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PR1NG SHOOTING has Its advo
cates as well as Its opponents.
Each side brlnKM much reason to
bear In favor of Its position, and
agreement will probably never be
reached. With the disappearance of snow
and Ice from ineidow and pond, shotguns
are cleaned and oiled, the dog" sniff the
air with real di light, and the Nebraska
hunter sallies forth to secure tils per
mitted share of the game birds that are
not protected by the closed season. Ducks
and geene lead the list In this section of the
world, but not far behind them come the
snipe. Here Is the real test of a sports
man's fk 111. Many a man has had good
kuccchs against the slow-flying prairie
chicken, the duck and the goose, and has
come to look upon himself as a fair field
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shot, or maybe a little better. ThU Is
before he has tackled tht snipe. After a
few rounds with these birds he alters his
opinion of his ability as a marksman,
(letting action on these birds Is more like
shooting at a streak of light than anything
else. Their flight Is short, rapid and
erratic. One time the snipe zigzags, and
the next time It corkscrews. Nothing Is
certain further than that It Is getting out of
range as fast as Its powerful wings and
long legs can carry It. Some men tell of
never missing a snipe, but they never do
this twice among a crowd of snipe hunters.
The snipe most common to Nebraska U the
Wilson snipe, often erroneously called the
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I some time ago one of the cabinet
pasture, when the question was
aHked, "How many of us in our
boyhood duys drove cows to pasture?" it
was developed that every one of the presi
dent's official family had performed that
service In his youth.
A congressman whose parents came from
the green isle jokingly remarked to Benton
McMIIlln of Tennessee that St. Peter waa
II n Irishman 'Maukit k ,, .. 1 J w
..linn. hijkuj, ua nwu l a negro
colored man would have allowed
rooster to crow three times."
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that.
Once when Sir Charles Hothum, governor
of Victoria, was out driving, his coachman
nearly came Into collision with a wood
carter, an Irishman, In a narrow lane out
side Melbourne. The Irishman would not
pull off the middle of the road, as he had
the heavier load, and, by the rough rule of
such things, was thus entitled to keep
there. The Incensed governor thereupon
put bis head out of the carriage window
and fcluuted: "Do you know whj I am,
my man? i ts Sir Charles Hotham, the
governor of Victoria!" "Ye are, are ye?"
responded the other. "Well, ye've got a
thunderln' folne Job, ould man, an' I'd ad
vise ye to thtlek to It!"
Previous to appointing General "Joe"
Wheeler to a command in the war with
Spain President McKlnley consulted with
the late Senator Davis of Minnesota about
the matter. "I think it would be a splen
did appointment," said Mr. Davis. "I am
a living witness of Joe Wheeler's grit and
persistence. During the civil war he chased
me like the devil through five states."
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Alexander R. Shepherd, who for three
years was at the head of the government
of the District of Columbia and who spent
$40,000,000 In improving Washington, Is re
turning, a millionaire. When he left In
1879 taxpayers railed him a "boodler" and
charged all sorts of corruption. Many of
these citizens, soma of whom wert almost
Jacksnlpe. The true Jacksnlpe haa a shorter
bill and shorter legs than the Wilson, Is
slower of flight and more certain of direc
tion. Those shown In the picture today are
Wilson snipe. It will not be much longer
until his cheerful note Is again heard on
the sandbar for he has this In common
with his plebeian cousin, the sandpiper
and the snipe hunter will again resume his
pursuit of the tantalizing as well as tooth
some bird.
One of the best evidences of prosperity
In a community is the condition of the
public schools. Western people take great
but pardonable pride In this Institution and
cheerfully contribute to Its support. In the
growth and development of the school is
reflected the progress of the commuuity.
When the school enrollment Is doubled
within two years It is a safe assumption
that that town Is alive. Corning, la., has
had this experience. Eight years ago the
one school house In the town was found
Inadequate and a second building was
secured to accommodate the younger pupils.
This was soon out grew n and a third school
house was erected. The demand for school
room Increased so steadily that It was found
nocesary to provide more commodious
quarters for the high school. On Friday
next will be dedicated a handsome brick
building, modern In every respect, Just
completed at a cost of $15,000. It Is devoted
to the uses of the high school exclusively.
The building has seven rooms, an assembly
hull and superintendent's office on the
second floor and five class rooms on the
ground floor. In. the basement is a gym
nasium. The building has a capacity for
225 pupils and 1 S.". are now In daily at
tendance at the high school. Superintend
ent F.lliott has Ave assistants in the school.
