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Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21

Africa an Italian protectorate. Finally Eng
land became infected with the land-hunger
and, though reluctant and protesting, ex-
tended British rule from the Cape to the
Tanganika, absorbed a large portion of
East Africa and expanded her West AZ
rican possessions.
This was also the period when South At
rica advanced in popular esteem by leaps
and bounds on account of its increasing out
puts in diamonds and gold. The Congo dis
closed its wealth of ivory, rubber and hard
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21
Blank Space ON the
Map of the World

Copyright, 1900, by the Author.)
The latter half of the nineteenth century
has been remarkable for the many geo.
graphical novelties that explorers have
brought from Africa. In less than five
decades this long-neglected continent has
been opened, converted into civilized states
and protectorates, become thickly dotted
with Christian missions and fairly prepared
for civilized enterprise.
In the first decade-1S5O- 60-we had the
sources and course of the Great Zambezi
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21

BAGPIPER-Photo by Heyn.
martial airs. In addition to his skill with
tools Mr.. Wallace is a most finished per-
former on the bagpipes. For the last three
years there has scarcely been a day when
he has not praCticed several hours, and he
is in frequent demand for public entertain
ments of Scotch societies.
The recent meeting of the Nebraska and
Iowa retail implement dealers in Omaha
was pronounced by all who attended as a
success from nearly every point of view.
Aside from what was accomplished in the
business meetings, the gathering will GER
tainly prove valuable through the general
feeling of mutual interest stimulated by the
exchange Of views and widening of ac-
quaintance. Throughout the entire trans
mississippi country the implement dealers
are recognized as among the most progress
sive business men in the community and
are sure to be a potent factor in the growth
and expansion of these agricultural regions.
.
John f. Burgess, the new president of
Omaha's school board, who Is introduced by
his portrait, was chosen for that position
because of his experience in school matters.
He is now serving his second term on the
board, during which time he has famil-
iarized himself with all the various branches
of school management in which he has from
the first been an influential factor. Mr..
Burgess was formerly an employee of the
Pacific Express company in its general
headquarters, but more recently has been
identified with insurance and real estate
circles. In the pending school board in
vestigation, which has resulted in exposing
some startling instances of official corrup-
ton, he has taken "A leading part, together
with several of his associates, who insti-
tuted the investigation.
S. r. Crockett, the author, shows in his
person much of the aptitude for good fight
ing which he loves in his heroes. He stands
six feet high, with a breadth of shoulders
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derful Victoria Falls,
made known to us.
The ~Tanganika-the
longest lake in
Africa-was also dis
covered.
During the second
decade - 1S60-70 we
obtained a rough out
line of the Victoria
Nyanza. The Nile
was thence descended
throughout its whole
length. The Albert
Nyanza, another
feeder of the Nile,
was discovered, and
soon after Lake
Nyassa appeared to
grace our maps.
The third decade
1S1O-SO-WaS still
more fruitful of re-
suits. We had first
the sources of a new
river of the first
magnitude and it's
lakes Mweru and
Bangweolo revealed
to us. A short time
afterwards this river
was proved to be the
Congo, by a descent
along it's entire
course. Lakes Vic
toria and T~anganika
were circumnavigated
An ascent of the
snow mountain Kill
ma Marc was made,
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21

