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Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

Azw---z~ n THE opinion of the Locomo-
IE,N two Engineer there is no i'm
fXE mediate danger of the steam
S&41@$ locomotive being consigned to
AI9W4DU tie ccrap pile. Discussing the
- relative merits of steam and
electric traction on railroads, the editor
says:
Steam locomotives are self-contained
units and are not dependent on a central
station for their power. If one OF them
breaks down so that It cannot be tempo.
rarily repaired another can be substituted
without ~dlsorganiEing traffic. The electric
locomotive is also a unit which, IL tempo
rarily doranged, can be sidetracked and a
substitute provided. Both are thus far on
an equal footing.
The electric locomotive, however, being
dependent on a central station, has the dis
advantage Of possible disablemont by a
failure at the power house, in which case
a whole section OF the line becomes in
operative. This contingency Is no doubt
remote, but it exists. There is another
and even more important factor in the
problem, and that is the commercial value
OF the steam when compared with the cleo
trio locomotive. In this as I'm many other
things circumstances alter cases, and the
successful and economical installation OF
electric traction on one road does not
necessarily imply that its adoption would
prove equally remunerative on another and
differently conditioned railway. SO widely
do conditions vary that there are undoubt-
eddy cases where the adoption of electricity
Is the wiser course to pursue. even If the
financial aspect OF the case may not seem
TO warrant it, Operating dense traffic
through tunnels or In crowded cities il a
case In point, and at terminals where
electric current can be used for other pur-
poses as we'll as for moving trains Is
another case in point. The several particu-
lar cases, however, where electricity may
be found advantageous do not constitute
a basis for concluding that electricity is
always the better of the two, nor do they
lend sanction to the idea that steam pro-
pulsion, even IL more economical from a
monetary standpoint, is necessarily always
the best. The question of steam against
electricity is very much like a case In law
which has TO be tried upon its merits in
court There may be precedents and there
may be authority for this view or that, bul
the case stands or falls in the end Ivy
reason OF its own inherent merits or IT.
own inherent defects. judged by them.
selves and without depending upon how
other seemingly similar cases AVE beer
decided.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
A BncheIor's ReaeetIons.

A woman prays 70 get into heaven, but
she fights 10 get into society.
The more you tell a girl you love her the
still more she thinks you ought 20 II you
really do.
Most people are SO satisfied with their
morality that they so 10 church chiefly to
show Il off.
It's awful hard for a girl 10 he a Chris
tain and have a cold that makes her nose
red al the same time.
The reason a woman believes a man when
he tells her how pretty she looks Is she
Knows II wouldn't be true II he said II to
somebody else she Is Jealous oL-NeW York
Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
Prize Tan Man to Wed.

A man applied for a marriage license at
the Independence CMo.) office OF the county
recorder. w. C. Perry. the chief deputy.
had an experience then that travellers in
California are said to have when for the
first time they view the big trees Of
Calaveras county He had to raise his eyes
three different times before they finally
rested on the face OF the applicant for
matrlmony. r. l.. Bennett was his name.
He said he was 80 years old and lived at
lOl1 Penn street, this city. He did not give
his height, but Mr.. Perry said he was about
six feet eight inches tall. He was given a
license TO marry Miss Emma Leona shrank,
who lives in the country near Kansas City.
Bennett said a prize was recently awarded
to him for being the tallest man at the
Independence fair.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
Merry widow WEEDS Again.

Released from the bonds OF matrimony
less than a week. Ethel Jackson thinner
man. the Merry Widow" Of the opera OF
that name, again risked the sea OF mstri-
mony. when she was married 20 Benond
Lockwood, Jr., an attorney OF New York,
at the home of Henry Wharton. brother
in-law Of the bridegroom, in Chestnut Hill,
Pa. This also makes Mr.. Lockwood's sec
ond venture in the matrimonial field, his
wife having been granted a divorce by tho
supreme court Of New York OF September
s last.
When Mr.. Lockwood applied for the
necessary license at the marriage license
bureau he said he was born In Winning
ton. Del. forty years ago, and he resided
at sh East Thirty-third street, New York
City. Mrs. Zimmerman. he said, had no
occupation. aud lived at 50 West Forty
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
Bridegroom 90. Bride 1s.

