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EDITORIAL SECT10II. Pag 1 tj 3. he Omaha Daily Bee Your Monty's Worth THE OMAHA DEC Best A". West 5 VOL. AWXVF-XO. 5. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNIN'G, JUNE 23, 1006. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. I0PS0KHER OF ADMIRALS! Enviable Position of Qeoree Dewey, Bead of the American Navj. CANNOT BE RETIRED OR DISCIPLINED . He nofl In Wnshlnaton Chummy with Men Who Fought In Manila Bar. Admiral Dewey Ik still in the sailor bus iness and works at It for eight or ten hour every day. One a ymr, for two or three month, he gets aboard one of the smsller vessels of the navy at Wssh Ington. aalla down the Potomac river and out to sea. There he looka over tha as sembled ships of tha United States, picks lit tha largest and handsomest of the greet floating fortraaaaa and boards It. Than day and night ha heads It aotithward. with a Ion string of big while monsters of tha navy close In hla wake. They sail until they get Into OarlbbeHn waters, and then tha admiral begins to put them through their parea and to tench the offi cers and men tha aaltor bualneaa aa he iaa learned It during the twenty-five years and mora of his connection with It. They call the training tha "aummer maneu vera," and It la admitted by the naval ex perta of the world that the performances under our admiral of tha navy have given tia the moat ekilled set of man In the han dling of ahlpa and guns there la in the world. They say tha admiral is stern, but Just. There waa tha day when the ahlpa were proceeding In an oblique course with the bows all supposed to be along an Imag inary Una and a full head of steam roar ing th rou ah tha funnela, with tha donee black clouds' of amoka rolling up them, too. Tha Alabama rmshed Its noae forward tha length of a amall boat, and. though It waa nair a mile rrom the nagahlp. aignnl flaga began to flutter from tha admiral's ship ordering. "Alabama, you're out of Una. or aomethlng to that effect. The aallor man have a technical word for the same thing that keepe from wearing out the signal books, but for the landsmen to attempt to master tha technique of It all Is Impossible without more study than the average landlubber chooses to give to the subject. Three times during the day the signal reprimanding the navigator of the Alabama floated from the topmost point of tha flagship. Everyone knew that each time the algnal waa flown It meant an en try In the log book of every ahlp In the fleet. newey Made an Investigation. After midday and the ahlpa were lyln Idly In the water and the men were no longer at quarters, a launch went off from Cc flagship and an officer presented the k.inniininti or trie aiimirai to the cantain m.9 til. ilakam. .nil mkItaA t thr VII anv reasonable excuse for the actions of (the ahlp during the day. " The officer waa taken to the ateerlng-gear room and yy ... - steering gear had been worked under ex traordinary difficulties. Two mlnutea after the officer reported back to the flagship -VI. I I. - Atlrt4 Vrj inly III III" liori ma iiiiviuru I' milra an entrv In Its In bonk to the effer t that the Alabama had been navlgat-d under great difficulties during the day be cause of defective ateerlng gear. That' the anrt of' admiral we have in our navy. Taken all In all there la perhaps no man tn tha United Statea. In the service of the government or out of It. who la In a more enviable position than la Admiral Dewey. Congress has given him the rank, pay and allowances of an admiral of the navy, re viving the rank for hla benefit. He la ab solutely Independent of the secretary : of the navy and of the president of the Tnlted Statea. He can not be retired and ha can not be disciplined by reduction In rank or any of the other usual means em ployed. The place gives htm an annual In come ef 11S.K00. If he chooses to do so he could close down hla desk,, go, home and never turn nia nana .over in me way tef work, either for the, navy or any one " -else, and hla ray and allowances would ' go on aa long aa he lives. ' But the ad miral prefera to work and to work hard. Across the street from the hla' atone .pile In which the Navy department 1s housed a wealthy retired naval officer named Mills has built a great tan-atory granite and marble building, which la called tha "Navy Anne" and In which all ' of the bureaus which have been created rlnce tha navy building waa erected, and hence for which there la no room In It, are lo cated. Admiral Dewey haa hla office on tha fourth floor of thia building, and there la nothing bi furniahlnga or otherwise to dis tinguish it from the other government offices. He Is at the head of tha navy gen eral board. Thla hoard la charged with l ' tha duty of derlalng all of the general a. hiftna tft. AnltrnpHrtH am4 ImnMc.m.nt Jof the navy and for the management of tha ships, tha handling of officers and men, and tha control of the great govern ment ahlDVards. Every day. when he Is not at saa for maneuvers, he is at his desk In hla office or attending to the meetings of the board. There are few men In the government service who keep longer hours ad accomplish more In the way of work. A Maw ef Inaalte Tact. Admiral Pewey seems to realize his pe culiar situation In official life and before the people, and to believe It brings to him a certain aense of responsibility. Not once haa he had a difference with either the president of tha I ntted Statea $r with the series of secretaries of the navy who have had charge since the battle of Manila bay. J Avery day he haa had to do with the f jj'arger things of general naval policy, and j the committees of congress are always demanding that ha be sent to them to advise tn