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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1904)
February 21, 1004. Tub Illustrated Ben. I'uhliahul Weekly hy The lieu Publishing tVinpany, Hi-.; lSulldliig. Omahu, Nlu. l'ri, 5c Per Cnpy-ivr Yar, $J.(W. Kniercd iil tln Omaha PostuIIlce ua Second (.'lass Mail Matter. For Advertising Hai' Address Pub'isher. C"ri i rim i. i sllons relating to ph'dngr.i i lis or nt'ir'.ir, for t I !-: I inn 1 1 1 1 I lir ad dressed, "Ivlltnr J II. intra ted id e. Omaha." l'eiiand Picture Pointers THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. Yj I t1'" grMVO With Oil! Slltlsf II tilin in snowing in nun vmiiica t i ins tuime mill Ills methods of !: 'I iik wild men. When he first came In'.o thf anna of iiatluiijil affairs lie wad pur posely misunderstood ami misrepresented by tlir prriH of t hi- opposition party, and no public man of re rent yars was mure viciously at tacked or maliciously maligned than he. Ill grim persist OllCe, his CnilKclnUSllCSS of the I rt1tud of his own lift- ri ml IiIh abid ing faith In his power to win success up hold him through months of what must have been a t rrlhly trying ord.ul to hlin. For Mark Itaiin had finer feelings, was full ol huri-an sympathy anil lovr for 111 a fellow men and the nf-sanlts to which ho was dally subjected were such iih uro eal culatid to curdle tin i milk of liumun kind ness rt It.t fountnln ami turn aside the g. nl.il current of the most hiiiiii.v nature. ItlH strength of haraclcr . mil. le.l him to I'crHM, and he flrrilly won tlio confidence nnd renpflct of even those w ho did nol agree Willi hlin politically, and his death is felt an a distinct national loss. . It wna among the worklngiiien of the country that Mr. llanna was most misun derstood. Imt he persisted, and lonn lirfore the end noma tin- man who tolls recognized that In the stalwart Cleveland business timn fitid cnpltullst hr had a friend whi was never nenry In his efforts to bring uhout a better understanding between the employer and the employ, d. It wiih not a matter t.f p'lro Sentiment with Mr. llanna, Imt n hiidincf A proposition. Me I new fiat n contented man could and would do let ter work than one who If not satisfied; and bo knew that the employer could and would feel on bettor term with Ids men If they were working together with a prrfeit un di ridandlcg. Hut of the di pth of IiIh (treat experience hr brought wisdom to the prob lem and Ills example and precept were of lncali til-l lo weight In the councils of llinni who are enlisted In the pursuit of the solu tion of Industrial und economical problems. Th- picture on tho fri nt page of this nuintier was n great favorite with Mr. Ilaniifi. Inrti rd, he prized It ntii ve any ho ev. r had tnkin. Th elrcu'nwt im ex under Which it wan made fclve an oxo Kent Iti nlKhl Into the nature of the man. l'urlnf? the en mp.ilini of PKirt bo as.xlnne I hlmcelf to a f-peix li-tiiiiklnK lour of the west, and tnel'nl.d Kitimcka In IIm route. Ills en B ltrement wna to lerinini.te at O-naha. tin til. a ftenioiin of the day lie wis to spo.ik here lie rvas comlnfr In from the south on a special train ov.-r the Missouri I'arlllri road. When th train was n little way out of Weeping Water ho avKed that It be stopped for a short time, that he mlht bo shavotl and othcrwiw remove some of the stains of his hard day's woik before lieliikr aKkeil to fuee t le at crowd that ih waltinif for 111 in in Omaha. Aeoord-Inj.-ly th train was halted, and Mr. llanna w.ia khivd und othrrwlso brushed up. A staff pluiloifrapher of The lice, who was on board Ih.i train, diked Mr. llanna to pose for n picture before tie tr ilu started HKaln. to wblrh the Krit orpanlxer run e'lted. Juat he wan stepping off tlio re.r platform the engineer of the train, I T. llurtoit, came alnpK. slni.y to In qulie a. to how sonn they would he ready to start. ' II ie, you're just the man I want." si. Id Mr. llanna, as he seised the eiij;lneer-n arm. "I want you to be in this picturo With pie. You're the usurer of this train and I'm the cnirtneer of the repu'elicaii party, and we'll Just bo photoKraphed to gether." On the