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13 TUB OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 5. VJUT. ACRES ACRES . SATURDAY,. MAY 11, 1907 o o i 1 1 OPEMNG 4 Keystone Park adjoins the village of Benson on the "west extending north from Main Street to Military Avenue; being a sub-division of the "Keystone Stock Farm," containing 550 acres of the most beautifully lying land in Douglas County. We have sub-divided this into Only 78 Tracts of from 2 to 20 Acres Each Fronting on beautiful winding drives, lined on each side with two rows of healthy shade trees? every tract having a building site with a beautiful and commanding view. To appreciate its beauty you must see it. . V The Some one will be on the ground all day today to show parties over it, although stakes are nofall set. Make your selection now, as 78 tracts are not very many and will not last long at the rate people are inquiring for them. Nearly one-fifth of entire acreage has already been spoken for. CAN QUOTE PRICES NOW. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS THIS WEEK ' We will take you out any time by appointment this week and show you the land. We will plant trees or shrubs free you to pay wholesale prices for kind you want. On Saturday May llth for parties interested or'who contemplate purchasing acres we will run automobiles from the end of car in Benson over the land and return to end ested do not fail to see it Fay ne Investment Co. Main, Floor, New York Life Building Telephone Douglas 1781. BLIND IN A HURRY TO READ They Want to Learn flow That They EaT a Macai ne. FEATS DONE BY PEOPLE WHO CAN'T SEE Increased Demudi oh Mrs. Kellock, Teacher of the Adnlt Blind San hlne Brought by Books Into Darkeued Live, NEW. YORK. May 1 Mrs. Frances Kellock, the teacher for the adult blind employed by the Publlo Library for the Blind, finds that her work has been greatly Increased by the publication of the Matilda ZiegJer Magazine: "Since the first number came out In March,"' she said to a Bun reporter. "It seems as If every blind person In this city had determined to learn to read, and what's more, they don't wont to mlesi another number of that magazine. It's the most wonderful thins that ever happened to them. "Lots of my old people who read only the Moon type have Bent to me post haste to teach them the New York point of the American Braille. You see, the Moon Is the easiest type to learn, but now that the magazine Is published In these two ys tema even the timid are learning to read them, "I go everywhere from Mount Vernon to the Battery. One or two days I spend at Blackwell's Island. Boms of my pupils live In tenement cellars and others In lux - urlous homes. They are of all ages and all classes. One Example of Work. "One of them Is an old Irishman who Irves alone In a rear tenement down in Green wich village. One day when I was In hts neighborhood I ran In to see him. He fame to the door himself, and when I an nounced that I'd come to see him he asked: " 'What can you be wanting of old man like me, lady V "I went right to the point and said, 'I've come to teach you to read so that you'll j have something to do when you are here alone. ' "'What, lady? Not funny books so that M can laugh? Why, it seems as if there isn't anything I'd like so much.' "I gave him his first le-son that day, and In a few weeks I told him that he was doing splendidly, lie remonstrated. " 'Don't be tellin" me thst now. It means you won't be comln' any more.' "One time I was late In getting to his place and went clattering over the pavin? stones of the yard In a great hurry. He was waiting for me with ono of his bits of blarney. " 'I thought I heard an angel's footsteps, and here she comes,' he said. The Unit book he read was 'Mrs.. Wlggs,' and I shall never fcrget how he enjoyed It. " 'Well, now. Mis' Kellock,' he said when I came to see how he liked It, 'if you're wanting to kill off all your blind people Just send them "Mrs. Wlggs." Why, I walk around and like to die a-laughlng. Seems as If I'd most explode when I think of them (ourltif soup down that half dead horse.' UtIis Sermons. "Tu know my pupils axe living sermons to me, M m Kellock went on. "They are the most patient of people. I have never once heard a complaint It la pathetlo work. . l "One day I went to see a very old man who had been blind for twenty-five years. When asked him If he did not And his eviction a burden, he sald: " 1 Can't complain, lady, about blindness Finest Spot in Plats when I think of what my Savior did for me.' "He was living In a barren, desolate home, too, with scarcely a chair or a table. I Just set to work to bring a little sun shine Into his life. I was determined that blessed old hero should learn to read, no matter how long It took. "He was afraid he was too old. It's strange how little confidence the blind have. Even when they are most eager they never-pay, 'I'm sure I can learn." It's al ways, 'Oh, do you think I could ever read a book?' "Well. I left him a Moon alphabet and told him I'd come In again soon and start him on