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Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Art of Taxidermy Neglected by Americans

German stag and of the roebnck, but Of
hundreds of heads and horns Of foreign
animals. Every American animal is rep
resented and to secure the specimens the
emperor has spent thousands of dollars
through me. His American collection alone
would put to shame the combined half
dozen biggest collections owned In this
country.
after a months inspection of the en-
peror's entire collection several years ago.
i estimated Its value at ne &9y I. 0Ooy 900.
And several Of the emperor's subjects
have collections almost as costly.
Fact is, the taxidermy business In this
country would about go into bankruptcy II
it were not for our mighty hunters and
fishers. They have lately begun to use
1t to back up their seemingly tall stories
Of experiences with rod and gun.
This is especially true of the fisherman.
When he catches a black bass weighing
eight pounds, he doesn't eat 1t, as was
formerly the custom; and thus destroy all
evidence Of veracity Of the story Of the big
catch tina he relates to his friends. In
stead he sends the black bass to a taxiderm-
list, who prepares it for preservation at
the rate of 81 a pound. And then. when
the fisherman has his story doubted by his
friends, all that he has to do to prove his
words is to lead his hearers up to the black
bass. mounted on an appropriate base.
1.-The freak horn collector also contributes
towards keeping the taxidermists in busl-
ness. The average American seems to
think that a pair Of horns Is not worth
owning unless IT is abnormal In some way.
II a bull moose has twisted its antiers into
some unnatural shape, we can dispose OF
them for two or three times the price we
ask for a perfect pair, which the expert
collector would rave over. Why, for one
pair Of exceedingly freakish moose horns /
received 81, GOO, or nearly double the money
1 got for one of the finest pairs Of moose
antlers I've ever seen. They had a spread
of sixty-eight inches and showed forty
three points. But freak collectors passed
them by without a second glance. and 1t
took me nearly five years to dispose of
them. The freak horns / sold In less than
two weeks after receipt. Indeed, 1 cannot
keep up with the demand for freak things,
"Of late years the mounting OF Florida
specimens has made considerable business
Alligators are brought up north in great
numbers by the wealthy. who have deyel-
oped the hobby OF scattering the hideoui
saurians in life-like attitudes about theil
mansions. For one New York millionaire
alone / stuffed a score OF aliigators las
year, and he wrote me lately that he wal
forwarding me six more specimens.
buffalo heads? No sale for them. TIL
only man who makes any one out 0
buffalo heads is the plaiRsman Wit ha
managed to secure several heads by hoo
or crook. He disposes Of them to the hun
tiers from east Of the Mississippi. who TAX
the trophies back home with them, Al
then call In their friends and say. Sc
what / killed on my hunting trip west Tn
guide told me I was a very lucky man
probably killed the last wild buffalo on th
plains
Eyes, the hunter prefers paying 5000 {
s 1000 for a head out west rather than $3g
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
CONTINUED from Fourth Page.)

OCOuJlnu60 from fOufIn fAko-l
ment Of these will be intended to be alb
solutely complete. covering every phase OF
the various subjects.
As an instance let us take corn. There
are scores OF species and varieties, includ-
ing the ordinary field corn. both flint and
dent, sweet corn and popcorn. Accurately
determined and properly labelled they
should be Of great interest and would serve
to settle many questions.
But add to such an exhibit Of the grain
an equally perfect one of the various corn
products including all the constituent parts
and their derivatives, and 1t Is quite i'm
possible to foresee the good that may be
done.
The products ana by-products of corn
are more numerous and varied than one
would dream, until after making something
Of a study Of the subject. They include a
good many things besides eornmeal. There
are, for instance, the animal foods and
other products of the stalk, including cellu-
lose, which Is now applied to so many uses.
From the grain come all the varied meal
and cereal foods, corn flour, starch, alco-
hol, glucose, etc.
Incidentally, It should not be forgotten
that alcohol may be and is made from corn
30 easily that but for the internal revenue
tax 1t could be sold about as cheap as gas
Oline, and used for heating and many other
purposes more economically than any known
fuel. A graphic illustration of this fact
would be interesting and should lead to
an awakening as to the necessity Of pro-
viding some way to make possible the gen.
eral use Of alcohol in the sciences and in
dustries without the payment Of revenue.
So far as is known no such exhibit of
corn has ever been attempted. This i'm
portant cereal has been introduced within
30 comparatively recent a tiIOe that much
less is generally known about 1t than of
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Cost of Clothes

