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Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
NOTES.

In eastern Colorado a woman pastor
breaches in six or eight of the school dis
tricts. The country Is occupied by cattle
men and their herds.
DIR. Augustus F. Nightingale, long a
Prominent figure in the educational life of
Chicago, has been elected president of the
board of trustees of the University of I'LL
nois.
The Boston School board has appropriated
S,SO,4S7 for the maintenance of the public
schools Of the city this year, of which
structors.
The board OF curators of the Missouri
State university adopted at its last meeting
a new form Of diploma. Hereafter all d.
plomas will be printed in English except
those comforting honorary degrees, which
will be in Latin.
Columbia university's budget for the year
lie. 1t mounts to 1905, 100, of which Sl62, 24s
goes. for Interest on bonds and other LA
bilities and the remainder for educational
and administrative purposes.
John simmons, who died a quarter of a
century ago, will shortly have his life's
dream realized, in the building of a school
10 rthe education of working girls in Bos-
college has been selected as president Of
the new Institution.
President Butler of Columbia, President
Schurman of Cornell and Dean Vincent of
the Junior college of Chicago university
viii be the leading speakers at the convo-
cauon OF the University OF New York,
Wnich VIII DE helQ IN the state capitol,
Albany, N. Y, on June 80 and July l.
Smith college is very much interested in
raising the 10000, which must be on hand
by the time OF commencement in June, and
the Smith college. alumnae are devising
means to aid in collecting the money. For
that purpose whist parties are very popular
In the east, women and gentlemen attend
Ing In aid OF the good cause.
James Bennett, late of Philadelphia, be-
qreathed TO the University of Pennsylvania
$4,000, but the largest part of the bequest
is in real estate. the Chestnut Street Opera
house being part OF II. According to the
will this cannot be sold. but must be man
income from the opera house will be about
$500 annually.
ITO promote education within the United
States of America, without distinction OF
race, sex or creed" Is the first clause in
the announcement OF the policy OF the gem
eTal educational board, an association in
New York City, which will have as It's
chief object the promotion Of education In
the south. Already more than $1,000, 900 has
been placed at its disposal for the further
ance OF Its work, the fund being made up
ehleny OF voluntary contributions OF New
York capitalists.
One OF the public schools of Boston has
divided a large vacant lot forming part OF
its grounds into eighty garden plots, each
OF which Is cultivated by a gramma school
boy or girl The work last year was car
NED on under competent direction and a
large amount OF onions. Padishes. turnips,
beets, lettuce and corn was raised. Parents
were interested as we'll as the pupils and
many backwards were utilized in the same
way. Teachers regard the gardens as a
knowledge may be impaired. The active
preparations going on for the coming sea-
son show that the pupils are eagerly de-
voted 70 this new branch OF education.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

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{ It's help. After my first baby was born l
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/, though the doctor gave me a tonic which he
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Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

best tonic tor nursing mothers, restoring
strength and promoting an abundant
Gov Of nutritive secretions.
II can eheerfuliy recommend DIR. Pierce,s
Favorte Prescription as one Of the best medt
zines for women" writes Mrs. Mary Murdockl
Aurdoek, Of IO4S Woodland Ave Topeka, Kan II
Bider Il the best medicine made. know II has
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beauty. OF my other babies, one lived TO be one
gear old. but she was always feeble. tried diff
tsrent dOctOrs. but none Of them could tell me
what my trouble ~aA They said / vas well
and strong. l was examined BY surgeons but
they found nothing wrong, and they were
puEEled 20 know what my trouble was. did
act know what 20 do. % ! thought this time I
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look Il the entire line months aud now haNea
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Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

