17 TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1004. ONE OF OMAHA'S FOUNDERS Jamai H. Wlnihlp Tall of Ctji of Oit;'i Io'aooj. COMES HIRE FORTY-SEYEN YEARS AGO ertleel Vra Where asees Aroa Thirtieth street Haw Meat a Hm Lire Her Err glace. A.i Interesting personality, closely Identl fled with the early history of Omihi, Is that of Jimel M. Winshlp of 2931 Franklin street. Of the seventy-three years that Mr. Winshlp baa lived, forty-seven have been spent In Omaha, and tha venerable pioneer blda fair to round eut many more reara la tba Get City. During 1857. when it waa tha faahlon to follow tha (tor of empire westward, Mr. Winshlp left Laurel, Franklin county. Indiana, in a covered wagon, -bringing with him hla wife, father, mother, two sister And a bother. After six weeka on tha road the party reached Omaha on Septem ber 10. MOT. and lived with Mr. Wlnshlp'a onola on a farm located near what la now Thirtieth and Amea avenue. In about a year tha nawcomera took up a homestead, ona corner of which ia now tha eouthwest corner of Fifteenth and Jackson streets. They lived twenty-six years on the home- atead and for tha past twenty yeara have resided at 1931 Franklin street, making two moves in forty-six years, a reoord that Mr. Winshlp feela proud of. In less than a year after ths arrival of tha Winshlp, Mr. Wlnshlp's elderly father died and waa burled at Prospect Hill, tha first interment to ba made at that burial ground. Mr. Winshlp haa three aona, Frank M., George W., and Alphonso B., two daugh ters, Mra. Andrew Klewlt and Mra. W. H. Bullock, and twelve grandchildren. Two of tha latter, Llssi and William Klewlt, were In tha high school graduating clasa Friday night. Mr. Winst)lp'e Immediate family realdea In Omaha. Bis Ufa la Omsk. Speaking of tha first few yeara of his resideno In Omaha, when history was being written mora than It la now, Mr. Winshlp yald: , "Well, aa near aa I can remember, there were about 1,000 people here when I first came to Omaha. I followed my trade aa a painter for a while and painted the houses that James E. and John Boyd built when they were contractors. I painted the house of Jesse Low. the first mayor of Omaha, and did tha algn work on ths old Boyd packing house, tha first plant of that kind In thla part of ' the country. "But let ma tell you about the famous robbery at tha Taylor ranch, then located twelve miles out on tha old Military road. My memory la falling me, so I can not tell you the data when it occurred, but It waa at the time recruits were being mustered bera for the war. "It waa on a Friday morning, in tha winter ttme, and I waa on the road near the Taylor ranch when I met Frank North and two men coming to town7 in a sleigh. North was then drilling Indiana for tha army and Just happened to pick up the men on the way to town. I took particu lar notice of the strangers and made a mental not of their appearance, as I did not Ilka their makeup.' I played amateur detective for awhile and my suspicions Were confirmed, for I found them asso ciating with the worst element in the vil lage. I learned that the men bad stayed at the Taylor ranch on the evening be- fore they werti brought In by North. Canaot Deceive) Him. - v'. - "The next tlm I hadpartiouIar occa sion to notice them was on the following Sunday morning, when the men went into a barber shop and had their hair cut short and their face shaved smooth. I then said to myself: "You will have to out your heads oft if I fall to recognise you fel lows.' "Threat days afterward I met Taylor coming out of tha Treraont house. I asked him how tha folks were and be replied: " They are all well, but we had a bad . robbery down at our place last Sunday night.' I was away at Logan on my form t the time, and two men bound my wife and tha hired man by the hands and stole nearly 11,000 and our Jewelry and trinkets. My wtfa says one of the man appeared to be quite young, while the other waa much ojder and seemed to be ths leader. The older ona waa going to kill my wife if aha did not tall where the money was kept; than tha young fellow pleaded with his companion to spar Mrs. Taylor's Ufa. They round, tha money In the. cellar.' . " 'Have you any suspicions who the men might be, and do you think they might be the men who stayed at your place last Thursday nightr I asked of Taylor, who replied: " Tee, I believe It waa those fellows,' he answered. Advisee Hiss t Be slleat. "Then I told Taylor to keep still about tha matter for the