naval programs. The admiral nnas wnat tna president and the secretary want. If tils own conclusions are not In line with them, and he Is unable to show them that his view Is the proper one to he preaented to the committees of with Infinite tact he makes some excuse, or la able to avoid appearing before them! ja and instead sees that some official of the department In sympathy with the civilian heada presents the matter from their standpoint. The humblest man In the navy la tha friend of Admiral Dewey, and he feels It. It's no uncommon thing to have a sailor roan rome rolling Into the admlial'a office, present himself to Lieutenant Crawford and ask to ace the admiral, stating thai he waa on one of his ahlpa at Manila bay, or else knew him aotne time during his many years of sea duty. The admiral always receives them, and tha two talk with as much free dom aa though there' waa no difference of rank. The admiral hlmaelf teems to sin cerely rellah these meetings, and has. told friends that some of the best things iio v t auni in connr-i-i tuii w mm me uipcipiuie "WJof the men have groan out of tha little Vats he haa had with the man from the wardroom. Admiral Dewey la much loved and much reepeeteaV. Be la a dapper little fellow, not much more than five fet In height. His clothes fit him like the naval uniform, with out craae or hag anywhere. They do say that th admiral's Chinese valet haa no lesa than twenty suits of clothes to take care of at the beginning of each summer and each winter, and that there are no leas than ten palra of ahoea of every description for the ua nf the admiral and twice that many new pairs of gliKea. But don't get the Idea that the admiral is a "dude." He Is Just a well-groomed genllomsn. without a show of affoctstlnn or the appearance of having given a thought :o his personal appearance. Hla Work la Hla nerreatlon. The admiral finds his work hla recreation. He does not have time for the clubs or other diversions that many men have. His home a his club, as proves to be the case with most marrl'd men of domestic Inclina tions. Ha shows but one "fad." If fad It may be railed, and that Is hla love for anl- sl. He haa one nf the finest teama of driving horses In the city and takes the greateat personal interest In them. With hla coachman, every day he talka over the atste of their heslth and humor. If he finds that either one of the animals ie at all off his feed there will be no driving or use of lilm until he la fully on his feet again. Hla Is not n perfunctory Interest, either, for he goes Into the stshles for personal Inspec tion every day and takes a personal Interest In the manner of their care. He has an ugly-looking Kngllsh bulldog, which Is also a pet of the admiral. Toward evening It Is his custom In plessnnt weather to drive out In a handeome victoria drawn by his team of hays. If Mrs. Dewey Is In disposed and unable to accompany him that "Sly-faced bulldog has a place on the seat beside the admiral. The bulldog went through the battle of Manila bay with the admiral, so they are resl "bunkles." They tell of the time, shortly after the battle, when the admiral waa making a tour of Inspection of the ahlpa of the fleet and took the dog with him. As soon aa the deck of a ship was reached the dog waa dumped out of the aallor man's arms, who carried him up tha boarding ladder, and was allowed the range of the ship until the admiral recalled him to his side by a shrill whistle, which the dog always recognised. On the particular ship where this Inci dent occurred the captain In command was noted for hla Irascible temper as well aa his splendid courage and fighting record, extending back to the days of the civil war navy. The admiral went aft to Inspect the men's quarters, and fifteen minutes later returned to the forward deck. As he did so he saw a ball of fur hurled from the deck below and the unmistakable toe of an officer's patent leather boot close In the dog's wake. Admiral Dewey waa white with anger and surprise. In a aecond, when the captain appeared, following the direction of the toe of his boot, the ad miral, controlling himself as best he could, demanded: "Sir,' what do you mean by kicking my dog In that manner?" The eaptaln came to a awlft aalute, and his face, it waa noted, was aa pale and drawn 'with suppressed anger as waa that of the admiral. "Sir," he aa!d. "X would have kicked that dog If he had been the personal prop erty of the Supreme Being; but, sir. I would not have kicked him, and did not kick him, until he had chewed the legs out of two 116 palra of uniform trousers and ruined a da lux' edition of the naval regulations, aa well aa killed the ahlp's feline mascot." Then they both laughed. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. r FOURTH WILL BE QUIET DAY Nation's Anniversary Will ot Be Celebrated with Any Formal Program In Omaha. Fourth of July In Omaha bids fair to be a day devoted to rest, sports and the Ignition of small flreerackere, with here and there a display of fireworks In the even ing. Patriotism, In tha old-fashioned sense of the word, apparently Is to be expended by Omaha ns In a regulation celebration at Florence and Bending John L. Webster to Madison, Wis., to make an oration. Friday morning the chief Issued his proclamation concerning explosives and general Fourth of July regulations. In the first place not even ao much as the smallest firecracker may be touched off until after I o'clock on the evening of July S. Before and after that time three sources of deviltry and Joy are tabooed. These are torpedoes on the street car tracks, explosive canes and revolvers. In making his rulea the chief of police is acting within the law aa promulgated by an ordinance