eight chil dren nnd twenty-one grandchildren living. The children are: Iars C. of Omaha, Char ley of Council Hluffs, Andrew S. of Council City. Alaska; C. F. of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. A. K. Anderson of Bray ton, la.; Mrs. Mary Horn, C. K. and J. 1. of Atlantic. When President Roosevelt visited Omaha In April he was given one of the tuindaom est bridles in his large and varied collec tion of hors furniture, the handiwork of a wonian. Mrs. Mary D. Lydick of Harting ton. NV-b., made the bridle and decorated it entirely. She is a practical harncsnniaker, and works daily at the trade with her husband in their shop at Hartlngton. Oberfeldcr's lake at 1Odge Pole, Neb., is rapidly becoming noted among the fisher men as a place where good return may be had for time apent In whipping the water with fly or Fpoon. It Is well stocked with game fish, and some excellent "kills" have been made thtre this season. The one the Lives of Noted People not used anywhere in the inscription on the Hooker monument, it being the gen eral testimony of his comrades that he particularly objected to the appellation. He is said to have himself stated the reasons aa follows: " 'Fighting Joe Hooker always sounds to me as If It meant Fighting Fool.' It lias really done me much Injury In making the public be lieve I am a furious, headstrong fool, bent on making furious dashes at the enemy. I never fought without good purpose and with fair chances of success. When I have decided to fight I have done so with all the vigor and strength I could command." The king of tho Belgians Is a brilliant talker on any subject. Ills habits of Ufe are very simple. Ills majesty rises at 6 o'clock and works for a couple of hours be fore breakfast, a meal which la served in the queen's apartments. It consists of coarse, dry bread, tea and an apple. Tha morning Is spent in the transaction of state business, Luncheon Is of homely fare. The king usually drinks filtered water, rarely wine. He la very particular to take out door exercise In the afternoon. Dinner Is a plain meal, for the king Is fond of simple joints. Admiral Dewey and General Miles, though the best of friends, like to "Josh" one an other. Recently they visited Mount Ver non together and the general waa much im Story Tellers' The farmer thought that Kangaroos were some foreign race of people. "Well, Tav lsh," h? said reproachfully, 'Isn't a kan garoo's money as good as any other man's?" Kansas City Journal. There Is a friend of mine living in Peeks kill who had all the ills flesh was heir to, and he took pills and powders and powders and pills without result. So he called In my old family doctor. Dr. Basset t. The doctor looked at his tongue, lifted up his eyelids and looked at his eyes, and shook hhi heed. "How do yon diagnose my case, doctor?" anxiously Inquired tho patient. "Well," said tho doctor, slowly, "I can't tell exactly what's the matter with you, but tlis post-mortem will show." Boston Post "I am not superstitious," remarked eo I.leutenant Governor Timothy I Woodruff, recently, "and I do not assert that partic ular places are dedicated to particular oc currences by the fates, but a friend of mine told me a remarkable story about a boarding houso In which he once lived. During eighteen months fifteen different young women became boarders at that hotute, and every one of them married an eligible bachelor who happened to be there August 2, 11)03. shown in the illustration this week waa made by L. U Brown, a Union Faclno train dispatcher at Sidney, who took fif teen lino black bass in one day's fishing. Tho string weighed twenty-two nnd one ha'f pounds, the largest fish weighing three uud one-half pounds and the smallest one and one-fourth pounds. Hit. C. II. I iundy nnd Mrs. Handy, who have li a clfiht years In the Presbyterian missionary work in India, were In thin city for several days last week, nnd with them had a little native boy wln.m they have adopted and who is named Rajah. The mlsnioiiarlt pre crossing the country mak ing nddreeec on their work. Mr-i. Flandy ppoke In the First Presbyterian church here. They are supported In their work by the church In this state nnd formerly lived In Omaha, while Mr. Randy was a student at tho Presbyterian Theological seminary. Mrs. Handy formerly attended Hellev ie col lege. Tin: little boy Is n Tamil chIM, the nils-slonarlcH being stationed 1n the Madras pro idency, and caw from su h a distance to attend the mission school that he could r.ot Kpiak the dialect of the oilier children, fx tho Ilandys have taken eaxe of him. On Monday morning. July C, nt 11 o'clock, V. P. Husaelman, special, agent for the Nebraska Telephone company, received a message from Fremont notifying him that it would be neie;sary for Mm to be In Fremont that afternoon t give testimony In a case that was on trial. A thrnr were no trains leaving Omaha fur Fremont until 3 o'diKdc in tlio afternoon. It wa-f noiess'iry to devise some other nnsm-j of getting there. After trying a nuaiber f art!es Mr. Mussel man finally suc-reiled la gettln? C. C. Corkhlll with his automobile to undertake the trip. Tliey left Omaht at 1J:Sj and at 3 o'clock worn In Fremont. One stop of twenty mintitiw was made, which left the actual running time be tween Omaha nnd Fremont two hours and five minutes. The distance Is forty miles, and, owing to the rough condition of the roads, the time made must be conFidi red very good. pressed by the sight of Wasalngton's grave. As they were leaving the place allies said: "I wonder what Washington would say If he were suddenly to appear here in the flesh." Dewey glanced qurzElcnlly at his old friend and answered: "I really don't know. Nelson, unless he asked hew the devil you ever succeeded in getting the Job he once held." The recent marriage of Anthony Hope Hawkins ami Miss lCllzabeth Somervlllo Sheldon of New York has called nttentlon to the fact that English wrlttre have, In recent times, seemed as partial te American women as English politicians. Stevenson and Kipling are conspicuous examples. A London paper makes the suggestion that the English author who takes to himself an American wife Is secura of Interestad read ers in the old world and the new. The bishop of Manchester, whose fighting speeches In tho House of Iords on the edu cation bill were so much commented on, was In his youth a skinful boxer. He tells a tale of how, when ha was young, ha had a cousin at Harrow, n elxth fnrm boy, who prided himself very much on his box ing. The bishop was persuaded Icy the lad to put on the gloves and tea his skill. The result of the contest was that tke Har rowlan was soon vanquished, whrrt he re marked admiringly: "It Is n pity you are a parson; you would have done for the ring." Pack at the time. Tho air was continually filled with rice and old shoes. That is not nil, however. When my friend took up his quarters at the establishment, one of the boarders was an old maid, fehe left soon after. Hearing of tha succession of mat rimonial events, she returned, hoping, prob ably, that the lightalng would strike her. A rich old widower was then one of the Inmates. "Did she marry him? asked a bystander. "No; but my friend said she got evi dence for a 110,000 Toneach of promise salt against biro aad wan the case." Rochester Herald. Lieutenant Genera! Miles' ninety-mile rkde has brought out th interesting fact apro pos tho enrly retirement nor uga in our army and navy that there are now on the Its no lews than luS retired major generals and brigadier generate, as against thirty eight of thrpe of0crs In active service. In nil, there are 800 officers on the retired list one-fourth more than those in active service and a large part of these officers, although past the maximum ngc cf (A. are quite able to do sj-vice. In the navy, where men are retired at 6?, there nro sixty rear admirals on the retired list, aa against twenty-four in active service.