Only one reason is given by the insur-
ance companies for their recently announced
advance in rates-"We want the money"
They assert that the business has been I'M
profitable during the last ten years and
that the present advance is absolutely neces-
sary in order that they may continue. Fig
ures furnished by the insurance companies
themselves do not support this assertion.
Examination OF their statements to the in
surance auditors of the several states for
the year 1901 shows that the companies
prospered during last year and without the
present advance of rs per cent, which they
are now enforcing on all new business and
all business that is renewed. Recently
The Bee published some tables compiled
from a tabulation prepared by the Spectator
Of New York. the leading fire insurance
publication of the country, from reports
made to the insurance department Of New
York by 14S FIRE insurance companies doing
business in the United States for the year
1901. These tables show the following
state of facts:
Total premium income. .....s..... 1856. 292, 1916
Total disbursements........,.."-., l64,+US,B4
Excess Of premiums coilected.s $50, 29l
These companies collected from premiums
alone In 1901 almost s1,0o0,O0O more than
their total disbursements, which covers
losses paid, underwriting expenses, divi-
dends, everything. in fact, for which an in
surance company pays out money. The
premium income shows an increase during
1901 amounting to 31s. S4s, SIS over the year
1900. while the losses paid show an increase
of but S4.523, 965. Total disbursements for the
year 1901 show an increase over the year
1900 Of but 50, 300. S52. which is less than
half the increase in the amount Of premiums
collected. The total income of these 14S
companies for 1901 was s177. 529. 1876. an in
crease OF $40. 240. 1887 over the year 1900.
One hundred and ten American COM
panies, whose figures are tabulated In the
showing Afforded by the Spectator, report
dividends paid during the year 1901 amount
ing to $6.S0S. 1852. an increase of $21, 1856 over
the year 1900. These companies had a
capital stock Of $54, 500, 1875, so the dividend
rate was 11.57 per cent. This is almost 1
per cent q month on the face value of the
stock owned by men who say fire insur-
ance Is Improbable. Some insurance man
will answer this statement by saying that
not all Of the companies paid a dividend.
That IL true. Twenty companies out OF
ITO report no dividend paid for the year
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
RELIGIOUS.

The population of Polynesia at the pres
ent time Is said 70 be about 5000, or whom
$685. 500 are Christians. This is the result of
a single century OF work.
Bishop .Potter's many friends of the
Church club of New York are contem-
plating raising a fund to build a $4,000
The Phillips Brooks house. at Cambridge,
Mass. now has $50 cor, ributors, represent
ing not only the United States but Eng
land, France, Turkey, Japan, China and
South America.
A committee of American Roman Cath
ole archbishops has decided TO establish In
sular missions. This project has Deen
urged especially by the Pauiist Fathers.
Rev. DR.. J, S. b. Hodges, rector of st,
o~niciated at over 5000 services. celebrated
the holy eucharist 1900 times, baptized 1900
persons. confirmed over LOO and performed
$50 marriage ceremonies.
In Patrick and Henry counties of Vir-
gtnia, and In some other sections of the
state, there is a large class OF negro church
name is suggestive or the temper and
character OF the people.
Bishop Nichols GpiscopaD. OF San Fran
tive Of DR.. Clark, the presiding bishop OF
the Episcopal church, to receive, on April
she transfer OF the jnFisdieton OF the
copal church, and organize II as the mis-
sionary district OF Honolulu.
Booker W~ashington's test OF a gentle
man 10 MS treatment OF MS interiors, ana
he tells how he proved Edward Everett
Hale by this test. He was a young man
and a stranger in a northern city. As he
walked along the street. heavily burdened
with two heavy bags, he felt a hand
slipped under. his and one of the bags
taken from him.. The man who thus re-
lieved him he learned 10 know afterward
as DIR. Hale.
THE churches" says an advertising man
quoted In the Philadelphia Record. Seem
more and more inclined to taxi space in
the newspapers. Special services Of various
kinds are often quite generously adver-
ttsed on Saturdays, and In some cities,
notably Boston. the church advertise
ments occupy considerable space. and are
attractively set in display type. / dare
say we shall live to see the time when
the church will have its press agent, Just
as the theater has, when the religious
editor will gauge the volume of advance
notices by the amount OF advertising space
taken. and when the church critic will vie
with the ramati critic In dissecting the
logic OF a sermon and p~raising or con-
demning the eloquence and oratory OF the
preacher. Wait and see II / am not right"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
Sheridan of the Beers

