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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1902)
People in the Lime Light of Publicity iL.iiif.it, lanncr cipitallst, pnil I anthrop'st, such U YI Hum I.ynn .tirien.ie, i. m l)l me ill si n .iiino men in Kansas, now In hli 7S:h year. Mr McKcnzie Is a very wealthy man, b'ing president of an Oregon live stork and lumtur company which con trols 30,000 acres. Among his incst cherished possessions is n hickory prove ten miles from Kansas City. Kan., f r .mi which fur many years he has supplied car.es to presi dents of the l'nite.1 States. His first vote was tast for Franklin l'ieroe. The late Ixird Charles Russe T f Killowou had a wonderful memory for fac s. On ono occasion he visiled n theater in ManchoMor and hot ween ai ts went behind the scenes to see an old friend. While they wore chatting an actor passed and I.r rd Charles said to his friend: "I romcmVr that man. lie was the original Father Trm in the 'Colleen Pawn.' I saw him in that charac ter the night th' p'ay was produ ed twenty years ago." Though Huscll had not seen th" actor In all that time he rememhercd him at once. Ex-Pp 'nker R' ed hes car fu ly av 1 l"d ex pressing any opinion as to the Mr coal strike, hut the other day heard it rem irked that certain puldic nun had been making some big mistakes since the situation over the roal strike had become so acute, Mr. Heed said: "Yes I suppose that Is so. It U hard for a man to know Just what to do In crises of this sort. That reminds me ( the method followed by an old politician In Maine. I once sail to him: 'What wrull you do if you were In a ticklish position and didn't know what you ought to do?' 'I would do nothing,' the old man replied, and I think his was the right brand of phil osophy .' Admiral Self ridge, who has Just died at the age of PS, entered the navy a midshipman eight y-f.Mir years ago. After a service of more than forty-five years, extending through tie civil war, he was retired thirty six years ago. His son, of the same name, who was graduated from the Naval academy In 1S.-.4, also attained the rank of rear ad miral and went on the retired Vet In IStiS. The late admiral's grandson Is In the serv ice now. ThU is a remarkable family rec ord. The elder Selfrldge, who was a con temporary of Farragut. was said to he, at the time of his death, the o'd-st naval offi cer In the world. Admiral Sir Henry Kep- voi or me uoyai navy, being five years ...n jumui. i u. nernco uscii io ne ravor able to longevity, but there Is pome doubt of the effect of the modern battleship upnn the expectation of life. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the associate Justice of the I'nlted States supreme court, will not take his sear on the bench until his nomination thall have been sent to Ilia senate and confirmed by that body. This Is In consonance with a custom which has prevailed Flnoe 1795. In that year John Hutledge of Sr.uth Carolina was appointed chief Justi-P In place of John Hay and sat in court nt the August term that same year. In December the seni.te rejected his nomination on the ground that his mind was diseased. Oliver Ellsworth was then iion'tTiated and confirmed. Never since that episode has n Justice of the supreme court taken his seal before being confirmed. James R. Kerne Is suffering from dys pepsia a deplorable predicament for one who has been go long a toothsome diner. Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News: A man of cue idea isn't so bad If the idea Is good. "Robert caudal suffusion" is Dostrnese for a bobtail flush. Nothing destroys some people's memory like doing them a favor. In the presence of a chiropodist even a woman is forced to acknowledge th" corn. A sure cure f"r insomnia U to have some . r v Ii-t T-i , . -- --m - . , .- . y, .:.. j..,--. v. 1 V .- LITTLE HERBERT HAXOS HIMSELF OAN OF BROKEN ROW. Neb. In fashionable restaurants his presence used to be hailed with Joy, not nlone be cause of his generous tips, but also be cause1 host and waiter alike loved to serve en appreciative guest. Now he is on a diet of most monotonous character lamb chops, broiled well done, spinach, stowed prunes and wnk toa. This Is bis meal three times a day and the vet-ran financier Is chafing terribly under the strain. The Philadelphia Ledger has this story in which Senator Quay and a Bhrewd Adi rondack native figure: "Senator Quay went to the Adirondack a few weeks ago to pre pare for the return home of his family. He rode up the mountain in a conch that was distressingly tardy, and which was fol lowing after another that. If possible, was oven slower. He chafed for a time at the pace, and then hit upon a plan he thought would serve to speed both teams. H leaned over to the driver and offered a dol lar If the latter would get ahead of the team In front. The driver smilingly agreed and then raised his voice to Fay: 'Hey, I say. mil! mil! turn yer rig to the Bide of the road, will yer? There's a guy here says he'll give me a dollar if I pass ye, and I'll divide If you make room!' " Miss Lilllnn Moll, the writer, was nn.