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Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

c0rding 70 the size OF the house. A woman
building a large duplex house recently took
figures from 1--WE contractors. The figures
ran hlgher than she desired. but instead
or permitting her to rs-plan her house. her
architect persuaded her to take Figures
from i've more contractors. The lowest Of
these proved to be about t.0oo lower than
the lowest bid obtained from the first i've
contractors. a man informed his architect
that ne wanted to invest exactly N5el IN
his home. Estimates were taken from three
contractors the lowest bid being A.g60. An
other contractor a first ciassman about
that time. asked Dermissi to figure Oh
the work his bid was - 3oa These are oa-v
two Of the many common experiences which
90 20 show the ACCESSIBILITY Of taking
number OF bids FOR the construction Of a
home or building
In conclusion. tie following condensed
advice il given with reference to the proper
handling Of the cost problem. First. make
Up your mind that YOU can not get some
thing FOR nothing in the building BUSH
ness. Second, II your total cost must be
limited to a certain amount. do not include
in the original plans unnecessary Injuries.
Third. take your architect advice when
he recommends certain omissions in order
to keep down the cost Fourth, be sure
to have enough sets o. plans 80 that you
can conveniently take a number OF esti-
mates with a short space of time for each
contractor viii take from five TO ten days
to figure up the work the time being con-
sumed by them in taking estimates for the
various items. materials. etc. Fifth. be
sure that YOU have engaged a competent
architect as 10 avoid a long list OF
extras because OF omissions in the plans
and Specifications. sixth. let your con-
tract for the entire construction to one
general contractor. except the heating and
plumbing, which let under separate con-
tract, thereby saving the commission which
your contractor would charge for handling
the latter and subletting IT,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

% MAKE a new application Of the
IL" old familiar saying BE- is quite
a customar-, ming Tor people 60
Attempt the building Of home
fFf with a cream appetite and
80 skim milk pockstbook. The
uncertainty OF thu actual cost of a home
SCENE TO lure the prospective homebuider
into attempting the Impossible. Through
previous experiences OF their own or Of
their friends they know thai the esti-
mates received from several contractors
for the construction OF a house viii some
times vary AZ much as % per cent and
the variance Of - per cent being a very
common experiences. This creates an IN
certainty a. 70 what the actual cost u
every house viii be and under these cir
cunstances o. is only naaIral that the hu-
man passion OF wanting something for
nothing should tempt the homebuilder into
adding a number of little Injuries and sDe-
cial features which are not entirely es-
sential in a hope that a contractor will
Be found somewhere anxious enough for
work to take the contract az price COM
iuE within the amount they desire 20 spend.
This Is a form OF gambling on future
possibilities which rule results
in the homebuiider spending considerably
more for mis- house than ne originally in
tended or else emitting a number Of the
( extra items in order 70 keep the price
down. While there r. considerable DIFF
ference in estimates given By contractors.
/ there g. a minimum under which the Gust
Z Of house can NOT 60 without reduction
either in the quality Of materials OF the
rooms. The building OF a home Is the same
as anything else made to order. while
suit OG clothes. which varies some in price
.
great variance in cost depends more upon
the quality Of ciotn selected. The construc-
ton Of a home Involves the consideration
Of a. multitude Of details. The average
home contains about two hundred kinds
! OF materials. Including the different kinds
u lumber and finished mill work. II the
( second or third grade OF each is used IN
Z stead Of the best. IL viii make CON
( siderable difference IN the total cost OF
the house with the differences in the cost
Of each item amounting 70 very little.
An architect is frequently called upon IN
give a preliminary estimate as 20 the cost
Of constructing a home from a certain plan.
Some prospective home builders even try
to make him guarantee that home will
not cost over a certain amount II the
architect was permitted to plan the house
independent OF the owner and then take
estimates on the home there would not
be any difficulty FOR him to plan a home
coming within any reasonable amount that
rhey might stipulate. But when man
states that he does not want TO paw over
S,91o for a home and then insists on having
quarter sawed white oak when he ought
20 be using red oak for interior finish a
brick veneer when he cannot afford 70
put IN anything better than siding tile
roof when the price stipulated would only
include shingles and insist on the houss
containing a certain amount OF rooms. he
cannot consistently make his architeci
guarantees the cost 1T his house. Then
again. the cost OF the house very often
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depends upon the good business manage
inert OF the home builder in obtaining
estimates. II would be a very difficult
matter for an architect to estimate the
business ability OF his clients and this
maaes IL sometimes more difficult 70 egu-
mate accurately the cost Of a house. The
architect is in a position to know by prsvi-
Gus experience approximately the cost Of
a hause but not having the gift OF
prOphesy he cannot state accurately Just
what the lowest contractors estimate will
be. Sometimes his estimate is low and
sometimes high. He stands in the same
position as one OF the contractors estimat-
ing on the work
A mistake often made by hOmehullders
is not in taking enough estimates on the
cost Of the building The architect ought
to furnish from three to five sets OF plans
so thar q number OF contractors can be
figuring on the work at one time. The
owner should send these plans out for ss-
Inmates from i've TO ten contractors ae-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

