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, 1906-08-24
THE CHAUFFEUR.

The chauffeur is a flying animal new
to our fauna. Its original habitat is
France, but it is hardy, adapts itself to
all climates, and multiplies rapidly, so
that 1t now abounds in most parts OF
the world,
Its habits are as yet undetermined.
1t flies by night as well as by day, low
toward the ground. 1t Ices not hiber-
nate, strictly speaking, although it
shows some preference for warm re-
gions.
Its reason for killing prey is still in
question. 1t does not feed upon its
prey, but since increase of speed in
flight accompanies each death, some
have supposed hat the chauffeur
draws vigor IN some way from the vic.
Tins.
The creature is difficult Of capture
and languishes in confinement, hence
lowners Of rare specimens pay largely
to protect them from the perils of cap
Iture.
No nest has yet been found nor any
Immature specimens. The chauffeur
first appears fullgrown and may be
taken in his haunt, the garage, about
which they settle in flocks Town
Topics.
, 1906-08-24
Were Her Friends.

The way of the society promoter is
hard. One who recently organized a
ball for some persons who thought
that her friends might be an addition
20 their own list, sent out the invita-
lions and left out n family that her
employer had sent in to her. The
hostess asked her a few days after
ward how it happened that these
James were omitted, and there were
traces of agitation in her manner
They are not people that anybody
now especially" answered the pro-
noter, "and they can't be of the least
good to you. So | just left them out
altogether"
Il know" answered the hostess, en-
deavoring to be as calm as possible.
at is quite true that they may not be
of any social advantage to us. But,
on the other hand, they have been
sor twenty years my most intimate
friends, and it is a little-just a little
embarrassing to me to have them
left out when l give a party"
"Oh, in hat CASE answered the
'ocial promoter with obvious contempt
.or any such blending of business and
sentiment, Il am perfectly willing to
send them invitations
, 1906-08-24

lpany would be practically forced to cut
its dividend. This would be a shrink
age of about "a per cent, That looks
very big, but 1t is almost exactly the
difference between the net earnings in
1903 and 1906. In the light of this fact
It cannot be considered by any means
an impossible contingency.
The Union Pacific is a magnificent
railway. In physical condition, in com
mand Of traffic centers, in growth of
tributary territory, in trafic-producing
Affiliations by land and sea It is second
to no railway in the west. 1t has a
wider scope than any other %transcon-
~tinental. Consequently, its business
must have a greater stability and con
~tinulty under all circumstances than
the traffic Of any purely granger rail-
way, or any transcontinental without
similar affiliations.
Mr.. Hartman has undoubtedly Gre
ated the most magnificent system of
the west. His belief that 1t can main
tain 10 per cent dividends is entitled to
respect. At any rate the company can
certainly continue TO pay 10 per cent as
long as the rate situation and business
conditions continue as they are.-Wall
Street Journal.
, 1906-08-24
UNION PACIFIC FINANCES.

The question of the hour is: How
long will the Union Pacific be able to
maintain a 10 per cent dividend on its
common stock?"
The payment of this dividend calls
for $40. 602,79O per anum. OF this
mount S7,S40,0O is to be divided out
of other income" and the remainder,
about S11, 760, 900, must be earned in
net by the Union Pacific Railroad com.
pany's lines.
There is here a very subtle distinc-
ton, Under the prevailing policy in
American railways, the Union Pacific
railroad would not be justified in pay,
ing out the whole, or nearly the whole,
of its net surplus after fixed charges in
dividends. There is nothing, however,
deserving of much criticism in the dis,
tribution of "other income to the
stockholders.
The "other income Of the Union Pa
cifc in 1906 amounted to $7.767,491, or
almost exactly 4 per cent on the stock
outstanding at the end of the year.
There is not the least doubt that in
1907 this will increase to $4,000, 900,
Everyone knows that the Union Pacific
investments during 1906 have been in
a transition state. There is no doubt
for instance. hat If the Union Pacific
sold its Great Northern at $500 it car
make more money out of that cash thar
the 7 per cent paid by Great
Northern. This IS particularly true, in
asmuch as the income account of I'm
ion Pacific does not contain a single
trace of the rights" worth sS5 pei
share, on Great Northern stock in 1906
This, of course, ignores the fact that
in 1907 Union Pacific will receive an
additional $4,000, 600 in dividends on its
$4,000, 600 of Southern Pacific com.
mon. The other income" in that year
may total s13, OOO, 900, or over C per
cent on the Union Pacific common.
If it be granted that the Union Pa.
cifc can co~nseryatively distribute S.,
100000 a year of other income" the
10 per cent dividend does not look so
extravagant. If this ''other income" is
eliminated from the 1906 report, the
surplus after preferred dividends would
be ST., 900. Including the better,
ments charge it would be about $40,
100000.
The 6 per cen dividend would call
for s11.706.000. 1t therefore appears
that the surplus from operations, af,
ter the common dividend, would De
about $4,000, 900.
If the net earnings OF the Union Pa
ciic should shrink $4,000, 900, the COM
, 1906-08-24
Mrs Mary Nmmick

Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, is fully quail
iedto give helpful advice to sick women.
Read Mrs. Dimmick's letters.
Her first letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
al have been a sufferer for the past eight
years with a trouble which first originated
from painful periods-the pains were e~xcruci-
ating, with Inflammation and liberation of the
female organs, The doctor says | must have
an operation or l cannot live. l do not want
to submit to an operation il ! can possibly
avoid it. Please help me.n-Mrs. Mary
Dimmick, Washington, D. c.
Her second letter:
Dear Mrs, Pinkham:-
You will remember my condition when /
last wrote you, and that the doctor said ]
must a an operation or / could not live.
] received your kind letter and followed yorr
advice very carefully and am now entirely
well. As my case was so serious it seems a
miracle that | am cured. know that l owe
not only my health but my life to Lydia E.
P1nkhamis Vegetable Compound and to your
advice l can walk miles without an ache or
a pain, and | wish every suffering woman
would read this letter and realize what you
can do for them.R-Mrs. Mary Dimmick, Seth
and East Capitol Streets, Washington, d. c.
How easy it was for Mrs Dimmick to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass,
and how little it cost her-a two-cent
stamp fet now valuable was the repfyi
AS Mrs. Dimmick says-itsaved her life.
Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands
of just such letters as the above, and
offers ailing women helpful advice
, 1906-08-24
BRITAIN is HOLLOW
THE RESULT OF CENTURIES OF
MINING.
Extensive Operations Under the
Earth's Surface Have Placed Many
Sections OF the Country in Peril
London Tubes" a Source of Dan
ger.

How many of the millions of inhabt
tants of this tight little island" real
lie that danger turks hidden and un,
suspected beneath many and apparent
ly firm and rigid city pavement, be
meath many a smiling green field. and
even beneath the back gardens which
they cultivate with SO much assiduity
and pride?
That may, perhaps, appear to be q
somewhat alarmist way of putting it.;
but it is, nevertheless. justified by
hard fact.
Britain is honeycombed in many dis
tricts to an extent which places the
lives of large sections of the popula-
ton In jeopardy.
Centuries of delving for coal and
salt in the bowels of the earth have, in
parts of South Yorkshire, Lancashire,
the Midlands, Cheshire and South
Wales, left nothing but a thlnnish
crust between the vault of heaven and
the cavernous depths below.
This has led to subsidences of the
earth, which have so recently as the
past month or two been attended with
loss of life and damage to property,
in the shape of %collapsing houses and
sinking, undulating streets.
Another source of danger is to be
found in the numberless disused wells
that have become covered up with a
slight caking of soil and a t~reacherous
growth of weeds, and which from time
to time claim un%suspecting victims.
But it is in congested towns and
cities that a new danger is confront
ing us. The rapid growth of popula-
ton and the necessity for obtaining
means of rapid transit have driven
man to employ his ingenuity in devils
ing methods of locomotion in the air
above and in the earth beneath.
London, to take the supreme exam.
pie, is being burrowed from end to
end with tubes" and underground
railways. 1t may be ~contended that
these tubes" are constructed at a
depth so great as to preclude all pos
sibility of danger; but already we
have seen in the case of the Central
London railway bitter complaints of
vibration and damage to property on
the part of people living in houses
Immediately above the tube"
This cause Of complaint and other
troubles still to be revealed will be
multiplied as tubes" increase in num-
Der.
A coal mining expert informed an
Express representative recently that
some $50, 000, 600 900 tons of coal re-
main to be extracted from the earth
in Great Britain, and that as the enor.
nous yearly extractions continue
earth cavities will have to be made
of such huge dimensions that an ex-
tensive system of underpinning must
be resorted to in order to make the
surface even tolerably safe for the
people.
A correspondent who occupies a cot
tage in Kent writes to the Express a
letter which relates a remarkable
story.
He says that he and his wife and
children were returning from a ram
BILE in the country when they noticed a
circular depression in the vegetable
patch close to the cottage. The earth
suddenly began to move, and the
mother, in deep anxiety, snatched her
| children away just in time to see the
earth sink and reveal a disused well,
which, when measured, showed a
depth of eighty feet.-London Ex-
| press.
, 1906-08-24
Pope Leo's Books.

In the private library Of the late
Pope there are hundreds of costly and
beautifully bound books which were
SEN to him by admirers in all civilized
countries and 1t has been decided to
remove to the Vatican library those
among them which are really valu'
able and to distribute the Others
among the various Catholic seminaries
and colleges in Rome.
, 1906-08-24
moon,s Influence ON Storms.

1t has been said that thunderstorms
are Influenced by the moon. Nearly
1000 observations collected by the
United States Weather Bureau show
a preponderance of 80 per cen in the
first half of the lunar month. The
greatest number of thunderstorms
come between the new moon and the
first quarter; the least number be
tween the full moon and the last quar-
ter. This is, perhaps, the only sat.
isfactory evidence that the weather is
at all influenced by the moo
, 1906-08-24


Rosewater of Nebraska has a hard
time making the people of his state
believe he is the right man for the I'm
tied States senate. He is a gifted edi-
tor and probably has a more minute
knowledge of the affairs of the nation
than any other man in his state. From
top to toe he is a bundle of energy and
he would make u valuable acquisition
to the upper house of congress. The
thing that has killed him is his ag-
~gressiveness. In season and out of sea-
son he has been assailing men of his
own party, N while his attacks have
possibly been just, at the same time
they have accumulated for him a great
many enemies who get even when
Rosewater wants a plum.
, 1906-08-24
Railroads at Home and Abroad.

Last year the railroads of Great
Britain and Ireland transported over
one billion passengers and only killed
25 and Injured 500. In America only
three-quarters of a billion passengers
were carried, but we killed 1000 and
injured $4,000. In medicine it Is i'm
possible to make comparisons because
there is no other remedy in the same
class with the famous Hostetter's Stom
ach Bitters. 1t has been first and fore
most for SO years, and its record OF
cures has been SO wonderful that we
doubt II anyone will ever be able to
make a better remedy to take its
place. Try 1t for poor appetite, insom-
mia, natulency, bloating, liver or kid
ney ills, dyspepsia, indigestion, cramps,
diarrhoea or malaria, fever and ague.
The genuine has our Private Stamp
over the neck of the bottle. Refuse
all others.
, 1906-08-24
Mexican Fairs.

Every city, town and village in Mex
leo has its annual fair, not like the
county fairs in the United States, but
several days given to pleasure, usual
ly in celebration of ONE religious
event, when it puts on its holiday at
tire, and all the people for miles
around congregate for business and
Measure.
, 1906-08-24
A Lyric from Sappho.

Well | found you in the twIlit garden.
laid a lovers hand upon your shoulder.
And we both were made aware OF Iovins
Past the reach of reason to unrayeI
DR. the much.desiring heart to follow.
There we heard the breath among the
grasses
And the gurgle of ~soft-running water
Well contented with the spacious star
light.
The cool winds touch and the deep blue
distance,
Till the dawn came In with golden san.
dals,
Bliss Carman In S~cribner's.
, 1906-08-24
Marks Tropic of Cancer.

The Mexican railroad has erected a
monument, with suitable inscription,
marking the point where the globe is
CROSSED by the Tropic of Cancer. The
monument is of wood twelve feet high
and twenty-four feet long. On the top
there are two arms pointing out the
two zones. 1t is situated on desert
ground a few miles south of Catoree.
, 1906-08-24

The announcement comes from the
north that Mr.. Gillette favors n state
depository law or something that will
give to the people the benefits derived
from the use Of the state funds. This
has also been MIR. Schnitger's attitude
for several years.
, 1906-08-24
Black Diamonds.

The only place where black dian
onds are found is in the Brazilian
province of Bahia. They are usually
found in river beds and are brought
up by divers. Others are obtained
by tunneling mountains. The largest
specimen ever secured was worth
500 OO.
, 1906-08-24
Layina Rails In Ecuador.

The American company which is
building the railway from Guayaquil.
Ecuador, to Quito. has opened the sta
ton at Guamote, at an elevation of TO-
900 feet, and 126 miles from Guaya-
quill. The most difficult part of he
work on the railroad has now been ac-
complished.
, 1906-08-24

Hon. Norris Brown, the gentleman
who has defeated Editor Rosewater for
the nomination for United States seua,
tor from Nebraska, looks a little like
Bryan. He is n large man, clean shaw
an and of prepossessing appearance.
, 1906-08-24
Sanctuary in Korea.

In Korea the rooms of a wife or
mother are the sanctuary of any man
who breaks the law. Unless for treas
on or for one other crime, he cannot
be forced to leave those rooms, and so
long as he remains under the protec-
ton of his wife's apartments he is Sc
cure from the officers of the law.
, 1906-08-24

The railroads are making no end of
trouble for those who usually ride on
passes. Just how f~ar-reaching the new
order of things is TO be no one at pres
ent appears to know, but every man
with a pasteboard Is hoping it will not
catch him, at least not yet.
, 1906-08-24

The cattlemen have been doing fair
ly we'll of late, Prices are good enough
to make for them a nice profit, They
are not so sorry now they are o in
the sheep business.
, 1906-08-24
To InocuIate Calves.

AS a protection against consump-
ton, it is proposed to %inoculate every
calf in Germany with specially pre-
pared tuberculosis bacilli, on the plan
of vaccination, in order that the ami
NAL may not contract tuberculosis
later.
, 1906-08-24
Intellectual Asphyxiation.

A food of dead print has smothered
the spoken word and people think
that they awaken their faculties by
reading when really they subject
themselves to a process of intellectual
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Daily News.
, 1906-08-24
Franoo.prussian War indemnity.

A milliard is a thousand millions, es
a milliard Of francs. This word be-
came familiar in English through the
payment by France to Germany, after
the close of the war Of 1901, OF an
indemnity of five milliards of francs
(about. $1,000, 600, 000).
, 1906-08-24

The harmonious name in which
the republicans of Albany county have
conducted their political affairs this
year is a credit to the party. There
has been no ~dissension whatever. The
primaries in the several precincts were
not largely attended for the simple rea-
son that there has been no contest.
, 1906-08-24
Platinum Finely Drawn.

Platinum has been drawn into wire
so fine that eighteen strands of Il
braided together could be drawn
through the hollow of a human hair.
, 1906-08-24
japanese workmen Tagged.

Japanese workmen are Obliged to
wear on their caps and backs an in
s~cription stating their business n
their employers name.
, 1906-08-24
Milan Is silk Center.

Until the last years of the last cen
fury Lyons was Europe's chief silk
market. Milan gradually ousted it
from the position, and in 1902 its re-
ceipts were 37h per cent larger than
those of Lyons.
, 1906-08-24
Sticks to Old Custom.

New Hampshire is one of the few
states that will follow the ancient Gus.
tom of having each spring a day of
fasting and prayer by proclamation
of the governor.
, 1906-08-24

Well, the republican candidate who
gets the fewest votes in the guberna-
torial contest "a run again four years
hence
, 1906-08-24
Golden Cross for Domestics.

There we're LA German domestic
servants last year who were awarded
the servants golden cross for having
lived forty years with one family.
Only one was found in Berlin.
, 1906-08-24
" OPEN LETTERS
IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOMEN
Mrs. Mary Dimmick of Washington tells
How Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Made Her Well.

1t is with great pleasure we publish
the following letters, as they convinc-
ingly prove the claim we have so many
times made in our columns that Mrs,
, 1906-08-24
HAYWOOD TROUT FLIES FOR
SALE AT HOLIDAYS.
pearls on California Coast.

The whole coast Of the Gulf of CAL
fornia abounds in pearls, and last
rear s350.u00 worth was harvested in
Lower California alone.
, 1906-08-24

If the dry farmers are storing all
the moisture that has been falling they
will have good crops next year
, 1906-08-24

Democratic candidates for state of
fees r keeping in the, background.
, 1906-08-24

The Republican Is the best advertis-
ing medium in the city and county for
1t reaches sill the people.
, 1906-08-24
New Jerseys Snuff Production.

New Jersey produced more snufr
than any other state last year. the
lotal being $3.50 1928 pounds, nearly
,ne-third of all that was used.
, 1906-08-24
Meiaht Of an Acre Of Earth.

A man turns 10000 spadefuls of
earth in digging an acre. and moves
In all a weight of $50 tons.
, 1906-08-24
It's loo sinnlhoant.

Tell q woman you now she has a
light at once.
, 1906-08-24
Might BE Dangerous Here.

A sign of politeness in Tibet on
meeting a person is to hold up the
dasped hand and stick out the tongue.
, 1906-08-24
oueeroess of Man.

Mar Is a queer and strange device,
No wonan Ger. denies It;
He growls all winter at the Ice
And In the summer buys it.
, 1906-08-24

The capital invested in Canada's
fishing industry is estimated at about
s11 500 600.
, 1906-08-24
Have You Your share7

1t takes nearly 100000 fair and 1885,
600 brown hairs to cover adequately
an ordinary head.
, 1906-08-24
Costly Hand-Spun Thead.

Hand-spun thread, used for the very
finest Brussels lace of all, costs some
times as much as $1,000 per pound.
, 1906-08-24

FOR line job printing leave orders at
rhe Republican office.
, 1906-08-24
JOHN H. SYMONS.
Attorney at Law, U. S. oOmulSsioneI

Land Filings and Final Proofs made any
place in the State.
Local Agent for Sale of Railroad Lots.
e4 ~Thornburgh Street. Laramie. Wyoming
, 1906-08-24

When in need of JOB printing or any.
, 1906-08-24

Daily Republican. so GEMS a month
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-03
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET
Wheat Firms at Last and Closes
higher.
VISIBLE MUCH SMALLER THAN EXPECTED
Cash Demand Not UrEent-Corn sellers
Turn Buyers on Large Decrease
I'm VIsibIe-Oats close
Firm.
OMAIIA. Anil 2. IN

OMAHA, April 2, 1900.
Ihe wheat market was quiet with May
showing little trmness and closing &C
nleher AT the start there was some SELL
ing out good undertone developed later.
Tue worlds shipments were small Much
larger decrease In visible came tnan eN-
ptcted and had beneficial enect on May,
Dut deferred futures dragged. Receipts were
Ia Be ana the cash demand did not improve.
tlne weather and accompanying pros
poets OF better movement caused early
weakness an corn. a big decrease In the
visible caused some OF the sellers to turn
buyers, and this, with the strength In
Wheat, hrmed the market Closing prices
oats were firm, May option closing a
higher, Demand was tair.
Wheat visible decreased $4,000 bushels,
corn decreased 2 2zl,O00 bushels and oats de-
creased 1,3S5,OOO bushels.
Urinary wheat receipts were 81 900 BUSH
els and shipments 1900 bushels, against
receipts last year of 1O6,O0O bushels and
shipments OF zl1,O 900 bushels. Corn receipts
were $4,000 bushels and shipments 5000
bushels, against receipts last year OF H3J, U0O
bushels and shipments of $4,000 bushels.
Clearances were 66OO0 bushels wheat, IA, 49S
barrels flour, $4,000 bushels corn, 2o1,WO
bushels oats.
Liverpool closed AGMd higher on wheat
and I'D higher ON corn.
WORLDS wheat shipments last week were
$4,000 bushels, against e.362, 900 bushels the
previous week and 9344,OO0 bushels last
year. Corn shipments were 2,340.O00 bushels,
against 3,e56OOO bushels the previous week
and $4,000 bushels last year
Local range OF options: