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TIIE ILLUSTRATED REEL May 8, 1904 ' Tun Illustrated Bee. Published Weekly by Tho I!M Publishing Company, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb. 1'rico, 5c Per Copy Per Year, $2.00. Entered at tlm Omaha PostofTlco oh Second Class Mail Matter. for Advertising Hiitcs Addrers Publisher. Communications relating photographs r nrtlelcs fur publication should b.- ad dressed, "Kdltur Tiio illustrated Beo, Omaha." Pen and Picture Pointers NOCH II. CKOWDKR of the Judge advocate, generals d piirtim nt and member of the general ttalt of the United Btate army. was burn in Missouri. Ai.nl 11 ixr.u Jit, wan appointed to the West I'olnt Mili tary academy from Missouri und was grad uated there In 1SX1. n waa commissioned a second lieutenant In the Klghth cavalry on lila gruduatlou and wiw made a first lioutenant In lxso. Ou Junuury 11, lyu, ha Wag commissioned major and Judge advo cato In tho regular establishment. At tt.o outbreak of the Spanish-American war ho Was Kuraoled lieutenant colonel and Judge advocate In the volunteer establishment. Prior to the beginning of th) Spanl-ih-Amerlcan war he had been appointed Judge advocate of the Department of the Mis our!, with headquarters !n Omaha, under Ocneral J. J. Cuppln.er, remaining hero a year or more, und on April is, 1898, ac companied General Copplngcr to Tampa, Flu., at the mobilization of the army there, and was made Judge advocate of the Fourth division of the Fifth army corps, then about to operate In the Cuban cam paign. He waa shortly thereafter trans ferred to the Puciuc coast as military soc retary to General Wesley Merrltt, com manding the Unit expedition to the Philip pines. Ho continued in that capacity un der General K. K. Otis and General Mac Arthur, returning with tho latter to the United Slates. On August 17, IVM, he was uude lieutenant coloml of the Thirty ninth Uidted States volunteer infantry, and In June, 1!J1, was made a brigadier general f volunteer, and was honorably mus tered out H H such shortly thereafter. He had been comml cloned lieutenant colonel and Judge advoctte in May, 1!K)1, n the rujulur establishment und was mude a colonel In tho Judge ad orate general's de partment April 18, nxo, und was assigned to tho general stuff. Few men In tho United States rtrmy are better equipped mentally nnd by Inclination for tho responsible duties utt aching to the legal department of the army, and It was In distinction of his eminent qualifications in this respect that the University of Mis souri in lfWi conferred upon him the degree Of LU R While acting as military sec retary to Generals Merritt, Otis and Mc Arthur In tho Philippines, he acquired a vast fund of Information In reference to matters pertaining to the military estab lishments of the Orient, und at the be ginning of hostilities between Japan nnd Russia ho was deer d the most practical and valuable man that the United States could send to Japan as mllltury attache and representative of the United States with the Japanese army In Its operations against the Russians. General Crowder was assigned to this Im portant duty as tho authorized military attache of the United States and was granted the extraordinary privilege of ac companying the Japanese army during all of 'ts operations In Corea and Manchuria. The task la an extremely delicate one, and the United States government is the only foreign nation to which this courtesy was extended by the lmerlul government of Japan. General Crowder Is accompanied on this mission by Captain Peyton C. March of the United States artillery corps, and the two officers sailed from San Fran cisco on Mureh 5 In the steamship Doric for Yokohama, While enroute from Washington, P. C.l to San Francisco, In the latter part of February General Crowder was the guest of Mr Luther Drake of this city, remain ing here a few d.y. and was most cordially greeted by a large number of his old-time Omaha friends. A dinner was given in his honor at the Drake residence during his stay In the city, which was uttendrd by a number of old friends and acquaintances of the days when he was Judge advocate of the Department of the Mlraouii. An Observant Wife He met his early flame. She had changed greatly, but wax still coquettish. "Do you remember," she asked, "that lock of hair I gave you before wo partedT" He scowled. "Remember it," he cried. "I shoi Id say I did. Years afterward my wife found It among my papers and has been fussing over It ever since." "And what did you tell her?" "I I told her It was my only souvenir of a Much lamented, pet dog." "Merry. And what did she say?" "She said she had never before heard of a og that bleached Ita hulr." "Wretch I Cleveland Warn Dealer. (Copyright, 1304, by B. It. Warner.) r tor)NKL FRANCIS YOUNGIIU8 I I BAND, the leader of the British I cxneditton Into Tllwt. Is Mm .1,l,.r WE of the two brothers who nro al ways being mistaken for one an other. Both are well known Anglo-Indian offi ces, lioth held the rank of major until tho other day, when tho conqueror of the Tlb etons was promoted colonel. lioth are fa mous as explorers nnd lighters In frontier campaigns. Both have written books and sirved as war correspondents of the Indon Times. Colonel Francis, the more distinguished of tho two brothers, holds his commission in the Indian staff corps. Major George, the younger, belongs to the Queen s Own Corps of Guides u hard-lighting corps which bears, with the Sikhs and the Ghur kiis, the brunt of all the Indian frontier campaigns. The brothers belong to an old Anglo-Indian family which has played a prominent part In the military history of the country. Their father, Major General Younghusband, C S. I., is a sturdy old warrior w ho fought through the Indian mutiny and many other campaigns. One of their uncles was killed In the mutiny. Another, Robert Bhnw, be came famous as the first English explorer of Turkestan, where Francis Younghus band, following In his footsteps many years later, met old natives who had accompanied htm In his expeditions. Tho old major general, retired from India, wanted his eldest son to servo in a crack British regiment, so he got him a commis sion in tho First Dragoon Guards. Francis Younghusband stayed In that corps several years and rose to the rank of captuln, but finally he found the call of the east too strong to resist His younger brother, al ready In the guides, wrote home letters about the fighting and exploring which made his mouth water. He exchanged Into the Indian Staff Corps, to live the life of his ancestors. As soon as he got to India he began to devour every book on Asiatic exploration that he could find in the library of the Staff Corps. His taste for the subject was soon recognized by bis superior officers, and he was pet to work In the library to map out routes In the Pamirs and on the northwest fiontier by which British armies could ad vance. It was congenial work, but not lively onough for the man who wanted to go out and explore undiscovered country for himself, instead of reading about otber people's explorations. One evening be met another young Anglo Indian named Rose at dinner. Their tastes were similar, and they talked about travels they would like to undertake until far into the dawn. A few days later "Rose burst Into Youngbusband's bungalow and said: "I'm going on an exploring- trip. Will you come with me?" Younghusband did not wait to ask where he was going, but shouted "Yes," at once. Rose explained that he meant to travel through Manchuria and climb the untrod den "Long White Mountain." Younghus band moved heaven and earth to get leave of absence from his military duties, and in im they started. They went right through Manchuria, which at that time was a little known country, climbed to the summit of the "Long White Mountain," and had many exciting adventures. They narrowly es caped drowning in the swollen Bungarl river, risked death many times at the hands of the bandit Chunchusea and unfriendly Manchu officials, and nearly starved on the snnwclad slopes of the "Long While Mountain." Another white man and a Chinese guide accompanied them, and on one occasion the four had to subsist for three days on two partridges. . "But our worst experience," said Young husband once, "was when we got through at last to Peking. The first white man's house we reached was the Scottish Medical mission, near that city. We were doplor able objects nigged, bootless, dirty, with long, straggling beards, for we had not been ublo to shave for months. However, tho hospitable Scotsmen camu out and gave us a hearty welcome and took us right In side Into tho middle of a ladies' tea party. We could have sunk through the floor. We wished ourselves back among the Man chuiian brigands." Younghusband rested at Peking after his arduous trip and was lionized by the for eign colony there. Just us he was about to return to India, Colonel Bell, an officer whom he knew, arrived ut Peking to travel overland from that place through Chinese Turkestan and the Desert of Gobi to tho Indian frontier. It was too good a chance to miss. Younghusband cabled direct to the viceroy of India and got un extension of leavo to enuble him to go with Colouel Bell. "We will go by different routes," said the colonel, who la famous In India for covering more ground In a shorter time than any other explorer, "and thus do a double amount of exploring. I will meet you at Haml at noon on such a day" naming a Chinese town nearly 2.000 miles from Pe king "and we will go on together to India," "But you cannot tell what progress you will make on a trip like this," said Young Younghusband at Thibet husband. "We had better wait for one an other several days at Haml, If necessary." "I shall ho ther when I say," replied the colonel, "and perhaps I will wait for you an hour or two." The colonel kept his schedule time ns well as an ixpre-ss locomotive. Punctually at noon on the appointed day he sat down In the market place of Haml and waited for Younghusband. Ho waited all day, but Younghusband had chosen the worse route and did not arrive on time. Next morning the colonel went on to India, crossed the frontier on the day ho had fixed and re ported himself at Simla at the very hour he had told the viceroy to expect him sev eral months before. Younghusband got safely through to India after a Journey of great hardship, during which he visited many tribes and settlements never lefore reached by white men. Ills ability as an explorer was recog nized by the Indian government, and he whs taken off his military duties and as signed to that work. He spent the next four or live years exploring the wildest regions of the Pamirs, Chitral, Hunza and other parts of Central Asia. But he was not only an explorer; ho was also a diplo matist sent by the Indian government to warn the tribal chieftains on "the Roof of the World" not to succumb to Russian In trigues. Naturally he often came into collision with the Rusflun agents sent from Turkestan, to work among the same tribes. In 1S30, whllo he was camping out on the Pamirs, with a single servant, a Russian surveying party, commanded by Colonel Yonoff, pitched Its camp clone by him. The party consisted of several officers and thirty Cossacks. Younghusband, with an English man's devotion to etiquette, Kent hU serv ant to the Russian camp with his card and an inquiry when he might have the pleasure of calling on the colonel. The colonel met his advances with formal courtesy, but before nightfall they were dining together, tho best of friends. Younghusband toasted the czar; Yonoff proposed tho health of Queen Victoria, and they made the mountains echo with the strains of one another's national anthems. Day after duy they went hunting together and dined with one another alternately. Then one morning Yonoff camo over to Youngbusband's tent with a doleful ex pression on his face and a telegram in his hand. "Alas, my dear friend," he said, "I have been ordered by my government to ur. est you and deport you from this territory, which they claim belongs to Russia. It desolates me to lose the pleasure of your society, but I must do my duty as a sol dier." "AH right, colonel," replied Younghus band ; "I'm sorry. Of course, I shall pro test to my government, for we do not ad mit Russia's claim to the territory. But I suppose there's no immediate hurry. You can wait long enough to come to dinner with me tonight, as we had arranged." The Jailer and his prisoner dined together and had the Jolllest of all their festivities. Yonoff offered to let Younghusband leave the territory without being arrested If he would promise nut to return by any one of several mountain passes, which ho named. An agreement to this effect was drawn up and Yonoff Inserted the name of every known pass. Younghusband marched over Into Chinese Turkestan and then calmly returned and skirted round the mountain ranges until he discovered a new pass by which he could get back to the Pamirs without breaking his word. He finished his explor ing work there, carefully keeping out of the way of his Russian friends. Then ho returned to India and lodgod a protect against his expulsion, which seriously strained the relations between the Russian and British governments for some time. Ultimately the foreign minister at St Pet ersburg mndo an apology to the British, ambassador and Russia formally relin quished all claim to the disputed territory. Although Younghusband has constantly come Into professional conflict with the Russians, hn has a great liking for them. "Whenever you meet a Russian." he said, "you meet a good fellow. One of the best evenings I ever spent was at Haml, In Chinese Turkestan. I had trav eled for weeks without seeing a white face, and at Inst I found a solitary Russian merchant ut that town. He couldn't speak a word of English and I knew no Russian; but ha managed somehow to Invite me to dinner. We had a splendid time, although conversation lagged. "I would hold up my glass and say, Cxar.' and we would drink to the czar. Then I would say 'Skobeleff,' Kouropnt kln,' 'Dragomlroff,' and the names of any other great Russians I could remember, and we would drink In turn to them. Un fortunately, my friend did not k'.ow the names of any Knglish notables. He could only say 'Queen,' which he did every two or three minutes In acknowledgment Of my Russian toasts." Younghusband was fortunate In serving and traveling with several men who after wards became famous and powerful und were able to advance his interests. Me was accompanied en owe f his ex peditions to the Pamirs by Hon. George Curxon, long before