for the stare. He then removed 70 Pooa-
telio ami made that his home he has
buiit uD fortune in Idaho and Is now one
of the leading bankers Of the state and has
other interests Of much importance IN add
ton 10 those OF his bank. pushing, en-
thusiastic example or western pluck and
enterprise. Culonei InEersOll advises the
Young men Of the older sections to get into
Idaho early and TO grasp the big oppOr-
tunites nov open 20 them- He SAYS that
they can do what he has done. and We
know that most men are satisfied TO retire
long before they acquire the success which
he has achieved However. the colonel is
not the kind of man to ever retire. Tor hs
Is working for Idahos future and hts work
for her has brought a fortune TO himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

the woodmen's Ouilding. columns about
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

colonies James n. Inss-sOi. MO recently
visited IN Omaha, while not a native Of
Nebraska having been born IN Illinois
near Chicago. was acquainted with this
city 10 The days when f. was sriil one q
the outposts Of the west AS a boy o. Is
ne was stationed az Fort Omaha 10 the
auartermasters department. and while
there was specially commended for bravery
BY Captain HAYS wren called on for field
work
In 1ss7 Colonel IngersoIi located in Idaho.
going first 10 Boise. immediately becoming
a factor in the grown OF that great state.
He remained az Boise until he saw the op-
portunities at Pocateilo. realizing that that
cirg was destined TO become the gate city
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

Many dealers report A large demand for
Sow-priced houses to be bought on Install
menta. Not a great many such are on the
market because they have been a pretty
COED Investment in the past and owners
prefer to rent rataer than TO sell. At least
this is tne preference on frame houses for
the eirst few years before depreciation has
begun "a be heavy and before repairs begin
10 be great aa they viii later selling
frame houses after renting them three OF
four years is nov a practice among some Ct
the siirewdest real estate owners
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Timely Real Estate Gossip

which got into print last summer has
again been the subject Of gossip. owing TO
srCries-and prompt deniala-that the build
ing would not be begun until 1913 The fact
u.s. and tbs was announced a few weeks
ago In The Bee. that BY the terms OF the
bonus subscription work must BE- begun
this fall and this Is the fixed Intention.
although only part OF the ground can be
utilized. This Is the sixty-six feet now oc-
cupied b. the Union Quitting company.
Meanwhile negotiations with the Milton
Rogers company for its lease are at q
standstiu. neither party being willing to
cOnceds anything
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18
l6 YEARS OF SKIN DISEASE

