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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25

He quotes government statistics TO show
that on the railroads. to "a given number
of passengers, there were twice as many
killed in 1905 as in 1895.
Europe is far In advance OF America
in protecting worknen from needless ac-
cdents both by legislation and by safety
appliances. The Association OF French In
dustrialists for the Prevention Of Acct
dents, by reason OF it's varied and beneh-
cent activities. was declared to ba Of pub
lie utility as long ago as 1887. There was
q General Exposition OF Accident Prcvcn-
ton IN Germany in 1889 Immediately after
it's close there was organized in Vienna a
Museum Of Security and Of Industrial
Hygiene.
There are now half a dozen such mu-
seums I'm Europe, one having been organ
ICED IN Paris last December. and formally
opened by the president OF the republic
Even backward Russia shames us by her
Museum Of Security at Moscow, Austria
has had a score OF expositions OF safety
appliances for the education OF the people
Governments and public-s3rited citl-
zcns have We'd with each Othcre I'm pro-
vlding funds for such institutions. Here
the greatest Of all industrial peoples has
attempted little by legislation and nothing
by organized effort
In view Of these facts. # Is not strange
that IN the Same industries GuilrOading
and mininE), Of given number of mon
employed We kill aud injure from two TO
nine times as many as they do I'm Europe
This industrial slaughter is utter, utter
wastc-wasted resources, wasted anguish
wasted life. Aud. although the greater part
OF this sacrifice is as needless as it Is use
less. It goes YEARLY on year after year
The price Of our selfish Indifference Is never
paid.
1T is wen TO end the barbarities Of war.
is It not time to place some limit 20 the
barharities Of peace7
Ito this end the American Institute OF
Social Service is 90 hold an exposition OF
safety devices az The American Museum Of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25
HOTEL CHANGES HANDS AGAIN
Cumberland bought by Frank n.
Parsons is sold 20 A. 3.
Mcconnell

The Cumberland hotel. which went on
record a few DAYS ago as having been
bought by Frank II. Parsons, has been sold
by Mr.. Parsons 10 \. h. Mcconnell, tho
cor sideration being named at $500. The
hotel Is a three-story building az the south
west corner of Fifteenth street and Capitol
avenue and is 50Nhil feet.
The sale 20 the Union Pacific Of the Ken
nard building. ~ the northwest corner OF
Fifteenth ana Dodge streets was recorded
Friday The price given is3ooJp.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25

The following births aAA deaths we're re-
ported to the Board OF Health during the
twenty-four hours ending Saturday noon:
Births-Willis Yates. $50 South Thirty
nue.. boy; Edward Crook. 22l3 Leavenworth.
boy
Dcaths-Orvin G. Vickruy, 1881 North FIJI
teenth avenue, q; George w Wareham
1917 Writ, s.; Herman Kountze. Forest Hiii
l3, Joseph DOelEer. Thirteenth and Doug.
las. s.; Martha Jane Jacox, Gothenburg, 81
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25

Cague Investment company. the option
being based on a valuation of $4,000
The Real Estate exchange is getting
busy again to see what can be done to
secure the extension Of water mains to
residence property J. w. Robbins, S. S.
Curtis, &C. 4. Heyden. L. A. Benson and
Alex Carlton were appointed n committee
to confer with the Omaha Water company,
the Water board and citizens, and report
on ways and means Of securing such ex-
tensions.
Among the other subjects taken up at
the last meeting of the exchange was
the bad condition of the citys streets. II
was agreed that the condition was due
to the opposition paving contractors have
displayed toward the city's repair plant.
They say the cement era is dawning. II
looks that way, judging from tile story
that cement is now being used as a ma
terial for shingles. A late number of
the Cement Era says:
The cement shingles are only slightly
heavier than slate and not much more
expensive than the best wood shingles, and
as they are practically indestructible they
are much cheaper in the end than any
other material including tile and slate.
These shingles are made in a great variety
or designs and are reinforced with metal
skeletons, which hold the cement together,
and terminate in loops at the edges for
mailing to the roof. They are practically
everlasting, as moisture, the cause Of
universal decay, is the chemical agent i'm
the process Of hardening cement and
when properly mixed and tempered the
cement shingles become harder and more
durable the more they are exposed to the
weather.
Wood, OF course, is abundant in Cali
fornia, and there are almost ineXhausti-
BILE deposits of slate, but for all that
cement roofing is growing in favor. That
material is cheaper than slate and thing
and vastly more enduring than wood
Though very little farm land is chang
ing hands in Nebraska, the sales that are
made show a doubling I'm value in the
last eight or ten years, and a steady and
constant increase at present. For in
stance, Charles Markham of Hall county,
last week, bought Fl. N. Converse's 100
acre farm, four miles north of Hastings,
paying $15,250, or little in excess Of 500
an acre. Mr.. Converse paid $4,000 for
the land a few years ago, and It was held
much higher then, of course, than it was
eight or ten years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25

ing in the case. consequently she will not
recognize the decree.
Her case here IL still pending and prob
ably will be heard some time next month,
As personal service was had on her hus-
band in that case IL will not come under
the rule laid down by the supreme court.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
FORGET YOURSELF.
No ONE Gan Grow While His
Thoughts Are SELF Conferred.

