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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1904)
THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. June 20, 1904 The Illustrated Bee. published Weekly by The lice Publishing Company, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb. Price, 6c Per Copy rcr Tear, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Postof&ce aa Second Class Muil Matter. Ifor Advertising Kates Address Publisher. Communications relating to photographs or article for publication- should b ad dressed. "Editor The .Illustrated Bee, Omaha." Ten and Picture Pointers f UARLKS WARUKN FAIRBANKS, I f I who has Juat been nominated for LV J vice president on the national re publican ticket, U a native of Ohio and Is 12 years old. lie was Union county, Ohio, his father farmer. When 20 years old he born In being a was graduated from the Ohio Wesley an liniverHtty, and two years later was ad mitted to practice at the bar of his native state, lie established hltnxelf at Indian apolis thirty years ago and has xlnce beon a resident of the Indiana capital. During all thi time he has been busy as a suc cessful lawyer, but has found time to take an active part In state and national poll tics. Ia 1893 ho was the nominee of the republican caucus for the vacancy In the United States senate from Indiana, but was defeated for election by David M. Turple. Feur years later he waa elected by ' the republicans, and one year ago ha was ro-eleoled, hi a second term expiring to 1909. In IWtt bo was a member of the Joint High British-American commission, which considered many matters In din pate be tween the governments of the United Btates and Oreat Ik Haiti, and was chairman of the American commissioners. In the sen ate Mr. Fairbanks has been one of the re publleaa leadant, and his nomination Is looked an as a strong one In every regard. In the senate Mr. Fairbanks has been distinguished for Ms quiet persistency In behalf af what measures he has favored, lie has given much time to the support of rural free delivery, and to measures in the Interests of labor. Among the union labor men of the United States ha la very popular, a ad especially among Uie coal miners, who reoognlze in him a genuine friend. lio knews what hard work is, for he paid bis way through college by working as a carpenter. He also earned his way while he was studying to be a lawyer In Pittsburg. . He la wealthy now, but la still a long way from bring- a millionaire. A week In camp Ist aplrnrild wlodup for a year's work In the IliKh school, and the cadets find in it something of compensa tion for "he dull hours of drill routine through which they are put during the school months. Net that camp Is atl sport, for it isn't. In fact. It is strictly business for the boys, as It la under military dis cipline from the time the battalion leaves Omaha until It returns again. But the change In the routine la n delight In itself, and the nights in Die tent unci the days on the camp ground are the kind that bring health to bodies more or less relaxed by school work. liirly to bed and early to ' rise, with enough of drill and parade to keep tha Intervening time well filled, gives the youngsters an appetite for food and sleep such aa they seldom If ever know at home. Camp cooking Isn't like mother's, but It la whetesoino nnd plenty is served, o that none nre In danger of starving, however much a boy may think so when ha first feels the pongs of honest hunger. Visitors' day at tho rump Is tb? time when tho real reward of blng a cidt is reaped. Then the fathers and mothers and sisters and ether fellow's sister, and tha girls from tho high school all come out. and the routine Is crlven over so that all may have as good a time as they like within live limits of the ramp. Then, too, eomea the time of reckoning for the lads whoee animal spirits have led them Into some lafractions of discipline. For tha camp must be "policed," and It Is only those who are In the guardhouse who are subject to this detail. As no serious breach Is likely to oocur. it doesn't take much to get a fellow placed tinder guard, and then when the girls and th grownups come out from town, he flndH himself busy tidying up around headquarters and along the main street and seeing that the pnrnde ground Is free from arrspe of par- and rubbbh. and doing other things he wouldn't hav had to do If he hud only "soldiered" a lit tle better. It Is punishment and carries its lessoa with it. Many boys go to their sec ond and third camps with the battalion, but few ever get caught for the do' lee de tail on visitors' day a seooad time. The Toung Men's Chrlirtian association tent Is one of the features of the ramp. In It axe the desks and pens and paper tha boys use to write home thesr talee of camp life, and hare oa Sundays and In the even ings are held services. The hospital tent, as a