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Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
Kansas.

NAmmwmas
OPPORTUNITY for a life stake: 1900
acres rich alfalfa land in compact body.
no waste; mostly shallow wafer. TO 20 feet
includes townsite with county seat and
railroad, easy terms; 30 years time on bulki
privilege OF pre- payment or subdivision.
Fortune In this and easy to handle. II. M.
King, Marion, Kan.
100 ACRES valley land, all cultivated, ,
will raise anything; miles from live town
Z miles from county seat; all KINDS OF
fruit; r. +. ID. and telephone; e-room house
with free gas for heat and lights; 500 PEI
year gas rental; cistern; wells; barn.
carriage and tool houses poultry houses
and yards; S65 per acre; $500 can be carried
at per cent Address owner, Frank Lar
kin, Altoona. Kan.
5000 TAKES equity in good productive
S0-acre farm, with 3-room house, fine barn.
2sX40; good water; 20 acres under cultiva-
tlon, balance rough timber pasture; this Is
q snap; mortgage S1,6OO. J. w. Bronston &
Son, Garnett, Kan.
THREE BARGAINs-4sO acres, miles
from Ravenna, Flnney county; price only
81 400; will divide. And $50 acres, 2 miles
from Ravenne and Sl6O acres In Ellsworth
county; all three are good farm land; good
terms. John Herman, Ellsworth, Kan.
-FOUR fine 5-aore tracts, Joining Bonner
Springs, and 100 acres good stock farm, y
mile from rock road, IS miles from Kansas
City; $50 per acre Philo NJ. Clarke, Bonner
Springs, Kan.
BARGAIN-15O acres in Central Texas, all
but 10 acres level black soil, very rich, 70
acres in cultivation everlasting water, ~
miles to good market, close to good school,
good neighbors, 2,1O0 feet elevation; dry,
warm atmosphere; got well OF asthma In
about two years fine for throat and lung
trouble; many churches. 12l Green st. N,
Wichita. Kansas
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
REAL ESTATE WANTED

WANT information about a good grain
or stock farm for sale; I know OF over lON
buyers. willing TO pay your price; l can
tell you how to find them; write me about
it .l,,i let's see N we can close up a deal
Address at once. Arthur Capper, Dept. -.
Topolxn. Knne
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30

SOUTH DAKOTA LAND.
a fine half section for sale at moderate
price. VIM. c. Notmeyer, Pierre, S. d.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
A BARGAIN IN GOOD UNIMPROVED
LAND.

have five quarters of good unim-
proved grass land in north central Ne
braska. viii sell either one or all on
a basis Of 100000 per quarter.
Terms, 10 per cent cash and 25 per
cent sixty days; balance, three years;
interest, per cent. Write Y 328,
care Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
7'exaa,

FOR SALE-1ighty-acre, improved. farm;
three miles from Eagle Lake; $40 per acre
S5 acres ready for harvesting Of truck
crop. Other choice bargains. j. Penoushek,
Eagle Lake, Texas.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
MANIFESTATIONS

CHAUFFEUR-Now employed wishes
change; good reasons; references. Address,
ABS, Bee.
YOUNG woman with knowledge OF
stenography wants clerical work or asst.
bookkeeper; experienced Address A 5Ol,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
RAILWAY TIME CARD-oontinueH'
WabaAh-

BURLINGTON sTATlON-Tenth and
Mason.
HurIinEIon-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30

BEST orchard and farm land in Arkan-
sRs valley close 20 railroad and market for
SIS per acre cash. Water rights for same
AZ $40 per acre In twenty equal annual pay
ments. This land Is going fast and will
double It's value In very short time.
Pueblo. Colo.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
Cottage Bargain

rooms, new, modern, hot water heat
90 II. lot: south 'front.' fine neighborhood;
north part town. $3.50.
Wray & Steven, Sole Agents
$40 Bee Bldg. Doug. 9407
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
south Dakota.

