Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-23

The guide led the way to one of the
large plant-breeding nurseries, where half
a dozen young men were engaged In work.
Pointing to one OF the men he said. DO
you know what that fellow is engaged
on? lie is crossing the milk weed and the
strawberry in order to produce ready
prepared strawberries and cream. AL
ready he has a good quality OF milk with
the berries but he is striving now to get
pure, rich cream, and l believe he'll get
it."
do tell" exclaimed one OF the women
OF the party. Wont that be grand for
our strawberry festivals?'
"Yaas," drawled the guide, but that
amt the only thing they're doing here
See that man bending low over a flower
pot there? He's trying to breed the rye
plant and the mint so as to get mint
juleps. But one of the biggest projects
they have on hand is that of planting
onions and potatoes in alternate rows, so
that the onions will make the eyes of the
potatoes water, and then the farmers OF
the arid plains can do away with irriga-
ton. 1 tell you. il is wonderful. Why,
one of the entomologists is breeding the
lightning bug and the honey bee so the
bees can work at night, and another Is
crossing the spider and the wire worm
to get a good quality of natural woven
wire fence"
At the pension Office there are received
more queer letters probably, than in any
other department of the government. Day
after day come letters and applications.
side-splitting in their ideas of Uncle Sans
pension scheme. One received recently was
from a colored aunty down south some
where, who addressed her letter to Kernel
Penshum," and wrote as follows:
"Pleese sur, don't yall glib dat fool Niger
OBJ mine no penshum, what done hear he
sen fer He suttenly ai'nt with 1t. He
done run off wild anuder CONAN"
1t was a white man who convulsed the
office with the following naive informa-
ton. On the blank which all applicants
are required to fill out, there is space for
the name of the applicant and his wife,
when and where they were married
whether or not there are children, etc,
ending with the space for Record of
Marriage" meaning of course certificate,
| license, etc. When this man reached that
particular question he wrote: Thirty years
OF unalloyed bliss" Truly a record of
marriage" that ought TO be far weightier
than mere certificates or licenses.
Quanah Parker, the noted Indian chief
was in Washington about a year ago and
he got an education. 1t took about a year
for It to soak in. but now that 1t is in II
premeates his system.
That fact was learned by a number OF
Texans who are friends of the chief. Some
time ago they decided that It would be a
fine thing for them to show him their ap-
probation of something that he had done
| for them. They decided to buy present.
| AS in Abyssinia, It is proper for Texans
| to ask their Indian friends what they
would like. They asked Parker what 1t
should be.
Writing desk" said the son of the race
that wastes no words
But, chief" they expostulated. you
can't write What could you do with a
desk?'
Thereupon Parker made a speech out of
the fulness of the experiences he had had
while In Washington asking for the things
due his people.
Put feet on, when white man come and
ask heap things, light cigar, blow smoke
in his face and say. This my heap d.
busy day"
Charles Hands of the London Daily Mail