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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1902)
IiPcenibiT 14, 1!X2. (Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Sixth rage.) cpllcnce. The Swiss pride themselves on their educational system, and they univer sally patronize the schools. Here In Zurich it is estimated that 97 per cent of the chil dren of all classes go to the public schools, although there are excellent private aca demies and kindergartens. Every canioti has its school board and every village Its school buildings. The country is small, but altogether there are more tnan o.uuu scnoois In it, and a large number of high schools rind universities. Basel has a university which was founded before the discovery of America, and there are good universities at Bern, Geneva, Frlbourg and Zurich. These universities are organized on the same plan as those of Germany, each being governed by a rector and a senate, and divided Into four faculties of theology, law, philosophy and medicine. Here at Zurich a polytechnic school is maintained by the federal government. It has 1,000 Btudents and l.r0 professors. In addition to this there are 250 technical schools In Switzerland which receive money legis-lat ion, on waterworks and finance. He from the general government or the can- is an earnest advocate of municipal owner tons and there are also seventy commer- ship and believes that great good can come clal schools, with more than 6.000 pupils, to the cities of Iowa through this leagu The Swis3 watch the health of their where the mayors and city officials nn school children and almost every school nually meet and consider subjects of mutual has Its gymnasium. There are more than interest. Mayor Walter is but 41 years old. 1.000 schools here which have gymnastic was born In McGregor, In which city he training all the year round and 3,400 which was elected to the council In ISO!"., and In give lessons In gymnastics a part of the 1807 was elected mayor. He is now serv year. I nave visited a number of gym- ing his third term. He is a dentist by nasiums. They are well equipped and the profession and is president of the North boys and girls do their work under regu- crn Iowa Dental society this year. He Is lnr instructors. active in lodge work and a member of the There are ten school houses In this town Masonic, Odd Fellows, Tythlans, Woodmen which have baths connected with them, and other orders. Under his direction the and the dirty child Is sent out for a wash. League of Iowa Municipalities Is engaged The city has Its school doctors who make In Interesting all the cities and towns cf regular examinations of the eyes, ears and the state in matters of general Interest. teeth of the pupils. Think of a school den- tlst! That Is what they have In Zurich. Omaha High school will be represented in Many of the public schools have gardens "1 annual Joint debate with Beatrice High about them. I visited one this afternoon school by a trio of bright boys, who won which had at least an acre given up to ,he rKht to represent the school in a pre- plny and exercise grounds and this notwith- Uminary contest as close and Interesting standing the school was in the heart of ns ,m n,aln eontest Is likely to be. These the city. Under the trees were vaulting annual debates are of much importance In hnrnea nnil nnr.illol hnra nn,l thla In nrtrtl. the sehocl world and nre looked forward tlon to the regular gymnasium under cover. In one section of the grounds a class of boys was training under their professor, a tawny, bearded man of 35 years. The boys had Iron rods about four feet long, which they threw about in a variety of motions as directed. I photographed the class In action and the boys were delighted thereat. In all parts of Switzerland the teachers take the children off now and then on edu cational tours. The little ones visit the country nearby and the older pupils have excursions on the railroads to the most beautiful parts of Switzerland. More than 5,000 scholars were sent out from Zurich on such tours last year with their teach ers. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Freak Inventions What has become of the crank In ventors? They have drepped off ma terially with their freak devices during the last year, and those interested in the unique in the product of human in genuity have every reason to be ap prehensive that the originality of these geniuses has deserted the field. During the last year, relates the Army and Navy Register, very little in the way of Inventive oddities has been sub mitted for the consideration of the War department. The aerial gun car riage, or, In other words, the airship designed for war purposes, seems to have been forgotten. There Is still, ' however, the asphyxiating shell, that weird projectile which on bursting suffecates the enemy. There is also the winged shell to which the rlflins , is applied Instead of to the gun. Our old friend, the ball-bearing projectile, is also represented, but there Is little that Is new or startling unless we ex cept a "military gaff," a proposition that the toe of a soldier's boot be equipped with a spike, presumably to make his kick more poignant. There are two women who have appeared with contrivances. One, a cousin of Senator Hanna, has a canteen filter w nicn sne has annually offered for consideration and which has been as regularly "not recommended." The other has a ruliber-covered bridle bit which whs offered as a substitute for the steel article supposed to be too nurd cm the horse's mouth, but Inas much as the argument for its adoption proposed to make these rubber bits as hard as steel, there seemed no special reason for their accent. ineo. A great many of the suggestions made io i ne war department for war ma terial have been rejected on account 1,1 lie i r impracticability, but few cf iii-iii can ne regarded as interesting on account of their originality. Of course, the war with Spain Induced a goon many cranks to offer absurd In ventions and to ventilate their rl- "ones, au.l perhaps the or "y proip. ct of military activ ity arriiunla for the absence of con- "" irom mut aource now. It muy even b that we are getting more serious as a nation and that the illmiiilimili.ii f tiMhnlral reports from d purlin. i,t bureaus Is enllght- nliig the piil.li,- i h a .,,,,, I hut Hi., productive crunk Is losing his i I...U.UK. THE Pen and Picture Pointers (Continued from Second I'tigo.) ding wag at the home of a daughter, Mrs. J. A. J. Martin, and was attended by the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the worthy old couple. It was a most enjoyable affair. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes who nt tended the golden wedding celebration are: H. J. Hughes and wife, Mrs. Mac I ntigal, K. I). Kvans and wife, A. I). Wldenor and wife n,,j v. V. Creen and w ife of Oninh.-t. C. It (lurtiey anil wife of llnenln Xeli., J. A. J. Marl in and w ife and Miss Jennie r. Hughe of Hed Oak. . There is no newly formed organization Interested In civic affairs that is making more progress in Iowa than the League of Iowa Municipalities, formed a few years ago, which has been holding annual meet ings. At the last meeting, held In Iowa City, Mayor J. A. Walter of McGregor, la., was elected president. Mayor Walter had been Identified with the league from th' first, and had served on the committees on to by the boys with nUnost as much ex pectancy as a foot ball game. Omaha's champions this year have shown much ability as debaters and will enter the forensic arena with confidence born of ex perience. "Wahoo" Is a word that has puzzled to Its origin and n,any, V00?0- l'",h fs m. lining. It is of admitted Indian origin, but the red men themselves were a little hazy as to Its exact meaning. At the time the whiles began to settle In Nebraska the Pawners possessed the land where now Is Saunders county. To a creek that traversed the prairie they had given the name of Pnwhoo, saying It was from a round bluff or hill, which formed a bend in the creek. Pawhoo is thought to mean "a round hill," as Pawhocco means a l i . SS.-Z- i ITI -'v7 rsmrt Itrttt rr li I ti . - I - r o t jw i -a i iiii i -. u w mM. a rrV, v -rVMr-- - VA ... II? I I wm . .... : w v. .v,am an : I iyl w ll l ft H. U-INfcfcLY, K i! il nanager for Nebraska. lit I IT Merchants National Bank Building, $J (I OMAHA. VTL-rr & ILLUSTRATED It RE. "cedar hill." It didn't take the whites long to turn I'awhoo Into Wahoo and the hill and the creek and the subsequent town were so christened. On Wahoo hill the In dians made a burial ground, ns It is a com manding position, n view of the country for twenty miles being clear from Its sum mit. To the west of It was once n large Pawnee village. Excavations on the hill have revealed large quant itles cf Indian relics, pipes, tomahawks, arrowheads, pot tery utensils and the like, which were burled with the bones of the dead war riors. Many of these bones were uncov ered during the process of Investigation, but these were again carefully Interred. Arthur L. Andersen of Wahoo, who made the photographs from which the pictures published this week lire made, is one of the must persistent and successful of these Invest Igators. A Thoughtless Sister New York Weekly: Mrs. Get there-Such impudence! Here's Sisler Matilda pro posing to come bete with both her children and make us a long visit. Mr. G.- I tn t yi u spent half the summer at hi r home in the country and you h id four children and n nurse. Mrs. (!. A different thing altogether. She has no servants, but she knows per fectly well that we have several ami that f very one of them will get mud and leave If the family Is in reasi d. The Sweetest Tone is found in the "Stella" . Music Box The (eniilne SwInn Mnke. I'HK l-'.S tf'M TO If 1 1 Ml. Solil i.il I'.imy I'll) men Ik. A. HOSPE, 1513 Douglas St., Omaha, Neb. Sole Agent. -1 H Z 4 n trauema to say that you can get not -,-itllig stove supplies, but tint It 1.4 meant cook ami Ik things that llnlsh off a stove mid make It an ornament to onr hotne. Art tiles, urn., ornaments to suit the most fastidious. Most us. rs of lutnaees have some their pines, not one In llfty saves 5 per cent of the lost heat Iteiulre of statues mid covering on them bow y on can save from l to tu per Beautiful Memorial CRAYON ENGRAVING Frcc to ' tir )lrois fill: Publishers of The IIIua. train! tWl liiivo tmiil,. arrniiKi- IlienU with tin- In'tKKN ATIHNAI AltT CO., (if rMiilKtt, whrreliy wt, ar Hbte to offt-r an a pri-m-nt tu cm-h o our autism!).- ttilH tn'auttful memo rial crayon of our martyr ri'nl,lcnt, i Itll II lot u I e copy of which In vtlowi herewith. In t he renter V oil will llollie a fill length iortrait ot our lulmeil run Idem ; on IiIh right anil left huiul portraitH of hlx wire anil unit lnr, hot ot them .xiellnet IlkiMicvHra ami r proilurthmt. from n rent photograph. Ill the two upper I'oruerH of the pletui are hia lilnhph.ee ami Canton rem Uenee. Thia Mliall r. proline! Ion wl Kive Home ith a an to the general efTec-t hut eanmtt tiring out the heaulltul ei feet of the full nlzeit memorial pietnr. whleh In L'2 In. Ins wl.le ami L'H In. le Ioiik. eiiKraveil on heavy enatid plat paper. It la a Hiit If ul work of art w hirl everyone will want anil npprecial. It would he valued at any art mm at IJ.nii. In a. Mill, in In the ahove th. will em lose wall eaeh pietnre thel Irani if ul memorial xheet IliUHje contain Iiik the Itelovrd l'relilenC two favoi ite hvmns. "N K A It Kit MY (Kill T' TIIKH ' ami I. KM. KINDLY l.lli IIT." on the haek of will h In a Kketeh n hlK merit erowneil lite Thin hraultfu musle Hll.Ml lit he ill .very home. We triint everv niihsiril'ir to Th. I II nst r.l. d II. e ivi n . ,k,. aiivautan, ot this unir eedenti .1 rf, r Head alia. In. I rouioi. earefully and wild at nine. No pietnre will In. Kent unlrKK coupon la reielved. IT, renin In coin can he Bent thrnuxh the mai'.H wMiiout Hanger .if Inns. m I ART COUPON Thin Im Io eerllfy lin( n m a render of Tin- Oniiiliii, i-b.. Illim trnleil llee. I :iiI.ini-I II ml .-. In Mtiniiim r Nllver, to rnvrr Mit of rii.iiiu, imhIiIiik, fP i,iim. kciiiI me one e.v of MelvIM i:V II:MIIHI l. 1:;h lu, mill on i of I he MI.MO. Ill tl. SIIKKT Ml SIT. lline Street Ai I'OHl Dlllff Till out Hi In '.. ll .oii iiml iiihII ST. I ll ll.l-:s, ILLINOIS I Distiller to Consumer i Call at Harding Distilling; Co. for your CHRISTMAS WINES and LIQUORS! ran save you money. TWKI.VK-i I.AIt-OI. II Harvest Field Rye has no equal. An ehgant Christmas Gift with each order. Mail ord.rs solicited. HARDING DISTILLING CO. 1 303 Farnam 5trect, OMAHA, T i In the Famous Klickitat Valley 4O0-arre farm 4 miles from County Scat. 3."i acres In cultivation; ?n acres now In wheat. All w II fenceil unil walere.l hy a stream, spring and well. 7-r..om house, 'i liiirns and outbuildings. per acre. Terms one-third casn, balance to suit. TIIK K. '. I. AMI A I.O CO., tioltlrutlulr, Willi, (Mir government lias been . ask.-.l to register some iiieer "tr.ule marks. " The Illust r.itluu shown was eonslileieil such a eutl-o-.iiy tin t the editor ..f the "Stl'.IUil M.lgiizille. " I.omiIimi Kill;, le.Ueslc. ii photograph of it ami naineil ti the "Hone li.u k 1 1 1 u I :n cle." Il was Ilia st 1. 1 te.l in niatix eastern papers and in.iuazlm s, .in. I If in teresting to loi i lun. i s. It shniil.l M least atli'.'iet oiir attention to the tirtn who otiulnatiil t and It to advertise their business. It Isi composed of pails of an or dinary stove. It Is Int. -tided to remind you that should voi need supplies of af.y kind for stoves. i-iitig.-M and I nriiii es. th omaha Stove Repair Works. 1 T I 'ollglas Street, not oi ly supply such narts lint leive tlietn on li in, I sullied to voiif demand. tv this only furnace tire pots and grates, steel range, water at laehnienls ami also those Utile cent of the heat and get it when you want It. t aw,-. -t .W .tff' 1V . . Slnlc IM I IO l. to I he AIM' III., YOU CAN BUY OUR HALFTONE ENGRAVINGS which iK-ar from tlnm to time in The llhiBtruteil llee. On Hiiiull Iiortrait c-uta we make a nominal price of $1.00. On arn-r cuib, 6 cents per squaro Inch. They are all In flrBt-cliusg t-omlitlon. Our photographic d. -purl tin tit will alHO print additional copies of our original photographs at a reasonable rate. The Bee Publishing Ca, Omaha, ,Nh. A BUSINESS DISPUTE easily kettled wncl. utounu arc properly ketl. Dun t iiractic rsib cLonumy Dy dying; io save on BLANK BOOKS We wi.l make yuu let ultd and rinted to oidt-i ut auch a small u.t u.ai you iaa buy the beat A. I. ROOT, Printer, B. katt 6t , OMAHA, NEB. ' - ; 1 tiff m:
