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ILLIAM M'CORMACK, a former
W
resident of Lancaster county, JX
braska, at present a clerk la the
bond division of the Treasury de
partment at Washington, has
draw a the first claim for settlement on
(he Rosebud lands In South Dakota. Mr.
McCormack Is a veteran of the Spanlsh-Anm-Ican
war and during that brief strug
gle served as a private In the Second Ne
braska volunteers, but got no nearer the
front than the great camp at Chlcka
jnauga. He was token 111, suffering an
attack of typhoid, and was eventually mus
tered out of the service at Omaha. Me
Cormack was born In Philadelphia In 187S.
In 1880 his xarents removed with him to
Clay county, Nebraska. There ha lived
on a farm until 1898, when he enlisted In
the Second Nebraska for servlca In the
Spanish-American war. In 1900 ha entered
the IJncoln Business college and, after
working as a clerk for a while In the
office of the Cuduby Packing company In
Omaha, took a civil service examination
and secured a position as a clerk, being
assigned to the Treasury department.
Mr. McCortnack ls27 years of age and
unmarried. He was Induced to take a
chance of winning something In the lottery
of Rosebud lands purely through an al
luring circular which was sent to him In
company with many other veterans of the
Spanish-American and civil wars by a Arm
of local attorneys. Mr. McCormaek is
now awaiting to hear from his attorney,
who Is on the ground at Chamberlain, 8. D.,
to ascertain as to what shall now be the
method of procedure. He will probably
tart west wlthla a few days to perfect
bis title to such land as he may select.
The Interest In the Rosebud drawing ex.
ceeded the expectations of any of the par
. ties concerned. Over 100,000 names were
registered for an opportunity of filing a
homestead entry on one of the farms em
braced In the kind opened for settlement.
Only about 1.900 of the applicants will
receive homesteads under this distribution,
but it Is now believed that the state of
South Dakota will draw an Immense Indi
rect benefit from the lottery. Thousand
of hotneseekers paid their first visit to
South Dakota and were so much Impressed
with the country that they will likely make
their homes there. It has been estimated
that South Dakota will gain 10,00 farmers
through the medium of this giving out of
land. Nebraska, too, got a partial looking
over by people who had never been In the
state, and the Inquiry for lands In this
atate has been greatly stimulated.
Native Born Sailors
It is both significant and encouraging
that the enlisted force of the navy la Min
ing more and more largely from the great
body of native born American cltisens. In
1S90 only about 60 per cent of the enlisted
men In the navy were natives, of the United
States, but In 110) the proportion of natives
had riven to more than 90 per cent, and the
chances are that the current fiscal year
will se an advance In excess of 85 per
cent. These figures not only nfford a suf
ficient answer to the stupid assertion
sometimes heard In certain European quar
ters that the enlisted force of the United
States navy is an incongruous assemblage
of aliens, but they show that It Is per
haps more largely made up of natives of
the nation It represents than Is to he
found In any other navy In the world.
Another suggestive fact is that most of
our naval recruits nowaday come from
the inland states, and on this point a
Bsvy officer is quoted by the Baltimore
Sua as saying: "We are getting the bast
men of the navy from the farms of In
diana. Illinois, Iowa and Kunsas. W are
training them ourselves and don't need
to take foreigners, as we did ten years
ago when we had no men trained for the
sea la our land. Array and Navy Jour
nal. Unbridled Luxury
rat Ef I lived at the Walledoff-Astort
I'd order boiled bacon for dinner.
Mike Tou're a fool! Yes get boiled
bacon for dinner now.
Pat Ef I lived at the Welledoff-Astoria
I'd order boiled bacon for dinner, and
when they brought It I'd Jfow It away and
I'd say: T'ell wid the beef trust 1 Bring
me a fried porterhouse stauk, with
Smothered onions."
MUe'Tl a king yea ought to he, Pat,
yes has such motghty grand Ideas! Town
Tuples.
Story of
OUNDINQ out a life unusually ad
R
venturous and full of Incident by
running for the office of vico
president on the populist ticket,
Thomas Henry Tibbies of Lin
coln, Neb., Just at present, can look back
from his present eminent poeltiun on tho
editorial tripod to a career as checkered
as that of any hero of romance. t He is
essentially a product of the west, and of
the west at its formative period. Hardship
and adversity have been constant attend
ants of his career, and the reward he has
reaped from a life of toll Is not so great,
measured In dollars and cents, as would
make an ordinary mua envious of him.