-o commenting on the many variations of the United States army uniform, and asked a young army officer present if they wer? all allowed by the regulations. "Yes," said he; "for Instance, there ar several shapes of the fatigue cap worn by officers, fcuch us the cap with the soft one knock on the door and tell you to get up. The average doctor's private op'nion of the medical fraternity wouldn't show up well In print. Woman can't drive nails, but when It comes to dtiving bargains the has th sterner se x In at a block. Cotiversat It n is divided into three distinct classes: Matter-of-fact, matter-cf-falsehood and no-matter-at-all. . i ill i T L ... I . I . - :'. ' - J r - ' ' y ''. ..i.--j."-K . , . r .'.-' ',:';-;:.. ' X:,. V ..... n), 4 , iii I i 1 151 DUCK HUNTING ON AN IOWA FARM Photo by a Staff . -I t -TRICK I'HOTO RY M It?. AI.rilA MOIl- crown and the bell crown. I always weir the bell crown," he continued, smiling, "out of deference to you." "Oh," replied Miss Roll, with a little twinkle in her eye, "and I supposed you wore the soft crown out of deference to yourself." The report that the American Rankers' association has decided to pay a salary of $."1,000 a year to Charles Hooker, the famous forger, if he will simply live the life of a good citizen, brings to mind an old story, said a southerner who was visiting Phila delphia the other day, which is well worth repeating. A southern judge w li 1 had a fine lot of hogs one day met a colored man notorious for stealing, and said to him: "I'nole Jack, I'll tell you what I'll do. You pick out two cf these hogs you like best, and I'll give them to you, provided you won't steal any of the others." The negro pondered a while and finally said: "Judge, you've always been a good neighbor, an' I likes yuh, an' 1 wants to do right by yuh, an' so accepts do offer yuh makes, but I wants yuh to know dat I'll lose meat by It." The late Judge Oray sought to continue what he called "the old regime," the sol emn state of his court. Now and then he encountered members of the bar able to turn the tables on him, but not often. Henry W. Payne was one and Sidney Bart lett, botn leaders at the Suffolk bar, was another. "Mr. Bartlett," said Chief Justice Gray, leaning back In his chair, "that is not law and It never was law." To this the lawyer promptly and pleasingly replied: Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Sixth Page.) skull cap and rough clothes, took in.1 through one department after anothir. II Introduced me to some of the students, and had them wc rk nt the looms before my eyes. The boys were as Intelligent as those of the avirage 10'lege of the Vnlted States These technical schools of Lyons show that the people are trying to regain their Artist. "It was law. your honor, until your honor Just spoke." "If your honor please." said Payne one day, beginning at a m 'tlon. "Sit down, sir; don't you see that I am talking with another Justice," thundered the then chief Justice. Mr. Payne took his hat and walked out of the courtroom. A half hour afterward a messenger reached his office with a note saying that Judge (Jray was willing to hear him. "I am not willing to be heard." answered the old lawyer, "until Judge (Iray apologizes." The apology fol lowed. The world is Indebted to Ponlzettl. the musical composer, for greater benefits, than were conferred by any of his operas, de lightful as they are. It is claimed that he was the Inventor of the ulster, that garment which enables man to laugh to scorn the fiercest of wintry blasts. One day at Paris he sent for the tailor to measure him for an overcoat. The tailor f.