present and assured him that the men Were in town. I told him to go over to Lacy McCormlck'a grocery store and stay there until I came, I went after Sheriff Tom Sutton, but being unable to find him then I soon came across Marshal Riley, whom I sent to Join Taylor at the store. Button then came and Joined the others. I ordered a rig sent from Homan'a barn on Thirteenth street for Mrs. Taylor and the hired man, so that they would be on hand to identify the robbers when caught. "The men were soon arrested, and re leased on some technicality, but publlo feeling grew to such a pitch that their rearrest was soon accomplished. "Mrs. Taylor and the hired man soon ar rived from the ranch and both identified the robbers out of more than 100 men. Publlo sentiment was growing as evening approached, 'and the prisoners knew this. When the robbers were identified the younger of the two pleaded with Mrs, Taylor to Intercede for his life, even as he had done for her when his partner threat ened to kill her with a knife on the even ing of the robbery. Mrs. Taylor pleaded successfully. A mob broke into the Jail that evening, hung the older of the crtm inals and escorted the young man out of town and told him not to return. He, however, did come back the next day and slipped Into the recruiting office and en listed." Gold t rre-re Hla iterles. Mr. Winshlp tells a little story about an Omaha cltisen of the early Urns who went to Denver to start a newspaper and re turned with samples of gold to vindicate his published statements that there waa Dlenty of gold In Colorado. . "Bowers," said Mr. Winshlp, "left Omaha at the time of the first rush to Pike's Peak. He opened a printing office in Den ver and. If I remember correctly, his office was attacked by disgruntled prospectors who took exceptions to his reporta of the gold possibilities of Colorado. "Bowers oame back to Omaha and waa at the big dance being held out at Elk horn. I was at the ball and waa ths only one to recognise Bowers, or at least the first -one. I said to him: " "Hello, Bowers, I'm glad to see you.' "Bowers said, 'Don't speak too loud; they are going to kill me.' "Tou see, he was afraid that people here were angry at him for publishing such glowing statements of the gold fields, when so many had returned home disap pointed, not having stayed at it long enough. I assured Bowers that there were lots of Omaha people at the ball and that he need have no fears as to his safety. The next morning, bright and early. Bowers displayed a wheelbarrow of gold nuggets In a show window on Farnam street. "No, I did not get the gold fever; in fact, my first visit to Colorado waa six yeara ago." OCT OF" THB ORDINARY. An extremely fine quality of green leather made In Turkey is manufactured from the skin of the angel fish. The $40,000,000 which w paid to Panama for the canal rights was tne largest sum this government ever paid to any foreign power. Nettlna- had to be put over the whistle of a big powerhouse at Racine, Wis., to shut out the sparrows that nested there and choked it - i One of tha results of the recent Anxlo- French ajireement Is a renewal of the scheme for tunneling the channel between d ranee ana ungiana. Yankeeland Is not the Only original. In ventive country on ' earth not by any means. A Dutch manager is building a floating theater, with seats for 2,300 persons and liberal provisions for appeasing the hunger and thirst of his patrons. He will tow his unstable temple of harmony up the Rhine and down again and give operatlo performances on board. Captain Ludwlg Elsenbaum, the lone navigator who crossed the Atlantlo from Boston In a seventeen-foot dory, has Come back to New York as a member of the crew of the Red Star line steamship Kroon land, from Antwerp. He brought his dory with him, and it is said that both will be seen later at the St. Louis exposition. The captain's trip was almost a constant fight with death. Twice he waa sighted in mid Atlantic by passing steamships, and tha skipper of one vessel spent considerable time urging him to abandon his perilous undertaking. He had several narrow es capes from drowning and once he lost nearly all of his provisions. The Cherokee Advocate Is one of the old est and most remarkable newspapers In the United States. It is the official organ of the Cherokee Nation, and Is published at Tahlequah at the nation's expense. .It la a five-column folio weekly, half of which is printed in the Cherokee language. It is strictly nonpartisan