the latter dreamed that ho would ever return to India as a peer nnd tho viceroy and be In a position to give lils friend the command of an expedition Into Thibet. Sir Mortimer Durand. tho present British ambassador at "Washington, was another of Younghus band's closest friends and colleagues. Youughuaband served as a political agent of tho Indian government In Hunza and In Chitral for some years. As those states are on the borders of Thibet, he was thus able to gain a great deal of knowledge about the Thibetans which must be of serv ice to him at the present time. Subse quently he was political agent In the In dian native states of llaroatl and Took, and his knowledge of the Intrigues of na tive courts is probably surpassed by that of no other Anglo-Indian. Whenever ho tried to introduce reforms he needed to be on his guard against attempts to as sassinate him. He started out by trying to be a most thoughgoing reformer, but ex perience cooled his enthusiasm. . When the war with the Chltralis broke out in 1SS5 the Younghusband brothers both managed to Join the British Invading ex pedition, and both were appointed special correspondents of the London Times. Be fore the campaign was half over their iden tity became hopelessly confused. Even the Times could not keep track of their work. Checks due to Francis constantly came, to George, and vice versa, while the general In command of tho expedition would thank George for tho kind things said about him In an article written by Francis. When tho British troops besieged the hill fortress of Nilt, the brothers distin guished themselves by producing a football from their kit nnd starting a game within half a mile of tho fortress on the only level piece of ground for miles around. They were joined by several other officers, and tho enthusiasm for tho game did not even abate when the Chltralis opened fire on them. They played day after day, but the enemy's aim was so bad that only one man was slightly wounded. Both brothers have taken part In sev eral minor frontier wars and distinguished themselves by their bravery on several oc casions. Francis Younghusband fought through the Metabele rising in Rhodesia and distinguished himself by saving an Isolated party of women and children after an exciting ride of seventy miles through country infested by the rebellious tribes men. By a lucky chance he escaped per ishing In the massaero of Major Wilson's party. He had urranged to join Major Wil son, but was unable to do so at the last moment. After his South African adventures Younghusband returned to India and was steadily promoted from one Important po litical position to another, until he was given command of the Thibetan expedi tion. Youngbusband's rise in the British ser vice has been unusually rapid. Many hon ors have been bestowed upon him, and lit 1891 he was awarded the decoration most covfrtpd by Anglo-Indians the Kalser-I-Hlnd gold medal for public service In India, Physically lie Is a man of Iron frame, tall, finely built, and so deeply tanned by the sun that he might easily pass for a native, as he has done many times on his various expeditions among unfriendly tribes. HOWARD R. SACKETT. Prayer Hooks for Brides The present popular "ustom of brides carrying prayer books instead of bouquets has led to a remarkable development of what may be termed the trade of Pater noster Row, Ixmdon. Several firms in this noted thoroughfare are making a specialty of white prayer books for weddings. Bound In Ivory, the wedding prayer book is an expensive luxury, but bound in Iv orlnc It costs a modest half crown. White celluloid is, however, the most popular ma terial, being light, cheap and an excellent imitation of ivory. The mother of pearl prayer book is also a great favorite with brides. It is a hand some binding nnd Is indestructable. White morocco and padded calf are also used. Many of the white prayer books are handsomely mounted in silver, and even gold, but the jeweled prayer books pre sented to the brides of American million aires have not yet made their appearance in Paternoster Row, though occasionally Jewelers receive private orders to make Jeweled cases for prayer books. "It used to be the practice years ago," said a representative of one of the firms who deal in white prayer books, "to pre sent the bride with a copy of the marriage service Isiund in white. But now the fash ion is to present the whole prayer book. There is a steady demand for the white bound books, both for this purpose and for presentation to confirmation candidates." Although brides and bridesmaids curry prayer books to match their white frocks, society womn generally do not make a practice of reproducing the tint of their dresses In the covers of their prayer books. There is a prayer book bound In gray suede which serves most purposes, but red or blue leather bindings are preferred, as a rule.