-und him nt the piano surrendering himself to the rapture of a composition. Nevertheless he was per suaded to inilt the beloved Instrument and deliver himself up to the man of tape and chalk. The tailor made the first measure ments and thei., stooping, began to take the length of the garment. "To the knee, sir?" he said timidly. "Iiower, lower," answered the composer In a dreamy voice. The tailor brought the measure half way down the leg and paused Inipiii ingly. "Iiower, lower." The tailor reached the ankles. "Lower lower." "Hut, sir. you won't be able to walk." "Walk, walk!" Who wants to walk?" with an ecstatic lifting of the arms. "1 never walk; I soar." At the time when drover Clevolnnd was president Pr. Robert Maltland O'Reilly, whom President Roosevelt has Just made surpeon general of the army, to succeed General William H. Forweod, retired, was the official physician at the White limine. Or. O'Reilly Is a republican, says th.' Saturday Evening Post, but with Cleve land that was not to be weighed against h's skill as a surgeon. One day during the second Cleveland ad ministration a number of army officers nt a social moment were talking Informally to the chlif executive. "Are you not afraid, Mr. President," ventured one jocosely, "to retain as your medical adviser a physician who Is an un compromising republican?" The president had Just refused to sign the Wilson tariff bill, and the mennce of di fiction from the ranks hung over the democratic party. "No," he laughed In reply. "Hr. O'Relllv Is a physician of excellent Judgment, and he knows that good democrats are scarce. A few weeks ago, says the Syracuse Even ing Herald, a caller at the house of a friend of the "Hoosler Poet" heard a fragment of conversation between a visitor and James Whltoomb Riley, win had boon talking of how poorly paid was the profession of llt irature. "Hut, Mr. Riley," the said, "sur ly you have no cause for complaining. You must be a very rich man. I und -ri-tand th it you get a dollar a word for all you write." "Ye-e-es, madam," said IM'oy. with his slow drawl, "but sometimes I si! a I d ly ard can't think of a d-11 word!" Mme. Melba's welcome to Australia after her sixteen years' absence has been sadly supremacy as the silk weaving center of the world. Similar schools should be estab lished at Patonson and otherwhere In the country and the silk worm Industry of sMith. now In Its Infancy, should be the en- couraged. The wonderful silk manufactures of France originated through the encourage ment of the silk trade by the French 111011 archs In the past. It was not until the fifteenth centuiy that much silk weaving was done. Before that time the best of the silks came from Italy, the finest of silks, satins, velvets and other cloths being woven near Venice. Lyi ns, however, was a great fair city and many Itaian silks were brought there for sale. Then Louis XI Imported Italian weavers and along about forty years after the discovery of America Francla I Induced many of the Italian weavers to settle at Lyun Dy guaranteeing them ex emption from taxation, free lodgings and the right to carry swords as well as Immunity from imprisonment for debt. In one way or another he brought silk weavers from (ienoa, Florence, Lucca und Venice, and thus founded this business, which has done much to make Frame rich. The In dustry thrived until the persecution of the Huguenots drove more than 3i'0,(iiio of the n ost skilled of the French artisans out of the country and In a few years reduced the number of looms from 40,f,ot) to less than 10,(100. The Protestant weavers escaped to England, Germany and Switzerland and thus started the silk manufactures of those countries. Since then Lyons has at times hid the silk manufacturing supremacy of Europe. It probably holds It today, but the indus tries of Switzerland. Germany and England are steadily growing, and, comparatively speaking, Lyons Is on the dec'ine. Its great est danger today is from the I'nlted States, which Is Increasing Its silk product from year to year. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Interrupted by the visitation of paralysis, with which her father, Havld Mitchell, was suddenly stricken down while awaiting the arrival of his daughter. Mr. Mitchell Is one of Melbourne's oldest citizens. He was for many years one of Its leading builders and contractors, the Exhibition building, the scene of the Inauguration of the commonwealth Parliament by the prince of Wales, being his principal work. A strict Presbyterian, he did not alto gether approve his daughter's becoming the principal soprano In the choir of tin Melbourne Roman Catholic cathedral, and when she developed Into a prima donna he never rrossed the equator to witness her triumph. 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