next Puitday The Illustrated Hee Rho'.i d the wot Id on Its front pn;e '"I'lm Two 1'r.pinci ra," und It proved an Im mediate hit. A fine copy of the picture wi! sei.t to Mr. llanna. who kept It hun In his private offle between pictures of Mr. McKttiley and Mr. Itoonevelt. and never tlrvd of re fori in to It and the clr cumstanoew under which It was rande. The picture has Ixvn copied by newspapers all over the country, and Is pen. rally com nxnled on as rtvlni? a true Insight Into Mr. Ilunca's nature, his warm friendship fur the workinKnuin. Got l:m "Hay. what sort of km t Is Miss Quick. tcpr "I Jon't know WhyT "I wait Just wondertiiK. When I railed on her the other evening he wus at the plan t and I to'.d her I'd like to hear some of llie.-e Pongs Without Words.' lty Oeorge, he went and broUKht in the loudest canary bird I ever heard, started It to koIhk tend it tung the wbulo eireoiiig!" t'lii. ao Tnbuue. (C'opyrlKbt, 1804, by M. Walter Dunne.) 1 Hucnnwu ui inii.i, Willi Wllll'41 I I we were so much bothered some S. I Mm,, ol ,i .ui ..11., I . . . .. n itta n . . n I .. . ,.m t 1,1- I.I . V. story a story of my youth. I was ftnishlnpr my studies with a teucher, in a bin central town, at tha Instituticn KohlncHU, -elebrated through the entire province owing to the spec-la,l uttrntion Jmld there to Latin studies. For the past ten years, the Institution Robliieau beat at every competitive exam ination, tho Imperial "lycee" of the town, and till the collrpes of trto subprcftMiture, and these constant successes were due, they said, to an usher, a simple usher, M. IMueder.t, or rather Pore IMquedent. lie was one of those nildrilc-upcd men quite gray, whose, real use it Is impossible to know, and whoae history we can guess nt ii first stance Having cnlcred us an usher at :0 into the first Institution that presented llsclf so thut he could proceed to take out IiIh deforce of master of arts llrrl, nnd afterward the d. ktw of doctor of laws, he found hImsHf so much en meshed in this sinister life that he re mained an UMher all his life. Hut bis lovo for Iitln did not leuve Mm, but harassed hlin like nn mi healthy passion. He con tinued to re-id the poets, the prose writers, the historians, to Interpn t tiiem, to study th.tr iiicunliig, to comment on them with a perseverance liordorlna: nn madness. One day, the Idea came Into his head to force nil the students of his class to an sui r hlrn In litin only, and he persisted in tlds resell I Ion until at laFt they wero capable of sustaining an entire conversa tion with him just as t!.ey would in their mother tongue. Hit listened to thiwii, as a leader of uu orchestia listens to his mtislclans rehearsing, and utriking his disk every moment with his ruler, he ex claim. .1 "Monsieur I-frere, Monsieur l-efrere, you are committing a solecism! Tou are not recalling tho rule to mind. "Monsieur I'lantel. your turn of phmso is altogether Krench and In no way I.Htin. Vou must understand the genlui of k lui guage, liok here, lUten to me." Now It came to pass that the pupils of tho Institution Tlobluenii curried off, at the end of tho year, all the prizes for com position, translation mid L.utiu conveisi tlon. Next year, the principal, n liltle man. ns running ns an npe. and with the s imo grin ning ;;nd grotesque physique, got printed on his programs, on his advertisements, raid painted on the door of his institution: "Latin Studies a Rpeclalty. Five first pri"M carried off In tho five classes of the ly.'ee. "Two prizes of honor at the general com petitive examinations with nil the lycees and colleges of Krunie." For ten years the Institution Roblneau triumphed In tho same f.ibhion. Now, my fa'her. alluretl by these succt ascs, sent mo us a day pupil to Hohlnc ill's- or, as we called it. Kohinetlo or Itohinettlno and made me take special private Ipssons from l'ere i'iqucdcut at the rate of 6 francs per hour, out of which the usher got I francs and the principal 3 francs. I wis at the time, in my eighteenth )car, and was In the philosophy class. Thowe private lestmns wero eiven In a IlltU room looking nut on th street. It so happened that Pere I'lquedcnt. Instead of talking Latin to me. its he did when teaching publicly In the institution, kept tellmif about his troubles In French. With out relation, without fr'.ejids. the poor man conceived un attachment Pt me and poured out Info my heart bis own misery. He had never for the last t. n or Mieen years chatted confldentl illy ulth anyone. 