For sixteen long years have been
suffering with a bad case of skin dis
ease. While a child there broke out a
red sore on the legs just in back Of
my knees. 1t waxed from bad to worse,
and at last 1 saw had a bad skin
disease. l tried many widely known
doctors in different cities but to no
satisfactory result. The plague both
cred me more in warm weather than
in winter and being on my leg joints
it made 1t impossible for me to walk,
and was forced to stay indoors in the
warmest weather. My hopes of recov-
cry were by this time spent. SIeepless
nights and restless days made life an
unbearable burden. At last I was
advised to try the Cuticura remedies
GCuticura Soap, Ointment and PiIls1
and I did not need more than a trial
to convince me that was on the road
of success this time. I bought two
sets of the Cuticura Remedies and
after these were gone 1 was differ
ent man entirely. 1 am now the hap
piest man that there is at least one
true care for skin diseases. Leonard
A. Hawtof, IL Nostrand Ave-, Brook
iyn, N. Y, July 80 and Aug. 8, '09."
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Among the first people he met were
the Harrimans. Mr.. Hartman was
building his wonderful estate at Ar
den, N. Y, and he wanted some one
to do a little sculpture for him 1t
happened that Mr.. Rumsey got the
billet. He did it well, too. Then Miss
Harriman-devotedt to horses-thought
that frieze of bas-reliefs of horses
would look we'll in the library.
Charles Rumsey got that commits
sion. One of the handsomest rooms
at Arden today is the library OF
course, Miss Hartman often came to
see the young sculptor at work Then
they got to know each other better
and it CHANGED that Mr.. Rumsey told
of his love of horses. There was a
common ground at once. Miss Harri-
man is quite as much a horsewoman
as he is horseman- Both liked polo
Mr.. Rumsey has played it ever since
he was a youngster; Miss Hartman
has always watched 1t. And so 1t
transpired that he rode Miss Harri-
mans horse at the private races and
after falling twice, finally won
Miss Hartman wanted a horse mod
eled. So she gave the work to young
Rumsey. Then she wanted a sculp-
tured relief of herself on horseback.
What was more natural than that Mr..
mother or some other relative she
| visited the little studio In East Fifty
ninth street day after day.
Mr. Rumsey worked well with his
! clay and his bronze. and Miss Har-
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riman's commissions were executed
5ust to her liking. And there were
other ones, too, at the same time MI.
Rumsey did a fountain for one of the.
Buffalo parks, to follow it up with a
bronze plaque of his sister, Mrs
Charles Goodyear of Buffalo, on her
favorite horse, with her dog playing
in front.
He did a bronze of a calf and a
colt saying Good morningi" This
was highly praised by the critics. He
did another bronze of horse and RI
der drinking from the same spring on
the desert, and this he named
Found" 1.-The Horse Trainers" was
his next bronze, a spirited represen-
tation of two men breaking in a pair
of native horses Then he modelled
a "Bacchante," which won high en-
comiums. He was seeing Miss Har-
riman almost daily, too.
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STEPS FASTENED BY LOVE
Sight of True Devotion Repaid Gate.
keeper for His Violation of
the. Rules.

She was rusing through the gate
past Bill Gibson, the gateman, like
passenger train by a flag station, but
Gibson stopped her.
Lets see your ticket, lady," he
asked, politely enough.
'Oh, 1 have no ticket" she said.
'but won't you please let me through
I want to"
Its against the rules" cut in Glib
SON.
Yes, but / want to be there on
the platform'-all this breathlessly-
I'm so anxious to meet him."
We'll, go on through" Gibson told
her. Il guess it'll be all right" Then
to himself he soliloquized: why not?
Perhaps she won't always be so keen
to meet him. Probably hasn't been
married but a month or So Mebby
isn't married yet at all. Far be it
from me to interrupt her in such nice
little attentions"
The train came in Gibson sort of
looked out of the tail of his eye for a
chance to witness the happy reunion.
Such sights illumine the dark recesses
of the dingy old depot
In moment he caught sight Of her.
But her husband or sweetheart@ii
she has one or the other-was not
with her. However, she was not alone
Under her arm she clutched tightly
a compact brindle English bulldog
with a countenance like a dissipated
gargoyle--Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Casey at the Bat.

This famous poem is contained in the
Coca Cola Baseball Record Book for
1910, together with records, schedules
for both leagues and other valuable
baseball information compiled by au-
thorities. This interesting book sent
by the Coca Cola Co., of Atlanta, Ga,
on receipt of &c stamp for postage.
Also copy of their booklet "The Truth
About Coca Cola" which tells all about
this delicious beverage and why it is
so pure, wholesome and refreshing
Are you ever observation-disclosures
Drink Coca Cola-it is cooling, re
lieves fatigue and quenches the thirst
At soda fountains and carbonated in
bottles-5c everywhere.
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Good Work Proceeds Slowly.