the primer. The book ho wanted to read most was Garfield's life, and it wasn't long before I brought him the first volume. Hut, bless his heart, even then he didn't believe he could ever read It. But I said he must try and I'd come back In two weeks and see how be was getting on. Well, It was In less than a week that I was In the library and saw that very book. " 'What's this?' I asked the librarian. " 'That pupil of yours on Barrow street sent' this back and wanted the second vol ume.' "Well, you know, I Just sat down and said, 'Thank God for that.' Blnce then he's read as many as four books a week, and now I've had to teach him the New York Point so that he can read the Magazine. Hever Gives One Vp. "As long as a pupil really wants to learn I never give him up," said the teacher in reply to a question as to the length of her course. "I've had them learn In a week and I have one pupil that I taught regu larly for a year and a halt before she could read with any facility. "It's a wonder to me how they ever learn at all. I myself read their books with my eye. If they are very nervous as many are they find It difficult. Then some of them have poor circulation' In their fingers and that dulls their sense of touch. '"One of my pupils used to say, 'Days when I can feel I can't think, and when I can think I can't feel.' It took her months to learn; now she reads and writes beau tifully. "They are very ambitious and so per severing, but sometimes they get discour aged and tell me I needn't come again; but I say, "Goodness, you needn't think I won't come. We'll keep at this If It take five years." Then when I see them really read ing you don't know the satisfaction It gives me. For of all the burdens God has given I think blindness is the hardest to bear. "Reading makes the greatest difference In their Uvea They often tell me that It's next best to having their sight back again. You see, my pupils have all gone blind since they have grown up. Birth of the Library. "Richard Ferry, who was the first presi dent of the library, used to say that If It began to bring as much happiness Into ths lives of the blind as he hoped. It would more than compensate him for his own blindness. When he lost his sight at 66 there wasn't a book In this city he could read. His niece, Mrs. Clara Williams, set to work and started a tiny library. Now It has grown to 3,000 volumes and when the new building at Forty-second street Is flnlahod we are going to have One quarters and as many books as we want. 1 "Mrs. Williams has given her life to it and we have a tablet going up In our new library to commemorate her labor of love. In 1M the library became Incorporated In the public library system and that with the new postal ruling which admits reading matter for the blind to the mails free has carried our books to all the blind of the city. "You'd be surprised to know what some of my f Uiils accomplish. They are not an Idle lot by' any means. I have one w ho i loby of car line. Autos will seeds raisins for a bakery and gets 60 cents a day. Another sells papers In a booth and I have taught him between customers sitting upon a stool and waiting while he made change. "Another one that I found on Black- well's island and taught to read and writ? turned out to have 'fought In the Philip pines. He was only 32, but he had fallen blind and had no friends and no way of earning a living, so he had become - a charge on the state. "We got him Into the Soldiers' home In Washington and the other day when I went Into our library I found the most beautiful hand copied edition of "The Day's Work.' He had done It and presented It to our library and he Is going to do 'Helena Ritchie' for us next. He does that work regularly for a firm In Cincinnati and gets as much as fi0 a book." HALE OLD TEA TASTERS Sampling- the Tipple of Womanhood Proves Good for the Health ' of Men. Tasting tea for a living is the occupation or twelve men in Boston. There were thirteen, but the death of Michael Glllett a few day ago broke the ranks. Michael GlUett was hale and hearty up to the day of his death, despite the asser tion that tea Is Injurious when taken fre quently or In large quantities. Mr. Glllett was 71 when he died and, had never had the services of a doctor during the period of his occupation as a tea taster. What are a tea taster's duties? He must distinguish the mixture of two blends; point out. In each separata Instance, If the mixtures are of equal grades; he must know to a nicety the difference between a pure brand and an Inferior one; he must know the taste of every Individual sort of tea not an easy thing, when it Is remem bered that brands of tea are many, nnd the blends are constantly being reblended. In ten years time a tea taster cannot be deceived as to the history or nationality of any tea In the world. He can prevent his firm from being deceived, for he has drunk tea with milk, cream, lemon straight, served aeeordlns to the peculiar wish of evwy nation. He Is sent to China. Japan, Russia, India, to study the tea brew of each tea drinking nation. Tea tnstera are seldom seen st work, but H. L. MacLean of Broad street Is an exception In this respect. "Twenty years In the business," said Mr. MacLean. "and I am not yet dead. How do I taste tea? Well, I put the sample In covered cups, made specially for the purpose, and skim along eight or ten cups at a Urns. "I put milk In some to test the color, cream In others to test ths quality and lomon In some to test the nature of the mixture. "I seldom taste more than a quarter teaspoon of each cub and only swallow enough to get the simple taste. One sip la enough for me to determine all I want to know. "Doea tea hurt me?