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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1903)
"Tli( young October 4, 1003. This Is only the first act, Indies and gents. The yotitifr men harp been Im pressed, and after rlrolin through the crowd and waiting three minutes' for pearanee sake, they con trive to meet ag.iln the lit tle party, and In piissfn pause to kindly brush away some of the gay pa per. "Why." The Mond Jonng woman Is breath less. "Inl you ever?" joins In ber friend. "You nro quite right In being annoyed," chimes In aunty, getting warm. roughs. Here is an ofli.-er, I shall speak to Mm. They should he taught a . sson." "Why, aunty," hisltates the dark one. "do you think it would really do any food?" "1 will have them arrested! Of" "Oh, don't, aunty." This from golden hair. "They didn't know they were rude." "I thought you were angry?" "Oh, we were angry, but" "Well, of all the absurd I insist on peaking to the oflieer." "No, aunty, we'll Just have to put up ith It, won't we Maude?" "Yes, love." Pause of three minutes, after which: "Wasn't it funny, Maude? Jle " Ther are plenty of such exhibitions for those who can see; for mankind is "to laugh" sometimes. And there is fair piav, too, for while we enjoy one sueh conces sion, we, ourselves, act for another audi ence. The carnival grounds may perhaps show you the exhibit styled, "The Wary City Man Who Holleves He has Been Short Changed, ami Who has Not lleen;" or on the midway you mny see "The Country People Who Hclleve it True, and Wonder." Th-n there is "The Young Woman Who Wants to Hide in the Ferris Wheel, But Is Afraid." The bugle-throated and superla tive spielers are a show; the special police man, firm t4 th vague and perplexing plrlt called "police regulations." he Is a rare exhibit. And the boys, also, northern boys, trying to raise to the precedent of the Iatln merry-making and confetti, with out being rude and rough enough to be called down and taken up. But perhaps the best concession In the fair is little Johnnie Jonea, a-tow from another's arm at 10 o'clock, a fish horn In his hand, bis fac a painting, brown molasses sticking bits of popcorn, a middle ground of good black dirt, half a-dream and taken home to bed. The carnival which la now being pre r4 will ba when it ha vanished the THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. Never Again. the piece of he had sown fourth In the memory of His Royalty's subjects. It will be also the greatest, grandest and most worthy of the 10 cents deposit. The free acta are freer and more awe-inspiring: In fact, the only way In which the last one could hope to come under the same flag was In its music at:d in Its area. Street fairs about six yen is ago became one of the regular fall crops, and as a rule after the nov lty of the thing bad worn off the sightseer did not reap much from fractional currency which The Board of Governor saw that the Idea was good If a worthy playground were provided, and that the enclosure would make a permanent head quarters for the Ak-Sar-Ben celebration, where things could he kept goiiig when the parade were not on the streets. So the carnival wa started -not called street fitr, mind you, for the public had grown tired of its plaything ami has yearly become a more popular feature of the festivities. The street fair is not in tended by the Board of Gov mors to lie a source of rev enue. If It takes care of its own ex p e n s e s the board is satis tied, but those expenses are con siderable. and the ad mission fee charged Is but nominal. What ever money may be left at the close of the fair is turned Into the genera! fund of the society and Is applied to the legitimate expenses of the organization. This year the carnival has been named for a later date so as to bring It after the rain and storms which can always be ex pected during the latter half of September. Year before last It was set at an earlier day with the idea that customers of the Jobbers could und would come to town in great numbers to transact their business and attend the fair. Last year again It was begun early because of the intended com ing of President Roosevelt. Both these fairs were to a large extent the victim of the weather. This year the forecaster has been consulted and the period of best average chosen. 