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Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-14

,- CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROvISIONs )
yoeEeRtures af the Trading ana Closing
... ri Prices Cao Hoard of Trade.

aHfep CHICAGO, April 13e--Prospect of rain in
s,,o IiSaneas today was the controlling factor
IN the wheat pit, which induced drop Of
7s % from thevhigh point Corn and oats fell
le off less sharply on liuuidating sales and
,,.s PROVISIONS slumped. from 1bc to 55c.
Covering by shorts under the spell of
reported lack OF rain in Kansas gave q
strong. tore to early trading in wheat. The
Advance carried july up NC to S.O6MGD
105A. Influential local concerns supplied
81 all. damands and inkthe first hour reports
OF light showers, with more rain fore
.caated for Kansas. gave courage to the
y bears, ana the market fell away The
final furry was unmpresslve and the close
was weak, with July hc off at S1.O3As0l
1.03& and September 1c off at 81 O0h
~ Liquidation in corn gave earlv down
ss sNaFd trend to the market which was
further accelerated by the weakness of
Wheat: May fell off from &c to Fbe to
EtF IT9c, the other futures declining with It..
te.y There was a poor demand for cash, corn
81. and prices were about &c off No. yellow
sold at 57%GsSi4c. The futures were weak
4 at the close with May %Gfllc off at 5s2sc.
, $50 Early trade In oats was relatively firmer.
,s May travelled between f3c and 42ikc The
cloE& was weak with May NC off at 42Ssc.
S1 Provisions closed almost at the bottom,
= with the May products as follows: Pork
s55e lower, at s22,40S lard, S5c lower, at
=, 12 72h. ribs, down 15c at st2.G5.
The leading rutlrss ranged as follows:
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Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-14

For Group there is nothing better than
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-14
SON "a whea, Rerlon nnll.,,n.

For Omaha, Neb.. for the twenty-four
hours ending at 8 a. m, 18th meridian
time, Wednesday, April 13 1910:
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Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-14

PEORIA. H.. April 1t-coRN-
No. yellow, 575fc; No, 4 s7hci No. 4 5lc;
no grade, S7G5lc.
OATS steady; No. white. Ssc; No. 4
white. t2c r-f
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-14
London stock Market.

LONDON, April 1S--Americau securities
opened from b to u below parity today
Part OF the list improved on covering dur
ing the first hour, and at noon the market
was quiet with prices ranging from y
below 20 n below yesterdays closing.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-14
Duluth Drain MARKED,

DULUTH. April i2-wHEAT Man.
n.io5k; July, Si.lo5s; No. ! northern. SliO3s
No. 2 northern. N0SY
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

1 factors-excesslve duties on raw ma, terial, desertion of the farms by
 youth, abuse of combination, lack of l organization among consumers, and
 fragrant extravagance, public and pri
 vate. The censure of those who live
 up to their income, or beyond it, who
 ape the rich and give no thought to
 old age or emergency, was not too SC.
 were in Professor Laughlin's able lee.
 ture. And nothing is more whole
 some than his hope of "a new aristoc.
 racy-the aristocracy of the simple life'-the aristocracy of men and
 women who pay less homage to gold
 and more to the virtues of honesty and
 right living" The gospel of the sim.
 pie life has lent itself to satire and
 parody It has encouraged fads and
 posing, insincere and costly expert
 ments. But it will survive ridicule
 and perversion. Extrayagance is
 folly. and simplicity does not mean the giving up of such comforts as are
 necessary to cleanliness, to beauty, to
 economy of effort. The talk of back
 to nature is not all as rational as ii
 might be, but there is a vital element of truth in it. It is, indeed, evidence of healthy reaction against conges
 tion, "whirl' and waste. As writer in the Atlantic points out, the same forces which have produced the cost of living problem will aid in its solu
 tion. Tt seems inevitable,' as he says, that there should develop some general conversion of material into mental wants, and a partial substitu tion of culture for wealth as a meas ure of the value of the individual In fact, even the automobiles, clubs and mechanical pleasures may con. tribute to the revival of simplicity and love of nature. Suburban and rural life has profited by the advance oi machinery, and the trolley has caused | a counter-drift to the open and free | spaces. Never was there more inter. | est among men of affairs than now in | country homes, outings, rural sur roundings. Professor Laughlin's | "aristocracy' is perhaps already in process of creation.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05
@]D0[p(yIL&ND & Yf&gS9GggT[E TENC[Bg

Suez canal has proved to be one of takings in the history of the world, and the Manchester ship canal is now accomplishing all and more than was promised at first.
 Engineers and scientists are making exhaustive studies of the recent floods in Paris, to devise a system which will prevent a repetition of the disaster. It is planned to keep the Seine within its channel either by constructing higher embankments or by carrying the surplus waters around the city in a bypass channel.
 That the steel car is of great value as a protection to passengers in the event of collision was demonstrated in recent clash of two trains in the Hudson tunnnel, New York City. There was no telescoping, as would prob ably have occurred with wooden cars, and the injuries were merely such as resulted from the passengers being thrown down by the shock of the col lision.
 
 Survey shows that the value of the me tallic products of the United States for 1868 was s549,923,116. as against S903.- S02,244 for 19O7 The only increase was in the case of gold-S94, ,560, ,000, against $9O.435, 700. Yet in the case of copper the quantity was greater in 1908 than in 19O7-942, ,570.721 pounds. against 86S, ,996,491 pounds. The value of the non-metallic products also showed a falling off from s1,167, ,705, 720 in 1907 to Sl,045, ,497 ,070 in 1903 The unspecified mineral products, how ever, increased from s100,000 to $250,- coo. Petroleum showed an increase in both quantity and value-179,5 ,572,479 barrels, against 166, 6,O95 1855 barrels, and SIPS, ,706,25S, against $12O.1O6,749.
 A new petroleum field is being de veloped on the northern slopes Of the Caucasus, about fifty miles from the seaport of Touapse. on the Black sea, in the district of Maikop. South Rus sia- It is reported that the thickness of the oil series indicates that the district will take d prominent place among the worlds oil regions The oil is found in Oligocene beds of Tertiary age, and fact of great interest is that the oil beds are everywhere associated with a vast abundance of fish and veg etable remains In one cliff no trace of petroleum is found except in layer of sandy clay, which alone is full of ancient fish remains This is regarded as making the inorganic theory of the crigin of petroleum inadmissible so far. at least. as the Maikop district is concerned.
 At least two Brazilian travellers have described an extraordinary phenom- enon connected with the nests of white ants, or termites Dr. J. s. da Fonseca, who saw the exhibition on the head waters of the Rio Verde, describes the
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

Although the United States Govern ment supports but one national mill tary academy it encourages military training in a number of other schools and colleges by detailing to these insti- tutions officers of the army and navy. These subsidiary military schools are of three kinds. There is, first, the state school which receives financial aid
 from the state government and is re- garded as a part of it's military estab- lishment A notable example of this class of schools is the Virginia Milf tary Institute, famous as the West Point of the Confederacy, and now en- toying the distinction of having more of its graduates in the United States Army than any other school or college. The second class comprises the agri- cultural and mechanical colleges which have received donations of land from the government and which under the terms of these grants are required to give instruction in tactics. Private military schools may be considered as
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

and the art of war, while from the essentially military schools some hun dreds of cadets are turned out annual ly who are thoroughly disciplined and well instructed in the care and hand ling of troops and who will in time of war prove thoroughly competent officers of volunteers. Thus somewhat the same results are obtained from the military schools, though, of course, on a smaller scale, as from the compul- sory military training of European countries. Great attention is paid to horsemanship. Indeed, there is noth- ing that could be more delightful for a boy than to have horse of his own and to be taught all sorts of feats such as these pictures illustrate.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

fled schools varies from the two or three hours per week of drill or lee lures in schools and colleges with mil itary departments to the daily routine of the essentially military institutions in which the cadets live in barracks under constant discipline, march to classes and to meals, and receive a course of theoretical and practical mil itary training which takes as it's mod el and approximates as closely as can be done in private or state institu- ton to the superb course of training at the National Academy at West Point. Even in colleges in which the course is most limited large number of young men receive each year at least a general idea of drill, discipline,
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

the mixing of the component parts being undertaken after long study of the subject. Mir. Hoag finished the inside of the house first. This being done, he lathed the whole outside with wire screen stuff, such as is used for fencing chicken pens This was firmly fastened. The studding was close, and when the wire was on it gave a rigid surface on sides, ends and the slopes of the roof
 first coat of cement It was we'll pressed on. so that it oozed through the meshes of the wire for clinch. ing hold. When this first coating was thoroughly set another and heavier one was spread over the surface Shingle effects were fashioned on the gables, and on the roof the cement was shaped and lined, to give an ap. pearance of slating. Then over the whole outside was laid finishing veneer of cement paint
 The house is as tight as a bottle It is impervious to heat or cold, or leak of rain; and. as it's foundation is a solid ledge, it can defy the frost to wrestle with it. Mir Hoag says the cost of building was about the same as wooden construction would have been, but he says there is no great number of repairs
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

appearance as that of tiny stars, giving the nest the look of a miniature tower brilliantly illuminated. When the nest was struck with a stick the lights went out, only to reappear again little by little Castelnau, in the middle of the last century, beheld a similar specta- cle near the city of Goyaz. He says that the lights were produced by an immense number of small phosphores- cent larva, which withdrew into the galleries of the mound when an at tempt was made to capture them. Prof J. c. Branner of Stanford University remarks that this exhibition is prob ably confined to some particular spe- cies. or to some special occasions or conditions of termite life, since he has lived and travelled ten years Tn Brazil without seeing it.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05
Not q Parallel Case.

Jokes on the doctor are tempting if the doctor suffers no injustice from them He is usually a good, as we'll as a good-natured target for assorted witticisms. writer in the Argonaut has recently related variation of an old jest, the victim of which is the medical man. Among the patients in a certain hospital there was one dis posed to take a dark view of his chances for recovery.
 Cheer up, old mani" admonished the youthful intern attached to the ward wherein the patient lay Your symptoms are identical with those of my own case four years ago. was just as sick as you are. Look at me nowi"
 The patient ran his eye over the phy- sicians stalwart frame.
 What doctor did you have?" he finally asked. feebly.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05
AMBERaRIs TREASURE.
Story of a $3O,OOO Lump and Some
 thing About the Substance.

l Story of a $3O,OOO Lump and Some thing About the Substance. The story of how a Manchester (N. H.) painter found in the St. Law renee river a lump of grayish sub stance weighing thirty-eight pounds, and how he has discovered that the solid fatty stuff is ambergis and is worth s3O,00O. recalls the nearest thing to romance that ever entered into the lives of Gloucester and New Bedford whalers, in the old days when American whalers dared every sea. It was like lottery. Once in lifetime you might chance on the decaying body of whale, giving off an awful smell, and inside that whale would be fortune enough so that you would never have to go to sea again. Charles Reade. as far as we remember, is the only writer to introduce ambergis into fiction. In Love Me Little, Love Me Long' David tells Miss Fountain how the skipper stuffed their noses and ears with cotton steeped in aromatic vinegar. and they lighted short pipes and preached the brig upon the putres- cent monster and grappled to it: and the skipper jumped on it and drove his spade (sharp steeD in behind the whales side fins.'
 It is matter of record that not far from the Windward islands a Yankee skipper in one of the best old whaling years did cut out of a whale 13O pounds of ambergis, which was sold for $500. The price quoted for many years was $6 an ounce Ambergis is often found floating on the sea. partic- ularly of the coast of Brazil and of Madagascar. The Bahamas send more than any other source to market The stuff is a secretion of the sperm whale which dies of the disease producing the perfume matter Chemists find it hard to account for the fact that the smell of the dead whale is so horrible when the substance taken out is valu- able only as a source of sweet smells. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

Hopkinson Smith, who laments the disappearance of amenity and gentle ness from the life of New York, has incidentally furnished definition of a gentleman" which may interest many who know one perfectly well when they see him, but would perhaps be put to it to describe his essential qualities in words. MT. Smith says that a gentle man is clean, honest, courteous to wom- en, kind to children, respectful to old age, considerate to the poor, and sym pathetic toward the under dog" With the slight amendment that he should be courteous to other men as well as to women, this seems satisfactory.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

4 correspondent of the New York Times finds new evidence of American extravaganza and wastefulness in the articles which American families throw away. He calls attention to the fact that a junk-dealer in New York pays the city more than seventeen, hundred dollars a week for the privilege of taking what he pleases from the refuse scews before they are lowed to sea; and that although SC thus pays nearly ninety thousand dollars year, he re ceives three hundred and fifty thou sand for the junk which he rescues from the dump. The correspondent s charge may be true, but his illustra- tion does not prove it. The value of old tin cans. waste paper and the other things which come from the garbage heaps Is due to quantity and propin- quity. There are millions of the cans, and in such a quantity they are sala- ble- The few cans an average family collects are not worth the space they occupy.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

Now it develops it was an office boy who sold stock short and wrecked the Hooking pool. This recalls the New Jerseys Senator's historic maid who mailed compromising stock letters which the Senator had resolved to de stroy, but had inadvertently left on the library table where letters were usually put for the maid to mail. These mistakes of underlings will hap pen in the most carefully regulated families and offices.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05
TIBETAN sENsIBILITY.

The Audubon Society has an uncon- say, since such compassion exists in that distant country, that similar in- fluence is unnecessary. In Sven Hedin's Trans Himalaya" the traveller speaks of the sorrow of Dang Gye, the son of the Governor of Saka-DZong, when one of the caravan shot a wild goose. He was quite overcome at this brutal murder, and could not conceive how the servant could be so heartless and cruel.
 You are right" I answered. 'I am myself sorry for the wild geese. But you must remember that we are trav- elers, and dependent for our livelihood on what the country yields. Often the chase and fishing are our only re- sources"
 "In this district you have plenty of sheep"
 ''Is it not just as wrong to kill sheep and eat their flesh?"
 "Noi" he exclaimed, with passionate decision That is quite another mat ter You will surely not compare sheep to wild geese. There is as much diff ference between them as between sheep and human beings For, like human beings, the wild geese marry and have families. And if you sever such a union by thoughtless shot, you cause sorrow and misery.
 ''The goose which has just been be- reaved of her mate will seek him fruitlessly by day and night, and will never leave the place where he has been murdered. Her life will be empty and forlorn, and she will never enter upon a new union, but will remain a widow, and will soon die of grief. A woman cannot mourn more deeply than she will, and the man who has caused such sorrow draws down pun ishment on himself"
 I had heard in the Lob country sim far tales of the sorrow of the swans when their union was dissolved by death It was moving to witness Gang Gye's tenderness and great sympathy for the wild geese, and felt the deep est sympathy for him. Many noble and sensitive heart beats in the cold and desolate valleys of Tibet.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05
4 BOomerang.

Che of the officials of the Midland railway, coming from Glenwood Springs yesterday, was telling young woman on the train how wonderfully productive Colorado's irrigated ground is.
 Really" he explained. its so rich that girls who walk on it have big feet. It just simply makes their feet grow
 Huh" was the young woman's re- joinder, some of the Colorado men must have been going around walking on their heads Post.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05
A SUNNY SOUL.
She Was Missed for the Brightness
 She Had Difused.

She Had Difused.
 ''The Dyson girls,' as Dulverton ex- pressed it, ''all amounted to some thing; they had faculty-except, of course," it usually added, with an in- dulgent smile, Miss Winnie. She didn't seem to take after the Dysons, somehow. She did her best; she nev- CT shirked; but Lavinia Dyson's best friend could scarcely maintain that she was capable"
 She was gone now, and the gentle, indecisive, fluttering hands had no more tasks to do. The other Dyson girls-elderly women all, bat still girls in Dulverton parlance-sat soberly in the sunny parlor, in companionable silence, each with her task.
 They were busy women, seldom idle even for a moment. Miss Lucretia was a leader in church work; Miss Pamelia was a notable housewife, and took orders for special kinds of pre- serves and cakes and pickles; Miss Anne had worked her way through col lege, and was a teacher in the high school; Amanda, the Widow Cole, had dcne her duty by three children of her own and half dozen stepchildren before she joined her sisters in the old homestead.
 Abruptly Miss Lucretia laid down her scissors. II don't believe any one of us would have been missed so much," she said. 'Its-Pm ashamed to say it's coming to me as surprise. We knew what Winnie was; we knew what she meant at home, and, thank heaveni we loved her for it, and she knew we did; butt never even guessed what sine meant to other peo- pie.
 ''The things that everybody is say ing-the people who stop me in the street." She broke off to master her voice, and finished with a sudden lit tie sobbing laugh of pride: Winnie was an influence in the community. And how amazed she would have been if any one had told her sol"
 ''I know! I krow!" assented Miss Anne. I'm finding it out, too; and I've been trying to make out just how it was. She didn't do much-or say much, even, but she was always so friendly; and she always took it for granted everybody wanted to do the best thing the best way-she never wasted time or strength on worries or resentments, or suspicious. or pet illnesses. People were somehow ashamed not to behave the way she expected them to-
 Yes" agreed Miss Lucretia and then they liked her so much; nobody could help that, and of course that made them want to do what she want ed. She was always so pleasant"
 My girls adored her; they thought there was nobody with such ways and manners as Aunty Winnie" murmured Amanda Young people never seemed to feel the bar of age with her; she seemed so happy"
 An, that was it," cried Miss Anne. "I think it was her way of gathering brightness. and passing it on. Seemed happy-she was happyl She didn't need to do things like the rest of us. She just-shonei No wonder she's missed; it's like losing sunshine"
 "A single sunbeam." quoted Miss Lucretia. softly. from her favorite Saint Francis, "'can disperse many shadows '"-Youth's Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

It is probable that as soon as the Egyptians get time to think it over thoroughly they will discover that they knew it ali along, but did not have the courage to acknowledge it to themselves.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

A Missouri man is advertising for a wife with "a good, wholesome smile" :" Ladies who answer the advertisement should be warned that it will be abso- lutely necessary for them to show him fhe cmile
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05
HOUSE OF CEMENT.

Maine Man Made Himself q Home
 After an Entirely New Pattern.
 In Belfast. Me, there is a house, built by Frank Hoag. believed by the builder and citizens of that place to be the only one of the kind on earth.
 Aside from the blasting and diggins for the cellar. the house was built by Mir. Hoag himself The entire outside, the Bostcn Globe says. is of cement
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

Preventive astronomy" is the apt term that has been applied to the work of certain Chinese officials who are educating the people in regard to Halley's comet. To counteract super stition in this way shows that a knowledge of astronomy may be put to highly practical use.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

A New York preacher is afraid it will soon be possible for people to se- cure divorces merely by telephoning to Reno for them. A lot of other people are busy wondering why he is afraid
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

The subjects of King George of Greece recently greeted him with a storm of "zitos." It should be ex- plained that ''zito" is not at all like a machete or a boomerang. The con- stitution is to be revised, and their storm of '.Zitos' indicated that they were glad
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

J. Pierpont Morgan goes in for old masters, etc, without counting the cost, but 1t is too much to believe that he intends buying a nobleman for a son-in-law.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

Ex-Vice President Fairbanks says war with Japan is impossible. Ex- Secretary Shaw says it is inevitable It would be hard to find a better chance for an argument.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

A New York actress has been ar rested on a charge of stealing dia- moEds. But possibly her press agent can prove an alibi.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

An expedition of Frenchmen has re turned from the antractic regions. They deny indignantly that they dis covered any poles.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

There is a tendency to-day to dis cuss farming as a serious proposi- tion'' Few farmers have found it humorous.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

MT Roosevelt rode a camel in Egypt. He could have ridden two at once, of course, had he desired to startle the natives.
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

Professor Munsterberg says that in this country the woman is the head of the house. Let's admit it and save trouble
The Holbrook news., 1910-08-05

The world will never have a very good opinion of a man who loafs in a barber shop.