and la forbidden to law to deal In politics. Indians who read only Cherokee get the paper free. The total circulation Is about 1,000. The cost of publication ia about It, 600 a year over and above receipts from advertisements. The expense is met by an annual appropriation. The salary of the editor Is $000 and a nice home. He Is appointed by tha national council. The Ppes! haa been in existence since 1840. CFOCE" gives you real strength and gumption, so that you like to work. C It's a great cure for hot-weather laziness, v I The will ts work semes from certain constituents la feed tha Pboephstes, Nitrogen, an Pnneids, - Cartel toad are richer la thea aoneUtuent than ethers, sad are eoaverts soon readily tnte Energy. " rOKCS - Is one ef uwae feeds concentrated. It ceneiata of the vital things U Wheat tb Phosphates, Nitre aea, and Destiia, B-algeete4 tar east to aasimiiaie aUaoat as Serve eold lor b) with rai umo, o fcitt. FEATURES OF SCHOOL WORK Pregratiira 8tri9i of Education Cal Forth Comment and Criticism. CAUSES FOR TRUANCY AND THE REMEDY Desaaad for More Mrs Teacher De fease ef the Married School Ma'ase specialists Case la for m Roast, In a carefully prepared "diagnosis of the truant," read before the national confer ence of charities at Portland, Me.. Super intendent MacQueary of the Chicago Parental school corrected the popular no tion that truants are "diseased or de generate children," or that they constitute a particular class of defectives. Truants, so tar as he had been able to dlsoover, do not differ greatly from other ohlldren. "They are. Just boys," said the superin tendent, "with all the Instincts, feelings and characteristics of other boys." Taken as a class they compare favorably with others more fortunately circumstanced children who respond as quickly to mental and moral atimulo as' others do, and often times more quickly. In the second place tnianoy in a city like. Chicago cannot be ascribed to causes found In the defects of the publlo school system or in the incompetency of teachers. "The real causes of truancy in at least 90 per cent of the cases," says Superintendent MacQueary, "are to be found outside the school and the truant. In unfavorable homes and social conditions." Seventy-five per cent of the boys com mitted to the Chicago parental school are below normal in physical development, and the defect most aggravated In Individual cases, If not the most prevalent defect, la found in those disturbances which arise from a defective nervous organization. In general these defects are due to unhygienic conditions, to malnutrition, to Irregular meala and unsanitary living or sleeping rooms. It la to be borne in mind also In making comparisons that 60 per cent of the publlo school children are classed aa subnormal; that is, they have more than the average number of defect found among such children. The cause of truancy must be sought in circumstances and conditions over which the truant haa absolutely no control. Some of the boys in the parental' school come from "good homes," where they get enough to eat and wear, but the vast majority suffer from bad environment and unfavor able domestic conditions. Poverty, parental Ignorance, weakness, cruelty, drunkenness, unhygienic conditions, and, above ail, vicious associations, are the chief causes of truancy. The first remedy, in thejoplnlon of Super intendent MacQueary, which must be ap plied la permanent change of environ ment, and this change must embrace a scientifically evolved system for physical Improvement, mental development and moral training. "This the parental school Is designed to supply," says the Record Herald, "and for this it Is most admirably adapted. If it have any defect at all It lies in its manifest inability to keep cer tain wayward lads permanently away from the old environment and lta baneful in' fluences." ... .