FOR SALE-By owner, 1eO acres unim-
proved land, miles from town. For price
and terms write J. IL. Quirk, Highmore,
S. ID.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
WANTED-TO RENT
WANTED TO BORROW

wANTED-To borrow. $4,000 on $4,000
brick business block for years with priv
ilege Of ten at per cent interest. Address
Ripley Bros, Filler Idaho.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30

REIMBURSEMENT Weld county, a2O
acres Chas 5. OnderdOnk, 4S5 l7th ST..
Denver. Colo.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30

HAVE section of fine land In Cheyenne
county. price Si2 an acre; water In rs feet
IL you want bargain, write c. Andrews,
box So Wild Horse. Colo.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30
REAL ESTATE
FARM AND kAN ca LAND FOR SALE

Arkansas.
24OO-ACRE RED RIVER FARM; 1000
cultivation; SIS acre. l6O-Rcre bottom farm;
70 cuItNRIion; SlU acre, Robert Session.
Winthrop, Ark.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-30

FOR SALE-2O acres fine land. plenty
water, 6-room house, large barn. all kinds
OF outbuildings, apple orchard. small fruit
5000. half down balance to suit purchaser.
Near Westminster. Box 5, Westminster,
Colo.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-09

That the hardest money ever earned" said
Mr. Hammcrsteln recently 1t was also the best.
After that lie commenced to invent. He also be
the editor Of Il trade paper, at which point OF
course his career became kaleidoscope and prosper
and passes away from the province OF this article
Theodore Starrett's Start.
Theodore Starrett the great constructor and con
tractor, is also who made very small begin
nings. At eighteen he attending college at Lake
Forest Chicago, when 1t became necessary for
In the days before magazines had the largest circu
ntlons all circulating things and the fnct reacted
young Starrett
Mr. Starrctt, Sr. could not afford 10 send the boy
through college, and 1t became necessary for thnt
boy to make up his mind do something, rms
something he intended should be architecture. one
day his mother met Mr. BoyingoD. the Chicago arch-
ambitions Send him round" said Mr. BoyinEton
So round young Starret went at the age of eighteen
and became a coper of letters. runner of crumbs
and tracer OF drawings n salary of-notbng'
No money had been mentioned by any party to star
retts lob So for two months he worked. and then
one bright unforgettablc duv he handed $50,
Now that $50 puzzled young Starrett He didn't
know whether 1t was two months salary or two
weeks He didn't dare ask
"NIy heart in my mouth while waited for the
beginning OF next month"; said Mr. Starret recently,
ougbInc over the rcminiscence. II was waiting TO
ace n my salary wns $40 week. or s.. or $3.50, l
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Sweeping Out a Bank

receiving tIpS-which were fashion even in those
early days. In his vacation he developed into very
rapid Blasting puller and there three four
sweatshops in the building he did the Blasting" for
all The sweatshopS prudent places and divided
his salary among them that he then averaged
that time Shortly afterward Klcinert fortuitousy in
vented dress shields. Stcuers father, With fine
commercial instinct, the possibility of dress
shields and purchased ten gross of them.
NOW Grand street In those days, said Mr.. Steuer
when ] gathering these details from him. "was
the wonderful thoroughfare L have ever seen.
New York has no street now which can compare with
1 in point of business. 1t thronged with thou
sands of intending buyers. Well, my father and l
went through Grand street peddling dress shields
We made 11a cents ench pair, and could easily sell
two three hundred pairs apiece Sa aurday night
This, too, at about the time the stamp taken
of the matches Matches previously sold ut
twenty-five cents pack.
Stouer heard man calling matches at twelve
cents. He inquired the aud found that the
stamp had been taken of. lie calculated, and found
the tremendous possibilities of profit He and his
father forthwith walked into the Diamond match
factory and purchased 100 They put every
of money they had saved could borrow into
the matches They sold and delivered them all with
in two days.
This was the FIRST real money that ever came Into
r.
They made so much this transaction that 1t cu
minated In a resolution to send young Steuer TO col
lege. Then he passed the civil service examination
SD got a job In the foreign mail department In
che meantime however. the fnmly became poor
again. Max Steucrs job night one. and lie
went TO the university In the day He was working
eighteen hours of the twenty y-four Finally
he matrlculatcd was admitted to the Bar and m
,ounced his Intention of following law
mt 1t Is thing to follow the law and another
thing 10 get an opportunity of practising at It,
Stcucr looked for n position as law clerk But the
market was drugged with law clerls-a habit IL has
not yet overcome. Young Steuer was just commenc-
ing get discouraged when be called at the office of
an acquaintance
His First Case.
Look here said the acquaintance. can you raise
hundred dolars?"
thought and imagined that perhaps he could
get q little desk space here. then said
uaintnnce ''You can let some of the rest of IT
won't cost you much. And perhaps there
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-09
BY GARNET WARREN.

