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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07
GIVE THE PLANTS A CHANCE
Care VIII Make Them Bloom Long
After ChFistmaS-HinsH that
Ought to Help.

IF women would only take a little intel
igent care Of the plants which they re-
ceive at Christmas the plants would last
much longer and often produce a success
sion OF new buds and blossoms" said a
florist who for the last half dozen years
has made a speciality OF supplying the
Christmas trade with blooming plants.
Take that group Of ~azaleas. for instance.
The retail price Of the poorest II Us and
some OF them are priced al almost double
that amount. They are all perfect speci-
mems and have cost me a lot Of care and
thought. yet l know that within q month
they viii be either In ash barrels or orna-
menung fire escapes.
Could these azaleas be made TO produce
mesh leaves and blossoms in the ordinary
house or apartment? Yes. and with only
a little intelligent care and = few cents
for plant food
Oh course. these blossoms and buds will
al drop off within a month. but II the
plant il sprinkled daily and once a week
. dose OF plant food L. given new leaves
and buds wall make their appearance.
There VIII be ~ more leaves than bios
SONS, but enough Of both 70 keep the plant
ornamental
water and Food.
For house spr1nkling a toy watering
pot which costs only a few cents. Is the
very best thing one could have The leaves
should be- sprinkled sufficiently TO give
them a comfortable moist appearance. and
the earth in the pot should be wet, bat not
saturated
Plant food R best given diluted at the
roots Of the plant. but should never be
allowed 10 touch the foliage. as Il viii
seald II and often cause the leaves TO fall.
Once a week IL often enough 10 apply Il.
and where plants have not been as severely
forced as these aEaleas once in ten DAYS
viii be sufficient.
1T seems useless to state that no plant
viii thrive II set on top OF a radiator. Yet
many women who pretend TO have both
brains and heart often set their Christmas
plants on the radiator.
"AEaleas need an even temperature ano
for that reason they win be Injured Il
Kept in a hot room all day and al night
left to receive the cold blasts from al
open window. II there il only one room
ana the window must be raised az nIEht
then the plant should have sufficient GOV.
ering 20 protect IL
Baby ramblera require about he sam,
attention as z~zAiess- These dainty rosel
are very popular this sea4on and may b.
kspt ornamental until 1t is ums for then
to be planted out OF doors II they ar,
properly tended The dead blossoms shOuIt
be pinched of % that the strength Of N,
plant shall not go 10 wastS. II the ends q
the branches sh0g an inclination 10 witheI
they also shOsld be promptly clipped
-L1laes are anOthsr blooming plant TIA.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07

NEW YORK Neb
clearing house banks
that the banks hold
tie r-e9utrementB %
sEVe rula ma Is =
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07

Cattle Hogs HISS

The official number of cars of stock
brought in today by each road vas as fol-
lows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07

Receipts Of live stock al the six princl-
pal western markets yesterday:
Ea4tfe Hnpe Ehann
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07
Total receipts

The disposition Of the days receipts was
as follows, each buyer purchasing the num-
Der Of head Indicated
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07

BOSTON. Feb. 6-Money, call loanS, 2
G3is per cent. time loans, 3@4 per eynI
Official closing on stocks and bonds:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07
LannI Securities.

OMAHA. Feb. 6~-Quotations on Omaha
stocks ana bonds, furnished by Samuel
Burns. jr. S4 New York Life building:
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
was round Ethels fnger.-John Ranline
in Saturday Journal.
Worth Knowing.