The Corning school board consists of C. F.
Andrews, president; W. C. Chubb, secre
tary; F. L. La Rue, treasurer; Walter New
comb, nurg Drown, W. W. Runyon and
Henry E. West rope, directors.
On Friday evening, March 21, at the
Omaha club, the alumni of the University
of Michigan of the middle west will tender
President James B. Angell of the University
of Michigan a banquet. President Angell
Is descended from ancestors who went with
Roger Williams from Massachusetts to Rhode
Island and helped to found the colony. He
was born at Scltuate, R. I., In 182'.) and
was graduated from Brown university In
1850. After his return from Europe, where
he stayed three years, he spent seven
years as a professor of modern languages
at Brown, meanwhile contributing to
the Providence Journal. From 1860
until 1866 he had editorial charge of the
Journal, during the absence of Its editor.
In ISfiti he was chosen president of the
University cf Vermont and In 1871 became
president of the University of Michigan.
Early In 1880 he was appointed minister to
China by President Hayes, his errand being
to negotiate a new treaty bearing upon
Chinese Immigration to this country. This
duty he discharged successfully and re
signed his office the following year. In 1877
he was appointed one of the commissioners
to settle the fisheries dispute with Oreat
Britain. In 1897 he was appointed minister
to Turkey. The sultan obJect"d to Dr.
Angell because he had been advised that
the Congregational church, of which the
doctor is a prominent member, was a
Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted People
bankrupted by his lavish expenditures, now
say Mr. Shepherd's work will stand as a
monument to him. It is admitted that
but for his Indomitable will Washington
would not be today the beautiful city It la.
Shepherd went to Mexico practically penni
less, but was fortunate In mining ventures.
He Is 67 years old.
The late Lord Dufferln, when governor
general of Canada, was one of the earliest
promoters of free Niagara and gave all the
weight of his great Influence to that project.
His original suggestions applied to the Can
adian side, but the state of New York did
Us share of the good work before Canada
waa ready to act. Streets Islands, opposite
Victoria park, were renamed In honor of
Lord Dufferln.
Eatly In his career as a lawyer William
McKlnley was accustomed to pass a butch
er's shop on the way to and from htB office
and for a long time was puzzled by a cer
tain notice which be saw there. In the
morning he would read: "Good pork
sausages, 20 rents." On his return In the
evening he would sometimes And these
sausages still 20 cents a pound, but more
often the notice was changed and the sign
read: "Fine pork sausages, 12 (or some
times 10) cents." The matter, he said, used
to worry him. Sausages were not of so
perishable a nature that they would not
keep till the next day and he could not
understand it. So one evening he stopped
at the shop, made some casual remark and
then inquired the price of sausages.
"Ten cents," said the shopkeeper.
"But." replied Mr. McKlnley, "they were
20 cents this morning."
"So they were, Mr. McKlnley," replied
the butcher; "so they were. Then I had
'em, now I haven't. Sausages at 10 cents
Is simply to gut me a reputation for cheap
ness. See?"
The future president saw and was In the
habit of saying that a great many reputa
tions were made In that way.
Emperor William of Germany can talk
fluently in sis languages. Hs bas written a
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Jesuitical body and therefore he feared the
proposed minister would be obnoxiously ac
tive In propagating his doctrines among the
Mohammedans. Assurance ae to the true
character of the church In question removed
all objections to the appointee and an
official announcement to this effect was sent
to Secretary Sherman. Dr. Angell resigned
In 1898 to resume his duties as president
of the university.
The pathway by which William Larrabee
of Iowa achieved success Is not greatly
different from that trod by other suc
cessful men of the west; his methods were
the prosaic methods of every self-made
statesman or financier; he stands one of a
type.
William Larrabee thumbed his primer on
the benches of a Connecticut school house
and when he had achieved sufficient learning
to enable him to teach others he removed to
Iowa and began his career. Tiring of
school teaching, he became a farmer for a
few years, then turned to the milling trade
and from 1855 to 1873 he was the miller of
Clermont. It waa during this period that
he demonstrated his great capacity for
hard work, often putting In long hours
each day for many months at a time; but
success followed this tireless Industry, and
when he sold his milling business thirty
years ago he was able to take his first va
cation and spend some time traveling In
Europe. He had already ' begun a career
of service to his state and h's travels aided
In fitting him for still greater service.
Fayette county elected William Larrabee
to the senate In 1868. He devoted himself
assiduously to his work and soon became
one of the recognized leaders of the senate.