1 am like an oak in a deavrt." lie said "sii ut qutTi us in solitudlue." The other ushers disgusted him. He knew nobody In the town since he had no liberty for the purpose, of making acquaintances. "Not ever the rdyht. my friend, and that is the hardest thing on me. The dream of r.iy life Is to have a room or my own with furniture, my own books, little things that bilongod to myAclf mid which others could not touch. And I have nothing of my own, nothing except my shirt and my frock coat, notldng, not even my mat tress and my pillow!. I have not four walls to shut myself In, except when I come to give a lesson In this room. Io you see what moans a man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding tho time to shut himself up all a'one, no matter where, to think, lo reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dour boy, a key, the key of a door which one can open this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness! "Here, all day long, the study with all those dirty brats Jumping about In it, and during the night tho dormitory with the same dirty brats snoring. And I have to sleep In the public bed at the end of two rows of beds occupied by these brats whom I must look after. 1 can never be alone, never! If I go out, I find the street full of people, snd. when I am tired of walking. I go Into some cafe crowded with smokers and billiard plnyers. I tell you that it Is a regular prison." I asked him: "Why do you not take up some other line, Monsieur I'iquedent?" Ho exclaimed: "What, my littlo friend? I nm not a bootmaker or a Joiner or a hatter or a baker or a hairdresser. I only know Lntln. and I have not the diploma which would enable me to sell my knowledge at a high pri.-e. If I were a doctor, I would pell for 100 francs what I now sell for 100 sou', and I would supply It probably of an inferior quality, for my academic rank would be enough to sustain my reputation." Sometimes he would say to me: "I havfl no rest in life except in the hours spent with you. Hon't be afraid! you'll lose nothing by that, I'll make It up to you in the rtudy by teaching you to speak twice us rruch Latin as the others." One rtny. t grew bolder and offered him a cigarette. He stared at me with nston ishment ut first, then he gave a glance toward the door: "If luiyone were to come In, my dear boy !" "Well, let us smoke at thf window," I said And we went nnd leaned with our elbows on the window sill facing the street, keep ing our hands over the little rolls of to-bs-co wrapiicd up In tissue paper, bo that they concealed them from view like a shell. Just opposite to us was a laundry. Four women in white bodices were passing over tho linen spread out before them the heavy and hot Irons, letting a dump fume escape fr.ira them. Suddenly, another, a fifth carrying on her arm a large basket which made her back stoop, came out to bring the cus tomers their shirts and chemises, their handkerchiefs and their sheets. Phe stopped on the threshold as if she were already fatigued: then, she raised her eyes, smiled when she nw us smoking, filing at us, with her left band, which was froe, the sly kiss characteristic of a free-and-easy work Ingwoman. snd the went away at a slow pace dragging here shows after her. She wths a damsel of about 20, small, rather thin, pale, rather pretty, with the main-era of a street wench, and eyes laiiKhing vn.ler her fll-conihcd fair hair. IN re IMquedent. affected, began murmur ing: "What an occupation for a woman, He illy a trau only fit for a horse." And he spoke with emotion about tho misery of the people. He had a heart which swelled with lofty democratic senti ment, and he referred to the fat1gu!ng pnrsuits of the working class with phrases b-irrowed from Jean-Jacques Housed ti and with sobs In bis throat. N.xt day as we were resting our elbows at the same window, the same workwoman perceived us. and cried out to us: "Good day, my scholars!" In a comical port of tone, while she made a contemp tuous gesture with her hands. I flung her a cigarette, which she im mediately tx-gan to smoke. And the four other Ironers rushed out to the door with outstretched hands to get cigarette itlao. And. each day. a friendly relationship was being formed between the working women of the pavement and the Idlers of the Isiardiiig school. IVro riquedcnt was reaJly a comic sight to look at. lie trembled at being noticed. for he might have lost his place, and h made timid and ridiculous gestures, quit a theatrical display of amorousness, to) which the women responded with a regular fusillade of kisses. A jsTfidlous Idea sprang up in my head. Ono day, on entering our room, I said td tho old usher In a low tone: "You would not believe It, Monsieur Pl quedent, I met the little washerwoman! You know the ono the woman who had tha basket and I spoke to her!" ITo asked, rather excited by the tone I had taken: "What did she say to you?" "She said to me goodness gracious! ehe said she thought you were very nice. Tho fact of tho matter is, I belW-ve I believe that she is a little in love with you." I saw that he was growing pale. Ho ex claimed: "She Is laughing at me, of course. Thes things don't hnppen at my ego." I said gravely: "How is that? You are very nice," As I felt that my trick bad produced Its effect on him, I did not press the matter. But every day I pretended that I had met the little laundress and that I bad spoken to her about him, so that In the end he be lieved and sent her ardent nnd earnest k Isses. Now If happened that, one morning, on my way to the boarding school, I really came across her. I accosted her without hesitation, as if I had known her for th last ten yeara. "Clood day, Mademoiselle. Are you quit well?" "Very well. Monsieur, thank you. "Will yo. have a cigarette?" "Oh! not in the street." "You can smoke it nt home." "In that o-o, I will." "Ix-t me tell you. Mademoiselle, there' something you don't know." "What Is thnt. Monsieur?" "The old gentleman my old professor, t mean " "Pt re Plquedent." "Yes, Pore IMquedent. So you know hit name?" "Faith. I di! What of that?" "Well, be Is In love with you." She burst out laughing like a erasy wo man and exclaimed: "This is only humbug!" "Ob! no, 'tis no humbug! lis keeps talking of you all the time he Is giving les sons. I bet that he'll marry yon." She ceased laughing. The Idea of mar riage makes every girl serious. Then, she repeated, with an Incredulous air: "This Is humbug!" "I swear to you 'Us true." She picked up her basket which she had laid down at her feet. "Well, we'll see," she said. And ehe went away. rresontly, when I had reached the boarding school, I took Pore Plquedent aside, and said: "You must write to her; she Is mad about you." And he wrote a long letter of a soft and affectionate character, full of phrases and circumlocutions, metaphors and Bimllcs, philosophy and academic gallantry, and I took on myself the responsibility of de livering It to the young woman. She mid It with gravity, with emotion; then, she murmured: "How well he writes! It is easy to see he bar got education: Docs he really mean to marry me?" I replied intrepidly: "Faith, he has lost his head about you!" "Then he must Invite me to dinner on Sunday nt the lie des Fleurs." I promised thnt she would tie Invited. Pert- 11o.uc6Vnt was much touched by rerythtng I told him about her. I added: "She loves you. Monsieur Plquedent, and I believe her to he :t decent girl. It Is not right to seduce her and then abandon her." "I hope I, too, am a decent man. my friend." 1 confess T had at the time no plan. I was playing a practical Joke, a school boy s practical Joke, nothing more. I had been .ware of the simplicity of the old usher, his li.i-occooe. and bis weakness. I amus .1 myself without asking myself how it would turn out I was IS. nnd had l-cn for a long time looked upon at the lycee as a knowing practical Joker. So. it was arreed that Pore Plquedent (Continued on T'..i e f'een.)