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Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

The probability OF crOss-town lines has
much TO DO with the location Of new build
ings on streets where lines would be likely
TO go In the next few years and also on
the character Of buildings erected on these
streets. Just al present every man who
intends erecting buildings on Twenty
fourth street has some problems 20 figure
out with regard to these things
I'd o. and R 7. Hamilton have these
things TO think about in planning for their
$4,000 fat building At Twenty-fourth and
Farnam streets. Thorwsld. the old home
Of John NJ. Thurston at the northwest
intersection OF those streets. il 10 be moved
away and a fine fve-story fat building,
IN appearance much like The Hamilton
fats on the same block. is to be built
there.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

Carpenter Paper company's building at
Ninth and Harvey streets is as far as the
floor Of the fourth story. Interior work
is being done on the Rome hotel Work
men viii begin laying brick on the addi-
tional three stories Of the RAcine-Sattley
company's building as soon Rs the weather
gets warm
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

J. H. Dumont & Son report the follow
ing sales for last week: The home Of
S. &. Howell on Park avenue, to Oran z.
Knapp; two acres In Solomon's addition,
TO Robert wiklund a house at 251s
Blonde street and another, 1017 North
Thirty-fourth street (Bemis park, to Mrs.
Bette Schulz, for investment; 100 acres
in KimbRll county, belonging to an east
ern estate, TO q local speoulator.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

Perhaps the quickest work that has been
done in Omaha the last two years was on
the Nash warehouses for NJ. L. Smith q
Co.. both of which are under cover before
the time set in the contract. The roof is
partially laid on both, on one two months
before the time set and on one a month
early Two or three months will be re-
CURED to do the work on the interior.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

John A Gushing has bought from W. M
Anderson a ninety-acre farm three and
One-hslf miles south q South Omaha. pay
ing S15o an acre
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

D. c Patterson then explained hts rea-
SONS for thinking business would run south
on Sixteenth street and Sixteenth and How
ara would become the center. Alexander
Charlton told why the retail center was
bound TO work north on Sixteenth street
Each Of the speakers had his adhCre1ts.
and from the liveliness of the discussion
# seems doubtful that they will eve- agree
on the matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

The supply Of dwelling quarters for
coLOreo families has for years been limited
In Omaha. but a tendency to invest IN
such dwellings has developed lately and
houses will be more plentiful before the
year is out. The latest announcement Of
new quarters for oolored people mas been
made by NJ +. Martin. who will erect
three-story brick building at Twenty
fourth and Cunning streets. where ne mas
just bought q lot
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

Some argue that line on Twenty-fourth
street would inJure that street by scatter
ing stores and brick rooming houses among
the dwelling houses while at the same
time It would detract from the Importance
Of Sixteenth street Others argue that
clusters Of business houses would arise only
at the intersection Of cross-town lines with
the east and west lines, and Twenty-fourth
street would be greatly benefited by street
cars.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-24

Whether to place the building at the west
end Of the property, leaving broad ex-
pRnse Of lawn in front, or 10 place II along
Twenty-fourth street. that part Of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22
That Standard Oil Fine.

They haven't yet determined
how many trains it will take to
carry the $40, 100000 from the
Standard Oils Wall street vaults
to the Governments Treasury un-
less paid in silver. In such event
there would be required III flat
cars, with a capacity of $1,000
pounds.
1t would build FIVE frst-class
battleships or new subway for
New York.
1t would yield perpetual in
come of 1927 day.
1t would make Ola tons of silver
dollars, requiring 3o4 teams to
transport it.
1t would build 2,924 homes at
$4,000 each.
1t is the income for one year at
4 per cent. on 1881 900, 900.
1t is about per cent. of the
national debt OF 1906.
It's IS cents for every man,
woman and child in the whole
country.
1t would take 1880 street la
borers one year to work out the
amount,
1t is the annual revenue of Mex
leo
1t is nearly one-Ealf the capital
of the Bank of England.
1t is nearly one-half the number
of silver dollars in circulation.
1t is nearly 20 times the capital
stock of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, the corporation
fined.
1t is 4,7S3 times the annual SAL
airy of Judge Lands, who imposed
the fne.-Memphis News Seine
ter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22
Science and Safe cr.c%ina.