Barring the inhabitants of the earth who
wear practically no clothes at all, the
costume OF the average Russian costs the
least. Ten rubles. or about $3.50, Will
elothe a male citizen of the ears realm,
while the romans costume will cost less
than 50.
n mans costume consists of coarse
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
An Exception

They say Shamrock is a Scotch boat"
'Hoot, mon, the Scotch wouldn't build
an Irish boat"
"Ah, wouldn't they7 They'd build any
thing for the price"
Except one thing"
What's that?"
"a cup inner."-Ceveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

has BOUS III EtIOhB % - SNSS
tion of heads and horns. Nor can q single
public institution in the United States
rightfully boast of a collection that will
compare favorably with even the third rate
collections in Europe.
For som reason or other the directors
OF museums do not seem to comprehend the
full geological value OF a good collection,
and hence they begrudge spending any
money to secure heads and horns of ami
mails that are rapidly becoming extinct. In
the twenty-five years i have been in bust.
ness 1 do not believe that 1 have sold
$25, 900 worth of goods to museums, and l
am the largest importer and dealer in my
line in America.
las for the millionaire, it seems to DO
almost an impossibility to awaken him to
the Importance of making a collection. He
will buy a head or two and a couple OF
dozen pairs of horns. and then he will be
satisfied. Maybe. during the course of
his lifetime, he spends as much as $1,000
with a taxidermist, and then again maybe
he doesn't.
81 attribute the American m~iliionaire's
neglect of the field OF taxidermy to his
hobby Of establishing game preserves. He
says to himself: Istead of having mere
horns and heads around me, I'll have the
real things-the live animals But he for
gets that he cannot have many of the most
noted animals of modern times in his pre-
serves. fer the simple reason that the few
specimens now alive cannot be obtained for
love nor money.
Take the Alpine ibex. for instance. The
king of Italy owns the only twenty now
alive, and to kill one OF them is lifelong
imprisonment. A millionaire could not Sc
cure one of these animals no matter how
much money he might offer for II, but he
could buy quite a few heads and horns at
prices ranging from SIS to $3.50. which. are
reasonable when you remember that the
Alpine ibex is extinct for all practical
purposes.
"As this is also true of many other ami
mals-not a few of which are Amerlcan-t
behoeTes American museums and American
men Of money to make before II is too late
collections that will give p-s.erlty an ample
idea of the animals Of the present day.
Inspiration along this line should be taken
from Europe, and especially from Germany
and France. Every nObleman and every
person OF wealth in those two countries
have collections costing thousands OF dol
lars each. A castle in Germany is not
considered habitabIe without its myriad
of heads and horns about the walls and as
for the hunting lodges they are filled
to overlooking with specimens Of taxidermy
'T believe / have seen all the most noted
collections in Europe and I know that it IL
no exaggeration to say that their COM
bined value at present market rates il
close on to $50, 000, 900.
ION his Hanoyerian preserve Emperor
william has What 1 consider the finest and
largest collection Of horns In the world
It consists not only OF specimens of th'
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
The Financier

They say Tn paying too much rent,
But really they don't know.
They make me laugh. / don't pay half
As much ent as l owe.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

light, 1903. by Allen v. Gillespie.)
UR TROUBLES" said a leading
taxidermist, ARE many, but our
chiefest is due to the fact that
not a single American millionaire
has gone in strong for q collee-
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ICE MANUFACTURING PLANT

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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
SOURCES AND ELIMINATION.

