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THE OAHA, SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 7, 1010. Remember the Newsboy is a Potential Magnate and Scorn Him Not 'X' MM 1 1 -r 41 t. is V. If: T3 hi if i I 1 A it AC: ,7 TV; Jrr5a OOK1NQ at William A. Brady, as and then consideration must be given to Do you know any newboy very well? "uxtry" and continuing until the etreeta ar he Rita diamond bedecked and the varlotm other avenues to nlffh success Have you ever made a study of hln type? aglow with electric rays, the lad turns back currency upholstered In the of- not herein enumerated.

If not. perhaps you have him catalogued his bundles of "left overs" and rushes to flee of his Manhattan, theater. There Is something about a newsboy that am a young ruffian, who might well be re- school. He has had to work hard all day you would hardly surmise that rivets public He is at once an strained as Incorrigible. and he is Impressed with the act 'that lif he 1s the same Bill" Brady Interesting character.

If one newsboy is If neroh.nea is not a trifllna thlna- to be frltteroH who once peddled newspapers on the streets Interesting, it naturally follows, then, that tlmate, you owe It to yourself, as well as Therefore, he is in a mood to make.th Of Omaha. Neither would you guess that 300 newsboys in one group are of still to the boy. to pause for investigation. Not m08t of hl" chool opportunity, limited Channlng Pollock, playwright, critic, author greater interest. alI men are allke gome d.

mom though It be, and when his stock of wordly of books and master of a magnificent chau- Three hundred newsboys, vociferous and are bad. The same in a general sense is information is supplemented by the teau at Shoreham, L. I ever struggled his bouyant with the Joy of young life cast true of newsboys. learning" he takes on at night school, the way through the crowds at Fifteenth and anchor at Lake Manawa a few days ago Tne publlo minll na, come t0 uk, lt ag newsboy goes out Into the world able to Farnam streets, crying: for a picnic. They had It.

too. matter of cour he neWBb a cope with any obstacles that may loom up Kvenln paper heres your paper hor'bul 8everal Omaha women of benevolent in- young tough, that he is ignorant uncouth before nlm- cannot, of course, unless wreck on the P. I. ft cllnation Journeyed over to Manawa with Hnd unwning to be reformed Not every- 1,0 Puru his education beyond tha Perhaps Channlng Pollock did not cry the lads, not exactly to chaperone them, body haB tnat vtew for gueh ng8 fceen dQna abridged curriculum of the night school his papers exactly after the manner re- for the average newsboy can always take to place the newsboy on a higher plane ntre t0 ttaln eminence in literary or other lated In the foregoing, yet It Is a fact that care bt himself, but rather to assist them fln(j there are thousands of good men and pursuits, but he Is keen for both Brady and Pollock were once news- so far as possible to thoroughly enjoy the women throughout the country who have acUon tne business world, boys In Omaha. occasion.

made a ciose tudy 0f the newsboy, and are AnA- It Is no Infrequent thing for new. That was years ago, of course, but the There was fried chicken In great abund- therefore in position to know that he la not 'hoy to go beyond the night school Into flight of time has In no wise changed the ance. more than enough for every boy to wholly bad. Yet, the great mass of people, college, paying their way through by work, significance of the example set by Brady partake to his utmost satisfaction, and the unthinking; mass, still cling to the This, In fat, is often done, and there ure and Pollock for other newsboys, and tha then came ice cream and other good things original Idea that a newsboy is a newsboy cases on record whure newsboys-have be story of their phenomenal success shines In generous measure to climax the feast. and that there Is nothing else to him, come college professors.

forth as a beacon light to the coming gen- "Billy" Byrne, manager of the Manawa Although the newsboy may be deprived Omaha newsboys are in many rcxpecU resort WRa once boy- nd when he saw of a Beat tne publlo BChool of the citju, above the average. This happy condition m'ha nwy duplicate BOO Omaha newsboys-yes, South Omaha nevertheless In school every day he Is due largely; to the fact that Omaha Is the achievement of Brady and Pollock, waa represented, too-he issued edict to 86lls papers on the streets-but it is the a city of open space, green fields and pretty but who dares predict that out of the subordinates proclaiming all concession free Btern, unrelenting, eye-for-eye, tooth-for- parks being found hereabouts within easy aet army of lads selling papers on the for the boys so long a they cared to re- tooth school of experience, and while It reach, and. as a result, the boys have fio- 01 nne snail oe main on me grounds. teaches lessons of resourcefulness and self- quent opportunity tp leave the congested H.w uj in Buuir 11110. il was a nappy aay, prumauiv- spent reliance that ran xarnori In im It ---a v.

1 1 i' 1' 0 "Women. "Who Helped Entertain was a nappy aay, proriiamy spent reliance that can be learned in no othr rltv streets to recreate themselves. Tha greatness to come may not be along tljeat- profitable, because these boys, many of school, yet the task Is hard for a childish' outing at Manawa a few clays ago, for Iti-rlcal Hues, as It was with the two examulea them, are weighted down bv resDonsibilltles. min cited. Perhaps none may reach the United which would stagger a grown man, and a efforts of benevolent persons, tlvat the are cared for by philanthropic men and father, mother, brother or sister, but a ma- of papers a profit equal or often greater you may be working for him tomorrow." Senate, as has been done.

Perhaps none whole day of outing with care eliminated newsboy had been verv rennrallv hrmivht nmrn TTr as elsewhere, the avoraim Inritv m.rhui,. hiv. mhr, ir.ti,lont than war of tha unaklllnd workinor- And a little research Into newabov evolu- may become national bankers but such from the ohlldlah heart is of great value into the night school. After selling papers newsboy bears household responsibilities, upon them for support, and many of them man. Tim Murphy, the actor, once remarked tton brings the conclusion that Murphy is clearly within the of possibilities, to the growing lad.

1 through the day, beginning with the noon Some of them, of course, are waifs without still In their early teens makerom the sale "Do not antagonise the newsboy today spoke wisely. Gossip About Koted People Always Ready fr a Joke, ARK TWAIN was tha life of every company and of all occasions, writes Henry Wat-terson in the American Maga-xlne. I remember a practical Joke of his suggestion played upon llalstead. A party of use were supping after the theater at the old Brevoort house. A card was brought to mo from a reporter of the World.

I was about to deny myself, when Mark Twain said: -Give it to me, I'll fix lt," and left tha table. Presently he came to the door and btckoned me to come to him. "I represented myself as your secretary and told this man," said he, "that you were not here, but that If Mr. llalstead would answer just as well, I would fetch horn out. He Is as Innocent as a lamb and doesn't know either of you.

I am going to Introduce you as Halstead and we'll have some tun." No sooner Bald than done. The importer proved be a little bald-headed cherub newly arrived from the Isle of dreams, and I lined out to him a column or more of very hot stuff, reversing Hal-stead In every expression of opinion. I declared him in favor of paying the national debt In greenbacks. Touching the sectional question, which was then the burning Issue of the time, I made the mock Halstead say: "The 'bloody shirt' Is only a kind of Pickwickian battle cry. It Is convenient during political campaigns and on election day.

Perhaps you do not know that I am myself of good old North Carolina stock. My father and grandfather came to Ohio from the old North Slate Just before I was born. Nat-rally, I have no sectional prejudices, but 1 live in Cincinnati and am a republican." There was a good deal mure of the same sort. How lt passed through the World office I know not, but next day It appeared. On returning to the table I had told the company what Mark Twain and I had done.

They thought was Jokiua. It did seem Inconceivable. Without word to any of us. next day Halstead wrote a note to the World briefly repudiating the "Interview," and the World printed his disclaimer with a line which said: "When Mr. Halstead talked with our reporter he had dined." It was too good to keep.

John Hay wrote an amTis-lng "story" for the Tribune, which set Halstead right and turned the laugh on me! The "Assistant Freatdeat." Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the present secretary to the president of the United States, Mr. Charles Dyer Norton, Is tits frankness. His second moat notable characteristic Is decision. After these come a fund of optimism that is like a bubbling well and a confidence in people that was startling. Mr.

Norton went to Washington on April 6, I'M, and never had met President Taft until that day, writes O. Blythe in the New Yoik Herald. He knew very few, lt any, public men. In little more than a year his characteristics of frankness, decision, optimism, and trustfulness have won him, on the largest plane of public life in America, the friendly regard of almost every one with whom he has come Into contact There is no atmosphere of mystery about Norton's oifice these days. Conversations are open, frank and direct upon everything, except, perhaps, the subject of Mr.