20 one who has seen Il modern safe,
with its smooth surface of hardened
steel, such as offers an impenetrable
front to the shot of a battleship, it
seems impossible that any burglar
could force it. and yet we read of
safes being cracked often enough. The
modern burglar has modern methods.
He uses thermite, which is gnited up
on the steel and burns it's way through,
or nitroglycerin, which is squirted in
to the crack of the door and exploded
by an electric spark.-New York Amer
lean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22

and certain methods, for the taxa
ton of all property, whethe of in
dlvldual or corporates, including
easements and incorporeal, as well
as corporeal property, to the end
that all the property of the state
may be fairly and adequately as
sessed, and the opportunities to
escape taxation or to embarrass
the state, county or city, as the
case may be, in the collection
thereof may, as far as possible, be
eliminated.
The Republicans of Maryland
heartily congratulate their fellow
Americans on the peace and re-
spect abroad, prosperity and hap
piness at home, which have been
the lot Of our common country,
during the wise, just, firm aud pa
triotic administration of Theodore
Roosevelt. They indorse with
out reserve, the statesmanlike po-
licies of our esteemed President,
and they record their firm belief
that the American people demand
and will choose as his successor
one who can be trusted without
misgivings to persevere in ais pol
icies and harvest their fruits in the
nations welfare.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22
Tbs Value of lime.

The hours of wise man are length
ened>by his ideas as those of a fool are
by his passions. The time of the one
is long because he does not know what
to do with it. So is that of the other,
because he distinguishes every moment
If it with useful or amusing thoughts.
rr, in other words, because the one is
always wishing it away and other is
always enjoying it. We all of US COM
plain of the shortness of time, saith
Seneca and yet have much more than
we know what to do with. Though we
seem grieved at the shortness of life in
general, we are wishing every period
of it at an end. The minor longs to be
of age, then to be man of business.
then to retire. Thus. although the
whole life is allowed by every one to
be short, the several divisions of it ap-
pear long and tedious.-Addison
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22
WANTED
AN APOLOGY.
BY Henry Abbott.
Copyright 1897, by May McKeon.
Copyright, 1897, by May McKeon.
BY Henry Abbott.

Gadsby Jones was peppery man of
about fifty years who lived in the vii
lage of HOrnsIale. 1t was we'll known
to all the inhabitants that he was pep
perry and carried a chip on his Shout
Ger, and they took good care not to stir
him up. In the village of Winston,
four miles away, there lived another
peppery man about the same age. His
name was Talbot, and he was so
touchy that he had to be handled with
gloves. These two peppery old men
had known each other by name for ten
years before they were introduced.
Mr.. Jones happened to be over at Win
ston one day, and while at the hotel
Mr. Talbot came in. They were rather
chary of each other for awhile, in
stinctively seeming danger, but when
that feeling had finally worn off a bit
the peppery Mr.. Jones remarked:
It's my opinion, from what 1 have
seen so far this season, that we are
going to have a plague of later bugs.
l shouldn't wonder if we lost the whole
crop"
We'll, l dunno replied the peppery
Mr. Talbot. In my opinion all the in
dications point TO a return of the grass
hoppers."
Il differ with you, sir
And l differ with you"
There isn't the slightest indication
Of grasshoppers."
Nor the slightest indication of later
bugs"
You seem, sir, to be conceited
man"
And l wouldn't guarantee that you
had an ounce Of brains"
Il demand an apology at once"
And | demand the same"
As neither would apologize, they sep
arated in a spirit of bitterness. As
they lived four miles from each other
and as they had managed to get along
fairly well for years without knowing
each other, their feelings would have
made no difference but for one thing
Gadsby Jones had a son twenty years
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22

GRASSHOPPERS YET.
old, and Mr.. Talbot had daughter
nineteen. The young people had met
and admired each other before the
meeting Of their fathers, and the fact
was dimly known TO their respective
parents. When Mr.. Talbot went home
from the hotel it was to say to his
daughter:
Ruth. are you acquainted with
young Jones of Hornsdale?'
why, yes. have met him. admit
ted Ruth, with blush.
Then don't meet him any more.
Hes horse thief"
why, father. how you talk"
THAT is to say, his father is the big
gest old fool in the state, and I'm sor-
ry now that l didn't call him liar.
If catch the son hanging around here
| shall kick him out in short order"
And Gadsby Jones returned to Horns
dale, getting madden every rod of the
way, to say to his son:
Homer, do you know a girl over at
Winston named Talbot"
|lalDOIi lalDOt!' muSeu the young
man as he tried to appear Indifferent.
Yes, sir, Talbot. Seems to me l
heard you say you took her to the cir
Gus"
"Oh, yes. Ruth Talbot"
We'll, you drop her like hot later.
met her father over there today, and
Of all the cantankerous old cusses l
ever ran up against he takes the cake.
He owes me an apology, and until he
makes it no son of mine can enter his
house"
The son and daughter could not look
npon the matter as the two fathers
did, and neither of them felt obliged
to obey the parental injunction. While
they did not openly defy It, they con-
tinued 10 meet at intervals. and ad-
miration and friendship finally ripened
into love. In this they were secretly
supported by Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Tai
bot. The two peppery old men, who
had lived for fifty years without know
ing each others existence, seemed
fated to meet at intervals after the
disagreement. Within a month both
found themselves at the same black
smith shop to have repairs made to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22
BOUNDARY CASE A DICKENS
RIVAL.
Boundary Dispute Between Maryland
and West Virginia Nearing End.

anu WSSb VIZ Bihid NcoTihS Emu
The boundary line dispute be-
tween Maryland and West Virginia
may soon be settled. The matter
has been in litigation many years
and it may be settled at Washing
ton, D. c., next month. The work
of taking dispositions at Kingwood
and Oakland, Md, has Just been
completed.
For more than I6 years this case
has been pending in the courts,
but the real dispute dates back to
the time when the Virginians
were divided, July 20, 1868. The
State of Maryland claims a GER
tain strip of land from Preston
county, east to Garrett county.
Maryland, embracing a strip SO
miles in length and a mile in
width.
The surveys of this land after
several postponements, were not
made until May of this year and
even at this time it is not fully
completed.
Mr.. F.. H. Sincell of Oakland
who is assisting William Sheppard
Bryan, Maryland's Attorney Cen
eral, has been i'll for some time,
and the final hearing Of witnesses,
whose dispositions were wanted,
was not taken until the last two
weeks.
The taking of dispositions is now
concluded, but both counsel re-
served the right take documentary
evidence between this date and
the 18TH of September next, at
which time the respective counsel
will meet in Washington, when
the evidence of maps and docu-
ments will be filled. and then ar
rangements will be entered into
for printing the records.
This is one Of the mos import
ant land suits ever tried in West
Virginia, and although the case
resembles the famous chancery
suit described by Dickens, of
Jaundice vs.. Jaundice there is a
possibility that it will be finally
settled before many months have
passed. Maryland 5 Attorney Cen
eral, William Sheppard Bryan, is
the son of one OF Maryland's great
est lawyers. He was named after
his father, who for more than 45
years was a leader at the Balti-
more bar and was afterwards made
one of the judges of the court of
appeals.
West Virginia is always ably
represented by counsel in the per-
son of Geo. L. Price and Clark W.
May, both we'll known constitu-
tional lawyers. The outcome of
their dispute will be watched by
thousands in many States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22
PRICE OF STAGE SUCCESS.
Many Stars Pay for Popularity with
Their Health.

Richard Mansfield, the great
star of the American stage, will
not be able, because of the inper-
feet condition of his health, to re-
sum acting for another year at
least. Annie Russell has gone to a
country place in Maine, where with
her husband, Oswald Yorke, she
will kill time till next December.
Her health has given way. Fritz
Scheff has returned to the stage
after an absence of longer duration
than would have been the case
had her health kept up. Olga
Nethersole has gone to Switzer-
land, there to recuperate from an
illness that almost laid her low.
Ethel Barrymore, whose last tour
has been interrupted several times
by illness, now announces that if
her health permits she hopes to be-
come a prima donna i'll opera in
stead of going on as an actress,
and she is told that she must take
the best possible care of her health.
True it is that the price that is
paid for success on the stage is a
high price.
The first places in the profess
ion are gained at the expense of
great physical and mental fatigue,
to say nothing o. the sacrifice of
comforts and conveniences.
Mental collapse has been the
price that some of the brightest
ornaments of the stage have
had to pay. Maurice Barrymore,
whose wit was as keen and flash.
ing as a rapier, yielded to death in
madhouse. Joseph Murphys
old compeer. Scanlon, whose act
ing i'll Irish plays brought him
fortune, went insane The strain
insanity that ran through the
great theatrical family Of Booth
caused the tragedy of the murder
of President Lincoln, aud it en-
FILTERED the entire life of Edwin
/ Booth.
But while the percentage OF the
actors who have gone mad has
been SO large as has been the per
Centage of those who have thrown
away the greatest chances that
have come to them to become great.
Edmund Kean, who by many
students of acting is called the
greatest actor that ever lived,
was followed all his life by the devil
of intemperance 1t was his in
temperance that wrought such
evils in the Kean household that
it become necessary for Charles
Kean, the youngest, to leave
school and become an actor that
he might support his mother,
Many actors since the days of
Kean have loved their bottle, and
many of these actors have fallen
by the wayside in consequence.
Now some of these players never
drank until they went upon the
stage. 1t is likely that they drank
afterward because of the exciting
and stimulating influences of the
playhouse, influences which al
ways are accompanied by and
placed in direct contrast with per-
iods Of depression and loss of hope.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-22
HuSt PASSES Merit.

Display will attract attention, but
merit must sell the goods.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-07-20
Obituary of James ]. Walsh.

James j. Walsh died July 8, 1907, at
Redlands, California, aged "A years, 5
months and one day.
He was born February 8, 1868, at
Ypsilanti, Michigan, and came to Gus
ter City in 1880. For a few years he
was engaged in freighting over the
plains. Ten or twelve years he spent
in the northern Hills working for the
Homestake Mining company at Lead
In 1895 he went to South Africa, where
he successfully carried on contract work
in the mines until the outbreak of the
Boer war when he and his wife, "nee
Alice Richardson" a Custer girl whom
he married in South Africa, had to flee
to Natal for safety. After the termina-
tion of the war he again returned to the
mines and operated for year or two,
when he was compelled to leave that
country on account of his failing health,
and with his wife he arrived in Custer
in July, 1905. The climate here gave
him no relief and he then tried Utah,
Nevada, and different parts of Califor-
mia, but his case became more aggrayat.
ed each day, and for the past year he
was entirely incapaciated for work.
Henry Monheim, who returned Sunday
from California, visited him at Redlands
about July first, and sent word from
there that the end was near, and his
family and friends here were prepared
for the news they received of his death
last week. His disease was what is COM
monty termed miners consumption"
His body was laid to rest in the beau.
tiful cemetery at Redlands. His wife
will make her home in San Diego, Cali
forpia.
Deceased leaves to mourn a loving,
faithful wife, kind old father, four sis.
ters and three brothers. He was men,
ber of Hope Lodge No so, A. o. U. W.,
of Lead in good standing.
Mr.. Walsh was man who was well
liked by those whom business or work
threw in his company. His death will
be regretted by many, and all Of those
who knew him will offer their heartiest
sympathies to his surviving relatives.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-07-20
NATIONAL FORESTS.
Such VIII be the New Name Of the Forest
Reserves oted Visitors


During the last few days, says the
Deadwood Telegram, there have been
two important visitors in the Hills, in
connection with the forest service-W.
Tuomey Of Yale university and w. II.
Bayer of the forestry bureau.
Mr.. Tuomey, who is in charge of the
School of Forestry at Yale university, is
here for the purpose of investigating the
various methods that have been used by
the forest service in planting open areas
with seeds. During the past two years
the rangers under the direction of the
head forester have tried broadcast SOW
ing on the snow, thus intimating the
method of nature. Another method
tried has been that of using corn plant
er modified for the purpose. Still an
other method is planting Seeding trees,
which have been raised in the nurseries
OF the reserve. MIR. Tuomey will spend
a considerable part of his time in and
around Roubaix looking over the results
that have been obtained there where all
three of the methods have been used
with yellow pine.
w. II. Won Bayer, the chief of the di-
vision of reconnaissance of the forest
reserve, is visiting various parts of the
reserve. The forest reserve authorities
in Washington are now considering the
question of substituting some other kind
of trees in tree planting besides pine.
The pine is subject to the ravages of
the bark beetle, and the authorities be.
lieve that other trees can be substituted
that are immune to the attacks of the
insect.
The forest reserve is no more, the
name having been changed to that Of
National Forests" The word reserve
has been found to give an incorrect i'm
preston and to be often confounded with |
Indian reserves.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-07-20
Clara Belle Receiver.

The appointment of receiver for the
Clara Belle Mining company has caused
considerable surprise among those who
are familiar with the financial condition
OF the company and the value of the
ground. The receiver was appointed
on the application of Mr. Coates, the
hardware man of Hill City, who had a
claim of 1920 against the company. The
stockh olders who have given expression
TO protest against the proceedings
must have been negligent in watching
oil the affairs of the corporation because
there was no opposition to the move
when the application was made.
There is an opinion prevalent, says
the Ploneer-Times that there is more
behind the move than the securing of
the claim of Coates. 1t is believed that
the Cleveland faction of stockholders
who are said to hold a controlling in
terest in the company are organizing a
move to absorb the entire stock issue
and that the receivership move is part
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-07-20
Agreement Between Packers and Com
mission Men at South Omaha.

mission men at SOutn Omana.
A. The Live Stock Exchange favors
more rigid ante-mortem inspection OF
all live stock. And at the time of sale
the buyer shall have the privilege of
finding and rejecting any she cattle that
appear to be in any way unhealthy or
suspects" Any animals thus rejected
by the buy ers, if sold to packers, are to
be tagged and numbered by the inspec-
tors employed aud taken by the buyers
subject to post mortem examination by
the government inspectors. If the buy
er and seller can not agree as to what
rightly constitutes suspects" the in
spector above mentioned is to decide.
The Exchange agrees at its own ex-
pense, to employ one or more compe-
tent inspectors, to be mutually agreed
upon, to have charge of tagging any she
cattle rejected as suspects at the time of
purchase.
B. All dairy cows, whether shipped
or driven in, and common native cows
known as Gamers, if sold to the pack
ers, are to be subject to post-mortem ex-
animation, the buyer and seller to deter
mine animals of this class at time of
sale. In case they cannot agree, it is to
be left to the inspector This agreement
does not in any way affect range cows,
the same to be bought as heretofore.
Purchasers agree to allow full market
price for hides and carcasses of con-
demned animals and to furnish satisfac-
tory evidence of post. t.mortem condem.
nation.
c. All parties interested will make
an appeal to the Governors of their res.
pective states and other proper parties
to cause such inspection laws to be pass.
ed, or en- forced, if already passed, as will
stamp ont tuberculosis, which is general
ly found in dairy cows, as it is the deci-
sion opinion that from beefstandpoint,
as well as milk standpoint, the dis
ease has increased, and no past inspec-
ton has been sufficiently rigid article of
food, beef and milk.
Effective July 10th, 1907.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-07-20

War, war wholesale or retail, war in
twenty-four hours, war in a week or war
in six months. Anyone who wants war
can get just the sort they require by
picking their newspaper to that end.
There are even some old fogy sheets de-
claring there will not be any war at all.
And probably they are just as far right
as any OF the rest. This is, of course,
war between Japan and the United
States-war talk is so rife that it is al
most necessary to mention the combat
ants. There probably will be war, but
it is not in sight, and when it comes the
voyage ofthe batteship squadron around
Cape Horn will have passed into history
and been half forgotten. A decade is
not week in the life of a nation, and
probably it will be decade before ia
pan thinks she is in position to fight
the United States. When she thinks
she is in that position, physically and
financially, the fight will come. The
provocation may be restaurant row in
San Francisco or our oppression of the
natives in the Sulu Archipelago. The
provocation does not matter much. 1t
will be found when it is wanted. But
for the present Japan knows she is not
IN condition to fight US, and We do not
want to fight Japan. There it can rest.
But those W no want paper war of any
sort can get 1t by subscribing to the right
sort of paper