But in the point of personal satisfaction
derived from distinct achievements; from
Victories won against overwhelming odds,
and from defeats that were more than half
victories, he Is richer beyond th dreams
of avarice,
Mr. Tibbies Is nowu little past 64 years
of age, and all his life he has been en
gaged In fighting what seemed hopeless
battles for an Idea, first ono and then
another, but all such as appealed to him
a leading- In the direction of. greater free
dom and more -happiness for the race. It
Is. therefore, the most natural thing In
tho world that ha should be at the fore
front of the populist fight, with aa un
compromising attitude against fusion with
either of the older parties, the policies of
both of which ha rejects aa pernicious. Ha
has tod forlorn hopes so long that he would
hardly know how to conduct himself were
he suddenly placed at the head of a move
ment that promised success.
Thomas Henry TtbUea waa born la Wash,
tngtoa county, Ohio, oa May 22, IBM. Hi
father belonged, aa had his forebears long
before him, to that restless class of Amer
ican cltisens, Dow extinct, who thought
the country waa getting crowded when
their nearest neighbor was less than two
miles away. Ohio wus being comfortably
settled by that time, and the elder Tibbie
Boon pitched his habitation in Illinois. Here
the wave of Immigration waa rising, and
the Tibbie family moved across the Mla
tsstppl Into Iowa, and out of the reach of
white neighbors. Iowa waa Indian country
then, and the soldier moved the tribe of
Tibbie back to Illinois. Here the father
settled on a claim, and soon after died.
The elder brother of the family had Joined
an expedition to California, and at the
age of Tommy found himself the "hertd"
of a family. The farm they were occupying
waa takes from them through some legal
technicality, and Tommy proceeded to rent
a farm and Install himself, his mother and
two younger brothers thereon. Sickness
and similar misfortune followed, and the
county authorities determined to break up
the family. Thomas Henry waa bound out
to a farmer who had seven girls and no
boy. According to the tale that comes
down, this master undertook to make the
youngster do the work that seven boy
might find sufficient to occupy them, and
besides did not live up to the terms of his
indenture. The result wus that young
Tibbie took French leave, and brought up
at Warsaw, where he took a steamboat
ride of sufficient length to remove him
front the Jurisdiction of the Illinois court:
He worked In, a candy factory for a time,
and wandered again, fetching up in Iowa
on the limit of settlement. Here he ell in
with the first Indian he had encountered,
and laid the foundation of what was after
wards to become his chief work In Ufa,
1
In this Iowa town he gained a livll
hood by doing chores at a lawyer's office,
and read some of the law book. It waa
too tame, and be drifted to Kansas, where
the war between the free soil and slavery
men was. at its height. He Joined Jim
Lane's army and narrowly missed getting
killed a time or two In the batUos that
followed. Here b met John Brown, and
the two became warm friends. Tibbies was
then 16 years of age. After peace had been
declared In Kansas young Tibbies went on
a hunting expedition and got In with some
Omaha Indiana A fight with a war party
of Sioux oocured and In this the boy dis
tinguished himswlf so markedly that the
Omaha made him a member of the
"soldier" lodge, the highest distinction they
could confer on htm and one which but two
white men ever attained. General Crook
and Tibbies. After parting wllh the
Indians Tibbies returned to Iowa and waa
enlisted by the sheriff to assist In breaking
up a gang of heme thieves. Tibbies went
Into the camp of the thieve to secure In
formation for tho sheriff, and while there
waa given a dose of strychnine, from tho
effects of which he still surf era
During all this time young Tibbies waa
ambitious to acquire an education. In his
early boyhood he had two three month'
terms at a frontier school; when he waa
working in, the candy shop he was under a
foreeaan who had been educated for the
prloiiliood, and who advised him to learn
Latin. The boy secured a Latin grammer
and committed It to memory without un
derstanding a word of It. While In Kansas
he secured an English grammer and com.
tultl4 It tm memory also. After hi ex-
Thomas Henry
perlenee with the horse thieves he decided
to go to school, and started east on foot.