Norton's family, and In ret pec to this, and only this, the new secretary to the president Is shy. He takes the position that the publlo is only interested In him because of the position he holds, and lt was with difficulty that permission was obtained to print in this article the recently discovered fact that Mr. Hitchcock's father was the Congregational minuter who succeeded Mr. Norton') father in the pulpit of a Kenosha, church thirty-five tur ago. Il was merely a coincidence, tf course, but Mr.

Norton says that everything else about lha family that be would care to have printed has been printed, except, perhaps, the tact that he has three children Garrison, aged Lucia, aged 7, and Charles McKim, aged S. Mrs. Norton and the children are domiciled on Long Island for the early summer. This young man finds time for tennis, riding, driving, golfing and walking, as exercises to keep him In the perfect physical condition, without superfluous weight he is in, and must stay In if he Is to continue to succeed In one of the most exacting positions In the public service. He likes a fight, and in response to a question, declared that a man's last fight Is the one mot interesting to an Idea that seems to Bhow his mind keeps mov-itux.

"Every Inch soldier." "The Crown Prinoess Cecllle Is the honorary colonel of a crack regiment of dragoons whloh maneuvered recently on the plains of Oels. A regiment of cavalry In action Is always an imposing spectacle." says a foreigner who was present, "but this occasion was made additionally so by the presenoe at the head of the picturesque column of the royal woman colonel. She sat her charger as well as any officer of tlx command, her uniform, from the fla V-ing helmet to the spurred boot fitted her faultlessly and with never a vestige of the robust and ooarse amaxon, she looked every Inch a soldier." Me A duo, Tssstl Ilollder. William Q. MoAdoo, who will be known to posterity as the builder of the great Hudson river tunnels, In New Tork City, was born during the civil war, which left bis father's family stranded at Mlllldge.

vllle, and reduced from a state of affluence to one of extreme poverty. But to this circumstance he attributes much that has brought him success, relates the National Monthly. At a reception tendered to him by the citizens of New Jersey after the opening of the tunnels, he mads the following significant reference to that period: "I was brought up 'la Georgia, in the path of General Sherman's famous march to the sea. As Henry Grady once remarked, 'General Sherman was a bit care-leas with and for this reason, among other things, he has never been a popular man In Georgia. For myself, however, I feel that I owe General Sherman a debt of gratitude.

He produced conditions' and an environment which made lt necessary for the individual to develop every re- source and every power with which nature had endowed him, in order to exist. I believe that character Is produced and developed to the highest degree by hardships, suffering and poverty. I have never doubted that whatever of character I have developed has been, in a large measure, due to the surroundings and conditions which General Shermuu forced upon the people of our section during that great war." RELIGIOUS NOTES. St. Louis lays claim to the distinction of having the oldest beginner In the ministry.

He is Colonel F. J. Hart, aged 65 years, and a veteran of the civil war. Having been interested In Y. M.

C. A. and church work for mliiy years, Colonel Hart says he wants to 4nd his days with the title of reverened. ftev. J.

B. Kerchner, pastor of St. John's Reformed church. Haseltuii, finds amusement In collecting old coins and his collection comprises many of considerable value. He makes a specialty of half-dul-Jars which command a premium, and while be has had many offers fur the coins he refuses to part with them.

St. John's Episcopal church of Hampton, has Just celebrated is South anniversary. Tha foundation of the original structure, after many years' search, was recently discovered, and the exercises were held at the original site. The church graveyard contains the bones of many men wso achtlved a plance In the colonial history of the Old Dominion. Mrs.

Florence Kollock wlio recently resigned the pastorate ot St. Paul's church Jamaica Plaui, Boston, has established a wonderful record In the thirty-five years she has been a preacher. She has founded four churches and built up four other churches that were on the verge of bankruptcy. She has founded church homes for many thousand persona and has made a tpeclalty of looking after young folk. Her work baa been largely of a missionary type and she has gone from ono part of the United States to another, wherever there was an opportunity for her to exerclHe her executive ability and where other preachers were loth, because of the obstacles, to take up the work, Mrs.

Crooker followed the work, disregarding any thought of financial return and asking only for enough money to enable her to live comfortahly. She was graduated from the University of Wisconsin and then went to the Uraversallst Theological School of the St. Iawrence university. She. began preaching In Iowa, where she established her first parish, and then moved to a suburb ot Chicago.