The last attempt Of the British forces in
south Africa to surround and capture
General Delarey and his band OF burghers
Is admitted by General Kitchener to have
been fruitless. So, up to the present, the
rout OF Methuen's force and the capture OF
Methuen remains unavenged by British
arms.
A record Of the strategy and tactics Of j..
II. Delarey. the prosperous land owner and
leader OF the burghers Of Lichtenburg for
many years Of peace, would probably fur
nish the most valuable matter for scientific
students OF warfare that is to be found on
either side in the South African struggle.
But apart from a military genius that re-
calls the personality of some OF his ances-
trail ~compatriots in the first French repub-
lie, there is another side to Delarey as a
man.
when the Beers struck their first blow in
the western campaign by capturing the
British armored train on the Mafeking line
and occupying Vryburg, relates the New
York Sun, the Boer operations were directed
by Delarey. When vryburg, which lies out
in the fat wholly unsheltered and was an
easy capture, found itself without a con-
stituted government, the n~eutrals began to
help themselves freely to the household
furniture OF the British residents. who had
hurried south into Cape colony.
Delarey himself moved south with his
Lichtenburg commando, collecting burgh-
ers as he went, and held the railway south
OF Kimberly. But as soon as he learned
that proceedings which were not in accord
with his sense Of the art Of war had fol-
lowed the Boer occupation he ordered every
stick of property in Vryburg to be returned
to its rlghtful owner and at once set up a
municipal system which was found working
in perfect order eight months afterward,
when the overwhelming numbers and wide
spread disposition Of Lord Roberts
columns moving north necessitated a Boer
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

ton made at the Transmississippi exposi-
ton on September 8, 1898. when the records
made by the Omaha boys were eye-openers
to the companies from Kansas City, Denver.
Lincoln and other places. I hope Omaha
will always escape fires which place human
life in jeopardy. but should such q fire oc-
cur l am confident only a panic on the part
OF persons In danger, or some extraordinary
condition attending the fire, would pre-
vent our men from saving all persons with
the equipment We have. together with the
training in its use our men maintain"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

cent lOE the year
Why these twenty companies did not pay
a dividend does not appear on the surface.
1t certainly was not because their business
was Improbable. Their aggregate premium
income for the year 1901 was $5.O31, 06S. and
for 1900 it was S4,o13, 6S1, an increase for
1901 of S1,017,3 1897. During 1901 these COM
panies paid fire losses amounting to 49,
s57,539, and during 1900 they paid S2,Ss4, 21O,
SO that while the premium income increased
by more than a million dollars during the
year, their Ere losses were only 1889
greater in 1901 than in 1900. Their
total disbursements were but 1885,
332, or $3.50, 1856 less than the premium
income for the year, while their
total income was $5,557,95 or $677,-
619 greater than their total disburse-
ments. Only four of the these companies
make returns showing that their total dis
bursements exceeded their total income. In
the aggregate these four companies report
total income of s1,777,3 1927. and total dis
bursements Of 1874, 272. BY deducting
these from the whole 1t leaves for the six
teen a total income Of $3,7S0, 624. and total
disbursements OF 50, s66 $50. or a surplus Of
1914, 564, which amounts to a little more
than 10 per cent on the capital Of the entire
twenty. That the net surplus Of these
companies did not suffer any diminution
in the aggregate is shown by the fact that
on January /, 1901, they reported a net sur
plus amounting to 31,930.5 4S. while on
January 1, 1902, the figures were $2.31S, 793,
an increase OF 1888. 245. One company,
which reports its surplus for 1902 at $780,
1OS, did not report for 1901. Deduct this
and there is left an increase in the net
surplus Of the nineteen companies amount
ing to S15s, 1877. In order to fully appreciate
these figures the business of these twenty
companies which did not report dividends
paid for 1901, should be compared with the
porting.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