Copyright By Co All rights ssorved1
NEW YORK Saturday.
O L would be quite objectionable to refer again
to America the land of opportunity were 1t not
very startlingy the land of opportunity. Oppor-
tunity indeed, is our very chiefest asset 1t turks
about dark places seeking to waylay 1t fingers
about with every Kidnapping intent 1t raises
uglated arms and bcckons,
1t asks few qualities. doubtless, solid but
dccorativc-courage, perseverance, and IT Is exbil-
araed at the least suggestion of Intelligence
1t pursues Its silent work In the paths OF finance
and the professions in the fields of construction
of education, where minds houses built Its
trail lends to the theatre which is law unto itself
Indeed the first Job" of the successful men
In all the things which do Invariably small
jobs. They usually Jobs which in other
tries would have been dooms. They were the crudest
kinds of jobs They jobs usually pursued
through bnndIcapS.
AS an instance consider the career OF Max Stcucr.
Some one has said of Mr. Max Steuer that in the last
FIVE years he has appeared in moro than any
other attorney In The world There is perhaps.
law court day In the year which does find Mr.
Max Stcuer pleader in the law courts AS cross
examiner he Is reputed to be brilliant Yet it would
be difficult for many romance to match the con
trasts of Mr. Steuer's career
Max Steuers Career
he was born In Homono In Austria. His family
In the fashion Of many immigrant familics-nrrivcd
here In fragments. The father FIRST He sent
for the sister Both sent for The balance of the fam
ny, among the humble body OF which came young
Max Steuer In the stecrage This was In -. They
lived in the most crowded section OF the east side
Their bedroom than bedroom for the
family. IT also dining and cooking and sleep
ing apartment. Max Scuers father worked In a
taiors sweatsbop, to which present young Steuer
went after school hours. From nine TO three he
TO school, and from three to nine he worked the
sweatshop-an unmatched equilibrium of hours
His particular activity to pull stitches from
partially made coats His pay ranged from dollar
and half TO n munl0cent three dollars n week But
he supplemented this by bringing frankfurtcrs and
other democratic food to the swcatshop workers
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BY the Next Evening He Had Taken
Photo by Marceau,

be too much. The produced SO and Steuer SET
TO work He recovered the mans $500 When he
paid his client the money the man asked what IT
he owed him You paid my fee" said Steuer,
Il only asked $25."
The took $500 from the $4,000 which Steucr
had just returned him, "Wll this satisfy you?" he
said Amply" said young Steucr who thought that
law might be pretty good thing after all That
the turning of the tide From that day Steuer did
not think of hunting Jobs any more Clients into
the habit of pursuing him. They are still Mt 1T
Oscar Hammerstein's First Job.
The picturesque Oscar IIammersten Is another
brilliantly successful man with what might term
n past He born in Berlin in 1871 lie came here
also in that popular means of transportation, the
steernge He needed work with peculiar need he
needed 1t very badly But his training had been pc
cullar His father had intended him TO be professor
and had accordingly taught him languages which Is.
OF course the very foundation of professOrShp. He
also taught him music without the knowledge that
he aferward to apply 1t in the direction of max
Ing million out of grand opera.
When Oscar Hammersteln arrived In New York
however. he found that there was no universal de-
mand professors. Indeed he found no single per
who wanted He stopped at exceedingly
cheap bonrdlng house the east side till his money
exhausted. and then, with trcpidation waited
upon his landady. He will tell you that it the
nervous moment than that which pre-
ceded the engagement OF Nine. Melbu as his first
prlma donna He represented that he hnd
money, but very certain appetite and much ability
TO work. IL asked that something be done to match
the three things up.
Cant work for my board way?" he sus-
gested.
Now, the andady kindly and she thought she
wanted coal carried and fires made and odd mys-
terlous things be done about the Kitchen III you
want to do that for your board you can said She
HummcrStein carried the coal Afterward he heaped
them burning upon the heads of opera stars who at
tempted "hold him up" But the carrying was his
very first job Then one day he advertisement
"Wanted-A boy to learn the tobacco trade" 1t read
He preferred The promise of the tobacco trade to
carrying coal He felt that 1t offered greater future
So he presented himself and the hired him He
put TO cleaning the crude tobacco leaf and after
rolling It, He worked Mt the back of n little
murky store for twelve hours day, At the end Of n
his back felt very tired and his fingers very sore
30 Then the handed 10 him 81. which was his
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small matters here that I'll get the firm TO
turn to you"
So Seuer engaged his small room for $50 a month
lie sublet 1t for SO. Which seems to Indicate that
Homono, In Austria, able TO develop some com.
mercial instinct. However, still Steuer waited for
clients. but they would
AT half-past twelve he would walk out the
streets for hour to pretend chat he had been
out 10 luncheon. He was beginning think OF look
ing for job-any job. Then one Gne morning
man walked into his room. He said he had been
ommended. Who recommended him Steuer does
know to this day The man said that he had come
to give him The man had purchased foreign
stocks and had received fraudulent certificate The
man asked him what his fee would be. StcUer
sldered with great trepdatlon and asked II $2j would
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He Became a Tracer
Of Drawings