- Specialists In Schools. Comptroller Grout has long contended that the Board of Education of New York City Is spending too much ' money in spe cial Instruction, ' and. ,wlth a view of strengthening his case,, he recently em ployed Mrs., Mathilda Coffin Ford, an educa tlotial expert, to investigate the school eya tem of the city. Mrs. Ford's report advo cates the abolition of special Instructors in music, physical culture and manual train ing In the public schools, on the dual ground that these subjects Interfere with the common school courses to which the students are entitled, 'and also that a much needed saving of $350,000 a year thereby could be effected. ' Mra. Ford de clares that a specialist magnifies the Im portance of his specialty, gives It too large a place relative to other subjects, and also constantly underestimates' the amount of effort which an ordinary person, who Is not especially skilled In his line, must cut forth to accomplish given results. If Mrs. Ford's recommendations should be adopted fifteen directors and 246 special teachers would hava to seek employment elsewhere. A Blow at Frats. Stringent measures to crush high school secret societies were taken by the Chi cago school management committee when It adopted resolutions forbidding "any stu dent who Is known to' be a member of a fraternity or aororlty, or other ao-called 'secret' society," from representing the school In any literary or athletic contest, or In any other publlo capacity. The committee also forbid such organiza tions the use of the school name, denied them all publlo recognition, Including the privilege of meeting In the school build ing, and called upon all principals and teachers to acquaint parents of pupils at tending the high school with the fact that -the Board of Education, Superin tendent Cooley, and the faculties of the various schools unanimously condemn all secret societies. The action of the committee waa a sur prise to the " frat" boys, who had as sembled In the board rooma to await the outcome of the meeting. When they heard of the action taken they declared it would strengthen the societies. The Heady School Ma'am. Charlotte Perkina Oilman write in Suc cess: Our present, laws against the mag rlage of school teachers no, I mean too sweeping against ' tha marriage of women school teachers, on pain of official decapi tation, are historically amusing. We shall laugh at them a few yeara hence, as we now laugh at the sumptuary laws of the past For Instance, the worthy Zaleuohus, 450 B. C, ordained "that no woman should appear In the street attended by more than one maid servant unless shs were drunk;" Edward III of England strove to keep his aubjeots down to a menu of two courses only, and our own more recent forefathers In New England prohibited such personal decorations as they chose to consider too expensive for common citizens. Why ahould not a achool teacher have a husband if aba choose! ? The married state doe not detract from the ability of an ed ucator. Indeed, aa all teaching originated In motherhood and aa that experience is understood to have a widening and en nobling Influence, It la hard to sea why school hlldren should be debarred from the advantageous society of the- married teacher, with her calm happiness, or of the mother-teacher, with her new depths of love. Are any instanoes given of a falling off In efficiency In teacher after marrlageT Is It claimed that a happy wife - cannot give aa much attention to her work aa a hopeful damsel or a resigned spinster? Not at all I The contention la that the teacher who marries haa got another Job, and ahould give up her former position to one who needs It more than she does. It haa been wisely and conclusively an swered that the married woman who electa to continue her school work does so either because of especial devotion to that work or because aha continues to need the salary- Bo tha upholders of spinster school ma'ams are caught en either born of tha dilemma if the married teacher wants to teach because of eapeclat ' Interest in the work ah haa a right to do It on tbe ground that of fitness; If she wants to teach because she "needs the money" she has a right to It on grounds of necessity. The essential error In the whole discussion lies In our common misuse of the term "need." which Implies that the schools of our country are maintained at great pub llo expense for the purpose of providing food and clothing to a number of single women. A school is an institution for the education of children, and all it processes and standards are to be Judged and meas ured aa they conduce to that end. If a woman la a good school teacher though married' to a millionaire we have as much need of her services as we should if her buiband ahould die and take his fortune with him, or if she ahould be de pendent on ber salary for bread. What the woman does with ber money la no concern of the achool board. Whether she "needs" It or not is ho business of theirs. The phlld needs thm onnA imhmr ,nA that is the only question of "need" which belongs to this subject. Men Teachers Needed. President Hall may have exaggerated tha evil when he aaid that the preponderance of the feminine influence In the public achoola means "racial degeneracy," says the Chicago Tribune, but an increasing number of close observers are coming to the opinion that the loss of the male ele ment in the American school system of Inst ruction Is a matter requiring serloua attention. This preponderance of women teachers struck most of the members of the Mosely education commission as the unique feature of the public schools of this country. It is commented upon aa follows: "As teaching 1 an occupation in which more than any Other lmmrlnt(va fi Individuality, insight and originality are wBuieo, it is important that men rather than women should exercise the predom inating influence. In both countries it la Important that we should discover manna of attracting men of practical Instincts and superior mental gifts into the teaching profession. There Is a tendency for women leacnera wnen dealing with boys of ad vanced age tO instill (unconaHnnalu doubt) senUmental vtews of facts rather man to derive principles of conduct from them. This was SDeclallv nh,v,ki. lectures and lessons on English literature tuia History." If mere booklearnlna- wna ih, a of the common school education It would do jmmatenal whether It was administered by a man or a woman. Tahin, properly be regarded as aexless. Or If cnuaren could be made to absorb nothing but the knowledge, books it would not matter who listened '".H.IIW1.. nut' tne teacher has an In fluence which serines frWm fha element and Is especially strong with the ,w....B, KDCttuso ot tneir Inclination to imi tate and Idealize thn-. ,!., .i are brought In contact i The preponderance nt r , . mlgbt be unobjectionable if all the pupils , """ ui would not the mothers raise a protest if th no. . ... --- u& jcxiucation should announce that next year 85 percent of the teachers would be men? It la im portant that boy. .houid. at a certain "tage of their education, be brought Into close personal relation- i,k " . J30"- "6ed he po,nt ' "lew which luo or tne wori,j j. . the right kind can i.iJI fi .... "laa ' . w is interest and th! "Ce f bOJ" t0 reat- lee-re ,. even ir she be a model w,, WWch 18 Prove'biaIly associated with the youth of her sex. What Is wanted in the school, Is the presence of more men of infectious enthusiasm, at tractive personality, originality of method and practical mind. that i. L , m?rVnCreRW ,n lnt Jh f ! ' bUt the ,n"-1ction into the schools of the right class of men. The , Bu,ch men OUId noi hav t be relatively large. But they are needed, and proper Inducements should be offered to enlist their services. Famona Napoleon Relic. In the ponderous Iron safe of Miss Flor ence Hayward's office In the Administra tion building, at the World's fair, guarded by a combination known only to the super intendent of the history section. Is a prlce- lees Napoleon relic loaned for exhibition in Miss Hayward's department The relio Is a bronze cast of the death mask of the great conqueror made a half hour. after his death on the "lonely isle." The bronze cast is one of five authorized by the French government It bears under the chin the seal of the French govern ment, vouching for Its authenticity. The cast waa obtained by Miss Hay ward, for exhibition purposes, from Miss dally of New Orleans, a descendant of one of the owners of the cast. The orig inal plaster cast was made on the island of St. Helena by Dr. Francois Antomarchl, the physician of the Imperial exile, who brought It with him to Parle some time later. ' Here five bronze casts from the original were authorized by the French govern ment to be made. Two of these were placed in the Louvre, one in the British Museum, one kept by the physician and the fifth eventually found its way through various hands to the possession of Lau rence Hutton of New York, its present owner. St. Louis Republic, HISTORIC DAY FOR OMADA 0n of tha trial Date in ths lnnali cf tL Oat City easasmvaanmmi BREAKING GROUND FCR UNION PACIFIC ( Cemaaeaeemeat ( Coaatraetlen, At the reunion of old settler, held in connection with the semi-centennial ode bratlon of the passage of the Nebraska Kansas bill, Edward Rosewater gave an account of the ceremony of breaking ground for the Union Pacific road. At the request of General Qrenvllle M. Dodge, Mr. Rosewater'a remarks are here pub lished: "The second dsy of December, lWJ, was a gala day In Omaha. A proclamation had been