AT the present rate of increase near
ly forty-five years must elapse before
sufficient hospital accommodations to
provide for all the INDECENT consump-
tives in the United States will be pro
vided, declares the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis. Although over 1000
beds in hospitals, sanatoria, camps
and wards for tuberculous patients
were established last year, there are
fully 100000 INDECENT consumptives
who ought to be placed in such institu-
tions and a total of only 22,720 beds in
the entire country. On May 1, 1909,
there were 1924 beds for consump-
tives and 294 institutions. The annual
report of the national association
shows an increase of SO institutions
and $500 beds.
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of Mary Hartman She has recently
married young Charles Cary Rumsey
of New York and Buffalo. He rode
her horse that eventful day-for him
and for her-two years ago at Au-
gust Belmont's race track, Belmont
park, on Long island, just outside the
limits of New York city
The races were private. All the
young bloods of New York's smartest
set, and some of the young woman,
had their horses entered, and Mr. Bel
mont had given them the use of his
track Among others who had en-
tered was Miss Hartman, eldest
daughter of E. H. Hartman, then
very much the master mind of Amer
lean railway finance.
Twice before had Miss Hartman
tried to win a race with this same
horse. Twice before had young Mr..
Rumsey ridden-only to be beaten.
This time he won-not only the race,
but bride. And against the pro-
tests of Miss Hartman, who didn't
want him to ride. Why?
1t was an awful day. The rain
was falling and the track was fetlock
deep in mud. Miss Hartman sug-
gested that her horse be withdrawn
she didn't want young Mr.. Rumsey
to take a chance with Fate and per.
haps be hurt, or even worse.
You don't know him." said some
one, when she suggested that she
withdraw her entry.
If the truth must be known, Miss
HarPiman's horse was no wonder. He
got off last and every minute the big
field ahead was kicking up the mud
in the faces of horses and riders. Bu
young Mr.. Rumsey kept on the jot
despite his handicap of bad horse ant
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18
At the Bovine Faucets.

81 sent my little boy on his first visit
to the country last week." said Wash
ington Heights milk dealer. Although
my boyhood was passed on the old
farm, Willie has grown to the age of
eight in the city. He had been watch
ing Uncle Hezekiah milk the COW on
his first evening, and when he re-
turned to the house his aunt asked
him:
els Uncle Hezzie through milking
yet, Willie!
"'Not yet,' answered Willie. He
has finished two faucets and has just
begun on the other two"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18
eNAT CAUSES PELLAeRA.
Committee on Disease in Europe Says
Corn Is Not to Blame.

London, May 14.-Dr. Sambon,
member of the Field committee which
has been investigating the disease
pellagra, telegraphs from Rome that
the committee has definitely proved
that maize or Indian corn is not the
cause of pellagra-
The committee finds that the para
site conveyor of the disease is the
'simulium repans," a species of biting
gnat-
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Up to Pa.

Papa, sisters liar!"
why, why! Jennie, you mustn't say
such things"
81 can prove it by your own self.
Last night 1 heard her say, Charlie.
I'll call papa if you dare to do it
again.' And he did it twice more Did
you hear her call?''
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Time of Engagement
Not a Public Affair.

i imG OF engagement
Not a Public Affair.
ALI this time Rumsey was riding
horses and meeting people, and Miss
Hartman was there to see him The
young woman loves polo, and few
play that strenuous game better than
Mr.. Rumsey, who learned it from his
polo playing uncles, Trumbul Cary,
Thomas Cary, Doctor Charles Cary,
George Cary and Seward Cary, all or
Buffalo. They brought the game to
this country more than 80 years ago
and are at it still. One of Charles
Rumsey's proudest possessions is
souvenir photograph of himself on
team with the sons of John G. Mil
burn, formerly of Buffalo and now
of New York, with H. Townsend Da-
Wis, playing against a team OF four
of his uncles. 1t might be mentioned
that the uncles whipped the young
sters to a fragile. Occasionally Miss
Hartman saw Mt. Rumsey play polo.
Newspaper representatives are not
present when young people decide to
become engaged. However. 1t might.
have been his polo or his riding or his
sculpture-or just perhaps himself
but, anyway, something was said one
Miss Hartman were riding together
that induced Mrs. Hartman to an
nounce an engagement
1t was a quiet wedding because of
the mourning of the Harrimans. 1t
took place at Arden, n. Y, in the pres
ence of the two families, with few
friends. Afterward Mrs. Hartman
| went to Europe.
TO- r-fr,ar, n
| went to Buffalo to visit the fam
lily into which she has married.
! There she saw many new faces.
Her unaffected manner, her girl
ish ways, her apparent desire to
| make friends wherever she might be.
| added to her prestige. Being in mourn
| ing, she was not able to see Buffalo
| society. Her visit was a most quiet
| one. Nevertheless she made a most
| favorable impression
| She was distressed at the publicity
| given to her coming marriage, as were
| the family of the young man himself
| because of her mourning. At the Rum
| sey home, where she was staying, al
information was refused.
1t may be said, however, that Mr.
| Rumsey has three sisters, two OF
them married and a young brother
| Miss Hartman is an executor of hel
fathers estate and is worth perhaps
| 500, 100000. She has one married
sister, Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, and al
unmarried one, Miss Carol. She ha:
two brothers, w. A. Hartman and Ro
land Hartman. She and her mothel
have managed Mr.. Harriman's estate
since his death, and to her has fallel
the conduct of the $4,000 acre plac'
at Arden, where she was married.
1t might happen that some da.
young Mr.. Rumsey might take hi
wife to his home in Buffalo, there t.
make their abiding place. 1t wa
| built before the Harrimans had a per
ny, even if the degroom-to-be /
| just a sculptor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18
An Average

Doesn't it annoy you to be bald
headed?"
Not at ALL" replied the genial citi-
zen when we go out evenings my
wife wears more than enough hair for
two
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PIacarded.

A pretty good joke was that played
on a rotund alderman, who wandered
about the streets bearing a placard on
his broad back inscribed:
''Widened at the expense of the cor
poration. "-Tit-Bits
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Better still.

Invalid-The things / want 20 eat
my doctor says are not good fo- me.
Friend-So you'll have to change
your bill of fare, Ell?
Invalid-No; I'm going to change
doctors
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18

VERY much mud-be-
spattered young man
got off a very tired
horse. His best friend
would not have known
him.
We'll, we won at
laSti" said he.
And that was the be-
ginning of the romance
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For Any Disease or Injury to

the eve, use PETTIT'S EYE SALVE, alb
solutely harmless, acts quickly, 25c. Al
druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo, N Y
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18
Question of Precedent.

What makes you doubt that all
men are born equal?''
''The absolute confidence of every
parent that his baby is superior to
any other in existence
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18
Still a Chance.

Have you ever loved and lost?
asked the sweet young thing.
mot yet" replied the man who Ea'
been divorced three times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18

You will not get to heaven an
quicker by provoking your neighbol
to wishing you were there.
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Dr. Ferces r1easr ut Pellets nrst put up 20 years
Ago They regulate and tnvigorate stomach, liver
| and bowels Sugar-cceted tiny granules-
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Your light goes down as the TEN
perature rises in your neck.
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Mutual Tastes Knit the
Hearts of Young Peep


Hearts of Young People.
The race was two years ago. Mr..
Rumsey had already known the rail-
road mans daughter for two years.
A few months ago Mrs. Hartman,
widow of E. H. Hartman, formally
announced the engagement of her
daughter Mary to young Rumsey, and
Miss Hartman spent some time in
Buffalo as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Laurence D. Rumsey, father and
mother of the next Hartman son-in-
law.
The young people met for the first
time four years ago at Meadow Brook,
L. l., where those who love the horses
best like to foregather. Young Mr.
Rumsey, out of Harvard four years
before, had just returned from Paris,
where he had spent four years at the
Beaux Arts, studying sculpture. He
had taken a little studio in New York.
at SIS East Fifty-ninth street, in a
little old-fashioned building. between
Park and Madison avenues An ar
tistic colony dweils there and those
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-18

Lewis Single Binder cigar is never
doped-only tobacco in its natural state