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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1904)
September 4, 1904J 1G People and Things of Public Interest V v THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. 33 lw QATrmnAT. September t. 190. Ol there u celebrated at "IUahee." I ha hnma of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Mills, at Mount Plea-ant, two tnllea southwest Of Albright, Neb., tho sixtieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. ana Mrs. U B. Huston, parenU of y lira. Mills. Tlis venerable groom la stately figure, ever six feet In height, and,- notwithstanding his M years, does not look older than many men twenty years , fcls Junior. Ills bride of sixty years Is a i kindly, pleasant-faced woman, four and a ' half years younger than he. X B. Huston was born In Greene county, Ohio, January 19, 1820. He has a vivid, recollection of the days when Ohio was . young. He went to Paris, I1L, In 1844, where he mot, wooed and married -Miss EHlzabeth Frances Gordon, on September I, 1844, and took her back to his Ohio home, ' where they remained until the spring of 1856, when they returned to Illinois. Ia 1868 they removed to Taylor county, Iowa, which state has since, been their home, until July, 1908, when they came to Ne braska to make their home temporarily ! with their daughter, Mra James W. Mills. There were born to them seven children, of whom there are now living three sons, A. G. and D. H. Huston of Jefferson, Ia. J. A. Huston of Canada, and their only daughter, Mrs. Ji W, Mills of Douglas county, Nebraska, Mrs. Huston was born In Mason county, Kentucky, October 21, 1826. When 4 years of age she removed with her family to Bloomfield, 111., and later to Paris, X1L Asked for a brief history of his long life. Mr. Huston said: "Oh, there la not much to say. I have always njoyed the best of health. X have bad but one severe spell of sickness, and then I differed with the doctor and got well.' Three years ago, while visiting a son living there then, I was struck Ty a witch engine In the Northwestern railway yards In Council Bluffs. Z was knocked down and out and badly used ap. X thought my time had come then, sure. ; But after they had picked me up and carried me Into the depot I found that . there were no bones broken, and as I had a pretty good constitution, I soon pulled through and was myself again In a week or two. I do all my 'reading without glasses. I need glasses only for seeing at a distance.' My favorite reading Is the newspapers. We celebrated our golden wedding ten years ago', and both of us have had the best of health since. Of later years I begin to feel a little wobbly on tny legs, but other than that I am all right, X find very comforting employment in work, lng In the garden here, and enjoy It X can do a good day's work yet, but do get a little stiff. But I soon get over It" Drifting Into the reminiscent mood, Mr. Huston said: "I knew Mr. Lincoln quite well, and have seen him often. I heard him and Stephen A. Douglas In their great debates one or twice. I was at Terrs Haute, Ind., at the birth of the republican party there, and was very familiar with ' the underground railway system and helped ' many a poor slave to freedom. One of the ' grandest men I ever knew was Owen Lovejoy, the great anti-slavery leader. X knew klm personally and a better man never lived or died. X remember distinctly when his brother, Preston, was. killed at Alton, 111., because of bis abolition beliefs. "The deatb of his brother was a griev ous blow to Owen, and he never did get . Quito over It My first vote for president was for Lewis Cass. - I did not vote for Oenoral Taylor because I did not think the , Mexloan war was right But I have since got over that X was younger then and did not know as much as I did later. X have voted for every republican candidate for president elnca. Including twioe for t Lincoln. I had one son In the war. I was too old Ur go myself, but we old fellows Stayed home and looked after the copper heads and the Knights of the Golden Clr . cle. Dan Voorhees used to come out la our section of the countiy and stir up the ,,: Knights of the Golden Circle to do things, hut we held them down pretty well. "Oh, yea X shall -certainly vote for .President Roosevelt . X think bun one of ftlie greatest Of our presidents, "I have seen Peter Cartwrtght but did Hot know him very welt There was a great evangelist In Ohio in the old days named Arthur Elliott X think be was even a greater preacher than Peter Cartwrlght "Elliott was a great politician -and he bated a democrat worse than the devlt tie said they needed looking after sis days An the week, while the .devil could be taken gar of Bun days." Campaigning Show Herd j' (Continued from Page Thirteen.) '. fcare Is necessary. The Harris' show herd fa a herd of pets. Frum caifhood on to full (.maturity the animals receive better car ithan some cbildrsn. They have dean, cool lyjbada; they are Vasaod and brushed and 'nan-tea and combed. - 'fuck Urn X stood la ( trios of s. crowd v'Jui OVt ,K it V e ' - - " -.J"- I," k- 3 ' .:. 1. - i 1 -it.' - , . - m Ta minmn Tjtnm. TCuh'iTian. Rita Thomaa Marvtna SIchL Lena Trimble. NEBRASKA CITY M133KS WIW" GAVE A PlliSToR TUB BBNKFIT OF. TWO UNFORTUNATB WIDOWSJ about the ring. Within the ring was a row of whltcfaced calves, each In Its Sunday best washed and curled to the last degree. A woman came by leading a tired child. All day she had tramped the dusty fair grounds and now upon her way to tha gates she paused a moment to view the cattle show. One glance was enough.' She looked from the whltefaced darlings In the ring to her own little darling at her side. The child was pretty, but It was tired and hot and dusty. Across its dimpled cheek was a smear of gingerbread and Its "golden hair was in a tangled web. The woman saw the contrast and she turned away. . "Law 'sakes, Mandy," she exclaimed, net's you and me git outen this. Them calves looks purtler than you do, and all them folks will bo a-laughln' at us." ' Jimmy Price has made the Harris show ' herd.-' Overton Harris has supplied the means and his herdsman has worked tha raw material into shape. Jimmy loves his cattle. Day- and night he Is with them he soems to have no other aim, no other object Jn life. Under his fostering care the herd has made phenomenal win nings, A few figures are in order. Take the banner year of 1901. The Model Herefords were the grand champions over all beef breeds. ' They were shown at Hamllne, Minn, Sedalla, Mo Louisville, Ky., Springfield, 111., St Louis, the Ameri can Royal -and the International. : They won . twenty-two sweepstakes, fifty-five . firsts, thirty seconds and a number of lesser prises. That year the show herd brought home in cash prises the sum of (6,101 The winnings in 1903 were almost as large, 15,320k Outside of the regular help employed, the expense of showing tho herd over the circuit of the leading fairs and shows amounted to a trifle over $1,600 ; last season. A' large part of this ex pense is in. freight charges and the hire of ' the cars in which the cattle are shipped. . The show season covers a period of about ninety days, beginning with the early fairs In August and continuing until the close of the American Royal In October. Then there is a short season of rest before the" International in December, the last show of the year. For the Harris show herd of twenty-fire to thirty head, two of the Arms' Palace stall ess cars are generally In use during thentire time the cattle are on the road. These cars accommo date twelve head of the older cattle, six In either end of the car. In the center the herdsmen sleep, and there the feed and other necessaries are kept Tho cars cost f30 per month, In addition to the freight charges, wlUch amount to from ICO to fit for each haul between fairs. - Another source of considerable expense Is the high price which must be paid for ' grain and bay at stock yards points. To this nun be added the extra caro anl fed during (he year and the salary of the herds- man and his helpers, but this expanse Is offset by the advertising which the r.ord receives and the higher prices which show stuff always commands. .When there Is time enough 'the cattle . are usually sent to the fair or show grounds a week prior to the opening of the show. Thuy are given roomy stalls, plenty of good fed and fresh bedding, and in the . early hours of the day one may see a dosen herds mm busily engaged la washing' and brushing the candidates for honors In toe aliow yard, Tht- is a deal of hard i . v..'; 7 ; t ': v MR. AND MRS. U B. HUSTON, WHO WERE MARRIED SIXTY TEARS ON SATURDAY. . work and little play for the herdsman who follows the show circuit Let him not at tempt it who docs not love his cattle and the work for Its own sake. While they are on the snow circuit Jimmy Price seldom leaves his cattle. He sleeps In the bams with them when they are on the fair grounds and In the car when they travel. I asked htm If anyone ever tried to steal his high-priced charge and be shook bis bead. "The sneak thieves try to- steal every thing else that Is loose." he said. "I re member ono time at St. Louis they were so bad that when I waoted lo change my skirt I had to put my foot on the clean one while I toot the other one off." That was a long speech for Jimmy and X followed him in silcr.ee about the barn, marveling at th airount of work which he look upoa hlicself. .H .never ncg lects a detail la the care of the herd and the working tools of bis craft art. ever In his willing banda X thought of tbs long and weary hours of patient labor, the preparation that extends over months of time, the final starting on the show cir cuit and the almost ceaseless vigil of watching by day and by night throughout the season. I saw him In tbe show ring waiting long for the Judge to make up his uncertain mind, and I recalled the tire some trips from the barns to the show yard, back and forth In the sweltering heat . across the dusty streets of the fair grounds. I saw htm in tho small hours of tba morning sitting on the platform by the side track; waiting for a laggard switch engine A. . VI-' II.. V. I.. ,tm J ,UJ, Vl . ff ,w uu .watt cattle and be off for another fair as hot anil as dusty as tbe one he was leaving be hind. And I said to myself that the secret of success in fUUng vand campaigning Si "show herd Is a compound of good Judgment ond untiring energy, a love for the work and a patienct that endures even unto th J. T. PUNLAT,