Issued by Abraham Lincoln, a few days previously, locating the terminus of the Union Paciflo railroad, and the people of Omaha and Council Bluffs participated Jointly In the breaking of ground for the great transcontinental railroad. About 1 o'clock in the afternoon of that day the best atage coach of the Western Stage company, carrying all tha passengers it could accommodate on the Inside and on the outside, started from the front of the Douglas house, at the corner of Thirteenth and Harney, for the telegraph poles, about a mile and a half north of Farnam street. There waa no river cable in those days and no bridge. The single wire that connected Omaha with Chicago waa suspended from two tall masts that had been planted on each side of the Missouri river bank, noar one of the ferry crossings. "I occupied a aeat on the top of the stage, with other distinguished deadheads. Governor Saunders, Peter A. Dye, chief engineer of the lUnlon Pacific; Ed Creigh ton, superintendent of telegraph; Dr. Atch ison, superintendent of the Western Stage lines; Mayor B. E. B. Kennedy and George Francis Train, who ' had been expressly commissioned to come all the way from New York to participate in the ceremonies, were on the inside of the coach. CeremonlpM at the Site. "When we reached the sandy shores of the Missouri, near the telegraph poles, there were about 600 people on the ground. Presently Peter A. Dye struck the ground with a pick a few times and handed the pick to Governor Saunders and he In turn handed it to Augustus Kountze, and when half a dosen of the dignitaries of pioneer days had scratched sand to their satisfac tion, Rev. Thomas B. Lemon, tall, gaunt and gawky as Abraham Lincoln himself, delivered . himself of prayers and blessings. Then came the speech-making. Interrupted only by the cheers from the crowd and the salvos of two 6-pounders that were' being fired on each aide of the river every few minutes. "Among the speakers whom I remember were Governor Saunders, Mayor Kennedy, Peter A. Dye and Augustus Kountze. When Mr. Kountze got up to speak he as sured us all that he was trembling in his boots, because thla was his first effort. George 'Francl Train, who followed him. created much merriment by declaring that he Iso was trembling In his boots, having never yet faced such a large audience. Train was then In the prime of life, and hla speech waa full of pyrotechnics and prophetic forecasts. He professed to be in a trance and cried out, 'Passengers for China, this way! Passengers from New Zealand and Australia to the rear.' All this sounded to the bystanders like the talk of a man who had broken out of a lunatic asylum. Andrew J. Poppleton'a Speech. "After Train had gotten through,, amidst uproarious applause, a man with a very florid face, whom I had noticed frequently w ilklng about the streets in a red woolen shirt and who I had always taken for a butcher, climbed on the tall end of a wagon, got Into the box and delivered a speech that eclipsed all the other speakers and simply' paralysed everybody. -I was dumfounded, and asked a bystander, 'Who is this Irian?' 'Why, Andrew' J. Poppleton,' said he. ... "After the speechmaklng congratulatory dispatches were read. One of these was from John Hay, private secretary to the president; another from William H. Se ward, secretary of state; one from Leland Stanford, governor of California; another from Governor Tates of Illinois; one from Brlgham Young, governor of Utah; there were also dispatches from Mayor Updyke ot New York, ,and mayors from many other American' cities. "Jn the' evening Omaha City gava itself up to a grand Jamboree, The principal buildings were Illuminated with tallow can dle and ( roaring bonfires consumed all the strayboxes and planks within, reach of the small boys. . The celebration wound up with a grand ball at the Herndon house, at which Train was the star attraction, and Omaha pioneer aristocracy disported itself and cut the pigeon wing." r mi NEARLY NINE MILLION ACRES OF GOVERNMENT LANDS IN WESTERN NEBRASKA IN 640 ACRE LOTS ALMOST Mm 1 International Union of Hdtel and Ree taurant Employes has 69 locals In 608 cities, with a total membership in good standing Of 60,430, a gain ot 11,860 since lost year. m"Barker,'S tf COLLARS SJ iHW3 and CUFFS f i k7 re stamped l jfi J mSX Warranted Linen Y You can get them at A j&hA ( r g A many reliable dealers in r i Omaha. I m eweasr acQ e soeip 't J LZ- . 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