Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-03
Nebraska
OF TEACHER BUSY One
Program Arranged Keeps Her Con-
stantly on the Go.
BEAVER DOES DAMAGE IN STATE
Resident Of Long Pine Says Little
Animal is Destroying Trees
state Treasurer Has
Record Day
fFrom a staff Correspondent

NEEOIm n bAalI OpTIEsDOnutnIsJ
LINCOLN, Feb. 2.-(Special. )-The Me-
braska school teacher who desires a va
cation may get the time to take IL by
simply turning her little toes to the dali
sizes and passing quietly into the great
beyond.
This Is about the only way the little
schoolmarm will find a surcease from
labor during the coming year. for already
the full program OF work has been en-
larged. From the day sshool is out until
IL begins the next fall there is something
doing and every day must be devoted by
the school teacher to preparation for the
next years work. About the only change
in the work is the change from instructor
to pupil.
The first part Of May. when a majority
Of the schools have been dismissed for
the summer the school ''mRrm" must
hustle to Lincoln TO attend an institute
arranged by Superintendent Bishop and
the State university hustlers. The teach
ers will be able to get back home In tim
to start into the county institutes which
are held during the months of June, July
and August. running along at the same
time will be the junior normals, which
are in session from June 6 to July 26.
One Bright Ray.
EXAMINATIONS DtlOE6 II OOhhNN
tendents will take up whatever time has
not been engaged until school begins in
September. The big guns will get a little
rest out of the summer work, for they
will attend the National Educational asso-
citation meeting in Boston.
In November the teachers are brought
10 Lincoln ct their own expense to listen
to imported instructors, some or whom
are authors of we'll advertised text DOCKS
which need more advertising, and they get
TO eutov a banquet they pay for, arranged
and managed by representatives OF the
book trust.
One teacher who had followed the pro-
gram for about twenty years here in Lin
coin got out of it all the other day py
marrying.
The system is said to be not half bad Tor
institute instructors who manage to eaten
up one lap with the cost OF living ny
means of the fees secured.
Beaver Damage Forests.
Governor s~hallenberge has been asked to
recommend to the legislature the repeal OF
that portion of the game law, which pro-
vides a penalty for killing a beaver. From
Long Pine and portions of. the northwest
ern part of the state complaints are COM
ing to the governor that the beaver Is 40
ing serious damage to the young torests'
which residents are endeavoring to Guilt
vate. Trees of immense size, said one re-
mort are being cut down by the beaver,
while one man who operates q mill by wa
tor mower. said it required half a day al
most every day to pull the branches out
NJ the mill race into which the beavers
have piled them. The governor will make a
thorough investigation into the matter and
"a is possible he will ask the legislature
10 remove the penalty for destroying the
animals.
accord Day for Treasurer.
Tuesday was a record day for the state
treasurer in the matter Of receipts issued.
The collections amounted to $4,000 In
round numbers, which Deputy Treasurer
Frank Brian said was more money than
the office had ever collected In one day, at
least in the present term. With no state
debt. the treasurer believes he will be able
to pull up before the next legislature with
out any outstanding warrants and turn
the office over to his successor with the
state on a cash basis.
state It's own Butcher.
Is it cheaper for the state to do its own
butcherinE thar to buy of the packing
houses is a question Land Commissioner
Cowles is trying to solve. Figures bearing
upon the answer 20 this question were
brought to Mr.. Cowles yesterday by II. f
Bis hop, steward of the asylum at Lincoln.
During the fourth quarter of 1903 the state
puI chased for the institution fifty beef
COWS, which furnished PAGES pounds of
beef, 1877 pounds of hearts, 5S1 pounds of
liver, 131 pounds of tongues, LOT pounds Of
tails, 5S5 pounds of tallow ard scraps. The
COWS cost 1850. The hides from these
COWS brought $500 and the five items aside
from beef were worth SO. so the actual
cost OF the $24,62 pounds of beef vas s., $3.50
or 1874 per hundred. Bids for beef car
cases were not invited for this institution,
but at Norfolk the contract price was $5.94
and at the Soldiers Home at Burkett,
where they also bought carcasses. the price
was $3.50. SO far as these figures go, said
Mr.. Cowles. the state saves a small amount
of money when It buys the cattle, and the
officers at the asylum say that there is a
vast difference in the quality of the meat
the home made product being so much
better than the packing house meat.
Another report will be made at the clos'
OF the present quarter, March 81. Whether
the higher price Of cattle will show
greater or a smaller gain for home mad
beef will be determir ed at that time. Dur
ing the present quarter Norfolk avs a
cents and Burkett 6S cents per hundre'
more for beef than they paid last quarter.
War Anniversary.
Members OF Camp Stotsenburg, Army o
the Philippines, will celebrate the eleventh
anniversary Of the opening OF hostilitie
in the Philippine war Friday evening. The,
Will give an entertainment and oyster sup
per at stotsenburg hall. 1877 South Eleventh
street. The entertainment will consist o
stereopticon Views and battle scenes of tn
Philippines. music, instrumental and vo
cal, by camp and ladies' auxiliary talent
speeches by Judge p. James cosgrave an
Governor ~ShallcSberger. followed by a
oyster supper given by the Stotsenbur
Ladies' auxiliary. All vetreans Of Post
Farragut No. Is. A~ppOmattox No. ala, an
their wives, all ladies OF the Gran
Army Of the Republic and Woman's Re
lief corps and all spanish-American an
Philippine veterans and all ex-soldiers an
wives not affiliating with the above al