- Well, I drink two or three cups several times a day with my meals, and It hasn't hurt me yet. I never drink tea without straining, as It atews If you drink It with the leaves. "Never add hot water to the tea left on the leaves. It mskes It strong and bitter; It Is tannin then and not tea. I never allow tea to stand more than seven minutes and I never weaken It. "There are not more than a few genuine tea tasters, and only three In Canada, where I hail from. Tea tasting Is a science in ths east, but Is practically neglected here." Boston Herald. Jf yon have anything to trade advertise It tn the For Exchange columns of Ths Bee Want Ad page. Douglas County for a Country Home. Ready by Opening Day. Prices Reasonable. leave car line every PIGMIES MUCH LIRE APES F(uni Livinr in Trees in the Tropical African Forest CANNIBALS NOT CIVtN TO RACi SUICIDE Viscount Monntmorres the First Writer to Have a Glimpse of Thru- Hoppfol View of Congo Natives' Fntnre. The report which Viscount Mountmorres made to the British Foreign office of his eight months of Investigations In the Congo Free State hag Just been published. He adopted the unusual plan of keeping away from the beaten paths and the main lines of communication as much as possible. He covered about 3,400 miles'- a large part of the way on foot or In native canoes manned by blacks whom he picked up at the villages. He has nothing to say of the hackneyed and writes only of peoples who are not yet well known to readers, of Afri can literature. He followed, to be sure, one well traveled route, the Ubangl river, the largest tribu tary of the Congo; but what he has to say about the Ubangl tribes Is new. It Is a curious fact that though some of the most flourishing stations of the whites are scat tered along this great river scarcely a book has been written that even mentions these leading tribes. Mountmorres has now supplied the lack ing Information. He also pushed far through the great tropical forest and came across the lowest type of pigmies, of whin we had previously heard only vague re ports. Mountmorres In fact saw them only tor a minute, but he Is the first writer who has seen them at all. Glimpse of the Pigmies. He was forcing his way through the dense forest when some tiny arrows fell close to him and looking up In the trees he saw what seemed to be a number of chimpan zees springing from branch to branch and then stopping to look at the Intruder, after the manner of the larger apes. He thinks that none of them was over three feet nine Inches In height. They were entirely nsked. had features as flat and foreheads as receding as the chimpanzee, and. If It were not for their use of the bow and arrow, they would be taken for apes. They ahowed their teeth and Jubbered Just as apes do, and it was difficult to Imagine that the noises they emitted could form an Intelligent language. All we had heard of them was that they live In the trees. The explorer had no op portunity to Investigate this question, for he would have been compelled to fire on the pigmies In self-defence If he had re mained under those trees. Mr. Wieslet, a state official, told him that be had broken In upon a group of these strange little people tn exactly the same way, and he assured the explorer that he had seen their habitations, which consist of shelters In the forks of the trees made by plaiting the smaller boughs together. An other white man In the neighborhood alsj told him that he had seen them retreating into Just such shelters as Mr. WIeslet de scribed. As for Mountmorres, he was so busy watching the little men and women spring ing from one -branch to another with the agility of monkeys that It did not occur to him to look for any shelters. The most remarkable feature of the Dongo cannibals on the lower Ubangl Is their prolificness. A family of twenty wives and fourscore children Is by no means a rarity, and sometimes a man brings for ward over 100 of his own offspring. As the slate has full control over them hour and half hour from 10:00 a. m. until 6:00 p. m. If inter- D. V. Sholes Co. HO Board of Trade Building" Telephone Douglas 49. ' they Vio longer indulge In cannibal prac tices, though they still declare that human flesh of the white man Is superior to that of the black, because- It has a slightly salt ish, taste. They say they know because they ate a white man ten years ago. These are the people who refused to sell vegetable food to the