No One Can Grow While His
Thoughts Are se4f Conferred.
Forget yourself. You will never do
anything great until you 10 Self con
seriousness is disease with many.
No matter what they do, they can new
or get away from themselves, They
become warped upon the subject OF
self analysis, wondering how they
look, how they appear, what others
will think OF them and how they can
enhance their own interests. In other
words, every thought and every effort
seems to focus upon self; nothing radi-
ates from them.
No one can grow while his thoughts
are self centcred. The synpathies OF
the man who thinks only of himself
are soon dried up. Self consciousness
acts rs a paralysis TO all expansion,
strangles enlargement, kills aspiration,
cripples executive ability, The mind
which accompllshes things looks out,
not in: it is focused upon its object,
not upon itself.
The immortal acts have been uncon-
sciously performed. The greatest pray
ers have been the silent l0ngings, the
secret warnings Of the heart. not those
which have been delivered facing
critical audience. The daily desire IS
the perpetual prayer. the prayer that
Is heard and answered Success
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
THE DAILY JINGLE
JOHN o. JR.'s PLAN.

I dreamed thai all tie world was run
on John D. IRIS plan.
That every on poke naught but truth
unto his ifellow-man.
That TO one even thought OF telling
lic we know as white
Not even sucl a harmless lie as makes
our words polite
The milkman seemed 10 have a lot Of
trouble with his talk.
Bur finally he busted out. This isn't
milk it, chalk"
The grocer. when | asked about rho
eggs he sold. said: NO.
They are not fresh: these eggs were
laid about a year ago"
Tho meat man smiled a sorry smile.
and said This roast Is tough.
Besides the price you pay for it f.
more than twice enough"
The coal man and the coffee man. the
ice man-all the lot
With beaded brows Informed me that
I paid for what was not.
] met nv boom r'end. and he-alas,
The grevioas change!
He gael on me with eyes that lookel
a. though tn, light were
strange.
Ne rata Hello. an not glad 10 see
see you- face today.
'0u hc'hr- me v.u fslb too much. so
n'-- e. re M yCrr way"
nj then from 20 about arose a burst
IF angry Eaund.
The psop.e who 1xcaang d the truth
were fighting an around.
They did not pas Tho DE. An. no they
yelled: you tell the truth"
md tHen swung az each other and
were scraFpiue nail and tooth.
j. seemed they f1ueti end fought and
fought until there heayed IN
view
A band Of men who yelled al me.
You've told some true thing.
too"
BTt iUst as thev reached ort f0r ue 2
cItd. llc 1y e-es
L0oked out in Joy once mo1e upOn this
glad cid -orid Ct lies.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
STATE LOTTE RiES.
They Were Once Very Common aud
Very Popular In Europe.

Lotteries were common in eAicient
Rome, ana during the middle ages lot
ferries were utilized hy the Italian mer.
chants for The disposal Of their goods.
Some Of the Italian states then adopted
tho lottery as u means of raising reve-
nue.. and the institution OF state lot
terieS afterWard became very com.
mon aud very popular throughout Eu-
rope
The earliest English state lottery Of
which there IL any record was in 1868,
when 10000 chances were hala at 10
shillIngs each, the draNsss taking
place in the west door Of I'LL Paurs
cathedral
The prizes consisted Of articles Of
plate, and tic profits were employed
for the repair Of certain harbors early
III the reign Of queen Anne private lot
teries Were suppressed "as public nui-
sauces" but government lotteries, how
ever, were still maintained, and from
1900 10 1921 considerable sums were
annually raised il lotteries authorized
by acts of parliament.
The average yearly profit to the gov
eminent from 1893 to 1874 was over
f3io000 On the ground Of injury TO
public morals lotteries Of all kinds
were abolished In England in 1896
London Saturday Review
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
THE BEAUTIFUL HAND.
A Decision That stood the Test of
All Time


There was a dispute among three
ladies' as TO which had the ntnst beau
tIfnl hand. one sat by ~ stream anil
dipped her hand INTO tho water and
held 1t up, another pluckcd stIawbcr-
rles until The ends of her fingers We're
pink ana another gathered violets until
her hands were fragrant An old, bag
gard woman, passing by, asked, WHO
will give me Il gift, for am poor?" All
three denied her but another who sat
near, unwashed In the stream, I'M
stained with fruit, unadorned With
flowers. gave hor 4 little gift and salts
fed the poor woman, ANA Then she ask
ed them what was the dispute. ana
they told her and lifted up before her
their beautiful hands. Beautiful IN
deed said she when she saw them,
but when they asked her which was the
most beautiful she said, 1T Is not the
hand which Is washed clean in The
brook, ii IS not the hand that Is TIPPED
with red, 1t IL NOT the hand that Is gar
landed with fragrant flowers, but The
hand that gives TO the poor IL the most
beautiful" AS she said these words
her wrinkles fed, her staff was thrown
away and she stood before them an
angel from heaven, with authority to
decide the question in dispute and that
decision has stood The test Of all time.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
UGLY DISCLOSURES.

Z IN THE HAPGOOD CRIMINAL
I libel trial in New York in which
/ Town Topics figures conspicuously tht
| editor cf that publication testified tha
he had borrowed 100000 from a mum
Der Of rich men that many OF thesS
loans varying in size from IS, 400 up
TO 100000 had never been repaid, and
thai some of them were repaid in
stock Of the Town Topics company al
$1,000 share. whose par value was
$40 d share. 1t was also testified that
Town Topics received as much as
$500 fer a subscription TO "Fads and
Fances" from a man whose name
did not appear in the book at all.
Other testimony developed In the suit
looked equally as ugly for Town
Topics.
No intelligent person believes for a
moment thar the stock of Town
Topic had sne up in value from $40
10 $1,000. Does anybody believe that
New York financiers loaned that
scurrilous publication $4,000 to 500 900
a a time becaase they were personally
attached to the editor or because they
wanted 10 promote the interests OF the
thing, or as a business proposition?
Town Topics had many business trans
actions with New York and other
ananciers, and q number Of them held
the paper n mortal terror For years
Town Topics has been in the bnsine
OF attacking regulations, of mud sline-
ing in business and social circles. Rich
people and those who entertained high
social ambitions have been It's srec'al
targes. It went after those who had
/" ade reputation. and who were anx.
I us not 10 get separated from their
4 putaHo~s through tae publication CT
damaging gossip aad frequently scan
al. And as a result of attacks. ridi
cule threats and otherwise. Town
Topics managed TO make money
Aeents Of the concern attempted to
rich men BY agreeing to sup
press cera.n scaHdalou matter ralp3
mp about them in consideration Of So
much cash. Dozens Of wealthy men
and women, dozens of prominent
society people In New York, stood in
fear Of the paper. never knowing what
would be published about hem next.
And what a business for a publica- I
ion? Think of it! Is it surprising 1
hat one of the attorneys in the case /
hould have referred to Town Topics |
IS a venomous swamp of libels and an
assassin of character? Blackmailiug .
seems 10 have been reduced to a fine 4
irt in New York. Ii is very widely f.
,racticed. Cannot the laws Of that
tate suppress this most ubiquitous
Orm Of bribery?
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

c'adv--lia~e you end nick quar-
$50
-era'5a- Yes. 'ts al over be-
f- cen rs. 7 ret ~ nd bosr of nine
So other da- aud he said "Eauy
uu'rc ne prrt'y rs peach. a. you al
ways were" NOW. You know ] don't
blink I'm a beauty. but when I told
tn story TO d Ok ] thought he ought
70 how some appreciation Of 81. Hut
~ ne said was. Wei you look belu-
t'f-f 10 no anvvav.~ ar7 thai wa q
BE mar0 rrrn ] ~oeff .7nd.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
THINGS NOT TO EAT.
Among Them. According To - Med
zeal Man, Are Baked Beans.

