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Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

New York's cheap hotels for women
have no trouble in getting patronage.
but they do have trouble In keeping
out well to do guests who want to get
much for little.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

While some people are getting warm
about protecting the foreigner among
us, 1t Is well to remember that there
Is such thing as nursing viper in
ones BOSOM"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Puck celebrated T. RS retirement
by printing a bulletin Of stunts" he
hasn't done to the number of four
teen, beginning with the reform Of
the comic valentine.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Some one must have let loose among
the English suffragettes Bourke Cock
rams campaign epigram. Better riot
than rottenness."
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

The hurrahing in Japan over Taft's
inauguration suggests that, after all,
the ,Japs have been half scared to
death several times of late.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Fortunate now that the chair of
state was built to size up with the
state and not with the average man
who might be called to it.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Africa's cannibals and fever microbes
alike will forever regret the hour they
start in to regulate strenuouS'!ess in
Theodore Roosevelt's corporati3n
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Even the 'first lady in the land" has
her troubles, for hired girls in the
White House get sassy" and quit the
same as they do outside.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

In spite of all the country uplift
work of the winter, the plow must be
called on to lift up the furrow In the
same old way.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

George Washington autographs now
bring $210 in England. but the time
was when the English took pleasure
in burning up everything bearing g.
WIS sign manual.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

If hypnotic eyes" will win legisla,
tors to woman suffrage, there's no de-
nying that the suffragists are well
fixed with the sinews Of war.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

To think of the waste of natural re-
sources in the burning up of Roose-
velt's mail sent "care of the Outlook"
while he is hiking through the African
jungle!
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Having put an extra $25,000 II IL
presidents pay envelope the second
time, Uncle Sam will be likpl. 1,
think that any lift Of smaller proper
tions wouldn't be worthy of his big
heart.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

The way things are big navy
seems to stand for bigger navy, and
the way things look the biggest navy
will soon be the only one to have any
standing at all.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Castro can easily become "simple
private citizen" of Venezuela by sim
ply going back to his trade of mule
driver.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Uncle Sam is the biggest builder in
the world, and he doesn't intend to be
second best in style or quality if he
knows it.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Cultured Boston has taken to eating
sand, which is several laps ahead Of
throwing it into other peoples eyes.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

The future fable man can have some
fun with Knox as the first American
who wouldn't go to work until his sal
ary was cut.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

It's different when the constitution
stands in the way of changing the date
of Inauguration.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

If women will make practical poll
tics wireless, men will gladly leave the
whole field to them.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

The lion and the lamb went prompt
~ to keep company with the groun,
hog in natures Ananias club.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

In the fight for national supremacy
in sea power it's the longest purse that
gets there.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

The clan Hibernian stands pat for a
March holiday and never mind the
weather."
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Knox holds the baldheaded row h
che Taft cabinet all alone.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Returns on the inaugural day casual
ty list will be coming in daily way up
to the glorious Fourth.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

If congress will press the button on
tariff settlement the people will dc the
rest
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

OF course trade in possum meat is
now looking up.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

China, with all it's vast population,
boasts not quite two dozen daily pa
pers, but among them are the two old
est papers in the world The Kin Par
used to be considered by Europeans
the oldest paper, but it has been issued
a mere thousand years. The Using Pao,
or Pekin News, was first published 500
years before the Norman conquest and
has been issued without intermission
for nearly 1,40O years. The Using Pac
has the appearance of a yellow backed
magazine of twenty-four octave pages,
each page containing seven columns,
consisting of seven characters"
Two editions are published-an edi-
tion de luxe for the court and the up
per classes at a cost of "a cents a
month, and an edition inferior in paper
and printing, costing 16 cents month.
1t has a circulation of about 10000 and
is really the principal paper of China,
chronicling the movements of the en-
peror and of the court and printing
the ministerial reports. 1t is probably
the most exact newspaper in the world.
The punishment for an error in print
ing was until recently, at least, instant
death.-New York Times.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