first explorers that visited them except In exchange for men to eat. . Mountmorres says there Is a remarkable difference between the forest dwellers and those who live on the plain. The forest people, living in perpetual twilight and skulking along their game tracks, are the most primitive of human beings; while the plain dwellers. In the full glare of day, lusty and Intelligent, busy themselves with numberless crafts and industries. He found the Banza tribe of the upper Ubangl distinguished fjr physical beauty and with an Indigenous civilisation for which they owe nothing either to the whites or the Arabs. Their chiefs have hlsh In telligence and quick reasoning powers and are very apt in setort. Some .Domestic Arrangements. Bach village has a maternity home to which prospective mothers are sent for comforts and conveniences that they do not have at home. As the care of young children tends to keep many wives from their work the little ones are placed to gether In large shady spaces surrounded with meshed nets and women are assigned to look after them. Their Industries are numerous and quite highly developed and the American white potato Is now one of their field crops. , In the areas set apart as rubber conces sions, where the blacks have been mal treated and in a few other districts where they seldom meet white men, the natives fled at the explorer's approach, but every where else he was received with the great est friendliness. All along the Ubangl the Inhabitants came flocking down to the water's edge, shouting and cheering as soon as the approach of the white man's canoe was announced. They gave him many presents of food, and men eagerly volunteered for the work of paddling his canee to the next village. He found also that In the northeastern part of the Congo State many of the tribes are coming under the Arab influence and the raw natives are rapidly taking on more civilized habits of life. This writer. In fact, takes a very hopeful view of the future of the Congo natives. NEW REMEDY FOR DYSENTERY French Physician Becores Satisfactory nesnlts from Treatment by Seram from Horses. PARIS, May 4. (Special.) A communica tion has Just been made to the Academy of Medicine by Dr. Valllard announcing the satisfactory results that continue to be obtained In the cure of baclllary dysentery by the use of a serum obtained from horses. During the last year 241 cases of baclllary dysentery were treated by him and other Jpractltlonera according to this method, with the result that the mortality due to that Infection waa meaaurably diminished. A few hours only after the first Injection the abdominal palna become less severe. The treatment Is all the more effective tn proportion as It Is applied In the early stage of the malady. -Dr. Valllard affirms that anti-dyaenterte serum Is the only spe cific remedy for baclllary dysentery. Bad Stomach loable Cared. Having been sick for the last two years with a bad stomach trouble, a friend gave me a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They did me so much good that I bought a bottle of them and have oaed twelve bottles la alL Today I an well of a bad stomach trouble Mrs. Jofe Lowe, Cooper, atalua. TRAMP PHOTOGRAPHY PAIS All Want Pictures, Eays the Man Wh Has Tried It. TALE TOLD BY MAN FROM MISSOURI Backwoodsman Hesltntes to Go Town for that Purpose, but We'll Pay the Man Who Comes to II I m. to MACON. Mo., May 4. "From an exam ination of the latter 'day magazines one would think only good looking people had their pictures taken, but the truth Is homely people furnish more bread and meat to the photographer," said P. H. Hall, who has a local studio. "From five years' ex perience as a 'tramp' or 'tent photographer' I've learned that curious lesson of human nature. It's harder to get a beauty before a camera than It Is a homely ptrson. Why, the Lord only knows. I can't find the an swer to that fact. The people of the back country are the best ratrons when you get out among 'em. They're shy about going Into the towns and facing the picture box, but when you get out where they live they line up brave as soldiers. "The tramp photographer's harvest comes from the settlements off the railroads. We often put up our tent in a place that had only a blacksmith shop and a conblnatlon postofflce and store. During the five years we were roughing It this way my partner Jim Dawson and I made 118.000 apiece. I've never done anything like that In my town studio. Advance Work Coants. "Our photos were the old red gloss finish and would last as long as the subject. A man travelod two weeka ahead selling for 25 cents tickets good for tl on an order for a dozen photos which were listed at S3. The advance man kept all he made on sale of tickets and was no expense to us. He never missed a family and we generally found the whole township waiting for us when we reached the postofflce. "If a man wanted to be taken with his wife or baby or a prize colt the price was 10 cents extra per head. When a youth drove up In a buggy with his sweetheart the price was SO rents