adopted early last year prohibiting the giant cracker, the danger oua revolver, the toy cannon and ex plosives on the mils. "Arrests will follow any prematura at. tempts to celebrate the Fourth," said the chief. NOVELTY IN LINE OF THEFT Tea Qnarta mi Cherries Mtolen anal Pellee Admit This la Sew te Them. Even thlevee give tha public something of a novelty once In a while. The rule la with the' police that they receive reports of thieves and burglars stealing articles which may be carried off easily and con cealed, auch as watchea. Jewels and money. Sometimes thieves steal chickens, but chicken stealing haa been ell ssed as a pro fession by ltaelf. Friday morning Mrs. Bert of 2305 North Twenty-aeventh avenue reported to the po lice that a thief stole ten quarts of cherry preserves from her pantry window. She had Just put the delicacies 'up and waa about, to place them In the cellar to await the coming of winter, when the snow oomcth and cherrtee are not ripe. The ateallng of ten quarts of preserved cherries Is a new one for the police. PLAN FOR" NEW BUILDING ' Draft Calls for Large Stores at Corner I of Twentieth and Farnam Streets. I Plans have been completed and will be placed in the hands of contractors at once . for the building at. the northeast corner of I Twentieth and Farnam streets, to be erected by F. D. Wead and H. H. Baldrige. i ae building will be sixty-six feet on Far nam atreet by IS feet on Twentieth street and will embrace three atorea fronting on the former atreet and two on the latter. Only one story will be erected at present, but the foundation and walla will be made strong enough for three stories. The entire building haa been leased. Printing of Ballets. The priming of the prin.ary ballota has been divided between the Omaha Printing company and the Roberts Printing com pany. The former will print the seven and one-half-foot state delegation ballot In two sections and the latter the congres sional ballot, which wUl alao be la I we section t&t rotated. PERILOUS AUTO TRIP ENDED Experience of Tourirtt from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Back. NEARLY TEN MONTHS ON THE ROAD Hardship F.aronntered on Monntaln and Plain flood Roads and Bad A Ran Th roach the . American Desert. Percy F. Megsrgel and David F. Fassett completed Saturday afternoon. June J. th first cross-continent round trip In an auto mobile. They started from New York City at 5 o'clock In the morning of August 1 last yesr, and Saturday afternoon the odometer on their car had registered 11. "42 miles when the tourists were met by a wel coming party at Central bridge st r.V) o'clock. They went to Fortland. Ore., then to San Franclaco. and had originally hoped to be back In New Tork City for the auto mobile show last January, hut the heavy snow encountered prevented thla. Their route led them from New Tork to BufTalo and from there through Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. Iowa and Nebraska to Omaha, from where they proceeded tn Portland through Wyoming. Idaho and Oregon. From Portland they made the Journey down the Pacific coast to San Francisco. The return trip was made through California. Ariiona, New M-x;co and Colorado back to Omaha, from where they retraced their way over the route used going west. Rains which covered fords with nine or ten feet of water delayed tha pair In Wyo ming after they had gone that far on the western half of their trip without serious hindrance. They started again before freighters or emigrant parties would ven ture out and had to use shovels constantly to make a road for their car. Once they made a bridge of two railroad ties across a clay canyon fifteen feet deep and five feet wide when a slip of a few Inches either way would have finished their trip then and there through the wrecking of the car. The windlass on the machine was fre quently used to haul them up the almost perpendicular sides of clay gulches. Through the Caacade mountains and west ern Oregon the pair traveled over a trail that had been Impassable to wagons for weeks. For much of the way they had to chop a road through dense woods whore logs had fallen across the trail and had to build makeshrlft brldgea over streams too deep with melted snow to ,!e forded. For one stretch of three days they were without food, as their provisions had been exhausted. Crossing the Desert. Early In December they started to cross the great Amerlcnn desert, which had here tofore proved too severe a task for an automobile. When they drove Into Peach Springs, Aria., the natives gathered curi ously around the machine, as there had been ao many unsuccessful attempts made to reach there by automobilea. One Fri day they traveled eighty-nine mllea through a desert sandstorm which waa so severe that the sun waa completely hidden at noon and the plains were dark aa night.' For several days they were lost In the moun tains of Ariiona and Anally drove Into Wlnslow, with a cowboy aa guide. Christ mas day was spent In hauling the car out of Padra canyon, the windlass being the only means by which they could hoist It up the walla of lava rock. It waa then that Megargel reluctantly gave up all hope of reaching New TorW for the automobile show, because the snow waa ao deep that progress was almost impossible. For the laat three weeks of January the car waa burled In the quicksands of the Rio Pureco river. The enow on the mountains was melted by a warm spell and the river be came a torrent which washed away the quicksands and with the aid of Navajo and Apache Indiana the car waa hauled to solid ground, Indian ponies pulling it out" with ropes on January 28. The motor and other machinery were taken apart and cleaned, the Journey being resumed after fresh sup pllea were secured. Thefr car waa a 1 horse-power Reo tour ing ear. which weighed ITaOpounda with Its two passengers and full supplies aboard. In dlstrlcta where hotels were few and far apart they carried 100 pounda of provisions. The car had two amall signs on each aide of the tonneau which read. "New Tork to San Franclaco and return." and each of the tonneau door bore the legend "Reo Moun taineer of New Tork." Saturday the oar had a spade, a water pall, a gaaollne can and a Winchester rifle In a hoNter In addi tion to its regular equipment of lamps and a big searchlight. Megargel is a member of the touring committee of the American Motor league, and had a motor league em blem on the front of his radiator. The third pair of tires were put on the front wheels at Chicago a few days ago, and four pairs of tires were used on the rear wheels. In the sparsely settled parts of the west each man carried a revolver In a holster, but they never needed either re volvers or rifle to protect themselves. They shot twenty coyotes, . and Megargel got one ahot at a bear, but didn't hurt It much, aa It was more than 600 yards away scrambling up a mountain aide. Scarcity of Gasoline. The largest amount of gaaollne they ever carried was thirty-nine gallone. which waa carried for the trip ovir Mount Hood In Oregon, which was the first time It had ever been crossed by an automobile. Much of the trouble they had was from running out of gasoline. They had two aealcd emergency cans under the tonneau seat, but one time when they expected to use these cana they found them empty from very amall holea. On one occasion Megargel made a thirteen mile trip on a railroad hand car for gasoline, and the man who took the i hand car hack ran off the track and broke I his leg. In Burns. Ore..' Megargel had to ; ray tl a gallon for fifteen gallons of j gaaollne and another time he paid tl.?5 j for the only gallon of gaaollne there wn j In a amall village In New Mexico. Their ' hardest times were encountered In cross Ting Arlaona and New Mexico, whtrh to-ilt i more time than all the rest of the Jour- ney. Megargel said the roads' In Calf '. fornla and Colorsdo were surprisingly , good. They did not have to watch the'r , belongings except In the cities, whers souvenir nunters annexed all sorts of things from gloves to small plerea of u broken mud guard, each man needing a doaen palra of glorea on the trip. The tonneau waa fixed up for Bleeping quar ters, but waa used only one night aa it waa too cold. After that they slept be tween logs with a Are at one end to keep wolvea away and In the forests they put other logs across the two on each aide to protect them from rougara. which they feared might spring down upon them from trees. They wore leather sulta all the ttm.i and lost several leather coata "to souve nir hunters." Megargel thinks. Megargel waa born In Scranten, Pa., thirty years ago, and made a trip from here to the Portland exposition laat May in forty-Ave daya. Faeseit Uvea la- Laaatng. Mia, and acted as his mechanic. He Is about the same age as Megargel. Both of them aald that, beyond feeling tired, they were none the worse for their Journey and each one gained ten ponnds In weight alnce leaving here last August. They had expected to be held up when com ing through Pennsylvania on the return trip because they had no license tag of that stste. but were not bothered. The New Tork license tag. No. 17IS. waa car ried throughout the entire Journey. Me gsrgel says they were chased by Indiana once, apparently because he had sounded his siren horn, but the csr outraced the Indian poniea. New York Sun. ROMANCE OF THE OIL KING Refused Rockefeller When Magnnte Proposed, and Woman Is Jaw Dying Panper. "The hands of 'my clock are at five min utes to 12 and I can hear. In anticipation of their Imminent coming, the strokes aa they will ring out my life." So says Miss Mary Gegora Barbeaux, the most remarkable patient the Los Angeles County hospital haa had in years, for this aged woman, with the face of an aristocrat and the brow of a seeress, might be moving a queen among the elect, yet she lias cho?en a life than w-hich there could be none more humble and obscure. It was Just a year ago that Miss Bar- beaux .came Into public notice In a fashion omewhat startling and emphasised the be lief long prevalent at the hospital that hers waa a strange and almost unaccountable personality. Nurses had known up to that time that Miss Barbeaux was a Vasaar graduate and that her rearing had been that of a rich young woman who had had. besides, the ad vantages of breeding and social prestige. But there was a long hiatus In her history which they could not bridge, and it waa never known how she came to be a ward of a county poor farm. Her removal to the hospital was. of course, a natural step when she became too HI to slay at the farm. When a letter was received by Miss Bar beaux from a Arm In Albany, N. Y., law yers something over a year ago notifying her, she said, that a retired sea captain uncle had died, leaving her his entire for tune of fttO-Onn. the speculation about the old woman'a past was renewed tenfold. Yet more startling than this proffered ele vation of a pauper, though she was the "Queen of the Wards," to great and In stant wealth was her own attitude. "I will not accept the fortune," she said, "because I have done nothing to earn It." Two other letters came from the lawyers, but her position was not changed, and she wrote refusing to be considered as an heir. She burned the letters, and would not even give the curious the satisfaction of know ing where they might get further Inform a tion about the great Inheritance. For montha Mlsa Barbeaux received lettera from all parta of the Vnlted States and from many foreign countries until they numbered Into the hundreds. Most of these solicited gifts, donations for Institutions and bequests of divers kinds. It came out at that time alao. through the admission made by her, that Miss Bar beaux had been Intimately acquainted with John .D. Rockefeller In the years of her young womanhood and had received a pro posal of marriage from the future Standard Oil magnate. , - . -. . The lettera have ceased, the memories of her petted girlhood, of wealth, homage and sordid deprivations have gone from the aged woman'a mind and ehe Is waiting for the veil over the future to be torn asunder. "I am dying," says this woman of the high arched brow and silver hair, but even at the approach of death MHry Barbeaux Is not as others, for ahe holds strange no tions, not only of life, but of the career In "death" of the human family. "People wonder about the future," she says. "To me It seems simple, though, I may seem simple to voice my belief. 'l wondered when I was younger why the Al mighty had peopled Hla universe with such a multitude of worlds. The old Idea waa that they were to furnish us with light, but my mind, going out and still on and on Into spare, could Imagine worlds so far that Infinitude alone represents their re moval from ua. No. that Is a foolish, child's notion. They are covered with peo ple, aa our little world Is, and I believe that I ahall leave soon for one of them. I am not a theoaophlst, but I am con vinced that we go from one world or planet to another, and that each Anda our Btate better than the laat. But it la not the nirvana of the Buddhists we Anally attain; it la the world that Ands us Altered of all sin It may be Mara or Neptune or aome other Invisible and Inconceivably distant globe at the furthest rim of space. And this earth of oura Is the beginning of our existence, I believe, for the kind Ood would not permit greater suffering than fall to His children here."-Los Angelea Exam iner. WILKINS' AU2p BLOWS UP Machine. Explodes and la Wiped Ont , Completely hy Flnmea from Gas Ignition. Bert Wilklns, a prominent Omaha autolat, had a narrow escape with his life Thursday evening on the West Center street road about half a mile weat of Gallop'a tavern. Mr. Wllkina and Chauffeur Stringer es caped injury. Jumping from their automo bile In time to be out of danger of an ex plosion. The autornoblle burned to the ground. The machine waa valued at 12,500 and waa a complete loss. Mr. Wilklna was out for a ride Thursday evening and was returning te his country home three miles west of Hanseoni park when some Irregularity In the gasoline feed pipe gave the two occupants sufficient warning to get out of danger before the gasoline tank exploded. Wilklns and Stringer stood at the roadside and watched the car burn. Parts of the machine went Into the alr i as high as U feet and the report of the explosion arousea people for a mile around. The loss Is fully covered by insuranue, for John W. Hosier, who held the Insur ance, says that while many policies do not cover losses originating In the machine, this was an exceptional case, as Mr. WIU kins had taken out a policy guarding against that contingency. LOCAL BREVITIES. Bids, to be received Julr 2. have been asked by the school board for painting at the Farnam, Lincoln and Forest school buildings. Olbson Gordon of 21 tt North Twentv flfth street told the police he hired C. M Atkins to clean house and that Atkins stole 118.75 and a suit of clothes. Carrie McOuire has bgun suit for di vorce from Joseph Mctiuire. to whom silo was married in Cuimctl Hluffs. i, May. She charges desertion. She mants the custody oi their three chil dren. The Arst regular meeting of the new board of examining engineers was held at the city hall Thursday night, organisation effected and arrangements made lor meet ings on the second and touiux Tueaava f each month. GOOD OLD DAYS IN CONGRESS Becollectioni ef Statesmen Wbo Smaahe Traditions and Defied the Speaker. TOM REED'S TRIALS WITH THE KICKERS How Buck Kllgore Booted the Door to Freedom and Red-Headed Sam Belford Played the Races A rirtoreaa.oe Pair. Considerable Irritation waa exhibited by some of the representatives, who, through Minority Leader Williams's flllbuster in the statehood matter, were arrested by the assistant sergeanta-at-arma and presented at the bar of the house. The resentful ones complained querulously of their ar rest to the speaker. Uncle Joe'a eyes, how ever, did not become bedewed with sym pathy over their lamentations. He Is old fashioned enough to believe that a legisla tor ought to be willing to do aome work for hla pay. perquisites and prerogatives. He didn't advise the complaining onea to tell their troublea to the captain of the capltol watch, but he brought his gavel down right In the middle of the sad atorlea of several. "These fellows haven't been here long enough to remember Buck Kllgore." waa Mr. Cannon's private comment on the com plaints of some of those brought before the bar'of the house. "Buck not only didn't want to atay off the floor, but he kicked his way In." He referred to the occasion, ten or a doaen years ago, when Buck Kllgore, the Texas representative, kicked to Alndera the main door leading to the house floor. At that time Speaker Reed had In oper ation his simple but great scheme of just locking 'em In to maintain a quorum. . Whenever a sufficient number of repre sentatives to constitute a quorum Altered In, Ciar Tom, with a nod, directed the doorkeepera to close and lock the doors, and the entreaties and prayers of members who wanted to get off the floor for any purpose whatsoever were alike unavailing. Mr. Reed needed them there for voting purposes, and there they atayed. Boond to Get In. , The main" door to the floor waa thua locked and bolted one afternoon when the brawny Kllgore, who'd been delayed in ar riving at the house, swung along. ' Buck pushed at the door and found It unyielding. "Hey, what'a coming off here?" Kllgore demanded of the doorkeeper on duty. "Why can't I get in? House adjourned?" "Speaker'a got a quorum," replied the doorkeeper. "Well, lemnie in and 1 11 add to It." aald Buck to the doorkeeper. "Can't open any doors, air apeaker'a or ders," sold the doorkeeper. "That ao?" said Kllgore, and he promptly kicked the swinging leather covered wooden doora to kindling wood, entering the house like a roaring, ramping Hon. Most speakers would have sought the punishment of a representative for pulling off a trick like that. That, however, waa the best thing the big-minded Reed thought of. The audacity of Kllgore's act appealed to Heed s Imagination, and it waa all right for the Texan. Jhe moat picturesque of the recent ar reeta waa that In. which one of the house pagea brought Cy Sulloway to the bar of the house. When the call for a quorum was made the chief page delegated one 'of the tiniest of his youngsters to go forth and bring Mr. Sulloway. Cy Sulloway is the most remark able piece of vertical workmanship in the house of representatives. Nobody knows Just how high Cy is, but his elongatednesB can't be much inferior to that of the lata Chang, the Chinese giant. The mite pf a page, a boy aomethlng over three feet In stature, prowled around the committee rooms for quite a bit before he came upon the languid Cy, who, with an amiable breeze blowing upon him from the open wlndowa looking on the terrace, waa cocked back In a chair, with hla legs wrapped around each other two or three times and the feet resting on a table, read ing a newspaper. "Mr. Sulloway." the three-foot page sol emnly squeaked, "you're under arrest and I am to conduct you to the bar of the house." The monolithic Sulloway unraveled his legs, grinned, stretched hla arms and rose to his vast height. "Lead the way, mister," said he to the boy, and thev page led him to the main door of the house. Entering the door, the boy. with a flne sense of the dramatic, grabbed hold of tho up and down giant's hand to emphasize the fact that he had captured his man. Thus the three-foot kid led the towering Cy down the main aisle, amid the laughter of the house. Arrived at the clerk's desk, the high Cy suddenly reached down and, taking the boy In his arms, lifted him up and deposited him squarely on the speaker's desk, saying to the amused Cannon, "I give you my captor," and the arrest waa complete. Belford from tho Rockies. Old-time employes of the capltol tell an Incident of what befell an "arrested" mem ber of the house who waa one of that body'a most famous characters many years ago. This famous character waa Belford of Colorado, the "Redheaded Rooster of the Rockies." Belford, a big-hearted though decidedly Illiterate man, waa perhaps the most openly and persistently convivlul in dividual who ever occupied a seat In the house of representatives. Almost unbe lievable atorlea of hla prowess around the board are atill current among the fogies down here, and when the Redheaded Roos ter of the Rockies felt in a convivial mood he regarded the capltol as Just as good a place to indulge his Yiiood as any other. One day while the horses were racing at tbe old and long gone Ivy City race track near Washington there was big business in the house, the opposition demanding the presence of a quorum. Belford waa known to be out at the Ivy City track, for he had been full of a "good thing" upon his ar rival at the house that forenoon. Speaker Carlisle sent an assistant sergeant-at-artna out to the Ivy City track in a carriage to nail Belford. The acout found Belford swaying happily in a box In the stand. It waa Juat before the flftb race, and Belford waa hilariously confident that his good thing was going to come home alone. He had $50 on the cinch at 60 to 1, and waa prepared to make the root of his life when the horses struck the stretch. The scout told Belford that he'd have to get Into the carriage right away. Belford, however, waa stubborn. He waa going to see that good thing of his win, house or no house. The assistant st rgeant-at-arms Anally cajoled the red-headed rooster out of his box. In (he stand, telling him that he could watch the Anlch of the race from. the lawn below and then hustle into the wait ing carriage. Belford agreed to that, and aa the horses were already lining up. the scout waa wUllng to permit tha Colorado I member to wait and see the finish of the race. Belford s horse shot out of the bunch at the eighth pole and came home on the bit to the music of a aeries of clarion crow Ings from Belford that no IO.OiW roostcre working In unison could ever have equaled. Beliord was willing to Jump Into the car riage then, for he knew the bookmaker with whom he had made the winning J2.6ii0 bet, and he told the scout that he'd get the coin in town that evening. Belford let out a huge triumphant yeeow! and wow-ec! every minute or so during the carriage's rapid progress Into the city, and when he reached the capital he waa Aam Ing with victory and things. After report ing at the bar of the house he leaped Into the house restaurant and yelled: "Wlnel Baskets of It: Everybody line up!" Thoja daya were different from these. Everybody lined up. representatives, em ployes and all. Belford kept them lined up for fiours, celebrating the triumph of his Rood thing. All of the wine wss cleaned out and more had to be hurriedly sent for. Belford'a expenditures for the wine llem on tho strength of his win had Just totted up a matter of IV. when an employe of the house, who had been out at the races, re maining till the Anlsh of the card, strolled In and Informed the red-headed rooster of the Rockies that his good thing had been disqualified for Interfering on the back stretch and had been placed laat. Most of those who were present on that occasion are now did men, but they say that for utter prolonged plcturesqueness. force, clutch, inventiveness and sheer, shriveling originality they never expect to hear the observations of Belford of Colo rado ns made upon that occasion dupli cated. Buffalo Express. DOPE FOR EASY MARKS I-ovo Powders and Magic Breaatplatrs Bold by a Thrifty. Doctor. Nearly 2rt) wltnesess, representing thirty seven states, appeared In the I'nlted Statea district court in Baltimore to testify for the government at the trial of "Dr." Theo dore White, charged with using the malla to defraud. There were present also seven teen pretty typewrfters, who were kept busy by "Dr. White In conducting the cor respondence incident to the Immense busi ness he had established concocting love powders, manufacturing magic breastplates and dispensing diplomas conferring the de gree of Ph. D. on the graduates, who had established their title to that degree by paylr.g for "Dr." White's book, "Blesslnga for All Mankind." The tablea In the court room were cov ered with exhibits, a panful of the love powder and some specimens of the breast plates being displayed there. Assistant District Attorney Soper made the opening statement to the Jury. He said that "Dr." Whlte'e aplrltualistlc and hyp notic mail order business had attained auch proportions that hla postage bill amounted to 11,000 a month, and that he had been obliged to purchase a horse and wagon to take his mail from the postofflce. Mr. Soper aald that "Dr." White had made a fortune during the three years he spent In the business. "You may get some idea of the magnitude of It,", aald, Mr. So per. "when I tell you that in one month 2,400 people, from Maine to California, each sent this man a dollar and a lock of hair in order to Obtain a 'life reading.' And every reading was Identical. The same reading was sent to every person who sent a dollar, and a husband and hla wife, both of whom Bent to 'Dr.' White for read ings, were very much disgusted when they each received the aame reading." Among the splrlualistlc "stunts", de scribed in one of the pamphlets read by Mr. Soper waa the following: "Place an egg before the Are and watch it without moving or uttering a Bound until nightfall. Then the egg will sweat blood, and when the spooky words 'Abra cadabra' are uttered a tempest will rlso, and all the evil spirits which were ever heard of alnce the world began will ap pear." The "Adam and Eve" charm waa the one used to create love. Adam and Eve were represented by roots Adam was one root and Eve waa the other. Mr. Soper read the directions for their use to the Jury.. The roots should be placed In run ning water, he said, and the words "Whom God hath Joined together let no man put asunder" should be recited over them. Mr. Soper also described the "ancient Egyptian breastplate" containing the pow dera and prayers, and charged with "magic solar fluid." Baltimore News. HARD STRUGGLE FOR A TEST Disfoaragements Met by the Yonthfnl Inventor of the First Air Brake. Persons who should have known better thought Westinghouse visionary when they were told that we proposed to stop a train by air. Nobody seemed Inclined to let him try hla plan on a real train, but they did not object to his working model of it in a ahop where he could do no harm or involve any body else In expense. He knew his Bcheme would work, but he could not make anyone else believe It. So he continued to sell his invention for re placing derailed cars on the tracks and talk about his brake to any railroad man who waa willing to listen. "Well, have you ever stopped a train with this air thing of youra?" they would ask. No, he couldn't say that he had done ao. Nobody would let him try It, even on a train of dump curs. One day he arrived In Pittsburg, selling his other invention and talking about his brake notion to a man connected with a railroad out there. "Tliat'a a great Idea of yours," said Jhe mat), "we'll try It on our line!" So the officials of this railroad permitted Westinghouse to put hla new kickshaw on one of their trains. He had to agree to Indemnify the road for any damage that might be caused to the train aa the reault of his trials. The train waa equipped. On the desig nated day tha confident Inventor and a group of akeptlcal railroad men boarded the train on which the Arst air brakes were Axed. Off went the train on its initial trip. The engineer put on full speed, and Just aa be had rounded a curve he saw ahead, at a grade crossing, a man and a boy and a balky horse. The engineer moved hla little lever, and the Aral train that waa ever Btopped by air pulld up at a standstill several feet short of the obstruction. Thus, on Its Arst trial, the Westinghouse air brake saved life and prevented damage to property. Thenceforward talking was unnecessary; all that had to be done was to make brakes. The Inventor thought of that clause securing compensation to ihe railroad for any damage he might du to tbe train, and ha laughed. His fortune dated from that day. He waa than only 2X Success Magaaina, BITTER TALK IN THE DUMA Georgian Member Deairei Executive Officer. Tried for Murder and Bobber;. ALLEGES THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME nnssky Invalid Saya Troops Are Sot Ureatly Disaffected, hat War Offlce Will Speedily I Correct Abases, ST. PETERSBURG, June C.-The discus-sion-of Interior Minister Stolypin's expla natlona was reeumed In the lower house of Parliament today. The radical ore tore were given the Aoor Arst. Ramlsh All, a Georgian member of the house, on behalf of the social democrats, offered a resolution holding the adiulnlstra-' tlve officials guilty of murder, robbery and violations of law and demanding the pros ecutions aa accessories of the ministry, which the resolution declares, has been sheltering their agenta and preventing an exposure of the conditions by the press. The Russky Invalid enters a general de nial of the reports of military disaffection, aa exaggerated and for the most part true, but the unprecedentedly speedy publication of the report, of the war offlce commis sion favoring an amelioration In the army rations, which haa been the main cause of complaint, sliaws that the urgency of the situation is recogniied. The papers announce the arrest of twenty four privates of the Preobrajensk regiment for circulating proclamations In favor of the revolutionary agitation. ' The police are conducting an energetic campaign for the suppression of the radi cal press, dally conflscating six or eight St. Petersburg papers Just aa they coino off the press. But the editors have sn Inex haustible stock of new names and fran chises and manage to appear reaularly. Father Petroff s Christian eoctalistlc organ Is among the papers suppressed. The delegates to the convention of tho peasants' league, which Is organizing an agrarian strike movement gsthered In 6t. Petersburg today, but the meeting was for bidden by the police. CHICKENS CAUSE LAW SUIT Fowle Precipitate Neighbors Wrangle Which tiets Into Conrt Twice. in A Jury In county court returned a ver dict for the defendant In the case In which Mra. Hannah Baker sought $1,000 damuges from John Craig and wife, growing out ot a quarerl between the two families which has been aired In court once before. The Bakers and the Cnilga are next door neighbors. Owing to trouble, Mr. Craig built a seven-foot fence between the two places, but instead of separating tha animosities of the two clans It evidently made them worse. Through a hole tn tha fence Mr. Craig's chickens escsped Into Mrs. Baker's garden. Craig asserts that Mrs. Baker poisoned tho chickens and threw them back over the fence Into hla yard. As hla supply of chickens was growing short, he decided to close up the gap, and he and his son did so on April Fool's day. While they were working at the fence. It 18 alleged, Mrs. Baker came out, and a merry war of words followed. Then, says Mra. Baker. Craig and hla children begHn to heave pa v trig bricks over the fence so thick and fast ahe could not dodge, them. One, ahe says, struck her on tha side of the neck. Inflicting a sore wound. She had Craig arrested and sought to put him under peace bonds, but the court discharged him. Then she began suit for damages, which the Jury haa Just denied. A number of bricks alleged to have been thrown over the fence were exhibited to the Jury during the trial. MARKET HOUSE FOR HOSPITAL Connell Favors Transforming; Capltol Avernne Structure Into Asylum for 1 Contagions Disease Patients. Health Commlsdioner Connell as a tem porary expedient favora the convention of the unusued market house on Capltol ave nue Into a contagious disease and emer gency hospital to be maintained by the city. The matter came up through the pro teg of County Physician Swoboda against tho county caring for diphtheria, scarlet fever and other contagious disease among the poor. "There is some Justice In the county physiclan'a demands," said Health Commis sioner Connell. "There is no place in Omaha where contagious disease can bo taken and cared for except tho Isolation hospital, aeveu mllea from the center of the city, which waa built and Is used for smallpox patients." Had to Be f onrted. Miss Konstancya Woxnlak came all the way from Europe to marry Thomas Kosln sky, whom she had never seen. It wss a queer romance. Thomas, who had been left a widower, wrote to hla brother In the old country that he waa lonesome. Tve got property and a home and I want a wife. You ought to be able to And one over there that will ault me." He Inclosed money for the passage to America aa well aa for the trousseau. The young woman sailed on the Arst ship and when she got to Baltimore Thomas waa waiting with a glad light In hla eyes. "I won't marry any man unless I love him," said tha young woman. "Can't you love ma?" asked Thomas. Konstancya waa a little bit uncertain about It and, besides, she did not want to be won too easily. She remained at the Iru- Lmlgration house on Locust Point for a week under the wings of Commissioner Weis. Koslnsky was permitted to come every day and pay his court. At lat Konstancya admitted that she loved him and the minister waa eent for. The mar riage took place at the Immigration house and waa witnessed by the commissioner and his force of Inspectors. Girls Are So Qneer. "When are you going to be married, Hilda?" "Me? Why, what an absurd question! Haven't I always told you I hate the very alght of men?" "Yes, but I thought you were Joking, and" "It la no Joking matter. I am a bachelor girl and I am proud of It. I wouldn't be wedded to the best man on earth." "How interesting! Do you remember that handsome Jack Dashing? Well, he told me that he admired you more than any girl under the aun and he w.ou!d like to make you hla wife." "And and what did you aay?" "Why, I told him you were a bachelor girl, hated nun and he might as well leave town." "What? How dare you Interfere wit my love affairs! Why couldn't you t l him to call around? I shall never spcult to you again aa long aa I livs." Chicago Kewa. i ft s i i 'i ! ;; fi: