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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1902)
Knights and Daughters of Tabor Picnic Photos Taken at Park by a Hcc Staff Artist o if ,v, ' l ''V 0 1 J 1 JmJ t - " i .. Safe Br x ' m irV yJmi m ill ' n H!l nh- UNIFORMED KNIGHTS OF TABOK. DAUGHTERS OF TAHOR DELEGATES. irz 1 " v, v i . i "V: vv.- : 'if ii'Qfi? ''. 0 - Vff 1 w ELal -' i ;.t ': '"T.l ' -J u 1 j QUIET GAME IN A QUIET CORNER. SOUNDS THE TRUMPET. CHILDREN WHO WERE QUIET. I 1 I ii G Til ; - iv m 'fx1 g- i r 1 r 7 7 jsv f U-V .V 1. 1 i OFFICERS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. W. L. GRANT OF KANSAS CITY. Kan., ORATOR OF THE DAY. LUNCH UNDER THE TREES. UP IN THE AIR." Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted People mimu uiDcinnaiuB oi uenmarn la me I I minister of agriculture, familiarly I l. linu TT I IT. f iuuwB Ha vm xiauseu. lit) is a imall tenant farmer, who, upon taking up bit ministerial appoint ment, made the smallest possible change In his manner of living. When the duties of hi high office permits he returns to bis plow and the foddering. His son remains on the farm and works for the same salary, In spite of the rich post to which bis father has been called. Howard P. Frothlngham of 2 Wall street. New York, hbs probably loaned more money than any other man who ever lived. He represents leading bank's and trust com panies on the floor of the exchange and It is no uncommon thing for him to loan from $1,000,000 to 120,000,000 a day In time of money stringency at prices ranging from S to 180 per cent. On these loans he re ceives handsome commissions and is today one of the richest brokers of the street. He has been long known for the perfection of his dress and the urDanlty of hii man ner. A memorial awaiting congressional action seta forth that Dr. T. R. Tlmbly really In vented the revolving turret, which was first used In the Monltor-Merrlmac fight, and urges that Dr. Tlmbly, who Is now a very old man, be given national recognition In stead of Ericsson, who Is said to have been merely supervisory engineer of the famous war vessel. The doctor registered his pat ent and filed a caveat for H In January, 1843; he took out letters patent, covering all Improvements in "revolving battery tower, whether on sea cx land," In Septem ber. 18C2 (Fat. No. 36.593). The memorial Is presented to congrebs la name of the Patriotic League of the Revolution. Ex-Governor Pattlson, the choice of Penn sylvania democrats for governor. Is looked upon as the mascot of the party, the only man who can lead it to victory. He Is a democrat of the old school and believes In economy with a vengeance. At the Har rlsburg convention of 1890, the year in which Pattlson was nominated and elected, it was determined to give him a fitting reception on his arrival In that city. He came In during a blinding rainstorm and was met by the leader of the Dauphin county delegation with this greeting: "Gov ernor, we have got a prize carriage wait ing outside for you, drawn by a pair of blooded horses, dressed In the best gold mounted harness In the state of Pennsyl vania." "Well, take them away, just as quick as you can. It's too rich a thing for me to ride In or even look at.' I'm going to walk up under a dollar umbrella; that's plenty good enough." ' It Is an Incident that Indicates In a nut shell what manner of man Pattlson la and It foretells the Issue upon which he hopes to win the election. "Lrtfe" Young of Des Moines relates a story about Henry Clay Dean, the famous orator of a generation or so ago. Mr. Dean was generally referred to as "Henry Clay Dean of Iowa," even long after he had es tablished a home In Missouri. He explained his change of habl atlon In this wax "You se, they passed a nefarious prohibition law In Iowa and there's your whlnky gouo. Then they abolished capital punishment and there's your hanging gone. And now the whole population seems to be drirting to ward universalis and there's your hell K-ds. I can't live In a state that nas neither hell, hanging nor whisky." The son of a slave was this year the orator for the graduating class of Harvard university. His name la Roscoe Conkllng Bruce, the son of Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi, who, although born a slave lu Virginia, received a good education at Oberlln college after bis freedom had been bought; became sergeaut-at-arms of the Mlsaiaa ppl senate for two years, and after the war was elected United States kenator from the same state and waa also registrar of the United States treasury. The father of Roscoe Conkling Bruce waa a talented man, and his aon Inherits not only the talents of his father, but seems to have amplified them in many respects. Young Bruce was fitted for college at Phllllps-Exeter academy. He entered Har vard in the fall of 1899. He attracted at tention by winning the Coubertln meda: offered Harvard students by Baron Couber tln of Par a, to stimulate interest In thi problems of French politics. The story of his Christian name is inter esting. When bis father first entered tho senate chamber no one at first appeared to conduct him to the vice president's chair to have him sworn in. Senator Conkllng realized the situation, Jumped up, and, taking the negro senator by the arm, es corted blm to the vice president's desk and stood sponsor for him, as It were. That act made a lasting Impression on Blanche K. Bruce, and when his son waa born he named htm after the famous sena tor from New York. Bruce will become a teacher at Tuskogee. A young lawyar from the south appearing before Justice Blancbard In the New York supreme court on a motion became en tangled In complications of his own crea tion and was floundering along in a hop: lets attempt to extricate himself, when the Justice, who never misses an opportunity to assist a tyro In difficulties, Intemiped: "If the learned counsel will go back and repeat a little of what he said I will be better able to pick up the thread of bis argument." "I noticed you couldn't," rapidly stam mered the young attorney. "It Is a very complicated point of law, but If your henor will give me your close attention I lll endeavor to make It so clear that even ycur honor can understand It." A Utrecht correspondent tella this story of the way ex-Premdent Paul Kruger spends his nights: He retire at 8 p. m.. but gets up at 1 a. m., "dons a dressing gown and a pair of slippers and sits down to read his bible, smoke and drink tea. The teapot la set over a little spirit lamp and he brews it strong. And thus he site from 1 until 3 o'clock, reading aad com menting aloud on the bible texts. At 3 o'clock he returns to his bed to finish the night's rest until 6, when he rises for a fresh day' labors."