Again when General French struck round
to the east for the relief Of Kimberley. De-
larey was against Cronje's plan Of falling
back along the Modder, and the Lichten-
burg man got his commando away north TO
Boshof, taking with him the big gun that
had been turned against Methuen's camp at
the Modder for the previous two months.
He also got away the Boer siege guns out
side Kimberley and took them all up to his
new base without a casualty.
His habitually accurate reasoning led to
Delarey's being frequently taken away from
his western Transvaalers to devise positions
for other Boer leaders.
Since the British occupation of the rail-
way line and the stretching out Of the block
house system have made personal meetings
among Boer leaders more difficult he has
remained in the western Transvaal, OF
which-excepting the towns-he is still
practically master.
He is a humane, companionable ma not
at all cynical. otherwise his release Of Me-
thuen might have been accompanied by the
expression Of an earnest wish that they
might again meet soon in battle.
Before the war Delsrey was a leader
among the liberal Transvaalers and not on
very cordial terms with the Pretoria gov
eminent. He is an older man than Chris
tian Dewet or Louis Botha, is as deeply
religious as his Huguenot forbears and has
great personal influence among the country
Beers, who in the west of the Transvaal
include a large proportion Of men Of his
race.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
Some Further Figures from the
Reports of the Companies.

1922, 143, 40 on January 1, 1902, an increase
Of $50, 79S. $50 in ten years. During the
same time the net surplus Of these COM
panies expanded from S54, 702, 6S6 in 1892 to
$106 ,012, 267 in 1902, an increase OF $51, 309,-
5S1, or almost 100 per cent. Premium in
come grew from 1924, Os6, $50 to 1856, 292. 375,
an increase Of SAL, FOG, 025. Fire losses paid
during this time increased from SIS, 1884, 159
to SOC, 996, 1892, or but SIS, 662, 773. That is
to say, during the decade the tribute ex-
acted from the people grew at the average
rate of $4,120, 500 per year, while the
amount returned in payment Of losses in
creased at the rate Of only 1 1866, PIT, or
less than half as fast. For the ten years
the ratio of increase for the item Of
premium income is 1913 per cent, while
the ratio of increase for fire losses is but
23.S2 per cent, the collections exceeding
the payment of losses at an enormous and
steadily increasing rate. During these
same ten years the total disbursements Of
these 14s companies grew from $12S, 45O, 1853
to 1854, 403, 084, an increase of $35, 1852, 215,
while their total income increased from
S1SS, 30S, 024 to $177,5 29, 1856, q growth Of $44,-
221. Ill, or a net increase Of income over
all disbursements, Of $s,26S, 1896. As the
disbursements include an immense divI-
dend, as shown, ranging from s. ,474,473 in
1892 to Sc, 1908, 1852 in 1901, the yearly sum
to be carried over seems reasonable
enough. 1t will be noted that while the
annual disbursements increased by $685. $751;
215 during the decade, the losses paid only
show an increase Of SIS, $50. 773, and the
amount paid in dividends grew only 1884,
2SS. This leaves {16,4 ass ,153 OF the increase
in disbursements to be covered by hat
blanket item, Underwriting expenses"
The increase in surplus comes from the
excess Of income over expenditures. It
amounts to almost 100 per cent in ten
years. Yet rates have been advanced for
1902 because the business Of fire insurance
in the United States is not profitable. One
Of the companies, the Aetna of Hartford,
paid a dividend of 500, 900 on a capital of
$4,000, 900, or IT'S per cent for 1901, and in
creased its surplus by over $500, 900 during
that time. Another, the National Union
of Pittsburg. collected 1912, 800 in premiums
and paid SIS, $40 in losses during 1901. Its
total income was 1929, ia, and its total
disbursements sos, 212, leaving an excess
of income of $119, 9O2. sufficient to pay 1884, 50
per cent on its capital stock of $500, 900.
1t reports no dividends paid.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

grow. Motncts
who s Doctor
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, 7 e
generally healthy
and happy, and
have healthy,
happy children.
UFavorite Pre-
seription N" pre-
vents nausea,
soothes the nerves,
promotes the APP
petite and causes
sleep to be sound
and refreshing. It
gives a great phys
Ical vigor and mus
eular elasticity 90
that the baby's ad-
vent Is practically
painless. II is the
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

