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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1902)
Mny l!Mr The Illustrated Bee. Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, liee Iiulldlng, Omaha, Neb. Price, 6c per copy per year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha PostofTice as Second Clan Mall Matter. For advertising' rates address publisher. Communications relating to photographs nr articles for publication should be ad dressed, "Kdltor The Illustrated TU-r, Omaha. " i ma.:., 2? Pen and Picture Pointers TIIK ILLUSTRATED BEE. - t'm" I ...rv'-K;b V I r v 1 ir.i wiv j ji.Ai nit rcmirieis us nncp II I ench year at least of the sacrifice or me snmicrs wno maeio up mat Grand Army of the Republic, whoHO deeds nro bln7.onod upon mnny pages of American history. As their lay recedes In the vlstn of years, the per spective, growing stondlly longer, may ren der them nnd thilr cause smaller, and th haze of passim? events may obscure the maKnltudn of their dceHls, yet when we stand face to face beside the low green mounds, decked for the day with wreath and bunches of blossoms, all the mist of years Is swept away and again the grandeur of theso men and the principle they supported comes to us no distinctly that we are not amazed that It outshines nil else. "The wcrld will ll'tle hcd nor long remember what we say here," said Lincoln at Gettysburg, Inn ago, "but It can never forget what they did here." Prophetic words, Indeed, and finding their fulfillment annually In the offering of flowers and team at the graven of the dead brave In whose memory the cherished chleflain gave them utterance. Each year iiees the list of soldier (lend grow longer, ench Memorial day finds new tents spread on fame's eternal cnmplng grounds, each year the march ng line of vternns Is shorter and Its ranks thinner, but the wort which Ihey began has fallen Into loving hands, nnd the nnllon will turn nslele for one dny at least each year so long as the light of liberty burns clear and bright throughout the land to pay a tribute of loving gratitude to those whose watchword vaa "Liberty nnd union ono country, one fag!" And while the graven of (ho soldier dead, whose laBt sleep Is beneath the sod of th" Innd they loved so well, are covered wi'h onr'h's brightest flowers, those "who went down to the sea In ships" and who gave up thnlr lives for liberty on the watr aro to be remembered. Beautiful flowers are scattered on the waters, to be drifted by wind and tide, and finally lost on "old ocean's melancholy gray expanse." In this way loving henrts w ill manifest their senti ment toward the dead whose resting place Is not known beyond the fact Mint thoy sank to pence at sea. It Is the Idea of Mrs. Armltage Forbes of Charleston, 8. C, wh'j lUST discharged from the hospital, where he had been ep rated upn for RDPendlelt is. renorts the New tofcifca York Times, a young man met a friend the other day. "Congratulate me," said the fr end. "Har vard has made me M. A." "That's nothing," answered th" ex-patient. "I've been made M. A., too." "By whom?" asked the friend In aston ishment. "By Dr. McBurney," was the reply. "I'm Minus an Appendix." "The station at Savannah." says a traveler through the south, "Is surrounded In all directions with a lot of sa'oons and cheap restaurants. In great Illuminated letters over one of thesn saloons was the sign: " 'Open all night. "Next to It was a restaurant bearing with equal prominence the legend, 'We never close.' "Third In order was a Chinese laundry In a little tumbledown hovel, and upn the front of this building was the sign la gr at scrawling letters: 'Me wakee, too.'" Flippant people sometimes refer to that sedate and proper member of Yale's austere corporation. Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twlchell, M. A., of Hartford, Conn., as "Joe" Twlch ell, reports the New York Times. This, his latest story, told by him at a St. Patrick's day dinner, may perhaps l'lustrate why people speak so familiarly of this loved and very lovable apostle of the Congregational faith: "I became very much Interested in a chance companion on railway train," sail Mr. Tw: 'ell. "He was plainly of Italian birth or extraction, and I so remarked to him. "Where were you born?" I asked. "In Genoa." replied the young man. "And what Is your name?" "Patrick Murphy." "How In the world did you get that osme?" I asked Instinctively. "I took It," replied the young man. "Why did you choose such a nam?" "Because I wanted people to think I was an American," was his reply. $ A married woman living out at Lakesldo has been having the greatest difficulty of late In Inducing her husband to remember to order certain things for the househo'd ( M US. ARM1TAOE S. C FORTIES. WHO PAYS A TRIBUTE TO THE SAILOR DEAD. has succeeded in lire resting a sufficient number of women, nnrth nnd south, to make sure that the sailor dead will be re membered even as are thir brothers who f ught on the land. It was right they cc ntended for, the one on land, the other on sea, and alike shall they share In the gratitude of the whole people of a united country. Events of the last three years have It: wight Memorial day muc h nearer to the homes and hearts of the people. Many of tho new graves