Miss Virgle Embrey. the pretty ls-year-
old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William En-
brey OF Mountville. Loudoun county, Vir-
ginia, left home supposedly TO attend Sun
day school. Instead she became the bride
OF Clinton Tinsman, a widower Of 90 years.
who Is the father OF eight children.
Miss Embrey met Tinsman at the church.
The two drove to Purcellville, where they
took a train for Washington. They spent
the night with relatives there and went 10
Rockville, Ind, where they were married.
Tinsman IL said 10 be a man Of means
He had been paying court 10 Miss Embrey
for some time. but because Of the differ
ence in the ages the young woman's parents
frowned upon the match. Hence the elops-
ment.
The couple were accompanied by the
bridegroom's son-in-law and several Wash
ington friends. the little party leaving for
Washington Immediately after the cere-
mony.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
Combination, of Phone Companies.

Toll lines of Independent telephone COM
panies in all parts Of the United States,
reports the Minneapolis Journal, are ITO be
united in an immense long distance tele-
phone system which will cover the country
from coast to coast. The Tri-State Tele-
phone company OF Minneapolis will be a
part of the system, which those interested
insist is to be in no sense a telephone
trust" or combination.
The extension of the system TO the north
west will be merely a part OF a plan which
has been forming for some time and which
has become a reality in the east where a
company with a capitalization OF 5000, 900. 900
has been formed for the purpose OF connect
ing the toll lines of independent companies
operating between Kansas City on the west
and Mobile in the south.
E II. Moulton, president of the Tri-
State company, said that a union OF the
companies in toll line connection was a
certainty in the near future. The plan
contemplates the formation OF a company
which shall connect the toll lines OF the
independent companies from coast to
coast" said Mr., Moulton. The company
will be in no sense a trust or combination
as each independent company will retain
it's own personality and the scheme will
only extend to a toll line connection for
the purpose of long distance telephoning.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
rIeetr,e On ths Fa.hIon.

To demonstrate In a practical manner the
advantages OF the electric carriage for use
on busy streets where the traffic in eon-
ssstsd and for work In which many stops
are required, such as a lady's shopping trip
Manager r. w. Daniels Of the ssudeoaker
branch IN Boston. assisted by y. l. Estey
OF the Studeoaker company, conducted =
novel test Two studeoaker cars. one an
electric and the other a gasoline toursr,
were started az the same time from the
studebaksr branch on Boyiston street,
They were to cover a predetermined route
Of about ten miles over many OF the down
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
business in south Africa.

Cape Town is largely the business capt.
tai of South Africa. 1t has the head
quarters Of all the big banks and Of the
chief exporting and importing firms. Alder
ley street, the principal t~horoughfare, is
lined with big business blocks, and there
is q wholesale section which has many
fine buildings.
During my stay here ] have had talks
with some Of the leading financiers as to
the financial coH64Ions of this part of
the world. Business is still bad and II
has been so since the Boer war. The re-
cent panic and depression in the United
States have seriously affected the diamond
mines and have led to the discharge Of
thousands of hands. There are many other
men out of employment and not a few
of the business men are mortgaged up to
their eyes.
1t seems % me that times cannot but
continue bad IN South Africa for a good
whiie 10 come. Just before the war the
conditions were excellent, and during it
prosperity reigned. The people here are
naturally as optimistic as we are and
they have all the push and energy Of a
people developing a new country. When
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

West Philadelphia. She was married to J.
Fred Zimmerman. jr.. of Philadelphia, sew
eral years ago, and received a divorce in
the New York supreme court October q.
Saved Life. Won Bride.
Some ~poet-or was he a philosopher
said that love likes the unusual. And here
is just another proof of it, for Chauncey
s. Hager. president Of the West Over
brook Tennis club, and an all round ath-
lete, and Miss Mabel Swanson OF l547 Robin~v
son street, West Philadelphia, have an '
nounced to their friends that they are man
and wife. More than this, they have been
married several months, while their friends
were in ignorance Of the fact.
Now It happened in this way, relates the
Philadelphia Ledger. Mr.. Hager was spend
ing his vacation at Somers Point So was
Miss Swanson. Both were the best swim
mers of all the throng Of bathers which
went down every day into the bay to play
in the waves. And each being a champion,
naturally 1t was not long before they be-
came acquainted.
Many was the friendly contests they held
In the water until old salts and summer
girls alike talked of their prowess, Now
Somers Point is separated from Ocean
City by the Great Egg Harbor bay, four
miles Wlde, ana fufrOWed at one stretcn
by the sweep Of the current as II rounds
Beasley's Point, bound inland. The folk
along the seashore looked at Ocean City
across the bay and then at the two swim
mers sporting in the water. Could thoy
do it2
The challenge was passed. and. accom-
panied by a launch to help in case Of
trouble, the two started on their long
swim. Al first the waves parted easily be-
fore them and their 1.-the limbs struck
out in unison. hen they met the strong
current sweeping on its way from Beas-
ley's Point. Miss Swanson found the
waves rougher. Swimming became an
effort, then an impossibiity, Hager, by
her side. noticed her exhaustion and called
to the launch.
But-perhaps It was only a within of
the little blind god of love-the engine Of
the launch would not work. Hager real
lied the danger for Miss Swanson and
telling her to rest her hands on his
shoulders began swimming for a place
where the quietness OF the water told him
there was a sandbar. All but exhausted,
he reached it with his burden. The water
was only shoulder high and the two rested
there until the launch was able to reach
them.
And then they were married-just two
days after their adventure.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

50O,0 900 horses and mules. The farmers tell
me that there is some money in horse rails
ing, as the country does not raise enough
for its own needs. The market price OF
draft horses is now 500 and upward.
The chief stock now grown here are
sheep and goats. The climate and feed
make excellent wool, and the mohair is
especially good. The country is now ex-
porting something like 100000 worth. of
wool annually, and its mohair brings the
highest prices. / am told that there are
100000 Angora goats in the colony. and
that good ones are now selling for upward
of IS apiece.
As to the sheep, they remind me Of those
of Australia. They are Merinos, which
were brought here centuries ago from
Spain and which formed the start Of the
Australian stock. There IL also a COM
mon cape sheep which thrives we'll. The
farms are largely in the Karoo. The sheep
are usually kept in large flocks. single
farmers having as many as 10000 each.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
a Good stock Country.


ROMANCE, beginning indirectly
with the failure OF the Calmon
bank at Clinton, Mo, in 1903,
will result soon in the marriage
of Miss BERTHE Stephens, daugh-
ter OF a Clinton real estate
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

How shall / describe 1T
| II is the biggest city Of South
IEIkYKI Africa, and It has nothing in
~ common with this savage black
continent. It's buildings and its people are
all European. The town is as bright as a
button and as clean as a pin. 1t lies right
on the Atlantic. washing its feet In Table
bay. Behind and above it rise the two
mighty rocky formations known as Table
mountain end the Lions Head. They arc
bedded in green and they shut out the half
desert lands which fade away into the
great Katoo, farther north.
Table Mountain.
Table mountain lie rightly so called. II
is a mighty block Of rock which rises al
most straight W behind the town to a
height Of more than sixe times that of the
Washington monument, cutting the sky
line with a Jagged horizontal front two
miles in length. II you would take one
OF the highest OF our Allegheny mountains,
slice Of It's top 30 that It looks like a table
and plant It down behind Boston you might
have about the effect that Table mountain
has at the city Of the cape. The noun
tain sides would need to be cut so as to be
almost precipitous, and its top should be as
regular as though the gods Of nature had
smoothed It off with a knife. Standing in
Boston there would be times when the
whole great Table rock would be clear and
clean cut. At other times II would be lest
in the mist, and again low, overhanging
clouds would rest upon It and fall down
over the sides like a tablecloth.
Table mountain Is $500 feet high. One
side Of II is such that it can be climbed
in three hours, and in that space Of time
you can reach one OF the finest views in
the world. The mighty southern ocean
stretches beyond you at the front and on
the right and the left. You can almost
follow with your eye the course of Bar
tholomew Disz when he discovered the Cape
Of Good Hope. That was six years before
Columbus started out to find the new world,
and the ocean below us was then so rough
that he named that point the Cape Of
storms. II was along the same track that
Vasco da CANA went on around the CONT
nent to India a few years later, skirting
Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of
the African continent, which lies down there
a little off to the left.
Capetown is just under you, so close
that you can toss a rock into It's streets,
and beyond it is Table bay, the great port
of entry for the whole of South Africa.
Diaz and Da CANA had ships Of less than
100 tons. tho mighty steamers which are
floating down there at the wharf each
run high into the thousands Of tons and
more than 1900 Of them leave and call
every year. Ships with a tonnage aggre-
eating more than 100000 went In and out
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

CAPE TOWN AND TABLE BAY.
which the cattle. goats and sheep feed. 1t
is dry and healthy and is fitted for stock
raising. Still further south about the Cape
and west of here back Of the ocean is a
large area devoted not only to stock but to
grain and fruit raising. Back of the Cape
of Good Hope are large vineyards, which
produce something like 100000 gallons of
and 1900 900 gallons of brandy every
year. They raise peaches, apricots, apples
and pears and ship fruit in cold storage to
London and the United states.
A Good stock Country.
A great part of Cape Colony is well
grassed and there is considerable stock
farming. The average ranch contains about
5000 acres and upward. land of that kind
selling for So or SO per acre. The grass is
thin and It is estimated that every head
of cattle will need from ten to twenty
acres. In the Karoo even more land will
be required.
At present the colony has about IL, 100000
sheep, 100000 goats, 100000 cattle and
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
The Farms of the Cane.

In coming here from the Transvaal / rode
for a day through the Orange River Col
ony, and from there across Cape Colony to
the Cape of Good Hope. The land Is all
high and dry and the most Of it has a
climate in which a white man can work.
The Orange River Colony is about as big
as the state of New York, and its popula-
ton of whites is not half as large as that
of Buffalo. The country is mostly a grassy
plain, fading out here and there into des-
ert. Considerable stock is graEed near the
railway. / saw droves of cattle, a few
sheep and now and then a herd of An
CORA goats. Most of the territory has been
practically inaccessible until within the last
ten years.
As to Cape Colony, its northern portion is
of much the same nature. The land drops
in mighty steps known as the Karoos. The
upper Karoo at the north ranges in altitude
from 5000 to 5000 feet. II is almost a desert
and drouths are frequent. Below this is
what is known as the Great Karoo, consist
ing of rolling plains rising gradually to a
height OF about 1900 feet. This country is
covered with a sort Of a sheep bush, upon
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

When 1t is remembered that South Africa
is largely a desert and that It has, all told.
only about 100000 white people, the won
der is that it can support such banks at
all. II seems to me that business Of ell
kinds is much overdone. The steamship
lines are too many. the railroads too ex-
pensive and the cities too big for the pop
ulations. This is especially so considering
that the products OF these 900, 900 whit s are
almost altogether owned in Europe, and the
profits Of their labor are spent there. The
diamond mines and gold mines are owned
abroad. They are worked by cheap native
and Chinese labor, and the country lacks
the means Of prosperity of the great pro-
ducing regions of the United States. In
deed, the Beers claim that South Africa
would be far better off If 1t had less gold
and diamonds and went more into agricul-
ture. They think that a high wage rate
would benefit its industries, causing more
Of the money to be spent at home.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

fcopyrEht. 1sOs. b. Frank Q. Carpenter)

!, 1908, by Frank @. Carpenter.)
Correspond
ence Of The Bee.)-CapeTownl
How shall / describe 1T
It is the biggest city Of South
Africa, and It has nothing in
common with this savage black
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
Cave Colony.

In many resre is Ca. G Colony is better off
than the Transvaal, the Orange Free State
and other provinces of South Africa. 1t is
given up to farming and stock raising and
is a land of mixed industries. The colony
is one of the largest Of the British pos
sessions of this part OF the continent. 1t is
900 miles long and 400 or 500 miles wide,
being more than four times the size Of
either New York or Pennsylvania. 1t is
vice as big as Great Britain or Ireland,
and, including Bechuanaland, which was
annexed some years ago, it is larger than
Texas or any country in Europe. with the
exception Of Russia.
Cape Colony is the Oldest part of South
Africa and is by far the best settled. 1t
has almost as many white people AS Boston
and it's colored population numbers almost
as many as there are souls in Chicago.
There are many good-sized towns. This
place, with suburbs. has 100000; Kimberley
has about So. 90, and Port Elizabeth $1,000 or
more. Woodstock has $4,000, Grahamstown
1900 and East London $1,000. There are
towns of from 5000 TO 10000 scattered here
and there over the country, and there are
many thriving farming communities.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

trio car which you can see whizzing along
at its feet, looking pygmy-like in the dis
lance, will give you one of the finest street
car rides Of the world. You can take it in
the heart of Cape Town and wind your
way around the bay under this great Table
rock and come back through the valley
between Table mountain and Lions Head
to the city with beautiful views in sight
all the way.
The Capital of south Africa.
But let us go down and take a walk
through this capital of South Africa. Cape
Town is the gate to this end Of the contl-
nent and for moro than 200 years It has been
the chief door through which the whites
have gone in and out. 1t has now in the
neighborhood Of 10000 people and is one Of
the fine little cities of the world. Laid out
as a Dutch town in avenues running from
Table mountain to the sea and crossed by
other streets at right angles, its old Boer
buildings are gradually disappearing and
1t has now shops and streets which would
do credit to the largest cities of the United
States. 1t has a postoffice structure which
surpasses in size that of any American
city Of twice it's population. and its Par
Lament houses are perhaps the finest build
ings in Africa. They were erected some
years ago at a cost of more than 81, Zoo, COO.
They are of the renaissance style with
p~orticos upheld by Corinthian columns and
are surrounded by beautiful gardens, in
which a marble statue of Queen Victoria
stands at the front. Each Of the houses
has a floor space as large as that of the
House Of Commons in England, and the
building contains a throne room, showing
the allegiance of the country to the king
The Parliament which meets here Is that
of Cape Colony, and 1t governs this vast
territory, comprising the best Of the lands
south Of the Transvaal. including Kimberley
and its diamonds and also the chief sheer
and cattle growing, fruit raising and ostrich
farming parts Of this continent.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22
Curious Capers of Cupid

fifth street, New York City. de was
vouched for by Edwin c. Nevins, a lawyer
of Philadelphia.
The bride is the daughter of an English
actor. and was reared in a convent in
West Philadelphia. She was married to j.
Fred Zimmerman. jr, of Philadelphia, sew
eral years ago, and received a divorce in
the New York supreme court October q.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-22

Y THE opinion OF the Locomo-
two Engineer there is no i'm
mediate danger Of the steam
locomotive being consigned to
TIE ccrap pile. Discussing the
rs!at!ve merits of steam and
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-03-05
Poorly Fed Hens.

Occasionally flock that is so small
that II Is fed mostly from the table
scraps is really under-fed We have
seen people boil small potatoes for
their hens and add these daily to
the potato parings and other table
scraps, II salt was added in o small
amount the fowls ate them well. but
such a flock Is always underfed Be.
cause the fowls have their crops full
is not proof that they have the sub
stantial things out of which to manu-
facture eggs. There Ia such o thing
as OVERRIDING a good thing and this is
one OF the cases The potatoes and
such stun are made up almost wholly
OF starchy matter and do not give the
material out OF which 10 make albu-
men, whose base must be nitrogen II
is possible TO make hen think she
Is being we'll fed when she is not
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-03-05
HATcHA8ILITY OF EGGS.
Observation Shows That There 10
Great Difference In Eggs.

Each bird has its own individuality.
by that I mean that there are certain
birds which lay eggs that are nearly
always hatchable. With one hen we
found that she was a good layer,
hen that laid fertile eggs, but the eggs
were not hatchable under hens or In
incubators. One popularity OF these
eggs was that the chick would develop
only to about the eighteenth day, or
we always found fully formed dead
chick In the shell. We call that a fer.
tile egg, but II is an unhatchable egg.
We have also found other hens that
will lay equally as many eggs that
are nearly all hatchable under natural
conditions, but they are not as hatch.
able under artificial conditions. There
are a few hens and | am sorry to
state that they are in the minority,
whose eggs are hatchable under al.
most any condition. In other words,
these hens In the latter class seem to
have so much vitality and their eggs
are so strongly fertlized that they
will stand abuse I'm the way Of tenn
perature and other conditions that are
present in some methods of incuba.
ton, and yet will hatch a chicken that
is fairly thrifty w. r. Graham, On
tario.