afraid that l had made mistake. l scared
TO death. The physician came around and said. Look
here Theodore, those posts look II they were
made for cathedral They look about the size OF n
town Well. went around TO look ut them l was
scared TO death-t my FIRST job, you know. My
professional reputation with the negbbors depended
those first posts Well. they did look big, but the
roof wasn't yet. Wait till they get the roof on
said then it Will be all right Well the roof
altered the whole complexion of the porch That
porch the joy and pride of that physician He
used TO go around after that recommending all his
neghbors have porches, l got $l5 from that first
contract OF mine. 1 think 1t was the :rspest money
oyer felft
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-09
Charles Thorley's Venture.

Charles Thorey florist to the whole arisocratc world
of America and its wife. has had life of varied eX
pericnces perhaps the most interesting Of which was
when he made beginning after having been very
thoroughly and credtably cleaned out by that nne oloi
institution Wall street. He only twenty-five at
the time He previously had made success in -Four
teenth street but great successes don count when
Wall street is working the other way Young Jhorley
owed the respectable OF $120,000 which seems
convincing for the period OF lSSp, anu incohu-
nently left Fourteenth street He not WnaturaIiy
wanted a clean leaf TO start upon. That morning he
walked Broadway without IL dollnr-with less tDnn
dolar-and he thought thought of what he could do
'sThcn, all a sudden, sign seemed 10 flash out
upon me- he said store to let, ii was Ii seemed
10 etach itself from surroundings, Well thousnt
and thought, and went down next morning lhere
was that sign still 1t directed me To the Gi'sey
estate which little further along the way
went In aud very grun man told me that neither ol
the Mr. Gilseys was In, 50 l waited aud waited ana
finally went In again \ very harsh looking man met
lne--my but he sour looking man! ! gu We sot
n store to let said What do YOU want that Store
for2 he asked Flowers said l. There was horiS'
in there just before and he made failure OF H. he
said That's nl right l said Well. then be com
menced To ask me questions. What was my name
Was the place big enough? Was sure L could hnhdie
IL? said Yes To everything Then he halI eoSeu
his eyes and sat looking. After while he said' you
can have the place l said AN right slowly won
derng where was going to get the money from
Well then the old Mr.. Gilsey for 1t was he) looked
at Mr. Thorlcy and said But you haven't even asSeu
The price, That was nj right. that was all rgn stio
NIr Thorley II he wanted the the price wash
nm object 'WelI It's $500 year said the older
Gilsey and our terms three months ln au'hhce'
A Clean Sweep.
Charles Thorley murmured the familiar MI Tlgnt
onca more And they went TO the place II was
small md bare and the paper was torn OH. me un'
snccessful florist hud made clean sweep before lie
Now Mr. Thorley had gem iD his pocket He had
hsS to I, for sentimental reasons and 1t was the only
thing which he possessed, After viewing tue nltle
sbon IIe found and said TO the an;-How
much VIII you give me for that! Give me as much rs
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could hardly wait till opened that envelope ! went
away by myself to do this thing ! remember tore
open the envelope and there was $40 Two and a
half week my snIary"
AZ nineteen ne went to Burnhom & Root. archl-
tccts. OF Chicago where he stayed till he was twenty.
hve. Then he proudly forth in business for him
self. His first job from n ucghbor-a physi-
elan IT was to design porch for his house
when the posts up" said Mr.. Starrett II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
DR. COOK STILL HAS
 STRONG FRIENDS