rule. Is more for show than actual use, bat the reek's quarters la the place where real business goes on. The task of feeding SU to J0 hungry boys, with appe tites whetted by sharp work la the open air, Is aot a light one, as some of the lads wha found themselves detailed to help tha eook, and wha had to peel potatoes, can testify. Charles S. Deneen, a New National Figure (Copyright, 1904, by T. C. McClure.) I1KN tho republicans of Illinois w tho first week in June chose Charlea 8. Deneen of Chicago to be the party's nominee for gov ernor, he became singled out aa one of tho leading figures of the Impending national campaign. The country generally will watch his political course for several reasons; In the east and the middle west the leaders of both parties are already asking: "What will Deneen do In Illinois?" Tho unprecedented Hlruggle attending his nomination has awakened widespread inter est In the man, so that the people will want to know how ho fares at the polls in No vember. Ills nomination marks an experi ment In his party's history In Illinois for the first timo it has gone to the state's metropolis for a leader and It also marked tho breaking down of the republican ma chine. Ills supporters are enthusiastically declaring that his nomination has taken the state out of the doubtful column and , made It safe for Roosevelt; the democrats are pooh-poohing the statement and just as earnestly letting It be known that Mr. Deneen'a personality baa had and will have no such affect on the political situation. But however that may be, It ia late resting to note that Deneen ia on of tha two public prosecutors who will be found leading their parties la their respective states In political battles thia autumn. Tho other man la Joseph W. Folk, democrat of St. Louis. There Is thia difference, however. While the Folk people claim that many men not of their leader's political faith will back him, no one Is as serting that party lines will be lost sight of In Illinois, despite the fact that Chica goana generally call their state's attorney "Folk's forerunner," since he began simi lar work against the forces of corruption in 189, four years before Mr. Folk took up the cudgels. While Mr. Deneen'a work has not at tracted so great attention as that accorded to Mr. Folk's, It has been of tha same relative Importance, the only difference being that of degree. With both men tha Idea has been to stamp out the crimes that are Incident to the commercial and political development of the country. For this rea son the. Important trial case la either 8t Louis or Chicago Is no longer that of the murderor, as In New York and other Amer ican cities, but that of the "eminently respectable gentleman" who has criminally violated public trust. When Mr. Deneen took the oath of office for the first time such trials were prac tically unheard of in Chicago, aa waa the case In St Louis until 190. It had almost become a proverb that the criminal with Influence of any sort back of him could escape, whether he waa embezzling banker or debaucher of the ballot's sanctity. Prior to his election Mr. Deneen hud served notice that ho would ran his office accord ing to law. "Tha indicted man against whom there Buckles and Belts for Summer I - ICLT8 and buckles for summer I Tl I wear are so marked In their Indl I I vldualtty that they are not merely Gala accessories to eosturoea. but at tractive parts of them. They are striking In sise, quality and color and en tirely new la every respect The new belts are very wide, of soft, dressed kid and af suede kid. Most of the suede belts are lined with dressed kid. For example, black la lined with white dressed kid and so are gray and brown. Borne of the wide belts are merely drawn In wrinkles around the waist, and the loirfng point or carve of the end In front Is panned through a frame buckle covered with leather of tlie same sort and having a metal clasp. A few belts of this sort have Hat metal frames, solid gold, dull silver, brass and gunmctal. The kid belts are in pure white, gold, several Boft shades of gray, black, red and several shades of brown. There are white dressed kid belts wrought over with a gold design and black ones finished In the same manner. Otherwise, these belts are quite plala. except when laid in narrow fotda-a very fashionable new method of wearing them like bias folds. The inner lining is fitted to the waist and holds the folds In shape. A wide leather belt, the size of a horse's surcingle, Is cut to the shape of the waist, with a deep enrve from the hips forming a' sort of scallop in front. Thia plain uffalr ts finished with a long suuare leather frame buckle having a dark metal clasp hook in tho middle. While all the new leather belts for plain frocks have leather or plain metal frame buckles, aumo of lbs delicate colors worn with dressy costumes have buckles set with Jewels or otherwise handsomely orna mented. Wide girdle belts of satin, silk and other soft materials are treated in the same manner aa the leather, only with more latitude as to width, and have all manner af elegant buckle Is sufficient evidence to warrant a belief In hie guilt under tho law will be tried, no matter what his social position, religion, politics or color," ho said. "If under sus picious circumstances the Jury disagrees, he will be tried again aa quickly as pos sible. The criminal with Influence and friends will be prosecuted with greater vigor than the one who is penniless and friendless." Just as Folk's pre-election warning four years later was Ignored, so Denecn's was speedily forgotten, and when he began prosecuting crooked bankers, election Judges and Jury bribers, Influence of all sorts was brought to bear upon him. But It was all of no avail, and soon bankers, public guardians, treasurers, trustees and violators of the election laws were fol lowing one another in rapid succession to the penitentiary. Mr. Deneen went after these fellows hammer and tongs. When his assistants wero ready to present to the grand Jury the case of George W. Spalding, president of the Globe Savings bank and treasurer of the State university, he called them Into conference. "Now," said one of the conferees, "I think we'd better try to have Spalding In dicted on this count. It Is the strongest one against him." "How many counts have you against Spalding?" atked Mr. Deneen. "Twenty-five," waa the answer. Then," he said, "present every count to the Jury, try for true bills on every one of them, and If Spalding: escapes on one chargo we'll keep on trying him until he Is ulti mately convicted or acquitted." Then there was the case of Kdward B. Dreyer. treasurer of the West Chicago Park commissioners. Dreyer, following his con viction in the trial court, made a bitter fight to escape the penitentiary. The case waa carried to four higher courts, waa be fore the Illinois supreme court twice and finally the United Btates supreme court. Months were spent In bandying; briefs about, but Mr. Deneen waa finally rewarded by seeing Dreyer started prison ward. Equally representative of the state's at tomey's methods was his prosecution of a candidate on the same ticket with him in 1jo, thereby Imperiling, in tho minds of the party leaders, the success of the ticket at the polls. When this fear was made known to him he replied: "It may not be ex pedient, but It la right" He applied the same line of reasoning last spring when he. brought the soft coal "barons" to the bar, charged with conspiracy to raise the price of coal and to restrict competition among the dealer. All of these cases received Mr. Deneen's personal attention in preparation, and the majority he himself prosecuted. In this respect his manhood differs from the days of his boyhood. Then, while Charlie De neen had to work on the farm, and work bard, he was not averse to dodging: a Job If It could be done to advantage. In doing a once be unconsciously emulated the Floral designs are no longer new or fash ionable among buckles. Bird and bug Ufo Is represented Instead. There are brass, bronze, dull silver and gunmetal buckles made to it present eagles with spread wings, two beada coming together at the buckle clasp, one sieving a single sparkling Jewel from the other. Birds and even chicken heads are treated in the same manner. Bats, beetles and Urge bees are particu larly fashionable In buckles; so much so that In smaller forms, made of gold set with Jewels, they hang about the neck upon a slender chain. Bat buckles are handsome, as the wings permit a rich treatment of bronze with Jeweled veins and Jewels for eyes. Beetles have a single large stone for a body, with little sparkling emerald or ruby eyes, and over a beaten metal mlng, richly decorated, is laid a second smaller wing of solid cmtll rhlnestoncs or diamonds. Some of tho insect buckles have the small top wing of colored jewels, but the diamond tftct seeuis nioKt popular and effective. Borne of the buckles have a bug with a squirmy body. This is beautiful, a the curved shape of the bug's body, in small, glittering htones, comes down the middle of the belt, und the wings, veined with precious stones or wrought metal, extend up on the etdea The belt buckles that represent large ancient coins, with wonderful color effects in the metal and fine raised work, done by hand upon the finer buckles, are quite as fashionable as the insect and bird ones, but are not worn bo much, because they ore not suitable to as many sorts of can to mos. Slender oblong and square-cornered frame buckles of rliiues tones, cut steel, cut gold, Email colored stones, alternating v.l'h single rhl nest ones, and little gunmetal ef fects, are all fashionable and suitable for a greut variety of belts. , Owls and ha La, however, are quite tha most stylish buckles of the season and are as pretty aa they are novel. method taken by the renowned Tom Saw yer to get a fence whitewashed. Mr. Deneen's father wanted a lot of stove wood cut nnd corded, and his son wanted some pocket money badly. The situation gave rise to a bargain Charlie was to see that the wood was cut and corded in return for a stipulated sum of money. That day the boy skirmished around among Ida friends, found out who were hard up and engagwd them to cut and cord wood at so much per day. Charlie soon had a small army of youngsters at work for him, so that when bis father looked over his wood lot a few days later he found, to his great surprise, all the wood cut and neatly corded. He hunted up his son in order to find out how he had accomplished so much In such a short time. Then, the story came out and. the father was also informed that his offspring had made several dollars out of the deal without scarcely lifting a stick at wood. Mr. Deneen has risen to his place fn national politics after a struggle extending over a period of nineteen years, which began with his appearance in Chicago la 1886, when he waa 22 years old. He had studied law at night while teach ing in an Interior Illinois county. Arrived In Chicago, he started to complete his law studies at a college, but before he had fairly become familiar with the ways of the school his money gave out Then he tried to get luto a law office as clerk, scrivener, what not He tramped the streets for days, but no one needed his aervicea. Finally, some one offered him a position at a few dollars a month if he would go to St. Paul. He took it It waa a case of root hog or die. Here young Deneen stayed until he waa on his feet again. Then he went back to Chicago, the goal of his boyhood's dreams, and while teaching In the public night schools studied his Blackstone by day. In this way he made both ends meet both before and for some months after ha opened up his first law office, a dark hole In a rickety building, and whose fitting were a handful of much-worn books, a desk and a chair or two. Clients were slow In coming, and to get tho practice and keep busy young Deneen haunted the county jail and defended the prisoners who were without counsel and who were glad to accept his cervices. He , did this fer months, and tho experience he gained then stood him In excellent stead when he became state's attorney. There was this characteristic about him while he was engaged In this work: ha would not always con ton d that hie client was not guilty. Perhaps ha was guilty, but had sufficient evidence been brought out to prove him guilty? This lino of reasoning- brought him no little success, and eventually led to his being retained in cases of more and mare importance, in which the fee was not merely a passing; thanks or shake of the hand from soma poor devil of a fellow. But before these mo- substantial fee began coming in young Deneen had to seek; the cheap basement restaurants la order ot eke out his small supply of ready money. He Invariably ate eggs; they were the ! cheapest food having the greatest propor tionate amount of sustcaanoe. He ate eggs three time a day; ate them so often and so many of them that his state of mind waa almost like that of the man in the story, who whenever he saw a hen waa ashamed to look the patient fowl In the face. Six years after going to Chicago Mr. Dlneen waa married, but his law practise had not become so extensive that he could afford to mdss a case. Bo when a murder was committed In the stock yards on the day of hia wedding, and he was notified that his services were wanted In the case, he felt compelled to leave his bride of a few hours and grapple firmly the piece of good legal fortune that bad befallen him. While he struggled upward as a lawyer, Mr. Deneen Interested himself in politics. He took to It as a duck does to water. Politics was bred In his bones. His great grandfather had been speaker of the Illi nois house of representatives and a member of three legislatures. His grandfather was county surveyor, and Ida father waa always more or less active in politic. The son began right at the beginning in the precinct.. His handshake and his vole soon gained him a wider field. Then his ability as a political adviser became evi dent; gradually he evolved into the leader ship of his ward, and the first thing the old bosses knew young Deneen had been nominated for and elected to the legisla ture. This was In 1S93. In the ten years fol lowing he has become a leading political figure, not only In Illinois, but In the nation, because of the fight that will be mnde around him by the republicans on the one sldo to carry the Btate for Roosevelt and by the democrats on the other to secure the electoral votes for their presi dential standard bearer electoral votes that may decide who the country's presi dent for the next four years will be. HAROLD M. WELLS.