While Crossing Iowa he delivered lectures
on bin life In Kansas and among the
Indians and ' thus acquired quite a little
cash. He attended Mount Vernon college
In Ohio and secured a certificate. In 1W1
he waa married to bis first wife. Whea the
war broke out he was not allowed to en
list, owing to the physical condition In
which he had been left by the poison, but
.he managed to get into the service In the
capacity of a civilian and served as a
scout and otherwise until the close of the
war. After the war he was licensed as a
Methodist preacher and assigned to riatte
county, Missouri where he had a number
Of rough and exciting experiences with the
lawless characters who then Infested that
section. From Missouri he made his way
across into Kansas and Nebraska again.
Here he was soon brought rn to active
service again by the grasshopper plague.
His efforts to secure relief for the suffer
ing people brought on him much con
demnation, and he finally gave up his task.
At Omaha he entered on a Journalistic
career and was for sometime employed oa
The Bee, the Republican and the Herald.
While working on the Herald, and while
General Crook was la command of the De
partment of the Platte, with headquarter
at Omaha, occurred the Incident that
turned the channel of Tibbie' life. If. In
deed, hi wandering career may be said to
nave had any channel. Standing Bear, a
ponca chief, and some of hi people had
coma from the Indian Territory to bury a
child of the old chiefs on the old reserva
tion In Nebraska. General Crook had re
ceived order from Washington to turn the
Indian back, and then had them under ar
rest at Fort Omaha. Crook did not want
to execute the order he had received and
sought Tibbies' assistance. After a long
consultation Tibbie gave over hi news
paper career and entered on what proved
a long and often disappointing campaign
In behalf of tho Indian. His first step wa
an application for a writ of heabeaa corpus
before Judge Dundy, hi behalf of Standing
Bear. Although not considering the la
ue raised. Judge Dundy granted the writ
and gave the Indian chief his liberty. The
right of the Indian to vote and to hold
land m severalty wa next tested, and the
Dawes law and the clothing of Indian
with eltisenshlp came next. Mrs, Tibbie
had died soma year before, and during
his work among the Indians Mr. Tibbie
met Bright Eyes (8usette LaFlesche).
whom ha married. The pair made a tour
of the east and of England and Scotland,
lecturing, where they were handsomely
received. After leaving newspaper work
Mr. Tibbie had taken a claim near Ban
croft, which he still owns. Here he and
Bright Kye made their home and, al
though no children were born to them, they
gave careful training to Mr. Tibbies' two
daughter by his first wife.
' $
In 188S, when the hard time began to be
felt In Nebraska, and the Farmers' Alliance
movement was taking on growth, Tibbie
left the farm and again entered newspaper
work as an editorial writer on the Omaha
World-Herald. From here he and hi
wife went to Washington, where they wrote
for a syndicate of papers of the new faith.
Finally Mr. Tibbies became editor of the
Carrying Sweetheart's Picture
GIRL who earns XI a week In a
stitrt waist factory and a girl will
haa 17 a week ten time over to
spend for herself sat opposite
each other on the ferry boat.
A
The first girl had for a brooch at her
throat a colored button showing a picture
of a pleasant looking young man with his
hair parted In the middle and tinted to a
beautiful shado of yellow. The button
was gaudily framed In near-gold.
The second girl, from under her double
veil, peered out at thla obvious brooch and
thought how very funny It was for a girl
to wear her heart on her stock lnstend of
on her sleeve. Then when she had left
the ferry-boat and taken her seat m the
drawing-room of the parlor car with her '
maid in attendance, she snapped a spring
in her bracelet. What looked Ilka a small
aeal bearing her birth-flower In Jewel
sprang up to disclose the face of a young
man with pale yellow hair that wa not
parted in the middle
The difference between the ways In which
the two girls carried their sweethearts
around with tliem waa Junt about the same
difference between being bora with a
golden spoon In your mouth and a pewter
one. The rich girl knows it is not good
form to let anyone know that site la really
In love. Sometimes she doesn't even want
the man to know it too well. So she in
vent all sort of way of carrying "his"
picture around with her.
Juat now the favorite hiding place for
the picture of the "onliest" man is In the
vanity bag. Sometime it la aet medallion
fashion into the lining of the bag; some
times, in delicate miniature. It forms the
top of her silver of gold powder box; or
It Is fitted Into the Inner flap of her card
case, secure from the vulgar gaxe.
Many a rich girl wear "hi" picture at
Tibbies
Independent at Lincoln, where he still 19
engaged. His second wife died in 1B03.
Like Judge Parker, Mr. Tibbies ha
grand children and if the democratic noml
neo has more pleasure In his little relative
or has more stories to tell of them, then
history has not been kind In recording
thrse things told by the Nebraskan. In
New York City Mr. Tibbies has a daughter,
Mrs. Bates, who In the mother of a young
hopeful, and it la about this youngster
that Mr. Tibbies talks whenever the op
portunity presents itself. A few days ago
In his office he stopped pounding his type
writer, kept the copy-boy watting while ha
told this story of the little fellow:
"My daughter's family lives in a fiat
and her son has a playmate with whom
he Is continually fighting. One day tho
little fellow asked hi mother If he might
play with Johnny and he was granted per
mission after first promising that under
no circumstances would he strike tho
neighbor boy. In the course of time ha
came home and the first thing he said waa
'Mama, I didn't hit Johnny a single time.'
His mother complimented him, and as the
boy walked off he said to himself: "But I
kicked the stuffing out of him.' "
And then the venerable candidate sway
back In his chair and let out a burst of
laughter that Is good to hear. It display
a row of teeth that attracts more atten
tion that President Roosevelt's ever daro
to attract, and he straightway goes off
Into another story about that beloved
grandchild or about Mrs. Allen Barris, his
daughter, who has attracted much atten
tion a a soprano, and whose husband is a
railroad contractor. He Is particularly
proud of this family at this time for they
have removed west and both have an
nounced that the east has no more charms
for them. The family Mves In Council
Bluff. .. .
Mr. Tibbies' friends are telling a little
tory on him that happened, while he wa
In New York last summer. He had. Just
before going there, taken up about a page
of the Independent In a vitriolic attack pn
yellow Journalism apd the Hearst news
paper were among the examples he cited.
While In New York his daughter persuaded
him to set for a magnificent photograph
and she desireu that he be "took" In hi
Tola a a newspaper writer, and so the
accommodating photographer squared him
around at a table and firmly encased in
Til hands a newspaper. In a few days
proof of the picture was sent to the house.
The Honorable Mr. Tibbies, a stickler for
nonsensational newspaper whas depicted
clutching a copy of the Chicago American
with head' line in red clear acres tho
front page. It Is needless to ay he had
another setting.
This distinguished Nebraskan na always
been original, too, and It was he that
demonstrated that the selentlsm of the
country wen-e "mullet heads" when it came
to grasshopper education. The peats were
going over Nebraska as thoroughly as the
revenue law and scientists were tellfhg
that they worked during the day and re
mained still at night Tibbies thought
they were always on the go and tsald so to
the amusement of the scientists. So one
night he dabbed tar on a kite and sent it
up. When It came down there were stuck
In the tar hundreds of grasshoppers, that
had been caught on the wing. IL IL P.
her throat, though it Is not exposed' to
public view. It may be vellod by delicate
filigre or hittlce work, or it may be set
under the brooch proper. It may be a sin
gle flower In gold or silver. Whea the
girl Is powdering the tip of her nose, a
girls often will, or Is makinlg sure that
her hat is on straight, she has only to
snap a catch In her brooch and she look
straight Into the face of her well-beloved.
The girl of 1904 is fortunate who can
count among her family heirlooms aa old
fashioned ring with a medallion setting
showing gluss over a bit of hair cut from
the head of some ancestor and handed
down from generation to generation. Sha
may have the hair removed and her sweet
heart's face on porcelain reduced from a
photograph until It Is less than half aa
Inch In diameter set Into the ring and
covered with chased gold or a filigree cap,
which, of course, open with a tuning and
hinge.
The oddest hiding place for a photograph
la In the garter clasp. It is a circular sil
ver or gold case with the porcelain minia
ture fitted under the metal.
A girl whose desk Is finished in delicate
Dresden china hus her fiancee's photograph
set into the caleadaf. The man is abroad
and the girl feels taat when his faoe Is
on her desk m this particular position he
is In herpreaence every day In the week.
WMnen are not alone in the passion for
hiding a sweetheart's picture. Men hava
caught the fever and no longer consider
It good form to carry the photograph la
the front case of their watch. Sometimes
it Is printed right on the dial, but so small
that it attracts ho attention. More gen
erally It Is carried in the back of the casa
and opened only when the watch is wound
or adjusted, or the man Is alone arid wishes
to feast hi eye on ber feature.