Smoking was a penal offense at one
time in Turkey.
1t is said there are 100000 Egyp-
tians who can neither read nor write.
There are "blind spots on the tongue
which are insensible to certain favors.
Last year about thirty thousand per-
sons visited the birthplace of Shakes
peare-
An official estimate places the number
of dairy cows in the United States at
21.OOO,OO0.
Before it is completed a champagne
hottie passes through the hands of forty
five workmen.
Turkey has more aged people in pro-
| portion to her population than any 9TH
er European country.
On the coast of Ireland it rains on an
average of 20S days in the year; i'll
England about $50 days.
Nearly 100000 gallons of water are
| used annually to cleanse the streets of
| the city of London.
French theaters receiving government
| subsidy are obliged to give a free per-
| Torrance every year.
Canada produces nearly one-half the
worlds supply of maple sugar, about 49,
| 100000 pounds annually.
! Fifty-ive million square miles is the
!
! the earth's land surface.
Germany, Great Britain and the Unit
ed States produce four-ffths of the
worlds supply of pig iron.
/ Guatemala now ranks next to Brazil
in Importance as the source of the sup
ply of coffee. Ecuador is rapidly ex-
| panding it's cocoa production.
After being at liberty for ten days,
a canary belonging to Z. Kirk of liver
ton, England, returned to its cage with
another bird of the same species.
When weighing-in time came at the
field day of the Connecticut Fat Mems
association. Dan Wadsworth, the big
gest man in Hartford, which was found
ed by one of his ancestors, sent the beam
to 436 pounds at Bristol. He was unani-
mously elected president of the club.
The largest grape vine in the world is
100 years old, and is at San Gabriel
Cal. planted by Franciscan friars. The
stalk is 11a feet in diameter, 8 feet high.
and the branches and foliage cover 5000
square feet. Its yearly crop of grapes
is 21a tons yearly.
A splinter that has been driven into
the flesh can be removed by the aid of
steam Secure a wide-mouthed bottle
and fill it nearly full of hot water, place
the injured part over the bottles mouth
ana press slightly. The action thus pro-
duced will drawn the flesh down, and in
a minute or two the steam will extract
the splinter, also the inflammation.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
LONG LIVED WIDOWS.
Woman Lives to See the Centenary Of
Her Famous Husband

The name of Lady Cardigan, who has
been taking part in discussion on the
right age to marry, carries our mind
back a long way, for her first husband
was that Lord Cardigan who distln-
guished himself in the charge of Baak-
lava. And speaking of Balaklava, the
widow of Sidney Herbert, the secretary
of war at the time of the Crimean war.
is still among us, that distinguished
grande dame Lady Herbert of Lea.
The widow of the first Lord Napier
of Magdala is living in retirement ut
Hampton Court palace. The centenary
be kept next year. The Lady's Pictorial
doubts whether a widow has ever before
lived to see the centenary of a famous
husband celebrated.
There are two other widowed ladies'
v hose names carry us still further pacR'
One is Elizabeth Countess Of Devon
who is now living at Cheltenham. Her
husband, the tenth earl was born as
far back as 1777 The other is the Dow
ager Lady Leicester, who though SIN
in the sos is the daughter-in-laW Of the
well known Mr. Coke of Holkham, Who
was born in 1852. The Hon. Caroline
Cavendish, who was maid of honor -
Queen Victoria siXty-two years age. Is
daughter of the late Gen. CayendiSh'
who was born in the year that Tue
French revolution broke out
One of the oldest ladies in PerthSh'fS
is Frances Lady Kinnaird aunt OF i;oTd
Kinnaird. She will be 81 in December
Her husband was one of the earnest re-
formers of the old style of hushahuts
prevailing in the Carse of Gowrie SltaDl
ploughS and threShing machines NVL0
first used in Scotland on his estates.
And at Cromer is living the L 20 a.,
Lady Buxton. who has a son of ~ ol -i
was a girl of 90 when Thomas toWsn
Buxton, who soon afterward became 1gts
father-in-law, had the gratihcatloh, "a
seeing that for which he had WORSE ~
whole heartedly come to pass, naip' H.
the abolition of slavery in the BRUSH No
minions.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
APPLE TODAY.