that will be strewn witii flowe'is on Friday are those or young men, born in moi-t cases since the close of the tiagedy that gave birth to the clay. These boyes, like the others, gave their lives In liberty's came, and their comrades, kin dred nnd friends will romp to their graves with th" same fresh sorrow that found Its expression thirty-five years ago when the comia'es, klrdied and friends of the dead of the great war for the union knelt in mournful reunion at the cemeteries and consecrated u bright May day to the end that the soldier will not be forgotten In hl narrcw he me. Si 111 will the sold er's be dy bo quietly lowered Into the grave, still will the little fipurt of flame and i-harp report of the rifle announce the fact. st'II will the bugle sigh "go to sleep" in t tit' sadly sweet tides cf "taps," and still will posterity lovingly lay wreaths on the rest ing p!nces of the soldier dead. This cleterminat Ic n to forever fittingly honor th soldier received a significant ex emplification at Coun:-II ItlufTs, when th monument to Colonel W. II. Kinsman wn didieatcd on May 17. Colonel Kinsman went o it fr-m Conn?'.! RlufTi In 1861 In the com- Gleanings from the Story Tellers' Pack while down town, relates the Duluth News. Every day there was something forgotten and the meals wero growing more scanty us a result. A few days ago she handed her husband a letter as he made a run for his car, say ing that It was not to be opened until the nfternoon. He remembered It Just as he finished his luncheon that day and opening It he read: "I am forced to tell you snmethlng that I know will trouble you, but have thought of it for some time. I feel that It Is my duty to do so. My mother has been taken Into the secret and she. too, John, declare thut it Is best that you should know. I cannot keep this to myself any longer." KINGSTON HARBOR, ST. VINCENT. i ii ----- ii mi iii ii m i . i ii , m in - - - '"" "vrsWHrarMsMHsA J'j.'i "- : -''Asw'-" A. It. ANDERSON, M. I)., PAWNEE CITY NEWLY ELECTED PRESI DENT NEBRASKA STATE MEDI CAL SOCIETY. pany of which (Jeneral (. M. Dodge wm captain. He was a lawyer, Just beginning his career as a practitioner, but he became a soldier of unusual excellence, as Is at tested by his rise through all the various grades from private In lstit to colonel in command of the Twenty-third Iowa In fantry In 1863. He lost his life at the head of his regiment during the battle of Black Rayou in that year. When the Iowa com mission to locate the positions of the Hawk eye regiments about Vloksiurg during the operations of that great campaign began l's work, the grave of Colonel Kinsman was located and marked. The exhumation of tho remnlns nnd the reinterment at the foot of nn enduring monument was a labor of love on the part of the people of Council Bluffs. Tho ocinslon was made the means of publicly expressing the feeling of grat itude and honor for a brave man nearly forty years after ho had made his great sacrifice for his country. A shaft of en during granite will hand the name of Kins man down to generations yet to come, it tribute from those who know him when he went to war. Doctors rf medicine realize that on the interchange e;f experience depends the ad vance of their profession In science. No ether means afT ids such cpportunlty for this comparison of cxp -rience and Ideas as d.:es the meeting of the medical society. Here they report eases, giving in detail treatment and result, and listen to criti cism cr suggestion from their fellow prao titirners. Recently the Nebraska State Medical society met in Omaha for one of these scientific sessions, interspersed with such relaxations as theater parties, seven course dinners and the like afford. Before? the adjournment officers for another year Hubble's face grew ashen and his hair was taking an upright position when h? turned over the page and read: "We have not a pound of butter In the house. Send me some this afternoon." The request was compiled with. After a large wedding In Washington the "best man" started at hardly an hour's notice for South Africa, relates the Wash ington Times. On his return to Washing ton, after an absence of some eighteen months, he received the warmest sort ot welcome from his old associates. A din ner given In his honor afforded the first oc casion since the wedding for donning even ing dreos and In the midst of the evening. WHERE THE TERRORS OF VOLCANIC E. II. FINNEY, M. D., LINCOLN NKWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF NnnilASKA HOMEOPATHIC MEDI CAL SOCIETY were h sen, Dr. A. B. Anderson of Pawnee City being selected for president. Dr. An derson is a native of Illinois, fil years old, and has practiced medicine twenty-five years at his present home. He is a mem ber of the American Medical association and has 1 ec n before honored by his brothc r.s In the profession. At the Same time the Nebraska Homeo pathic Medical association held its annual session In Omaha, for the same purpo es as actuated their brethren of "the old soho: 1." At the close of two days of profitable In tercourse the society elected Its officer for the next year, choosing Dr. E. B. Finney of Lincoln president. Dr. Finney is a y urg man, being born at Weeping Water. Nrb., In May, 1867. He was educated in Phil adelphia and New York, taklntj a thor ugh course in medicine and suri,ery before h? began his practice at his present hom Rainn nkcrs nro not a new thing in tho west. Catlin fc und them ami ng the Man dan Indians when he vUited this country in th?