UGLIEST NEGROWINS A FARM
Quaint Old Character Gets a Lucky
Number at Land Drawing.
TRIED SETTLING ONCE BEFORE
Sprnt Twenty Years on a Hafarstead,
bat Flnnllr lt It Go Back to
GoTtrnraenl When a Dry
Year Came.
Welfare Work for All;
Lessons from Kansas City
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One reaches the home of the "ugliest
nlSBer In Omaha" by (coins down ft duaty
road, taking: a short cut through a well--worn
path and serosa a weak-kneed plank
laid carefully serosa a little ditch. The
house Is made of odda and ends of boards
and boxing; and weather-beaten planks.
It Is a rambling sort of an affair, lean
ing; this way and that, threatening to fall
with the wind, but never fulfilling the
threat. Hills rse to the side of the
house. If one can guess which Is the side
and which la the front The rear of the
building, or at least what one would
make to be the rear, faces the downward
slope of another gentle hill, upon which
are cans, lumber, weeds and a discouraged
corn patch.
Knonn Yarlonsly.
There Is whore John Taliaferro Uvea,
and the address given Is 4003 Dlondo
treet. which street at that point la a
rowpath. It la a fair enough cawp&th.
though, as cowpatha go. Taliaferro has
lived In Omaha thirteen yearn and now
he Is figuring- on leaving. Taliaferro Is
known all over Omaha for one thing or
another.
He had Just climbed down from a
wagon and was unhitching his team. The
team ccnslsta of two lnrge-hcaded. heavy
hoofed horses that always acorn ponder
ing over some grave question. Now and
than the far horse saya aomethlng In
horse to the near one, and the near
one answers, after which both look away
off yonder at nothing, turning something
over la their mlnda and looking; at It
from every possible ancle. A very sober.
Industrious, patient and Intelligent team.
In an Old, Wagon.
The wagon la an old one, with un
paired boards, plentifully patched and
nailed hero ahd there with other un
patnted boards and occasionally a little
strip of.tlnplate, alt rusted and dusty.
The Tvagon was filled with ashes and
etch little gust of wind puffed the pow
lery stuff In all directions. Taliaferro
climbed down from his high seat with
noticeable agility for a man of 6. He
iaa a habit of giving his listeners a
Cglance at his tongue every now and then
fwhen speaklnc Not the entire tongue,
' of course, but he handles It like a gen
tleman. Just letting the tip poke out the
corner of his lips at the beginning; of each
sentence and At th mMrfle nf thfl sen
tence. One can tell Just how long a sen
tence Is going to be by these punctuations.
Frfr Instance, If at the end of -six words
out cornea tlio tongue, you may bet your
bottom dollar there will be only six more
words to that sentence.
Wins n Farm.
"I understand you won a farm at the
drawing?" was asked.
Taliaferro thoughth It over 3, moment.
"Tes, I drew number 170. i klnda thought
I might win nut, and again I didn't. I
tried this homestead business once be
fore). I tooled around for twenty years
with a homestead. Then came a dry
spell and Just burnt me out. Hoy. quit
monkeyln with that there horse."-
Uls.latJ Tt,marlf was delivered to a boy
iiDout i- lie naa wen poKing a nome
with 4a, weed, to see If It would niake It
Jump, ' It dld.(
"That boy o'f mine, he worries the life
and srful out of me," Tallaforro said
after Ihe- stick had been taken from the
boy. "Dut then, generally speakln', ho
is a perty good boy, lie s right at that
age when boys are awkward and thtnktn'
up devilment. He's perty good at that.
"I said I'd never risk a dollar on flat
land after what I went through what I
did. I .klnda thought I'd like the hills
better. So then I came here, and I
farmed around on vacant lots and hill
sides that wasn't belli" used for any
thing, beln' mainly occupied with raisin'
weeds. Well, I went ahoad and planted
a patch of com here ana a paten over
onder, and I dtdfVt. do so terrlbje bad
until IUs yiar. It was- bad on corn all
overv this year, wasn't It? Say, boy, If
you don't' quit throwln at them chick
ens, I'll skin you alive. Can't you act
like a regular person once in a whiter'
He went over to the team and fixed a
strap that was threatening to fall apart
any minute, and worked as ne spoke
and showed the tip of his tongue now
and then.
Must Have Money.
"Of course. If a person's goln' to go
out there and take up land, he's got to
have money. I'll hive to pack all my
belongings, household goods, wagon,
horses, harness and everything like that
Into a car. It's goln' to cost something
when you start to horn'ssteadlrur. And I
don't guess I can go without I can borry
some money Kme where. Shucks! Tho
farm's the only place to be, especially if
it's your farm, and things go along half
way like they ought to. Boy, If you
don't get away from that load of ashes
I'll tan you vlthln an Inch of your Ufa.
Throwln' ashes up In the air so'a It'll fly
In people's eyeaf That boy sure does
worry me! Never -lets a body alone a
minute"
.So Taliaferro went ahead fixing the
strap, the boy, went ahead thinking lip
things to do that would prove unsatis
factory to .his "daddy." and the team
went ahead poridertruj over something
and the house still threatened to blow
down the hill.
In a recent edlllon of The Bee the fol
lowing appeared:
Kansas City has a free legat aid bu
reau, where the poor can get protection
for legal rights; a welfare loan agenoy
aa relief from the professional "loan
sharks;'- a municipal pawnshop to put
kinks .In the extortlonato pawnbroker.
How about It?
A year ago the writer made a trip to
Kansas City (at his own expense) and
put In two days looking Into this very
Institution. It Is called the Board of
Pdbllc Welfare, and tho city provides the
funds for Its operation. It Is made up
of five competent men, who servo with
out pay. It was at first known as the
Board of Tardon and Paroles, but In
April, 1910, was Blvtn the new title and
a very much wider field. It Is created by
city ordinance.