Music made it, laughter filed it,
Mirth upon her red lips spilled it;
Youth and beauty in its stream
Turned it into dance and dream.
Memory kept it twenty years
In closet till its tears
Bubbled round the cork and ran
Where the golden spiders span.
Where they ran with webs they wound
Ger it till twas hardly found
But for Pleasure on her way
Bringing it to light one day.
Riddles twanged with joy to greet it,
Morning came with flowers to meet it,
Passion said twas of the vine
Whence Olympus made it wine.
Poetry taSted-it was dew,
1t was skies of April blue;
1t was Fancy-girl of glee-
Dancing meath a damson tree!
Baltimore Sun
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
How Salt Helped Good Roads

Roads, we are told, owe great az" re
to salt. According to one theeil. .,rI,
oldest trade routes came into eAls, If
as result of the traffic of salt. va
the oldest roads in Italy IS [he ,rs
Sabine country obtained their san fr m
the salt pans of Ostia. Salt was Us, ns-
main merchandise carried in [hs lT ,,rs
Libyan caravans in the dayof He.g '.,.s +,
and salt is one of the chief eielhtL ..,.,-l1
the trade along the Sahara :, is
routes today. Salt and salt hS'f, lily
interesting to remember. entered .l..-,..
into the commerce of the CaFl.,,---aE D
The latter, by the way, was eo1s''9 avs.-
delicacy in those pre-Chrlstia"
/ ondon Daily News
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
THE BELLS OF THE BASTILLE.

Comparatively few persons have ever
heard of the bells of the Bastille. VET
they are still in existence. After the de-
struction of the prison, says The Gentle
woman. they found their way 10 tbe
great foundry in Romilly, but the man
ager of the works disobeyed the orders
he received and did not destroy them.
Now they are back in Paris. In \ nri.
vate house in the Avenue d'Eylan. On
each bell is engraved: Made by Iouis
Cheron for the Royal Bastille. In the
year 1T61," and they are further orns.
mented with the royal arms and huge
cross.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
His Name Ruined Him.

George Highhall of Chicago appeared
before Justice Stein the other morning.
The court advised him to have Il fall
ing out with his namesake.
Il can't, judge pleaded Highball. 81
always was sociable fellow and when
one of my friends say, Hello, Highball,
have highhan know l ought not to,
but | do.
II used to be high salaried baseball
player with high batting average. but
the kids on the bleachers made my life
miserable Every time l got to bat they
would holler Feed him highhalls,' until
every pitcher got my goat and l had TO
quit. It's awful to have a name like
that"
The court dismissed him with the sug-
gestion that he call himself High" -
Detroit News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
The Roosevelt Punch"

As result of ex-President Roose-
velt's entertainment the world has been
given a new mixed drink. 1t was in
vented during Col. Roosevelt's stay at
Nairobi.. when he divided his time visit
ing the&smissions and horse races. At
private supper whereat those assembled
marched round the table singing. Land
lord, Fill the Flowing Bowl" the punch
was produced. This is the recipe.
Three pounds of almonds ground. one
and half bottles of brandy. two bot
ties of rpm, two of maraschino, FIVE of
brandy. seven of champagne, three
quarts of milk, three pounds Of sugar
and nine bottles of soda water" Thor
oughly mixed and properly iced. the
punch kept the company together till
dayhreak. 1t is described as real
nectar"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
AN EPIsTLE TO A FRIEND.

Alas, that my muse should have slumbereo
Since keeping sin tune is a vast aid TO
song;
Like the fiddle. for instance, fact that's
Which with use becomes sweeter and richer
in tone,
Or the watch, wound and running, that
keeps perfect time
So it is with this business of measuring
rhyme
But you'll pardon a word, though we limp
In an off hand, familiar and soeiable lay.
With Peary and Cook in the thick of the
AS to which one discovered earth's north
ernmost height
With the wireless connecting midocean and
sod.
With airships perfected at home and abroad,
And with living astronomers mastering stars
Like Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Mars,
That Dryden and Shakespeare have left us
no themes!
Regarding the exploits features are best
By the pens of professional writers ex-
pressed.
Though thrilled and delighted, l might as
The size and the range of the stars in the
sky,
Or count Ger the hairs of my head, spear
by spear,
As to mention the wonders exhibited here.
But it's great, all attempts at description
To be a drop here in humanity's tide.
~
1t is great. love and friendship to view
from afar,
And to entertain visions that leagues can
not bar.
Unheeding the agents whose services tend
To create suspicion between friend and
friend,
And banishing discord and jargon and strife
That darken and dwarf and distemper this
life,
And, peace pricing all other blessings above,
Let our watchword be harmony, union and
love.
And now, in concluding. permit me to say
That I'm herewith enclosing an evergreen
spray,
Plucked by good friend in the state by
that name;
And may the remembrance it speaks prove
the same.
May the hand that heaps wealth by the
Waters of Peace
Spread blessings afar and your riches In
crease;
Nor the sun nor the stars ever set but TO
rise
Der the East and the West bound in ever
HENRY REED CoNANT.
Seattle. Wash, September "a. 1909
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The run of the torpedo boat destroyer
Whipple of the United States navy from
Seattle to San Francisco in thirty-nine
hours, or at an average speed of twenty
three knots an hour, shows that these
comparatively small craft can be of very
great service for coast defense. They
are big enough to carry weapons that
can infiet serious damage if they are
properly served, and fast enough to en-.
able the authorities to mobilize de
Tense feet in comparatively short order
When the Panama canal is completed
the value of the destroyers for coastal
service will be greatly increased.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
Julian Story in Florence.

Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Story are now es-
tablished for a season at their fine villa
at Vallombrosa called Tore di Cam
piglioni, where they arrived not very
long after their marriage in the summer.
Mr. Story built this residence some TWEEN
ty years ago and spent many summers
there with his first wife, Emma Eames
He bought a whole hillside and set to
work TO build tower house like the
ancient Tuscan stronghold homesteads
1t is most picturesque and comfortable
with a fine hall and gallery. The gar
den is ideally lovely and there is great
outdoor room where they live in warm
weather.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The recommendation of Capt. Win
terhalter of the United States Hydro
graphic Office. that lake steamers carry
supplies of oil with oil bags, for use in
smothering wave action during storms,
is like an old, old story; only in this
case the old story is so good that it is
surprising lake captains have not heed
ed it in self-interest. The efficiency of
oil in taking the yiciousness out Of waves
has been demonstrated on many occa-
sions on which the oil blanket actually
saved life, and owners and masters
ought to provide oil distribution appara-
tus that will do its work automatically
during gales.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The elderly and wealthy dentist, DR..
Stone of Elgin, Illinois, who resented
the stringing of telegraph wires across
his building, and cut them down, created
much confusion in electrical conditions
in his vicinity He not only interrupted
telegraphic communication between Ell
gin and the outer world, but put a stop
to the operation of the street cars and
put out of business the wires supplying
light and industrial power to the city of
Elgin. The Doctor has made a finer
figure as a defender if the rights of
property than as an exponent of social
urbanity and civic consciousness.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

Comparatively few marine disasters
are reported as a result of the cold fall
storm which has just swept the Great
Lakes. This is due to the fact that the
average lake carrier is a far more sea-
worthy craft than the carrier of old.
In the days of sail there were always
large and interesting patches of marine
news following fall gales as severe as
that which is now subsiding.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

About a dozen restaurant companies
and catering firms have begun suit
against the Chicago health commissioner
lations for the insurance of sanitary
conditions. They have thus set them
selves against sanitary progress and
boldly acknowledged the existence of
conditions in their establishments which
cannot be conseientiously tolerated by
the health commissioner.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

Americans who contemplate travelling
in Russia will do well to take warning by
the experience of Ralph Wilmer, New
York engineer, who at st. Petersburg a
few days ago was thrust from his
hotel into the street because the police,
discovering that his passport had ex-
PRED, stamped upon the document no
tice forbidding anyone to harbor the
bearer. Winners plight arose from a
misapprehension He had procured a
passport naming the length OF his stay
in Russia as six months, and supposed
that the time would be calculated from
the date of his arrival; but the police
calculated it from the date ON which the
passport was issued.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The postmaster of Washington has
conducted an investigation into the char
actor of the correspondence carried on by
means of the general delivery window
at his office and has discovered that of
1064 letters called for by women in two
days Ill bore fictitious names. In eight
instances clandestine correspondence was
managed in this way by girls under six
teen years of age. The limiting of the
use of the general delivery window by
any one person to thirty days is now
proposed, with a view to furthering the
interests of morality. The regulation
might be worth trying.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

Sir Thomas Upton reveals the inner
ent nature of his persistency in strug-
Cling for the Americas cup by making
provision in his will for continuance of
the contests in the event of his death.
The document is practically notification
to the New York Yacht Club that it can
not expect to hold to its determination
not to race under the universal rule long
enough to escape another Upton ehal-
Ienpa
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05
Bell Ringer for Seventy Years.