- early part cf the last century, search ing for material for his great ethno graphical and ethnological work. Anions the Pueblo Indians the Spaniards found (he custom of rffering prayers and sacrifices to prepitiate angry ge ds who controlled the precipitation, and the custom prevails today among the Mexicans, Christians though they bc Nebraska, Kansas and other western states were much rdifted a few years ago by the work of expert dreamers, who bom barded the atmosphere through stovepipes stuck thrcugh holes in the roof of sheds, shacks or box cars, the sides rf tents and the tops of covered wagons, all making rain. This merely shows the Importance, which the perple of this great graln-grow- having occasion to feel in his waistcoat poeket for something, he electrified the party by drawing forth a $100 bank note. Where had it come from? Who had put it there? His fellow guests had all sorts of suggestions to offer, none of which seemed satisfactory. Early the next morning the truth flashed acrevis his mind. He called upon the clergyman who hael performed the marriage ceremony. "You remember the fact, I suppose," said the visitor, "of marrying Mr. H and Miss G about a year and a half ago?" "Oh, very well," answered the clergyman. "1 see them constantly. They attend my church." DESTRUCTION HAVE LATELY REIGNED. H. B. MCLENNON, WHO REPRE SENTS YANKTON COLLEC.E IN SOITH DAKOTA ORATORICAL CONTEST AT II I' RON. mg region attach to rain. The fact that the trip of the Omaha Commercial club members through the South Platte country wo.i accompanied by rain brought to them the appellation of "rainmakers" is a tribute of respect and not of derision. That trip Is prophetic of prosperity for the state and all Its people. One of the really Important convent Ions held In Nebraska this year was the meeting of the Z. C. B. J. at Wilber. This was the national grand lodge session of a Bo hemian benevolent society, which brought together 164 delegates, representing 7,nnn members In Colorado, North D:ikota, South Dakota. Iowa, Kans:is. Michigan. Minnesota. Nebraska. Oregon. Wisconsin and Okla homa. Frank J. Sadilek of Wilber was chosen for president. One of the Import ant steps taken was the adoption of a by law admitting women to membership In th? order on equal footing with the men. Many visitors accompanied tho delegates to Wll brr and during their stay were entertained with amateur dramatics, a banquet, nt which over 400 sat down, and in other ways. Public interest has been attracted to the group of American Islands known as tho Lesser Antilles ly reason of the terrible volcanic and seismic disturbances whieti have recently recurred there and the fright ful loss of human life and destruction of property which have followed. The ac tivity of the volcano Police continues, and there Is no telling whv-re the end will be.. One of the pictures this week is of the bountiful harbor of Kingston in the i.-i'and rf St. Vincent, whore the people have beeii 'crrifird by the actle n of the volcano Sou-frlore. "Then I hope you will pardon a rather delicate question, asked in strict confi dence. How much did you receive as your fee on that occasion?" "I will return frankness with frankness," and the clergyman smiled whimsically, "it was the strangest fee that ever came my way. After the ceremony the best man with a profusion of thanks, slipped into my hand a small sliver of plug tobacco wrapped in a wad of paraffin paper!" "I wanted the lnfliiene-e of the congress man from my district in a certain matter." ("aid a Michigan man, quoted by the De troit Free Press, "so I hied me down to Washington to have an interview. He was boarding at a private house and had a room off the parlor. I was asked to sit down and wait while a colored man took in my card and, as the door was left ajar, I heard the congressman say as he looked nt my card: " 'Blank? Blank? I think I know him. Is he in liquor, James?' " 'I don't think so, sir.' " "Does he loe k shabby?' " 'Well, you may call it shabby.' " 'Seeirs to be hard up. does he?' " "I think he does, sir.' "'Yes, he is probably here to strike me tor at least $10. James, did you tell him that I was In?' '"No, elr. I told him I'd see if you were.' " 'That's right. You may return to him and say that you are sorry to announce the fact that I left for Boston this morn ing.' " 'And won't be back for ten days.' " 'Yes, sir.' " 'And meanwhile your advice to him is to drop in and see one of the other repre sentativos from my state' " 'Yes, sir.' "I was duly turned down and out," laughed the victim, "but I got even next day, when I encountered the gentleman on the street. He tried to dodge me, but 1 walked up and slapprd him on the back and said: "'Hello, old boy! I had a little matter that would have put $l.-.,ic0 in cash into your pocket, but, not finding ycu at home yesterday. I turned it over to Representa tive .' " 'The you did!' gaspe d my dear old friend, as he turned all sorts of colors, and we have been as strangers since that clay,"