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VOL. AWXVF-XO. 5.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNIN'G, JUNE 23, 1006.
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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
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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
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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
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