1 , V- l V- i i i 'in. Ot co In a While. Confessions of a Hustler (Continued from Page Pour.) goings on out at the den and you can't get me there with a yoke of oxen." No Ak-Sar-Ben for me. You've got too much monkey business out there." On the first regular hustling committee appointed there was one member who had not In youth had many educational ad vantages,' but who was a hustler in the matter of making earnest speeches as well as in his business and In getting candi dates. Shortly after the committee was appointed, he one day was in rather stren uous vein telling of certain men who cer tainly were Indebted to Omaha and Its business advantages for ail they po sessed, but who yet were critics of the city and all its Institutions, and who even dared to criticise Ak-Sar-Ben and refuse to become knights. Growing still more enthusiastic he declared "Persistency, thou are a Jewel," and in closing he said: "And I am going back and just tell those fel lows, as T said a while ago, 'Persistency, thou are a Jewel.' " The first "persistency" would probably have passed unnoticed, but the speaker's persistency In "persistency" was too good to be overlooked, and when, a few moments later, a motion was made to make "Per sistency, Thou Art a Jewel" the motto of the committee, it was carried with a hurrah. Every member of that first hustling com mittee and every member of every suc ceeding hustling committee has been sol emnly pledged to support by word and deed the motto, and thousands of Omaha men will cheerfully testify that from their ex. perience the pledges have been fulfilled. For years, in fact up to the present time, the motto was kept a profound secret among the members of the committee, not even being Imparted to the members of the board of governors, but for good and " sufficient reasons it is now for the first time made public. In this connection it Is but fair to ail- to the members of the committee and to the men they will go after and may become Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben to say that the committee also has another motto, and one which will not be revealed at least until every Omaha man Is a knight. The Way of the World "When we were poor," remarked the prosperous man reflectively, "we looked forward to the time when we could have a summer home." "Well?" "Well, when we got rich enough to have one we didn't like going to the same place every summer, because it was monotonous, and we looked forward to the time whun we could have another for variety." "Well?" "Well, we got another and then we began to long for a winter place, so that we wouldn't have to be so much in the big house In the city." "Well?" "Well, we'-- got them all now." "And are you happy?" "I suppose so. At least, I suppose my wife Is. She keeps them all shut up and spends most of her time in Europe, but she knows she ha thorn." Chicago Post. Terrors of the Solitary Bome of the commpnts on the sentence passed upon Mine. Humbert and her hus band betray, the I,aw Times isilnts out. a very imperfect appreciation of its terrors. The solitude of the prisoner en recluslon is all but abt-olute. The strictest silence is enforced. Presumably the consolations of religion are not entirely withheld, other wise the prisoner is forbidden to sneak, even to their guardian. Books are denied', and (which must be almost the worst in fliction of all) the most complete Idlesieus is enforced; no employment of any de scription may mitigate the appal ling- va cancy of days, weeks and years. Half an hours' exercise Is allowed daily, in a hooj which rovers everything hut the rye. K. ofA.S.B.&B.R.L.C. Two Omaha Institutions Invaluable to tho Central West Hidden Behind THE CABALISTIC LETTERS Being Interpreted They Rend "Knights of Ak-Snr-fiJen and Bankers Reserve Life Company." In those festal fall days visitors to Omaha nro attracted by tho pngonnt of tho Knights of Ak Sac Ron. The entire Central West takes pride in the tri umphs of this young organization of business men. There Is. however, another Omaha institution quite as well known with u much larger membership. It l the aggressive Hunkers Reserve Life Company. Younger (linn Samson ly two years it has grown rapidly. Probably in the course of tho year it Is as fre quently mentioned in tho country press us Ak Sar Hen, and tho readers of this journal know thilt few weeks pass without some suggestion of tho nchievi ments of the Hankers Reserve Life appearing in its columns. TII13 BAINKEKS RESI:KVI2 COMPANY founts Itself an Omaha institution and with u constituency extending through fight western states it reaches tho glad hand to over 1.imo members. Its lit erary man. in keeping witli the pageant season, drops into tho following acrostic rhyme, and dedicates his lines to the Knights of A k Sar-Hon and Hau liers Reserve Life Company: Knights, they are both bravo and Itold, Of whom tho west is proud; Always ready to bo enrolled; Keeping alive (lie town. Saving her credit and good name, Asking only, always, Hetter things in etery game Kntorod, played or promised; Never, no, never permitting a knock. Hankers and business men. one and nil. Reserve tho right to put Life Into business meetings and to call Company; then you may bo sutv Of weloonio when you eome to town. Omaha, her glad hand to Nebraslui and ull the country round. ' Samson! Samson! We're his men; Wo are tht Knights of Ak Sar Ren. Hankers! Rankers! Reserve life! Saves the Rabies, Saves tht Wife. Rah! Rah! Ra Ra Rah! OMAHA! MUSIC HATH CHARMS. 7 1 ..GRAND CONCERT.. In Your Own Home. A Great Opportunity to Obtain this Wonderful En tertainer. 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