Nearly five years ago | took two
earnest men of intelligence to a room
in which was blackboard, and on
that blackboard we three tried to draw
an outline on the sources and elimina-
ton of trouble. One of the young
men copied the attempt and later lost
it. He tried to reproduce it from mem
ory. but never succeeded. | will give
it as near as | can with additions.
The sources of trouble are ignorance,
sickness, idleness, carelessness, dis
honesty, lack of training. laziness, In
competency, intemperance, misfor-
tune disobeying law, morbid curios-
ity. gluttony and an unbridled tongue.
The elimination of trouble is to come
about by education, physical culture,
industry, diligence, Righteousness, en-
ergy-growing, skill-acquiring, keeping
away from crowds, attending to your
own business while helping those who
are not able to return the compliment,
carefulness and forethought, good
shoes for your feet and healthful lit
erature for your head.
Please send me what you think
should be added to either of the above
lists, and as you look back to your
younger days, also give what you con
slider the primary sources OF desirable
forces? What part of your early life
has proven most useful later on?
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
WAITING FOR OPPORTUNITY.

Friday / called to see railroad
president but was put off till the next
day at IL a. m
On Saturday morning about 1870,
| started for a lunch room and found
1t did not open before IL o'clock BY
the time | reached another eating
place and had partly consumed, in
hurry, my buttered toast and cocoa,
the clock told me to go. Reaching
the presidents Office minute late /
was told that the president was busy
with a caller for a few minutes. Sit
ting down wrote while | waited
wrote to my parents in Pennsylvania
and made notes Cor my lunch hour
club talks | waited till | had only
time to reach my 1920 club thea
wrote a note for a secretary to hand
the president, saying ! would call
later. The man told me the president
was about to leave for a three months
| trip and asked me how much time
| wanted. | replied two minutes and IN
a minute got ii but did not use all .;
it. | had waited seventy minutes TO
talk seventy seconds AMI | believe il
| paid me to do It, las It ever paid you
to wait long for short opportunity
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
Knife and Fork Surgery.

Knife and fork surgery is the name
given by the students to a new meth
cd of Kocing. of Berlin. by which he
avoids the danger of communicating
wounds by putting his fingers in
them. The surgeon performs many
operations without even touching the
tissues, much as we eat our meals
by aid of forks and spoons. instead
of clawing our food. By practice
with suitably svised metal instru-
ments. which, of course, are capable
of complete sterilization, he has
found that he can get through very
many operations, including that for
appendicitis in the quiescent inter
val, without even touching the wound.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
ON NEGLECTED SUBJECTS.

Carl went south and made some
money, then came back to his old
village home, purchased a central
block of land, and this is what it was
and what he did to 1t.
A dramatic man, by buying several
houses and lots, secured the whole
block for his residence. He spent
a good deal of money on the place,
then abandoned it. When Carl Sc
cured the property it was wilder
ness of underground of an unlimited
variety. 1t had a good brick barn
and greenhouse, which had been rent
ed for a dwelling. Carl lived in that
while he tore down part of the big
wooden residence and improved the
place.
The best part of the residence was
sold and removed. With gang OF
men and horses he cut down trees.
dug up shrubbery and plowed the
X ground for grading and seeding.
At the end of year or so he had
up a modern house and was living
in it, One day while passing the place
with my father, | said to him that |
would like to clean up some subjects
the same as Carl had done to that
place Father replied that such a
thing would be possible.
There are so many good stories
about Carl in my memory that it is
d sign of brain gain on my part to
be able to stop here and use the above
one for what | intended it.
As another suggestion, please let
me say to you that together we might
go at some subject which is now in
| the dark and by union study let day
| light in on 1t.
While / have some subjects listed
! it might be better for you to think
! little and make the first move after
| this introduction.
What do you want to know which
you would be willing others should
| know?
| am willing to live in barn while
clearing up an overgrown subject anc
grading for improvements.
How can we prevent errors and mis-
takes mutually expensive to buyel
and seller, to employer and employe
to publisher and reader?
When science or commerce neglec
q live subject it falls into the hands
of the fakir and is perverted.
What is the subject on which yo'
would like to see unrecorded and un
classified useful information collecte'
and unbiased and impartial report
prepared?
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
al Found IL So"

Mccormick, ILL.,, Sept. 2S.-Miss
Ethel Bradshaw of this place has writ.
ten a letter, which is remarkable for
the character of the statements ii
contains. AS her letter will be read
with interest, and probably with profit
by many women, it has been thought
advisable to publish it in part. Among
other things Miss Bradshaw says
81 had Kidney Trouble with the
various unpleasant symptoms which
always come with that disease, and |
have found a cure. ! would strongly
advise all who may be suffering with
any form of Kidney Complaint to use
Dodd's Kidney Pills, remedy which
| have found to be entirely satisfac-
tory.
This remedy is within the reach of
all, and 1t is all that it is recon-
mended to be. found it SO, and there
fore feel it my duty to tell others
about it."
DR.. Dunaway of Benton, ILL.,, uses
Dodd's Kidney Pills in his regular
practice, and says they are the best
medicine for Kidney Troubles. He
claims they will cure Diabetes in
the last stages
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
May Be De soto's Helmet.