At recent meeting Of the metro
politan water board Of London, re-
ported in the London Morning Post,
1t was stated that the anticipated def
icit for the current financial year
would be nearly 100000. One Of the,
members, Mr.. Musgrave, gave some
figures which are very interesting ill.,
this connection. He stated that five
years ago, when the water was being
supplied by several private companies,
their employees numbered only 5S1.
Now, in spite Of the consolidation un-
der the municipal authorities, their
employees number 1872. In other
words. it takes 81 per cent more mu-
nicipal employees to do the same work
that was done by the private employ
ees, for there has been almost no in
crease in the amount of water sup
piled In fact, the larger number of
employees under the board are actual
ly accomplishing less, because the
board pays the Bank of England more
than 100000 a year to handle some
financial matters which under private
management were taken care of by
the companies employees.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

Medieval London, besides being
.city of taverns," was famous for its
cookshops, such as the place on the
river bank described by Fitzstephen in
the thirteenth century: "There every
day We may call for any dish, of meat,
roast. fried or sodden. fish both small
and great. venison and fowl. If friends.
come upon a sudden wearied with
travel to citizens house and they be
loath to wait for curious preparations
and dressings of fresh meat let the
servant run to the water side, where
all things that can be desired are at
hand" This particular place ofipublic
cookery apparently did an indoor as.
well as an outdoor trade for Eitz-
stephen further described it as being
used both day and night by multi
tudes of soldiers or other strangers
who refresh themselves to their con-
tent on roast goose, the fowl of Afri-
ca and the rare gadwit Of Ionia." But
what were the two last mentioned
viands ?-London Chronicle.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-03-18

In 1896 the gas and water works
of Rhonda, Wales, were taken over
by the municipality. In order to get
the taxpayers to consent to this they
were told that the profits which then
went to the stockholders would be ap-
piled toward the reduction of taxes.
The result has been the exact reverse
of the prediction, for both plants have
had deficits which have had to be
made up by taxation, although no re-
duction has been made in prices.
In the last year of private owner
ship the profit on the gas works was
10 per cent on the investment. Last
year there was a loss of $11, ,425, which
has to be paid out of taxes and which
is equivalent to increasing the price
of gas cents thousand feet. The
writer in the Western Mail who gives
these figures assigns as one of the
causes that much less gas is made per
| ton of coal than was the case when
the plant was under private manage
ment. The result is the more remark
able because there are now six times
as many consumers as there were in
1885,
The situation in the waterworks is
even worse. In it's last year of opera
tion the company made profit Of
$21 $50, which municipal management
has changed into a loss of $14,165.
This also has TO be borne by the tax
payers, but the city has now been
given permission to raise the water
rates to figures 20 to % per cent more.
| than those of the company
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
STATE LEVY WILL Be LOWER
Rate Falls as Result Of Payment Of
the State Debt.
OFFSETS INCREASE IN COUNTY
Advance In Douglas Due 60 Necesslty
Of M~aintainInE the Bond sink
ina Fund for the New
Court House.

Although the estimated tax levy for
Douglas county for this year is Is mills,
one half mill higher than last year, County
Comptroller Solomon thinks 1t probable
the state levy will be one-half mill lower
and the total will be about the same.
The reduction in the state levy is due
to the payment of the state uebt, which
has now been completed. Since the enact
ment Of the Sheldon act in 1908 II has been
necessary to levy / mill toward the pay
ment Of the debt, but with the debt H.
nally removed It is very likely that the
other increases will still leave a total
II mill lower.
The increase in Douglas county Is due
to the bond-sinkinE fund which must be
| kept up to build the new court house.
Beside this 115s. 900 will nave to be paid
on 8 per cent funding bonds which fall
due July /, 1911.
As estimated by Comptroller Solomon
the Douglas county levy will be as fol-
lows on a valuation OF &S6, 00O, 900. Eighty
five per cent Of the total is taken because
the warrants for payment can be drawn
on only IS per cent of the levy until the
money is actually in the treasury:
Levy Mills. Total Tax. IS Pct
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
MULTIPLICITY OF AUTOS
SENDS RUBBER PRICES UP
Creates Immense DemRnd for Tire Ma
teriaI and Prices Advance by
Leaps and sounds.

You can get any old price for your old
rubbers. according to the dealers, who say
there is a great demand for all kind Of
rubber goods.
"Rubber prices are soaring, although the
wearers of rubber goods have not felt the
rise said z. T. Lindsay, president of the
Interstate Rubber company. Two weeks
ago up river rubber was worth S1.72 a
pound and last week this same rubber was
worth 1892. No raise has been made in the
cost to the consumers or to the retailers
since May 1, when the prices were ad-
vanced 5 per cent. Statesmen are now out
taking orders for fall delivery at the regu-
lar prices with no advance"
The high price of crude rubber has caused
an increased demand for scrap rubber and
the prices quoted at the mills is about
10 cents a pound. The soaring prices for
crude rubber is putting the retailers in the
market early and trade is most brisk.
Trade journals report that no raise has
been made in the price to retailers, but
sporting goods houses. makers of automo-
bile tires and users of rubber in all lines
OF manufacture are buying fast. 1t Is. said
that the imperative demand of tire manu-
facturers for rubber is the main thing
which is forcing up the price Of rubber.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
BONDED DEBT OF CITY
WILL BE CUT THIS FALL
Reduced Fifty Thousand Dollars Rs
More Than That VIII be In
sinking Fund,

omaha's obnded Indebtedness will be de-
creased this fall by $4,000.
City Comptroller Lobeck has notified the
nance committee OF the city council that
there will be a balance OF more than this
amount in the sinking fund and that
bonds in the sum Of $4,000 may be paid off
without Gripping the city's finance in
any way.
City hall bonds in the sum of 800 900
come due October l, and one-half of this
issue will be taken UP. The other $50, 900
will be renewed The old bonds bear 5
per cent interest, but the comptroller be-
lieves that AZ per cent for renewal pur-
poses will find easy sale.
City hall bonds we're issued in the sum
of 500, 900. Last year $3.50 was paid and
with the paying of $4,000 this fall only
1925, 900 will remain.
City hall bonds are the only bonds that
come due this year. In July, 1910, bonds in
the sum Of s275,o 0O will come due. These are
in four issues-$1O0,0 900 city hall, SIS, 900 paw.
ing, $4,000 sewer and $50, 900 engine house
In June, 1911, 500, 900 city hall bonds come
due, the only bonds coming due in that
year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Charter Boat
for River Trip
Commercial Club Men and Others Will
Sail Missouri Waters This
Afternoon.

The good ship City of Peoria will sail the
waters Of The Missouri this afternoon with
a precious cargo on board, the same being
100 Omaha business men, members of the
Commercial club and others.
The 100 signed articles for the voyage yes.
terday afternoon. The crew will rendes-
vous at the Commercial club al 1 p. M, and
listen to an exposition Of the work of the
National Rivers and Harbors Congress by
John Fox, a special director Of the con
gress.
The boat has been chartered for a trip to
Florence and back and will cav the dock
at 2:SO. Attendance will not be con-
fined to men btrs Of the Commercial club.
The w~sterwoiks at Florence will be in
spected when the craft heaves to there.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
MEDICAL OFFICERS AT POSTS
Boards Are Appointed by Army for
the Department Of the
Missouri.

Boards Of medical officers Of the United
States army have been appointed to meet
at the posts Of the Department of the
Missouri for the examination OF applicants
for the position of first lieutenant in the
medical reserve corps as contract sur
geons for service in the Philippines or
wherever their services may be required.
The examinations are to take place Sep
TENDER 2. The details for the several posts
are:
Fort Leavenworth-Major Louis H. Hess,
medical corps and First Lieutenant c. G.
Snow, medical reserve corps.
Fort Crook-Major j. T. Clark, medical
corps.
Fort Des Moines-Major Thomas Bratton,
medical corps.
Fort M~eade-Captain r. B. Miller, med
ical corps.
Fort D. A. Russell-Lieutenant Colonel A.
H. Appel and Captain ". P. Banta, med.
ical corps.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
South Omaha Para|ytiC Walks Again
Without Use Of Clutches
Austro-AmeriCan Doctors With Their New MethOd'
Treatment Enables ParaIytiC to Walk.
Mrs. Anna Weise. who has lived for

Mrs. Anna Weise. who has lived for
thirty years on r. F. D.. No. 2, South
Omaha, has been s~ufferig with paralysis
over two years. Last September she lost
the use of her feet and was unable to get
around at all. She has been treating with
the Austro-American Doctors two months.
Her daughter, Miss Mae Wiese, states that
her mother is now able to get around
nicely without the use of crutches. They
feel very much encouraged over the great
Improvement shown under the Austro-
American treatment. The Austro-Ameri-
can Doctors have cured hundreds Of SEEM
ingly hopeless chronic cases since coming
to Omaha.
DR.. Milen, the physician in charge, is
an eminent ~diagnostician of thirty years
experience in nervous and chronic dis
eases. He sees all patients personally and
outlines their treatment.
The Austro-American Doctors are To-
Gated at 42S Range Building, 18th and
Harvey streets, just opposite the Orpheum
theater. They accept no cases which they
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
PARTICULAR ABOUT HIS NAME
Prisoner Did Not Answer to Roll Call
and Police Feared He Had
Taken French Leave.

When the roll OF prisoners in the city jail
was called yesterday morning one w. =.
HOLMAN did not answer. For a while the
police were Of the opinion that the fellow
had walked out of the police court on Mon
cape.
Later in the morning, while the other
prisoners were in police court Holha was
discovered lying under one of the benches
in the jail. Asked why he did not respond
= roll call he said he been called "Hol-
land and that his name was HOLMAN
He would not answer to the other name for
anybody, not even the chief CT police.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Chautauqua at Tecumseh.

TEcUMSEH, Neb., Aug. 4-(SpecisI)-
The Tecumseh c~hautauqua is proving OF
unusual Interest. The attendance is large
and splendid programs are being given.
The features of yesterdays program we're
the lecture on The Battle Ground OF
Life" by DR., f. W. Lanham. and the
appearance OF the Honolulu students. To-
day some of the best things have been a
lecture on The Last Days OF Abraham
Lincoln" by DR.. n. J. Rathbone, and the
entertainments by the New Z~ealsnders.
The New Zealanders go from this as.
sembly to the Epworth assembly at Lin
coin. The teachers institute is one of the
best ever held. and the minor parts Of the
general program are all interesting.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
PROTECT SOURCE OF WATER
Water Board Objects to EstabIiSh
ment of T~HbercuIOsis S~anitarium
North of Florence.

The Omaha Water board held its regular
meeting last night. but transacted only
routine business. No bills we're flowed OF
ordered paid at this session.
An Informal discussion came on over the
tuberculosis sanitarium proposition to bs
established north of Prizes lake. While no
action was taken, it was expressed as the
opinion of the board that the source OF
Omaha's water supply should not be
menaced even remotely by the presence OF
a sanitariun 81 the location suggested, Nc
objection will be raised TO the establishment
OF a place for the treatment of tubercular
or other diseases at a point below the
source OF water supply for the city.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
LIGHTNING DESTROYS DEPOT
Union Pacific Building at DannebroR
is Burned During Heavy
Storm.

ST. PAUL, Neb,, Aug. L-specisl.)-A
heavy rainstorm, accompanied by fierce
lightning and considerable wind. traversed
the greater part OF Howard county Mon
day night. The precipitation here was 81
OF an inch. At DannebrOg there was a
heavy rainfall and the lightning was vio-
lent. About 1850 lightning struck the
Union Pacific station building, setting II
OH fire, and by the time the fire depart
ment got out the flames had made such
Roadway hat only the shell of one end of
the building was kept from burning. All
Of the freight goods and contents in the
building were also destroyed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Smaller rye Has
Pocket Picked
Loses $3.50 Mysteriously While Fill
ing Chautauqua Date at
Marshalltown.

MARSHALLTowN, Ia. Aug. ~L-(special
Telegram.)-While here attending the chau-
tsuqua Governor -Shallenberger Of Nebraska
was touched and is minus $3.50 as a result.
The governor is in doubt Just how ne lost
the money, but thinks he left 1t on the
writing desk of the hotel. He lie not sure
of this, however. The purse was either
picked up there or taken from his pocket
by a thief while he was on the grounds.
At any rate the governor left for Omaha
without the money.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
The Weather..

WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-Forecast Of the
weather for Thursday and Friday:
For Nebraska and South Dakota-Thun.
der showers and cooler Thursday; Friday,
partly cloudy and cooler.
For Iowa and MISUNDERSTANDING cloud,
mess, thunder showers by Thursday nigh
or Friday; cooler Friday.
For Colorado-Local showers Thursday
and cooler in north portion; Friday, partly
cloudy and cooler.
For Wyoming-showers and cooler Thurs
day; Friday, fair.
For Kansas-Local showers Thursday
Friday, partly cloudy and somewhat cooler
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Beatrice Man KILLED by Train.

BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 4.-(Special Teie-
g~ram.)-George Meyers. a former Beatrice
resident, was killed near Palmer, Kan,
yesterday by being caught between the
engine and water tank of a threshing en-
CINE. The thresher men were going up
a hill, Mir. Meyers driving behind with
the water tank. The engine broke loose
and came back with terrific force against
the water wagon, almost severing Mr..
Meyers body. He was IS years old and
leaves a young widow. The remains will
be inferred at Geneva, Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05

TEKAMAH, Neb., Aug, 4-(Special.)-A
large tent hat will seat 1850 people is
being erected in Folsom park at this place
for the purpose Of holding TekRmah's first
c~hautauqua assembly, which opens Satur-
day. Tit management, with the locaI
committee, is spsring no effort to make
It one Of the best educational and enter,
tanning assemblies ever held in the state
The best talent o~btainable has been Sc,
pruraA
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05

HASTINGS, Neb, Aug. 4-(Specisl Tele-
graml-Japonics Fleming, the u-year-old
girl whose disappearance from Chicago
July 10 may result in the prosecution OF
a Chicago man. was today giyen INTO the
custody Of Mrs. VanHorn. her materna.
grandmother. of Fort Dodge, Ia Two min
istsrs and the humane society opposed
returning the child 10 It's mother.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Beatrice Man Found pe.d.

BEATRICE, Neb,, Aug. 4.-(Special Tele-
Sram)-Stephen Starting, for thirty years
a resident Of Gage county, was found
dead this morning at the nome Of c. 4.
Kelley, where he had been living. A
coroner's Inquest was held and the jury
returned a verdict that death was due to
natural causes. Mr.. Startling was "a years
old and leaves a widow in the hospital
at Lincoln. He was formerly engaged in
farming near Holmesville.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Nebraska

places the sanitation OF the city in the
Of the Board OF Health. II also or
dered two blocks OF brick paving on South
Sixth street replaced and the old bricks
are to be used to repair a portion of the
street. The tax levy for the ensuing year
was placed at IS mills. and a part Of this
will be used to retire some of the out
standing bonds. The monthly reports Of
the druggists we're turned over to the city
attorney to nave him compel the druggists
to comply with the state law.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05

locating n removing the cause rather thai treating the effect The hun
offices have made them hosts of friends in Omaha and the surrounding
territory.
Those who are suffering with Paralysis, Rheumatism, Goitre, Epilepsy,
III Diseases of Men and Women, etc. should call at nee as delay is dan
Rerous
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05

c.. s. Allen, attorney for Thomas Majors
In the suit brought by the attorney general
10 Gust Colonel Majors from the new State
Normal board because he was appointed
when a member of the legislature which
enacted the law, has made a proposition to
the attorney general. Mr.. Allen has asked
that a stipulation be mad to try the con-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Another Great Improvement
i'm Electric Lights"

has been made by the new Tungsten lamps,
which afford more than twice as much illumi-
nation as carbon lamps with the same amount of
current. They are destined to displace all others,
whether gas or electric, due to their high effici-
ency and brilliant quality of light. The metal
filiment is made of a substance capable of main
tanning an intense brilliancy.
We sell Tungsten lamps for both house and
store lighting.
Omaha Electric Light & Power Go.
Y. @. A. Building. Doug. 1862; Ind. A-127S.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-05
Temperature at Omaha yesterday;
Local Record,

OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU,
LOMAHA, Aug. L-Official record of tenn
I perature and precipitation, compared with