Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

SAMUEL JOE BROWN OF DIES MONIES,
FIRST NEGRO TO RECEIVE DEGREE
OF MASTER or ARTS AT IOWA STATE
UNIVERSITY.
& rush. A current is generated and a
counter current, and 10! the tornado is
born, and out Of the very conditions which
make spring pleasant comes the destroyer.
It's awful funnel, swathed in folds Of dense
clouds, is a storehouse of power beyond
human calculation. Its dissipation is as
sud len as its coming, for the energy is
merely seeking release, and as 1t whirls
in its mad career Of devastation it is giving
off in the form of lightning and radiation
Of heat all the power 1t contains, so that
an hour after the ominous piling up of
clouds which presage the coming storm the
sun may again shine brightly along the path
desolated by the tornado.
That tornadoes vary in size and de
structiveness is proven by the illustrations
published this week, which are made from
photographs taken by II. Van Deusen Of
the Merchants and Farmers bank Of
Scribner, Neb., on Saturday, May "a. On
that day five distinct tornadoes were formed
in the vicinity Of Scribner, three of which
are shown in the pictures. So far as is
reported only only one of these did any
damage, the destruction OF a barn east of
the village being the only loss Of property
reported. In his letter to The Bee, ac-
companying the photographs, Mr.. Van Deu-
sen says: THE occasion was most favor
able for phOtographing, the sun shining on
the cloud bank when the twisters were
forming and passing east, and it is I'M
fortunate that we did not get more and
better pictures. Most of the residents
were thinking Of other things at that time,
however" The picures are splendid ex-
amples and show more plainly than words
the appearance of a tornado in motion.
Iowa has no monopoly on beauty CT land
scape and pastoral scenes of surprising
lcvcliness, If the camera Of The Bee staff
artist is to be believed. Last week he
was called professionally to a community
in the northern central part OF the state,
and while there photographed two views
which are presented this week, and which
fair-mindcd people must admit compare
quite favOrably with those beautiful Iowa
scenes printed last week. Nebraska has
within its bounds many spots where ma
ture enChants the eye and delights the
senses with the beauty of the prospect,
And the cattle on a thousand hills" in
Nebraska stand as deep in the native
grasses as they DO across the river In the
Hawkeye state, have water as limpid and
sweet, air as invigorating and sky as blue
as any that envelopes the globe, and are
just MS sure a foundation of fortune as the
are objects of interest on the landscape.
Nebraska yields the palm to none on the
point OF rural effectiveness
We have been so often told that "men
are only boys grown tall" that we have
almost come to believe it, but IL proof were
really needed 1t might have been found at
the picnic given at Council Bluffs by the
members OF the Iowa council OF the United
Commercial Travellers. These boys grown
tall" with their wives and boys and girls
not yet grown fully tall, went out to one
of the groves, and for one whole Saturday
chased duh care away from the premises.
All sorts Of sports were INDUCED, every one
productive Of sport and merriment. That