She gave up an expedition of investigation in the Holy I -and to go to Pasadena, to take hold of a church, and after that came east. After thirty-five years of work she now plans to devote her time to literary and religious writings. Uncle Sam's Trade in Bugs PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Mamma What In the world Is making the baby cry so, I wonder? Little Eva I guess he's mad 'cause I tried to make him smile with your glove stretcher. "Bobby," said the caller, "why are your eyes so bright?" "I gues It's cause they 'moat new," answered the little fellow.

"1 ain't had 'em only "bout four years." Mother (reading) In Ireland they use peat for fuel. Little Margie Did they burn him because he was wicked? Mamma Burn who, dear? Little Margie Why, Pete. "My ma makes me wheel this baby around all afternoon and I don't like It!" declared the poorly dressed little care taker to the inquisitive woman who accosted her In the park. "I guess I see where the shoe pinches," said the woman, observing a group ot other little girls playing games a little way off. "You don't neither; I don't wear no shoesl" R.

V. O. HOWARD, chief ento- mologlst or me unuea di I Department of Agriculture, re-I in Wauhinirtnn a feW days ago after spending several months in Europe. The govern. ment paid all his expenses while aoioaa, and probably he had a very pleasant time, but, nevertheless.

It was a business trip, and out of the ordinary, too. Certain bugs are the bane of our farmers and fruit growers. Scientific men have all kinds of names tor the Insects which do so much damage to growing crops and trees, but two of the most pestiferous are commonly known as the gypsy and brown-tailed moths. In an attempt to exterminate these two bugs the state of Massachusetts has already used 13.000,000. and other eastern states have expended large sums.

In splfe of all efforts, these enemies of all kinds of foliage are spreading over a wider range of territory. This is why the federal government decided to wage a war of extermination upon them, and here is the explanation of Dr. Howard's trip to Europe. He was sent to find bugs which will kill the bugs we want killed. In France, Germany, Japan and other foreign fountrles Dr.

Howard and other entomologists discovered parasites which treat gypay and brown-tailed moths as the flt.est diet In the world. When these little bugs have found either of those moths and commenced dining on It there Is one (ess moth on earth when that meal Is ended. Dr. Howard caught all those cannibalistic little bugs he could get and shipped them to this country. Thsy have been liberated In Maasachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and other eastern states where the tree-killing moths are most numerous.

Including six found In this country, there are now at work on the gypsy and brown-tailed moths here twenty varieties of bugs whose bite Is death. Whether these parasites have destructive power greater than the reproductive sower of the moths la a question of the keenest interest to those working for the extermination of the pests. Some of the parasites whloh proved moat deadly to those moths In Japan failed to beoome acclimated In this country, but on Japanese species has Increased from a single pair In the spring of 1109 to over 100,000 today, and the way they kill motha Is said to be delightful to the scientists who propagated them. It Is a noteworthy fact that a scientist with the best motive possible was responsible tor the spreading ot the moth pest In this country. In 1819 Prof.

Leopold Trouvelot of Harvard university Imported some gypsy moths from Europe with tha idea of cross breeding and producing a hardier Insect than the present silkworm of commerce, to build up the silk Industry la this country. One night a gale blew away the netting confining the moths in the caterpillar stage to a single shrub. Prof. Trouvelot made desperate efforts to recapture the caterpillars, enlisting the aid of the public when he explained how dangerous they might become. He caught some of them, but enough remained at large to more than verify his prediction as to their beoomlng a pest.

In exchange for the European bugs which we need to destroy the gypsy moth and other Insect pests, the government Is sending to many foreign countries species of our bugs which destroy their pests. For example, Spain Is delighted to get the bugs we grow In California which prey chiefly upon the insects which damage citrus fruits. We have sent Algeria some wasps which kill the files which spread disease among the dromedaries. To Peru we give a bug which attacks scale Insects that damage eotton. Italy reports that the bugs wa sent It will wipe out In two years the Insects which have been damaging Its orchards.

South Africa has made a plea for an Insect which will kill its ticks, and that Insert was sent. So an International bug trade has coma Into existence, and Uncle 6am la doing ais full share of It. Chicago Inter-Ocean. 1.