movement back into the middle Transvaal.
The bank manager at vryburg told the
present writer after the British reoccupa-
tion that Delarey's system had worked like
a perfect model, and II does not appear that
there is a single outstanding private claim
OF any kind arising out Of his extemporized
government.
The last to leave vryburg when the Beers
came in we're the half dozen ~of1cials Of the
Bechuanaland Survey department. Delarey
conveyed them down with their families,
handing them over from commandant to
commandant. until they were set free to
take the train below Orange river. When
they were seen at Capetown none had any
words but those Of personal regard to say
Of him.
]. H.. Delarey-pronounce his name De
La Rey-is a medium-sized man Of slight
build. His head and features are large and
his complexion looks pale against his full
black beard.
He Ia not only a man of extraordinary
mentality, but he looks It, a natural math-
ematician and a man Of action. A quiet
manner, combined with extraordinarily
bright eyes, gives a sense Of power at the
first sight Of the man.
A correspondent who occupied the room
which had been his quarters before the fall
Of Bl~oemfontein was told that often De-
larey was b bed less than two hours in a
night. He was always personally seeing to
the carrying out Of his plans.
1t was he who overruled Piet Cronje when
the older man insisted on sticking to the
old style OF fighting, seeking the hillsides
and from improvised stone schanzes using
the purchase Of the higher positions to
throw back attackers, as had been success
fully done in the Kaflr wars. Delarey said:
mo; they will assume that We are on the
kopje. Let us go somewhere else"
He had his way at Magersfontein, when
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
--7
Mrs. Fred Wrath
No. z26 Territorial Street,
Benton HARDER, Mich.

able to pass through pregnancy and child
birth with little suffering. After tbs
ordeal is passed the Wine prepares a wo-
man for q speedy recovery to health and
activity.
Mrs. O. R. Wooding, Of indianapolis,
Ind. says she gets through childbirth best
by using Wine of Cardui. She writes:
III have received great benefit from taking
Wine Of Cardui, while nursing my children.
I did not have Wine Of Casdui after the first
two children and was greatly reduced In
flesh. Bot the Last two times I have Used Il
with good results to myself and the little
oass. think II makes the babies healthier
for me to take II. seem to get through
ehildbirth better by Using 1t too"
With these facts that Mrs. Unrath and
Mrs. Wooding lay before the women Of
America no one who is about to become q
mother can afford to fail to take the Wine
of Cardui treatment. Wine of Cardui, in
reinforcing the organs of generation, has
made mothers of women who had given
up hope of ever becoming mothers. Wine
of Cardui will cure almost any ease Of bar
renness except those cases of organic trou-
bic which 10 doctor or medicine can pos
sibly cure. How can you refuse to take
such a remedy that promises such relief
from suffering ? Wine Of Cardui simply
makes you a strong woman, and strong,
healthy women do not suffer. They look
forward to motherhood with joy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

Little Ethel mas been taught to say grace
at meals. The other evening she looked
disgustedly at the table upon which all her
pet aversicns seemed to be spread. She
bowed her head and said scornfully: "For
pity sake! Amen"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
Characteristics and Ex
PLOTS of Gen. Delarey

he moved the Boer front line forward and
to the left into the long, low bank Of rough
fiat, away from the big hill. and thereby
trapped the Highlanders. How right he
was may be judged by the fact that Lord
Methuen poured iyddite all the previous
afternoon on the hillside. where It suisse
quently appeared there was nobody.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
Cough settIea on Her Lungs.

my daughter had a terrible cough which
settled on her lungs" says N. Jackson Of
III. w tried a great many
without relief. until We gave her
Foley's Honey and Tar. which cured her."
Refuse substitutes.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS.

Paw" said little Johnny Askit. what
does the poet mean by 'isnneled fools ?'?"
"The folks who take their fannels OF
before the first Of May, my son."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30

Tommy (aged 81 wonder what makes
our cat afraid Of mice?
Bessie (aged 5)-I guess it's cause she's
q lady cat.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
BAD BABIES

Are often only hungry babies. They CRY
and fret because they are ill-fed. The
healthy mother is sure to have good
babies; babies that COO and sleep and