An interesting archaeological relic
has been discovered in an Indian
mound about twenty miles south OF
Paris, Tenn, in the shape of finely
carved metal helmet, supposed to be
Of pure silver, which weighs eighteen
pounds and is in excellent preserva-
ton. While many finds of crude
worked copper have occurred in many
prehistoric mounds and stone graves
of Tennessee, no object of silver or
high-class workmanship has been I'M
earthed. For this reason many hold
this to be relic of the early Span
ish explorers, probably lost by Her.
nando De Soto. the discoverer of the
Mississippi, in 1882. when he led an
expedition through this section to the
site OF the present city of Memphis.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
HIS GYMNASIUM,

One of my big friends decided he
needed some exercise, and he fixed up
a gymnasium in the garnet OF his
house. His wife wanted to know how
long he expected to use it, and he
gave a conservative estimate of one
month, as he remembered his unsnc-
cessful experiments in the past He
has confessed to me that three days
ended the last experiment. | said to
him, Suppose a man about my size
wanted to buy your outfit would you
sell? My theory was that II person
who is trying to tell others how to
keep we'll and gets sick in doing it,
could buy a gymnasium outfit from a
man who has used it three days and
then abandoned it, he might be slim
ulated to keep up the exercise until
he got some benefit. 1t is very easy
to get things to exercise with and 1t
is very difficult TO make use OF them
a few minutes every day. Had | the
time to go to a million men | think
| could get that many to confess to
the above truth. A big gymnasium
with good instructor, dust or no
dust is necessary for men who lack
self-control,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
Russian Women Doctors.

Nowhere is the woman doctor more
in evidence than in Russia. Among
the wild and scattered population of
this immense country there is an in
exhaustible field for women as doc.
tors and teachers and it is the knowl-
edge OF this fact which has disarmed
the opposition to their going through
universities. In 1897 Russia had 997
women doctors, and the number con.
stantly increases. In this profession
Russian women have made distin.
guished name. They have enormous
practices In the great towns. and are
largely employed by the municipali.
ties,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-11-12
THE aolL sLlNeER" MACHINE.

More than half of my life ago the
cashier of bank tapped on the win
dow as | was passing and motioned
me in. He was a stakeholder In
factory and offered me place | had
been seeking. That was Thursday
afternoon and the last day of high
school for me. The next morning at
seven O'Clock | stood by big chuck
as one of seventy workers. My cloth
ing was not suitable for any machine
and the chuck machine was the worst
one on clothing. The boys smiled and
predicted a change in my appearance
very soon. My work was to knurl the
head of the long screw which moves
the Jaw of a monkey wrench. In
those days the chuck had to be stop
ped and started for each screw; as
it started up the oil began to fly and
the faster the chuck revolved the
greater the penetrating power OF the
oil when 1t hit me. In order to do the
work | had to get in the way OF the
oil; | did the work but traced the oil
from my clothing to the chuck and
the screw which came to me loaded
with it. The oil was secured in the
thread cutting machine where
steady stream ran on the die; some
would have seen all this at first
glance without thinking, but did
not; | even studied the bearings as
the source of the trouble, before find
| ing it on the screws. When | did nnd
| the place of the trouble | put bunch
| of waste there and laid the screws OF
it before putting them in the chuck;
the waste drew the oil off and the
machine lost its name. The machine
lost it's name because | was dissatis
fed with conditions. began tracing
the trouble and found the remedy
When former workman at tina
chuck visited the factory and asked
where oil had gone to, on being toit
the plan he opened his eyes and salt
nothing. He may have been thinkin!
about the amount of oil he had takel
home on his clothing There are botl
big and little opportunities in ever.
shop and factory for better method
and originality, mutually useful to EN-
ployer and employe.