woods, and a forest which rivaled that of the
Amazon in extent and possible productions.
The Congo's tributaries were explored and
new lakes were found. Almost every month
something new and strange was told of its
photography and topography. The Nigel
Region became also prominent because of
its human myriads, who were discovered to
be past their savage state and already de-
veloped into industrious barbarians. N.Y.
ASA Land, which in the COS was deserted
for its deadly record, took a new start and
became a land of promise for coffee plant
ers.
In the present decade the scrambling for
territory ceased and most of the govern
ments have begun the development of their
African possessions. They have ringed them
with custom houses and garrisoned forts
and are jealousy policing their frontiers.
Regiments of natives have been drilled and
uniformed, missions, schools and churches
are fourishing, while every symptom of the
slave trade, which was fast devastating tho
interior even in the sos, has disappeared.
The enormous area of inner Africa, which
only twenty-three years ago was only a
blank, is now known to geOgraphers- and
governments as the Uganda and East Afri-
can protectorates of Great Britain, German
East Africa, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Angola,
Congo Franchise, the CamerOOns, Nigeria
and Southern Soudan, which are admins
tered by their respective governor generals
and thousands of European officials.
1t will thus be seen that geographical nov
elites have already become scarce even from.
Darkest Africa. Geographical societies still
hold their seances, but their halls are no
longer crowded with breathless audiences
thrilled with stories of startling discoveries,
and nnn1n ; H. --- "
heart of mysterious Africa. 1t is now the
period of railways and telegraphs and steam
ers. The Congo's broad waters are disturbed
by hundreds of steamers-the Nyassa is rap
idly becoming like a Swiss lake with its
many steam ferries-the Tanganika and Vie
torlan NyanZa have already seen the pioneers
or the steam fleet which will appear before
the next century dawns. The Congo, the
Uganda and other railway lines now in pros
pect make mystery and novelty almost i'm
possible and narrow the field of the pioneer
explorer.
And yet the first decades of the twentieth
century may reveal to us astonishing things
from Africa. While the world lasts we shall
never quite exhaust the region, Even at
this very moment there is a company being
foated in London to utilize the discovery OF
a nitrous deposit just found near the site of
ancient Memphis. If any spot on earth may
be called old surely that one may, but even
AFTER 5000 years of human occupation it has
rewarded the explorer.
Africa's Remaining Secrets.
Therefore, though Africa's main geograph-
ical features are fairly familiar to us, in
It's recesses are to be found many a secret
yet, Nay, l venture to say, despite my pre-
amble, that the continent remains for most
practical purposes as unknown to us as
when the Victoria Nyanza and the Congo
were undiscovered. The names of noun
tains, towns, villages, settlements and tribes
have been written on the blank spaces of
(Coutinued on Seventh Page.)
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21

JOHN f. BURGESS-NEW PRESIDENT
OF THE OMAHA SCHOOL BOARD-Photo
by Rinehart.
not keep their mail from being badly
mixed.
Soon after General Gatacre was appointed
an ensign in the Seventy-seventh Foot he
turned out with the company to which he
was attached to witness the logging of a
soldier. The man, who had been convicted
of a serious offense, and was later to be
drummed out of the corps, took his pun
ishment badly, screaming a great deal. En-
sign Gatacre shut his eyes and turned white
in the face, as though he would faint. When
the punishment was over he remarked to
his color sergeant: IF | see much more
OF this I'll sell out!' The "non-com" re-
sponded. you'll get used to it in time.
sir" Use to it? I'm sure l never shalt"
responded the ensign. Flogging in the
army was soon abolished, however, and the
future general remained in the service.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21
Pen and Picture Pointers

Iowa readers of The Bee will find special
attractions for them in this number, Of
which a great portion is devoted to the con
test just closed for the United States sena-
torship filled by the pending legislature, and
the men who fought prominently in It,.
While the struggle was fierce for a time, it
was short and sharp, the prepOnderance of
the Gear forces being early recognized by
his opponents, who frankly admitted their
defeat when they found that they could
make no further advances. The contest has
served, however. to bring out in striking
clearncss the abilities of the principal
aspirants for the place and the untiring
~shrewdncss of the men enlisted in the
management of their campaigns.
The portrait of Governor Gear, which is
presented as a frOntispieCe, is reproduced
from the latest photograph taken of him at
Washington and shows the venerable sena-
tor just as he looks today. The senator
has been in public life the better part Of
his long and honorable career, which is now
nearing it's close, but he is still as popular
in Iowa as he ever was, as is shown by the
general acclaim with which his reelection
was greeted.
The Iowa Legislature now in session is
graphing with a number of important ques-
lions of Legislation and promises to be pro
ductive of economies and reforms that will
keep Iowa in the list of progressive western
states. The personnel of the house and
senate is said to be considerably above the
average, containing among the leader a
number of coming men whose marks VIII
be seen in the public life of the Hawlteye
state for years to come. The legislative
session promises also to be a business SEES
sion in every respect, although it will doubt
less be enlivened by n number of side issues
which inject themselves into the proceedings
OF avery body of that kind.
The Bee gives it's readers a picture of the
famous Dewey cup taken while on exhibition
in a shop window in Boston last October.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21
OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.

to match, End with his rudy cheek, his red
beard and keen blue eye, looks more like
a man of action than of letters.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21

The Bee gives it's readers a picture of the
famous Dewey cup taken while on exhibition
in a shop window in Boston last October.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-21

January 81, 1900.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-11

story OF the English oppression OF the
Dutch colonists OF far Africa that any
thing | might say on the subject would
be but retelling of what they already
know; how the English drove the coll
onists from the Cape. where they had
built the town, into Natal, and again,
when the Dutch farmers-the Beers
had colonized Natal, conquered ii from
the native tribes, built towns, made
roads and civilized the country; how
the Engiish came and drove them out
again.
The Beers went out into what is now
the Orange Free State and crossed the
vaal river to the Transvaal Here
they have made their stand.
They say that never again shall they
be driven out by the English, and they
are keeping their vows.
We in ireland can so well appreciate
the Beers struggle for liberty and
against England because we know
what English rule means
We have for centuries been strug-
Cling against that rule. and though
Ing the mines and making money.
and they all tell me that they never
enjoyed such prosperity or such lib
England has conquered our country
ne has not 4 ~ subdued ne sDirif of
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and loose but with more of fare in
the back, thus relieving the figure OF
that long up and down" look which
was so noticeable upon the earlier i'm
portations of long coats. Many OF
them have the Vatican plat in the
back. Many of them are designed to
be worn open in front and are hand
somely lined with silk over which lace
is appliqued.
Waists and Skirts.
While the shirt waist is by no means
discarded or in any way out of date,
it is subject to certain notifications.
For instance, very smart women no
longer select a shirt waist of blue, or
of pink, or purple, or grey, picking
them aimlessly from the counter. On
the contrary, they bear in mind their
assortment of skirts and choose the
shirt waist to match. With a skirt of
blue cheyiot striped with buff and fig
ured with tiny blush roses, any one Of
half a dozen waists may be- worn. A
blue waist would be highly suitable, so
also one of buff or pink. These shirt
waists can be picked up for song at
the first shirt waist sale of the season
and laid aside until time to wear them.
In New York they are wearing the
first shirt waists of the season. The
first sewing meeting Of a fashionable
Lenten sewing circle showed half a.
dozen of the members clad in shirt
waists of Madras, cheviot and cotton
challie. The waists were made in the
very newest fashion, stamping them as
the advance style of the season. One
Of cream colored Madras, figured in
pink and purple, had a broad plastron
of white needlework down the front
The needlework was edged with a
white cambria ruffle on either side
This front strip, which runs from neck
to belt, is very fashionable and will
be much worn upon all shirt waists.
1t is adjustable and can be transferred
from one waist to another
So, while the trend of fashion leads
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-11

three shades of white. There is the
blue white, the cream white and a
third white which is almost green.
Besides these shades there is the tan
lace and laces which come in the nat
ural colors of the unbleached thread.
But the three shades of white are the
most fashionable. In trimming you
select the one which contrasts most
widely with your gown. If the latter
is a blue foulard the lace with which
you trim it. may be green white.
You will want enough at least to over
lay the yoke and probably overlap also
the fiaring cuffs.
Mrs George Gould, who does things
so very well, using not only money,
but taste, wore an evening dress, at
one of the last performances of Car
men, which was conspicuous in the
beauty row, as the tier boxes are call
ed, by it's becomingness. AS it SEEM
ed dress which could be nicely copied
by any person it is worth describing.
Becomingg Dress.
The material wasNpink taffeta, near
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Alien White

literary Kiplng
William Allen
from
IN Is a a
OF Mr.
White noticed the small country that
by that r.
temptation
that the Eastern critics
editors
The
into that New York publisher had
of well editor
SELL to
English author
bought the of David Harum"
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authority
United
understood
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10 me ridiculous. What do people who
go out to make money and intend to
leave directly after, care about the
franchise?
These Irishmen tell me they had
everything done for their comfort.
They have free libraries in these South
African Republics; education for child
rem is much better than in Ireland,
where 1t is systematized to denational-
lie the people IL possible. For the
American people must know Irish
children are not allowed TO learn the
Gaelic language of their native land
nor to study Irish history.
1t is easier for the Irish people 10
sympathize with !he Beers in their
struggle for liberty against English
greed Of empire because their cause Is
just from every point OF view.
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the people As the direct result Of
English rule in Ireland we have seen
our country ruined. our manufacturers
destroyed by acts Of Parliament ana
the lives OF our people rendered miser.
able by famine.
So we can quite appreciate the sit
uation Of the Beers.
know that the Beers are in the
right; but If they were ten times wrong
we would sustain them-against Eng
land!
England's false pretensions about
going to war to help the Uitlanders is
we'll understood in Ireland.
have known a very large number
of Irishmen. who have been out work
erty as that which they enjoyed in the
Transvaal.
The question of the franchise seems
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-11
TOUCH OF VELVET
IS NECESSARY.
HANDKERCHIEF WAISTS SHOW
TINY PEPPINGS OFF PLAIN OR
PANNE VELVET.
SHIRT WAISTS HAVE BOLER0S.
Broad Belts of velvet Come Down
to a Very Narrow Point Low in
Front--Sleeves Tight With Caps.
SHIRT WAISTS HAVE BoLERos.

ttcdcf-of veSes is necessary for
the spring hat and gown.
A piping of panne; lapel of the
same soft velvety substance overlaid,
perhaps, with lace, baggy crown of
velvet; or even flower with center
of that material will give the touch
which is required as a finish.
Lace is also an adjunct. It comes in
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WHY / CHAMPION
THE Beers.

BY Maud Come. Irish Joan of Arc,
Personally I look upon the Boer
question from an Irish point of view.
We do not care whether the Beers
are right or wrong; they are enemies
to our enemy That is enough.
But fortunately, they are right.
Their cause is just. 1t is the cause of
liberty and the cause of humanity and
civilization.
Surely. the whole American public
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The cnmn Rnrher.

One OF the regulations Of the British
army ~ that priyate's hair must be kept
cropped. During the active campaigning
however. Tommy Atkins has no chance 10
visit the professional barber. 20 the task
of shearing cevolves on some man Of tho
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On and after Monday, September 10
1900, DR.. Wayson will be at his new
Office and residence, Beretauia street
nearly opposite the Methodist church.
Office hours, 10 a. m. to 8 p. N. and 6:3
to 1880 p. m.
, 1900-08-16

by using "Faultless Starch" All grocer
sell it-large package loo.
, 1900-08-16
5be Peril of Electricity.

This has been called the electric age.
The praises of the mysterious fluid
which now does so much work for
man have been sounded by orators
and poets. Civilization. it is declared.
has been advanced u hundred years by
Harvesting the forces of the lightning.
Now come calmer minded men to point
the other side of the picture. For If
electricity has lone much to relieve
man of labor and to make life easier,
it is also responsible for much destruc-
ton both of life and property. Every
new electric invention adds one more
danger to the many which now beset
the residents in crowded cities. where
such inventions are chiefly used. Sta
tistics on the subject. recently gath
cred, are fairly startling.
, 1900-08-16
EX-Gov. woLCoTT.

Italy. to succeed Mr.. Draper, has left
this country for his post of duty. tx
Gov. Wolcott comes from n of the
old and honored families of the Bay
State and is in the prime of life. He
is a fine specimen of physical, intellec-
tual and moral manhood. His political
life began in the State Legislature and
so ably did he perform his duties
there that in 1892 he was elected lieu
tenant governor. In 1893, "a and ,95
he was reelected and on the death of
Gov. Greenhalge in February, 1896, he
became acting Governor. In 1895 he
was elected Governor. He now enters
the ranks of diplomacy, where his tact
and talents will show to best advan-
tage.a
, 1900-08-16

When a preparation has an adver-
tised reputation that is worldwide. it
means hat preparation is meritorious.
IL o go into a store to buy an article
that has achieved universal popularity
like Cascarets Candy Cathartic for ex-
ample, you feel it has the endorsement
of the world. The Judgment OF the
people is infallible because 1t. is i'm
personal. The retailer who wants to
sell o something else" in place of
h article you ask for, has an ak to
grind. Don't it stand to reason? He's
trying to sell something that is not
what he represents it to be. Why?
Because he expects to derive an ex-
ira profit out OF your credulity. Are
you easy? Don't you see through his
little game? The man who will try
and sell you a substitute for CASCAR-
T is a fraud. Beware of himi He
is trying to steal the honestly earned
benefits of a reputation which another
business man has paid for. and II his
conscience will allow him to go so far,
he will go farther. If he cheats his GUS
toner in one way, he will in another
and 1t is not safe to do business with
him. Beware of the CASCARET sub
stitutor. Remember CASCARETS are
eve sold in bulk but in metal boxes
with the long tailed &C" on every o
and each tablet stamped c.. c. G.
, 1900-08-16

death of Ward the Chinese erected a
temple in honor of the "invincible
American and to this day Chinese
warriors burn incense before his shrine
when they are about 10 begin a cam
paign. So it has come to pass that
among the inhabitants of the Chinese
Olympus there is at least one Yankee
god. Before going to China, to which
country he shipped as a sailor before
the mast. Ward served as a soldier in
the Crimean war, and in several fill
clustering expeditions against Near
agua and other Central American coun-
tries. His great ambition was to en-
ter West Point. and when he failed of
an appointment he threw himself into
the employment OF any government
that would give him active service in
the field. He left the United States
Just too soon to take part in the civil
war.