Abolish soup from the dinner table,
eschew ten ami coffee, pass the baked
beans with silent contempt, beware the
genuine pancake. he not lurcd into
turning traitor to your stomach by
Americas common enemy, pie; be rran-
ouu and cheerful at mealtimes, even IL
you are nursing d chronic Crouch the
rest Of the time and never, never 80 TO
bed with your stomach filed
These are scattering fragments Of Il
thirty-two inch she'll Of advice fired be-
fore she Chicago Medical society by DR.
Edwin b rutcuf who lecturcd on
when to Eat What to Eat and How
to Eat
soup" declared the doctor, KS sn-
pcrfluous IN a substantial dinner menu.
So is tea and - is coffee and, in fact.
any moisture except that which h nat
urally contained III The foods Soup In
the form Of beef broth, without eggs.
cereals or vegetables. would starye a
dog 10 death ia ton days Beef tea
made from the solid extract sold for
the use OF inyalds IS a mere stimulant,
a non-nutitlous queer tasting temper
anee drink. Tea and cofice are not
foods, but stiEulants. They retard d.
gcation and often cause gastric cRtarrh,
Nervousness and Insomnia.
Beans, tie dried ana baked variety,
COOKED with salt pork. are banefnl
Transfers. soldiers and Boston intel
lcctuala subalst upon them TO some ex-
tent. Pass them by"-Chlcago Record
Herald
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

A Greek woman employed ia the
American hospital in Caesarea, Turkey,
was stirred by a revival. She straight
way asked leave TO visit a woman
whom she had injured and - whom she
had not spoken for ten years. When
she trrdged through the snow three or
four miles to ask her 'enemy's' for
giveness her relatives were sure she
had gone daft. bu the next day, when
fhe came hacl: to the hospital. she said,
we made peace. and the stone in my
heart j. gone"
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
TRICK WITH DoMlNoEs.


An interesting feat can he performed
with the dominocs, which the operator
announces as follows; II win lay The
domnoes In a line one beside another.
lying on their faces and making one
black line. Now viii go into the next
room, with my eyes as closely covered
as YOU may desire. In my absence you
may take from the line any number OF
dommoes you please provided you tcke
them from that end which Is now at
my right hand and place them at the
opposite end, 50 that, except for The
line IL just the same as before, On my
return, without unbIndaging my eyes.
i will tell you The number transported
from one end 10 the other viii do
more From the midst of these domi-
noes, or which Yau have changed the
position, | will draw one which, by the
addition Of its spots, will tell you OK
actIy the number which you took from
right 10 left. After they have made the
change count with your fingerS-f your
eyes are bandaged- the dominoes from
left to right as far as the thirteenth.
The spots on this thirteenth viii inya-
riably represent the number of dolni-
noes whose position has been altered.
But in forming The line originally You
must have arranged the first thirteen
dominoes, beginning al the left. 50 that |
The spots OH tae first form the number
l.. Of The second IL, Of the third 10, /
and so ON up 10 double blank for the
last and thirteenth. You plnce the 9TH I
er domnoes afterward in the order in
which they happen TO present them {
splNeSN
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
What The Mind See.

II cen always tell when people are
looking at me" said blind man I'm
deed, nearly all blind persons can tell
when people are looking At them. |
have always about me soft golden
glow Of light when people whom
like comic into my presence this glow
becomes paler. lovelier. When those /
dislike are about the glow Il darkened
and hcsmirched. can tell what kind
Of characters people have by the touch
OF their hands There Is individuality
in the touch. 4 mans touch shows me
whether he is alert or sluggish. cold
or passionate. kind or cruel"
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
An ADin7al Story For
Little Folks
NOT so BADLY MADE
AFTER ALL

One day the giraffe and the elephant
met on a plain by the side OF the river
Nile.
Il agree with YOU" said the giraffe
hotly. we were made to be perfect
sights Why, ia The name of goodness.
were we not made better looking:
can't for the life Of me see, Look at
my rubber neck. It's SO long and ugly
that feel uneasy whenever 90 out in
society Why. can't find place In all
Egypt where / can get n collar to tit
me, and even il | could | could not get
money enough together to pay for hay
ing il washed"
True. true" said the elephant sadly.
and just look what sight | am. It's
bad enough to be covered with hide
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
Tic nelcler Arteslan Wen.

The Belchef we'll in st, Louis is one
Of the famous artesi1n wells Of The
world. The boring Of 1t was begun in
the spring Of 1870 by William II. Bel
cher who had sugar refinery near The
river a few blocks north " whore the
Eads bridge now is After the eXpeldi-
ture OF $1,000 the well was in 1854
driven TO 4 depth Of 2.l99 feet, where Il
flow of sevcnty-tive gallons a minute
was struck. but the water proved to be
so lmpregnated with mineral matter
that il was unfit for use Ia the sugar
refinery, for which Mr. Belcher wanted
II. Ii is used now only for medicinal
purposes and for sanitary baths.-St
Louis Republlc.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

one Of the curlosities Of Brazil IS a
tree whose wood and bark contain so
much silica that they are used by pot
ters Both wood and bark are burned.
and the ashes are pulverized and mixed
IN equal proportions with clay. produc-
ing very superior ware. The tree
grows to height Of 100 feet. but does
not exceed foot ia diameter The
fresh bark cuts like sandstone. and
when dried l. brittle and hard
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

4 OrPss We WE'RE NOT MADE so BADLY"
Ike leather. all wrinkled and ugly.
without having to have a tail put on
my front end as well as my rear"
Il don't see" cried the elephant.
switching his proboscis angrily. why
they ever made us such frights"
But Just then it was dinner time. and
both were hungry.
Mr. Girane reached gracefully up
with bis long neck and took a mouthful
OF sweet palm fards
Couldn't have done that without
your DecE. said Mr. Elephant
Then be reached down and got
good wisp Of rich grass and put it into
lis littlc mouth.
Couldn't have done that without
your trunk said thr rifa fc.
True. said The elephant 7 guess
We weren't made 80 badly after ALL
Detroit formal -s.s.s...
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
SHEARS AND PASTE.
VIM he Had Kent II.

loan, said the venerable wife, In
looking over an old trunk of yours in
the attic This morning I found a piece
of cake. II was as hard as brick. and
NUT have been in that trunk a long
time.
u ha, been there over fifty years,
answered the equally venerable hus-
band It's a piece Of wedding cake.
Whose wedding?
Why have you kept it so long? Were
YOU afraid 10 cat &C?
Il refuse To answer, Maria.
Then they had their first quarrel in
half century.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

Lady X. had sent Parnell an invita-
ton to dinner. but Charles, who vas
very absrnimlnded with respect 70 So
clal functions and unconventional In
the extreme. had forgotten the right
dale Of The party he therefore turn
ell up q couple Of evenings afterward
an hour before the time Lady X,
glad - have him on any terms, did
not undcceiye him rs 10 his error. but
hastily sent of ,eyer1l notes explain
Ing the situation and asking some OF
her most Intimate friends - help her
IN her emergency. She also ordered a
hastily imIroyised dinner from a near
OF parnell
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

PUBIC interest in Mars IL being
revived again by the assertions Of
scientists and astronomers that the
reported canals on that planet are
real artificial water courses. and that
hence the planet must be inhabited.
Is there no way O. getting Poultney
Bigelow up on one or those for about
twenty-eight hours so that we could
have a reliable report in regard 10 the
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

THE delegates 10 tne Morocco con
ference are getting rested by adjourn
ing for the Sabbath The Moorish Sab
bath Is on Friday, the Jewish sabbath
on Saturday and the Christian Sab
bath on SUNDAY, and the Delegates
went to mosque. synagogue and
church.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

CHIEF ENGINTER STEVENS is
against the eight hour day on the 18th
mus. What the most of the employees
are complaining about seems TO be the
"a hours DAY
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
Not So nesourcerui as Most Girls.

Nell-Some Of our proverbs are SO
ridirnlors For instance. Where ig-
norance g bliss Belie-What's the
matter now Nell Why. YOU know.
Charlie gave M my engagement ring
last week. and I simply can't lind out
bow much it cost him Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

We are authorized to announce Dr..
f. J. Gauge Of Unity. as candidate
for reelection TO the office of County
Comm ssonsr of Alexander County
subject 10 the decision Of The Republi-
can Pr mary Election.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

ALGECIRAS need not expect to get
In The Portsmouth. n r., class. AT.
gecirns isn't playing anything like so
6le 4 game.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
Tse Right Name.

Officer. what Is this man charged
WITH"
"Caryin' concealed weapons. yer an
utr"
carrying WHAT"
"'Congealel weapons. Tie soaked
Murphy in tho eye wild a chunk av
ice. - icveiaid lender.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

IT Is coming just as we expected 1t
Is now held that Poultney Bigelow did
not answer some of the senate COM
questions because he could
not. No man should be forced into at
tempting to accomplish impossible
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

FROM the utter absence Of re
straint in Senator Tillman's remarks.
ono might enormously infer that there
we're no fourth-class postma stershiDF
N South Carolina
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26
December Circulation

The above is correct statement OF
the cl culation of the Cairo Bulletin
for the year, 1906
CLYDE SULLIVAN,
Business Manager.
Subs cribed and sworn to before me
this Sri day of January. 1906.
LEO j. KLER,
(seal. Notary Public.
My commission expires January 16,
1909.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-26

THE report that the Russian Vladi.
vostok squadron has been sunk at sea
by It's iorpedo escort sounds mighty
unreasonable. There is no precedent
In the past two years of the Russian
torpedo boats ever having sunk any
thing