New York, April 2.-(Special)-Capt. B. F. Osbon of the Arctic club announces today that he had received letters from mi.lionaires offering backing to the extent Of more than $1 100000 for pr. Frederick A. Cook to prove his claim that he and not Commander Peary discovered the north pole Captain Osbon said that pr. Cook had received many offers to take the lecture platform and that he would take up both matters with the explorer when he reached New York. MT. Cook is expected here within three weeks.
 "The report that Dr. Cook is coming hero to establish himself at big hotel is nonsense" said Captain Osbon. "He does not want any publicity until he has con- yinced the world of the wrong that has been done him. This offer of $1,000,O00 to establish the truth of his claims is avail able without doubt. We have been in communication with some of the best scientists in the world and some of these have been retained. We have already ascertained that on the day Peary says he reached the pole and took observations from the sun there was not enough sun to make it possible. pr. Cook will come in quietly and live quietly. He has re- ceived enormous guarantees to go on the lecture platform, but I do not know whether he will accept the proposition.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
The Early Man

From the New York World.
 A novel feat in sculpture has been performed by Prof. Richard Swann Luil of Yale university, who has made life size model in clay of prehistoric man in the proportions and with the features which the latest theories of science at tribute to him.
 The type of man represented is be- lieved to have dwelt in Europe previous to the last glacial period, or from 100000 to 200,o0O years ago, and the figure is constructed in accordance with the di- mensions of the human skulls and other remains found in caves or rock shelters in Germany, Belgium, Croatia dnd. France. He is depicted as five feet three inches in height, powerful and hairy, and showing a development far removed from the ape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
BEETLES DOING
 UNTOLD DAMAGE
NETTING BUDS OFF OF TREES-CAP- ITAI DOCKET IN BALDWIN C0UN- TY THIS WEEK-NEW PAPER MAKES INITIAL APPEARANCE

Bay Minette, April 2.-(Special. )-The beetle pest which has been felt in this county and others neighboring has be- come so general throughout all sections that every night thousands of them can be seen about the trees, nipping off the leaves, and in the morning the ground is found covered with pieces of the tender leaves destroyed through the night. The chief attack of the beetle is upon the pe- can tree and the water oak The tender leaves on either of these trees makes ex- eeilent feed for the bug. The same pest visited this section of the country about two years ago, though at that time there were not nearly so many of them. Where the bug stays during the day is unknown. but just at dusk they appear upon the trees and keep up their destructive work practically all night. Since the bug is apparently short-lived and travels rapidly, no effort is being made to stop it's rav- ages.
 The sessions of the circuit court have closed for this week, the civil cases hay- ing been disposed of by various methods. Only few juries have tried cases. Poli- tics is mixing too heavily with the parties Interested in the courts and the progress of the mill of justice has been hampered considerably. Next week the murder cases will come up. a number of which are of intense interest, and a large crowd Is expected through the week. Most of the visiting attorneys have returned to their respective homes.
 T.. L. Colley editor and owner of the Baldwin County News. ran off his first issue Friday. The paper is newsy and will no doubt take we'll throughout the county His subscription list is the largest in the county.
 The brick work on the new postoffice building has been completed and Monday morning force of carpenters will be set to work putting in the finishing touches. The building will be occupied in less than a month.
 Farmers throughout the county report potato prospects this year the best for several years. The acreage is about double that of last year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
SHELTON AGREED
 TO LEAVE STATE

Florence, April 2.-(Special.)- case of the state against Dee Shelton has been called for the last time, at least in the state of Alabama The iury which sat on the case reported 1t late hour last night that they tould not reach verdict, after be- Ing out over five hours, and were dis charged by Judge Almon.
 The prisoner was sent for by :he sucge and told that if he would agree to leave the state and never return he would be released on his own recog- nizance. Shelton agreed to this and left this afternoon on the northbound Louisville and Nashville train. Judge Amor had given him until Monday ro get out of the state and stated that If he ever returned he would be ar rested and tried again for murder.
 The jury stood six for conviction and Blk for acquittal and mistrial was not what had been expected from the hrst, as public opinion is strong agalnst Shelton here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
 AMERICAN AVIATOR SERIOUSL YINJURED

San Francisco, April 2.-(special.)- Frank Johnson, the millionaire aviator, was seriously injured while making a flight at the meet at Neptune Gardens here this afternoon. Johnson had sailed In his biplane twice around the field and was coming back toward the grandstand pn the third round when the brisk breeze caught full under the wings of the aero plane and turned the machine over.
 The contrivance fell to the ground and Johnson was pinned under the heavy mo- tor. The spectators were thrown into a panic and it was with difficulty that those In the stand were quieted