advance, because of the three additional heads the girl and two horses. In some communities, where they'd stand for It, we posed young lovers with their arms entwined In a painted flower garden. This was a very fetching design and cost 25 cents on top of the list. There were Instanaee where those pictures figured later In breach of promise suits. "One day In the northwestern part of Missouri Jim and I were Invited to attend a plcnla back In the woods and to bring our picture box along. Dinner was served under the trees, the girls and boys sitting around a big cloth. Jim, who had strolled off by himself, suddenly returned and showed me a little garter snake be had captured. " 'Shin up a tree. Pearl,' he said, 'and drop this thing In the middle of 'em; It'll be worth all kinds of money to us.' Snake on the Tablecloth. "I caught the 'idea and got the wriggler planted right tn the center of the table cloth. There were Immediate results. Olrls rolled, tumbled and twined In every direc tion, amid shleks of terror loud enough to shake the trees. While the uproar wus on I oould soe that partner of mine coolly snapping his Instrument and changing plates. Nobody seemed to think of him but me, and I slid down the tree In a hurry to help him run. " That ought to bring us a hundred. Pearl,' he said, after we got out of range. .me nexi aay a couple or young men Came In. Unit Snvavolv thraat.nA.1 the law. on us If we didn't produce the plates of the fominlne pantomime and destroy them. But Jim was something on the bluff himself; he told them they'd have to produce the law that said we couldn't take any sort of pictures wc might want, and he added those plates were ours nnd we Intended to make pictures and sell 'em at SI apiece. ' "The Irate young men left to get a con stable, but that minion of the law refused to butt In till they showed him. Then they came back and offered SuO for the plates. Jim wanted ITS, but finally, with reluctance, passed them over for 15". Without examin ing their purchase the chivalrous young men threw the plates on the ground and crushed them under their heels. "I picked up a fragment of the broken glass and saw It was the negative of a barn some hundred miles away. " 'Jim,' I said, 'you didn't give 'em the skirt show." " 'I give "em the plates I used," he re plied. 'I was clear out of freoh ones when you turned the snake loose, and so I Jammed In what I had. They did Just ss good.' Why the "Tramp" Flourishes. "The reason the tramp photographer get the business Is because the people of the backwoods don't like to go into a studio when they visit the larger towns. They are shy, the reason being their duds may not be quite up to- thu fashion standard, and they think the town nrtlst will laugh, at them. But when you go with your outfit right where they vegetate they will stand for being photographed. "We struck a village named Browntng In the winter of 114 Then the place was unknown to fame, but soon after we ar rived It was talked about from ocean to ocean because of the killing of the Meeks family by George and Dili Taylor, two wealthy bankers and stockmen. Bill was hanged, but George broke Jail and is still at large. "Well, that affair furnished business for the 'tramp photographers.' We were John nie on the spot. George and Dill had been among our early customers, and when newspapers began wiring for pictures wo were there with the goods. We also took photographs of the scene and of the bodies. For a while we had to work night and day at printing. There were no other pho tographers, and the demand for the murdor pictures waa constant. We cleaned up an even. 11,0(0 on that tragedy, and orders continued to come In right up to the day of Bill's execution. That event waa taken In our picture box, giving us a complete series." Reflections of a Bachelor. A woman really likes to go to church so that her neighbors can t say she doesn't. Having a reputation for good murals la making thu peopie with whom you have it believe you do wnat tney do. A woman wouldn't be willing to admit she waa an old u.aid If that was tho surest way ror nor to gel to heaven. A woman is not always sure her children are the smartest In, town, but she never has any doubt about their being the moot truthful. A man can always prove to hla wife that he waa on on a businuas trip by bringing her borne u preaent that he sa cost leas than she kuosis lie could buy it for in her town.-New York Preea. Garibaldi and tho Fiat Fighter. New York's experience la that aliens' re sort much more to the dagger or pistol In quarrels than Americans. The Italians are particularly sinners In this respect, regarding ttie knltw us the chivalrous weapon and flUtkufls as brutal. At least one eminent Italian would have had his peopU cultivate boxing. Garibaldi, the lory gots, when a sea captain, was In formed by his u-.ate that two Italian sailors were fighting with their nte. "Let them alone, growled the grim old hero. "That Italians will tight with their Hals la ths beat news I have Heard for tea years," Boaton Transcript tl 1 -:)