John Skinner. aged So. assisted }" III. ~
ringing of two-peals on Broadciy5.- -..,.lsv.
last week in celebration of his i,' MS
He has rung at all the princlp1i' - ~.
Of the period at Exeter cathleq,!.a.- g-.sa
ward of seventy years inelu s v-s5-
Victoria's coronation in NE Ll E;a-
F ;5 ~ birth and coronation. d he
belis rcd TO be the oldest ringer .'
COMMUNICATION Standard.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

Consul-General Jones of Winnipeg re-
ports that chemists at the agricultural
college there have discovered virus
which is useful in fighting rats. 1t pro-
duces in the pests fever resembling
typhoid, which they communicate to 9TH
err rats, so that the work of eXtermina-
ton, once started, goes on apace. Wheth-
err or not the fever is transmissible to
human beings, the Consul does not state
If it be, there is an obvious objection to
the adoption of the new method of exter-
minating rats.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The Fond du Lac Reporter complains
that of S160 collected in that county dur
ing the past quarter under the law tax
ing inheritances, only $12.01 was re-
tanned in the county, the remainder, un-
der the law. going into the treasury of
the state OF course Milwaukee coun-
tvs showing would more strikingly il
lustrate the same defect Of the law. At
the last session of the Legislature there
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The death at Annapolis of RearAd-
miral Robert w. Milligan, U. s. N,
retired, deserves more than passing no.
tice because of the fact that as an en-
gineer he once rendered service quite as
important as any which stands to the
credit of those contending on deck III
fierce engagements. The deceased rear
admiral was chief engineer of the battle
ship Oregon on the breaking out of the
war with Spain in 1898, and it was
through his skill as an engineer that the
Oregon was able to make her famous
run from San Francisco to the coast of
Cuba in time to participate in the Battle
of July 8, off Santiago, which resulted
in the destruction of the Spanish fleet
under Admiral Cervera. The run made
by the Oregon was an achievement that
could not have been possible without a
skilful handling of the ships engines
There was always more or less fear that
the Oregon might become disabled and
| fan a prey to the Spanish ships, whose
whereabouts were unknown when the
battleship was steaming northward along
| the coast of South America, but CHIEF
engineer Milligan brought her through
without mishap to the enginery, and il
condition to steam like a racehorse after
the Spanish ships that tried to escape
| from the American fleet.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The announcement that the Western
Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company of
Port Arthur. Canada, has ordered two
steel freighters of the 600-foot class from
Canadian shipbuilders, is evidence of
development in the Canadian lake carry
ing trade that foreshadows sharper COM
petition with carriers owned in "the
states'' Canada is looming as a mari
time colony, not only on the seacoast,
but also ON the Great Lakes.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The special department of physics es-
tablished by Supt. Pearse in the night
high schools will meet the needs of
many young men who desire instruction
in electricity after their daily working
hours. The electrical field is attracting
many who are adapted both mentally
and physically for service therein, but
some of the devotees lack the knowledge
necessary for the achievement of success
and here they will have a chance to ac-
Ouire it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The Inland Revenue Department of
the Dominion of Canada is complaining
that the national pure food law, and the
pure food enactments of the various
states, have caused manufacturers of foods
in the United States to dump across the
boundary line, for sale in Canadian mar
cts, all the articles of food that will not
pass muster for American consumption.
This complaint is evidence that the pure
food laws are operating beneficially for
the people of the United States, and it
ought to suggest to Canada the wisdom
of enacting similar laws so that there
will be no opportunity for further mar
keting of "doped'' goods in the Dominion.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

The railroads seem to be doing the
only fall blowing reported ut the present
time from the new wheat country in
northwestern Canada. But snow is not
an evil visitation even when it comes
early, as it adds to the fertility of the
coil
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-05

was an effort to secure a modification
of the statute which would provide for
the major portion of the inheritance tax
remaining in the counties of its collec-
tioa. That effort will be repeated at the
oaxr SeSSiou