Four times thereafter he was elected to
the senate. He was for several terms
chairman of the committee on ways and
means of the senate and was virtually the
financier of the legislature during a long
period. In 1885 he was nominated by the
republicans cf Iowa for governor and re
signed his place In the senate. He was
elected by a large majority over Charles
play and conducted its rehearsal. He has
written a public prayer and conducted a
choir. He can cook his own dinner, can
play chess, paint pictures and draw cari
catures. He has learned engineering and
studied electricity. Though he can use only
one arm, he can shoot game for four hours
at the rate of two a minute. He has over a
hundred titles and Is an admiral In three
of the biggest navies. In twenty-five years
he has shot 23,000 head of game. He
changes his dress a dozen times a day, has
a dozen valets and his wardrobe Is worth
$500,000.
Several years ago, when Joslah Qulncy
was mayor of Boston, records the New York
Times, a politician there christened his
youngest boy "Joslah Qulncy Rosnosky."
He had named his preceding son "Nathan
Matthews, Jr.," after another democratic
mayor, and had this child with him when he
called on Mr. Qulncy and told how he had
honored him.
"What Is your name?" asked Mayor
Qulncy of the boy.
"I'm named after Nathan Matthews, Jr.,"
replied the boy. And then he added, as If
he bad said It often: "He was the beBt
mayor Boston ever had."
Everybody laughed except Mr. Qulncy,
who never dees such a thing.
"Oh, well," remarked Mr. Qulncy, when
the merriment subsided, "Just wait until
Joslah Qulncy RoanoBky is old enough to
talk."
Representative Boutell, the diminutive
member from the big city on Lake Michi
gan, la as apt at repartee as any man in
the house, re'ates the Washington Times.
His Intellectual ability Is not measured by
his physical stature. Whenever on his
feet he always has full confidence in him
self and no amount of cross-questioning
causes him to lose his equilibrium. He
appeared at his best the other day In his
humorous reply to Representative Wheeler.
He read from Mr. Edward M. Shepard's
"Life of Martin Van Buren" an account of
Van Buren's son, referred to as "Prince
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CORNING, la., WHICH WILL BE
RIDAY.
A. Whiting and two years later was elected
In opposition to Major T. J. Anderson.
Governor Larrabee attended personally to
every detail of the work pertaining to the
executive office. He Inaugurated the sys
tem of making Irregular and frequent visits
to state Institutions to give them personal
inspection. He devoted himself to a study
of the pardon cases and Insisted on per
sonally attending to this work. He gave
many hours of painstaking labor and much
thought to the problem of taxation, and
especially to the problem of railroad taxa
tion. It was during his term of office as
governor that he made himself an expert
in the matter of railroad rates and man
agement, and later wrote and had pub
lished a valuable book on the subject. It
was during his administration that the
present railroad law was placed on the
statute books of the state and the authority
of the state over rates was firmly estab
lished. It was during his administration,
also, that the prohibitory liquor law was
undergoing a test in Iowa, and although
Mr. Larrabee, as senator, had not been In
sympathy with the movement for state wide
prohibition, he gave to the law his earnest
support and insisted on strict enforcement
of the law, no matter what might be his
own views.
After retiring from the executive office
Governor Larrabee continued to live quietly
In his Clermont home, until called again to
the public service by an almost unanimous
demand of the people to become head of
the newly created State Board of Control.
He accepted only through a sense of duty
to the state, and continued only until he
saw the principle of the board firmly es
tablished and Its work organized so that It
could not be other than a permanent suc
cess. Governor Larrabee Is of a Connecticut
family well known. Captain Adam Larra
bee, the father, was a soldier in the war
of 1812 and a graduate from the United
States Military academy. One step further
John," which described the young man as
parting his hair In the middle.
"Now, Mr. Chairman, where did the son
of this distinguished democrat get his
title of Wrlnce John?' " asked Mr. Bou
tell. "Where did he learn to part his hair
In the middle?"
"Did Prince John ever become bald
headed like some of the members of this
house and have no hair to part?" asked
Mr. Sulzer.
Mr. Sulzer could make a remark like this
without any embarrassment, for he has a
very luxuriant growth of almost pink
tinted hair, which lops over his forehead.
But the question was a little more per
sonal, so far as the Illinois member was
concerned, for there Is a small, but grow
ing, glistening spot under his hat. He
was quick to retort, however, and In doing
so brought to his aid a couplet of poetry
which, being so apt, threw the house Into
a paroxysm of laughter.
"I do not know," said Mr. Boutell,
"whether later In life he Joined the ranks
of those whose strength goes to brains In
stead of hair, but at this time we have Mr.
Shepard's authority that he had hair and
that he parted It In the middle. The gen
tleman from New York will recollect the
old consolation of the men with smooth ,
domes:
If Ky !ih ha,r" ,hy 8,n hould num
bered be.
Angels In. heaven were not more pure than
thee.
Among his old newspaper acquaintances
In Chicago, Mr. Charles M. Pepper, who has
Just been appointed commissioner to repre
sent the Louisiana Purchase exposition In
Cuba and Porto Rico. Is known for his de
votion to work. An old Tribune reporter
tells In the Saturday . Evening . Post this
story of how Mr. Pepper once astonished
the staff of that paper.
"Never had he failed to report for duty
at 4 o'ciock in the afternoon, and when,
one day, the bands of the office clock crept
on to 5 without his arrival the news of
the delay traveled down the corridor like
a rumor of a cut in salaries. Charlie
March 16, 1902.
back and we find the grandfather of the
governor fighting In' the Revolution. Gov
ernor Larrabee's wife la a woman of strong
personality and they have had seven chil
dren, one son now being a representative
In the Iowa legislature from Fayette county.
In business matters Governor Larrabee has
devoted himself to banking and farming In
later years. He Is the owner of large areas
of land in Iowa and other states. He is
one of the most democratic of men, a man
of simple life and homely virtues, strong
In his convictions and one whose honesty
and Integrity have never been questioned.
He is now 70 years old.
The old-fashioned undertaker long ago
gave way to the modern funeral director.
His rooms have become parlors and the
workshop In which the slabs of lumber were
kept pending the mortuary needs of some
departed mortal has advanced to the d'gnlty
of "chapel" room. Everything that would
naterlally aid in robbing the process of
preparation for sepulture of Its suggestive
associations and ghastly significance haa
been taken In by the modern disciples of the
ancient art. Not alone in the nomenclature
of the craft has the advance been noted,
but In Its more tangible aspects as well
has there been Improvement. While the
funeral director today moves about silently
and with deferential mien and subdued
he doesn't wear the lugubrious face of his
predecessor of only a few years back. H i
association with abandoned earthly tene
ments has left no outward impress on him,
and aside from the absolute obligations of
WILLIAM LARRABEE OF IOWA.
his condition he Is usually a healthy mem
ber of society, with all the desires, appe
tites and impulses of a well ordered mental
and physical entity. Moreover, the ad
vance In his occupation has been such as to
bring it well nigh up to the dignity of a
learned profession. To keep abreast of the
times he must be a student and absorb
much Information, of which the early mem
bers of the craft knew nothing, unless It
were by hearsay. A group of Nebraska
funeral directors who recently assembled
in Omaha for practical Instruction in one
of the branches of their business was pho
tographed, and the picture shows them to
be as One looking a body of business men
as one would care to meet.
Pepper an hour late! And when he did
come he went Into the managing editor's
office with a guilty, apologetic expression
that we had never before seen on his I: e.
A few moments later the office boy
spread the report that the dialogue with
me managing eaiior naa neen idoui line
this:
"I'm late a whole hour, sir."
"What's the trouble?"
"Got married this afternoon. But I
wont let it occur again."
The New York Times credits Major Gen
eral Bhafter with this story:
An army board, examining a lieutenant
for promotion to the position of captain and
quartermaster, asked the candidate:
"What Is the first duty of a quartermas
ter?" "To make himself comfortable," was the
reply.
"And his next duty?"
"To make his commanding officer com
fortable." "Very good, sir. And his final duty?"
"To make himself more comfortable!"
Left Its Taint
Baltimore American: "I Jest knew." said
.Mrs. Wayback, "that it was a bad Idee f
let Samuel go f th' city this fall."
"W'y. Sary," said Mr. Wayback. "I don't
reckon It done the boy no harm."
"Well, Josl', I was lookin' through his
things this mornln" an' what do ye think I
found hid in his trunk? A toothbrush! I
knew all along thet he'd come home with
some fool city notions."
Patriotism
New York Weekly: Foreign Visitor You
have a glorious country here and fairly
revel In the blessings of freedom. I suppose,
Mr. Crossroads Wall, as to that, wo
don't take much Interest In politics up our
way. The postofflce don't half pay expenses
and so all parties agreed to retire from the
political field and let a soldier's widow
have It
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