Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
QUAINT EVENTS OF The YEAR
Moving Pictures Of the Lights and
Shadows of Life.
TRIPLES OF HUMAN INTEREST
strange LITTLE Happenings Usually
Overlooked RcWtstcr the
Heart Throbs of Man
Kind,

! Overlooked RcWistcr the
Heart Throbs of Man
! kind.
What wonderful things are events"
eNclaims n character IN one OF Disraefs
| novcls~ The least arc lof greater inn
portance than the most sublime aud COM
prehcnsive spccOlations" And to some
such text as this may readily be written
/ tho human interest" history Of any year,
chroniClings OF small beer, Il may seem
to some, but 10 the discerning far better
showing the lights and shadows OF the
true tenor OF the present day world than
a summary Of ali first page, top coll
unn" happenings. .t
! The initial day Ct the sG5 began It with
word from Trenton that a couple OF Max
/ Baslts geese had cot into his bar. broke
/ a bottle OF whisky apiece ana celebrated
/ the coming IN OF t9li so thoroughly that
only cold baths revived them. Then, as
that same initial month was departing
| that Same New Jersey capital reported
that j. NJ, Donald had at last stopped
( tho disappearance OF his hens Fishing
lines and halted hooks had been used
when other methods Of abstraction had
failed, but the installation OF 1,OOo-
candle power starchliRht IN the Coops
worked promptly Nothing was said OF
how tho hiddes were TO set to sleep,
N Bnsk's geese. above referred 90, sug-
/ gest that the Womcns Christian Temper
anCc union may well enter upon a new
! field OF labor so do no less than four
other events of 1911, the veraciuus dis
! patches bearing all the way from New
York to Scotland. In April Hattie, the
star" elephant OF Central Park, ate too
much and colo ensued. wherefore she was
dosed with a little matter of two ounces
| OF laudanum and a gallon OF whisky.
What the laudanum did deponont know
eth not. but the whisky was prompt to
| get IN its work. Hattie did all the tricks
she'd been taught by Bin Snyder, the
keeper, and a few more, But the collie
was conquered,
Fish and PsEs.
| Julius Graveson and Charlie Peters
went fishing near Tarrytown In Septem-
Der, and caught some bass driking beer.
| That In, the beer bottles, five OF them,
came 10 the surface with the take, -
which last showed clear evidences OF
| having sampled what had probably been
! the lost luncheon OF previous picnlckers.
! Jere Quinn OF Coffeyvlre, Kan, con-
| trIbuted n pig yarn lie arrived in Wash
inEton with lot OF what looked like
breakfast food hut no said It was all he
/ had left OF se,7OO roll" which he
dropped into his pen NJ feeding time
| and a greedy hog bounced on H. The
! Treasury department wanted proof be-
\ fore Issuing new bills. but really the
point of the story Is the obvious good
taste OF tho Kansas porlter. a turtle on
! Chelsea beach, near Boston, gave up"
more readily. When caught and hand
ted, mo penny was found under the
edge Of the shell. which makes It out
Just ~ years old--or else "A deliver into
Captain Kidds treasure chests, sunk
somewhere below Massac husetts bay.
II was an American who wrote himself
down as the most selfsaorficing man on
record. Edward Fay was his name, and
Asbury Park the place. and what he did
VAS 10 leave his mother-in-law as Sc.
Gurlty for a $50 board bill. Apropos
of these faterial eml-parents, let II he
ohronicled that Magistrate Mcguire OF
THE Hub" has decided that their visits
upon married children must not exceed
| ten days
wcds, NewIyweds ana wouId-BeA.
Ills honor" Indeed. mas figured not
ably as the weeks have measured out
their annual path. Circuit Judge Thomas,
sitting at Kansas City In September, de-
cded that "a wife has a perfect right to
scold her husband II he doesn't behave
himself properly" while Justice Lea of
the Rhode Island supreme court has he'd
that any man may slap his wife for going
through his pockets on the sly. Y. h.
White OF Atlanta, arrested on a mistreat-
ment complaint lodged by his better half,
was dismissed by Judge Orr under In
structions to kiss the woman at least
once a day, and usually to thrown IN "A
few for good measure.
II was love. not conscience which
prompted Mrs. Martha Williams OF
Springfield Mo, 10 walk 200 miles to
Kansas City, for she had been led 10 be-
lieve a husband was there waiting for
her walter Stewart by name. When she
arrived, and when Walter refused TO
abide by their understanding, she had
him arrested and fined. SO she was able
to take the cars" for the home journey.
II was different type OF man who
welded Miss Gertrude Ellis in Chicago
late In September, making her Mrs. Ed
ward Matt. To avoid future domestic
infehcity he filed with the county re-
corder guaranty, signed and scaled,
that Gcrty might do as she pleased, and
that he would be kind anu good, and
Uastly) that she was to be free TO get
any divorce that might eventually seem
advisable.
q. l.. Stevens, wealthy ranch owner
not far from Los Angeles, Is yet another
rarely good fellow, for he let II be known
in June that he would marry--but only
an ugly woman; ugly, that is, to look
upon. The Kids and pretty girls get
hitched up too easy" was his way OF
explaining things. 80 I'm proposing TO
nelp out some good soul who'll apprec ate
the chance"
Whether Turner Lockhart would have
proved a desirable husband for Mary
Goode or not Will never he known, how
ever They had got fairly started on
their elOpement from Winchester, Va.
when father overlook them, and the
| promise OF new hat persuaded Mary Ia