Prior to tho organization of the new
board the city council appropriated from
15,(00 to $7,000 a year for charity, but a
great sum was raised voluntarily In ad
dition to this amount. Two charitable
organlxatlons received the bulk of this'
city money the Provident association
and the Helping Hnnd Institute. A small
part was used forJpaJ-mg taxes assessed
against other charitable Institutions. On
the creation of the board a large com
mittee of citizens who had Investigated
the field recommended that an appropria
tion of t,O0O be made by the city council
for the first year. The council passed
an ordinance defining the scope of opera
tion and providing for payment of the ex
penses Incurred.
The Kansas City board today covers
tho whole field of charitable effort and
social betterment. It comprises, besides
tho general office force, the following
divisions'
Tlesearch bureau, which Investigates
and supervises charities, housing, vacant
lot gardening, and includes a convalescent
committee. Cost for year ending April
15. 1912 (last report available). I1.07S.61.
Factory Inspection department. Cost,
12.018.22.
Department for homeless and unem
ployed. Cost. 515.0S9.83.
Municipal rock quarry. Cost, $1,132.63.
Social aervlce department. Cost, 50,
SS2.08. Welfare loan agency (self supporting).
Legal aid bureau. Cost, 55.S91.89.
Recreation department. Cost. 53.601.99.
Parole department. Cost, 57,285.22.
Municipal department. Cost, $77,317.91.
Women's reformatory. Cost, $18,805.91.
Less various credits, the cost of all de
partments for the year mentioned was
$145,470.31. The general office expenses
were $12,557.77. including KJflS for expenses
to two delegates to conventions, and
$2,693-80 for relief to prisoners' families,
District superintendents were paid
$3.019.l77 thus making the grand total cost
of the bureau for the vear $162,047.85.
The main object of the Kansas City
Board of Public Welfare has been "to
secure for the people of all sections of
the city a reasonably good environment
In which to (1) live and (2) work and (3)
play."
The research bureau Investigates and
endorses (or not) all Institutions and
groups seeking charitable aid. Some have
gone out of existence under this test.
One of tho greatest results, from every
standpoint, of tho Kansas City plan of
charitable welfare work Is the conserv
ing of whatever is good In the Individual,
whether adult of child. Its Influence Is
eo comprehensive that It follows every
prisoner, no matter how vicious or
seemingly, hopeless, to the prison cell,
The prisons are modern . and are first
hospitals. 'That Is. when a man Is sent
to the city farm or a woma'n to the re-
rormatorj', a physician looks them over.
They are given treatment as needed be
fore being set to work, since many of
them are "wrong" because of physical
aliments, lack of proper food or because
of having no chance to live decently. In
the case of a man having others de
pendent on him, he Is allowed a certain
amount per day for his work. Tills
money Is handled by the Board of Publlo
Welfare, which also aids the wife or
children or other dependents In every ad
visory way It can to keep them comfort
able and self-supporting It possible. Thus
the first cost to the community comes
back, .over and over again In the saving
or making of men and women who can
and do hoe their own. row.
Employment la secured for many who,
from being "down and out," according to
careless standards, are simply unfor
tunate or In need of competent direction
for their energies. Tho children Involved,
too, are given a chance to secure some
education, enjoy some hours of play, ac
cumulate a store of health and develop
traits of constitution and character that
will make them good citizens-assets of
tho community and not continual charges
agatnJt tho public purse.
Many other communities are acting as
wisely as Kansas City. Omaha can fol
low their cxamplo at a very reasonable
price If we begin in tlmo.
When our Social Service, board was cre
ated by an ordinance Introduced by the
writer an effort was made to Interest Its
advocates In the wider plan, but without
success. We ralso large sums for build
ings and other purposes with quick en
thusiasm. Here Is an opportunity for!
the city Itself, by a small tax, to not
only relievo citizens generally of calls for
contributions, but to very rnatertally
lessen the number of applicants for char
ity In the Immediate future.
Th Income to meet tho expenses of the
Kansas City board comes from various
sources. For Instance, the city paid the
salaries of ten social workers In the so
cial service department. Then the Prov
ident association added threo moro work
erp and paid them during tho rush sea
soru Apparently the city aids with finan
cial contributions quite liberally and the
charitably disposed public chips In gen
erously to endorsed Institutions when
called on.
Tho legal aid bureau mentioned above
Is one of the moat useful arms of this
very useful body. It collects much money
every year for otherwise friendless wage
earners; It goes Into court when neces
sary; but, best of all, It handles and set
tles hundreds of cases without going Into
court JOHN J. KYDKR.
Superintendent Police, Sanitation and
Public Safety.
Haskell Wins to
Have the Honor of
Naming a New Babe
Although It as not generally known.
Crelghton university was playing agnlnst
fearful odds in the game with the Has
kell Indians yesterday afternoon. Tho
Indians were battling for the privilege
of naming a new-born baby, although the
Crelghton men knew nothing of It.
In tho lull between halves C. M. Venne,
athletic director of Haskell Institute, who
was with the team, received a message
from I-awrence, Kan., where Haskell In
stitute Is located. Informing him that he
was the father of a new-born baby girl
weighing eight pounds. That, of course,
was news to Mr Venne, but In the tele
gram was also contained the Information
that IC Haskell won the game over
Crelghton they could name the baby.
When Mr. Venne raced down the field
to announce the fact to the Indian team
he was greeted with a chorus of approval
from the redskin warriors.
"lTKh! fine!" said they In chorus, "That
la very nice," exclaimed Stover, the big
Indian center. The players refused to
rest during the Intermission, preferring
to practice at tho north end of the field,
They entered the next half with renewed
vigor, a baby's name hanging In tho balance.
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