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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
To Move Iowa Town
People to Colorado
Plan for Each Business Man to Have
q Branch in the New
Town.

II the plans of j. F.. Sweezy of Omaha
and william Rood. cashier of the Webster
City, Ia. National bank materialize, they
will transplant the latter town to Deer
Trail Colo A special car carrying many
OF the business men of Webster City
passed through Omaha Saturday on the
way TO Denver, there TO leave it's pas
sengers for a trip to Deer Trail. fifty
miles away.
Mr.. Rood, who conceived the idea of
getting his townsmen into the project of
building a second community at Deer
Trail, is financing the idea to a large ex-
tent. The plan Is for every man inter-
ested I'm the undertaking to conduct a
farm as a side issue and establish a
branch OF his principal business at Deer
Trail. The towns name may be changed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
ROYAL Achates.

At Union lodge No. 10, last Thursday
evening, renewed zeal was shown for the
reorganization OF the degree staff and the
putting forth OF an energetic social cam
palgn in the lodge. Emma A. Stoddard
was appointed to take charge of the ladies'
degree staff and names OF cadets were
taken to take part in the drills at the next
meeting. Thursday evening. The entertain
ment TO be given on the last meeting night
in the month was another matter given
consideration and plans are under way to
have Jolly time then,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
BURGLAR DRAWS A RICH HAUL
Furs and JeweIry Worth Five Hun
dFed Dollars Taken from Resi-
dence of @. J. COrkhiIl.

Furs and jewelry worth $500 were taken
from the home of C. J. Corkhill 2656 Pratt
street, by burglars last night The thieves
entered between 7So and $3.50 o'clock
The robbers broke the glass pane In a
door and turned the lock from the inside
in the absence OF members Of the family.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
KANSAS REALTY MEN ACTIVE
Have Publicity Plan Similar to PFS'
posed Nebraska Scheme.
WOULD REPEAL DOUBLE TAX
Now holder OF Mortgage Pays THH as
wen ss the Mar who owns
the Property that Has
Been MOrtHaEed.

To raise 100000 and TO repeal the mort
gage law. which imposes two taxes on
nortgaged property. are the unusual plans
Of Kansas real estate men. according 10
Egbert e. Misner who arrived from To-
peka Friday. Mr.. Misner is a member OF
the Tate Ehrhardt Real Estate company.
and represented the Omaha Real Estate
exchange at the meeting Of the Kansas
Real Estate association at Topeka.
Primed with the new ideas he had
learned at the meeting, Mr. Misner re-
ported Saturday that several hundred Kan
sans will come TO the Land show in Omaha
and attempt to spread the doctrines they
have formulated for themselves.
over 200 real estate men from all over
the state attended the meeting Monday
and Tuesday at Topeka. In the space OF a
few minutes at the banquet. which closed
the affair, the gathering voted 10 raIss
$4,000 for the purpose of advertising the
lands Of the state and TO get another
$4,000 from the state at large for general
advertising.
Advertising Purposes,
According to the plan adopted at the
meeting" said Mr.. Misner, every member
of every real estate firm in the state will
be asked to subscribe $50 to the advertising
fund. There are from 800 TO 100 such bust
ness men and it Is estimated from this fact
that the association will have nearly $4,000
on hand in a short time for its purpose.
This money is to be Used exclusively in
the direction of sending out literature
through the railroads, exploiting Kansas
real estate and stopping the flow OF imml-
grafton that has been going through the
state into other sections. Nebraska real
estate men would do well to follow this
plan inaugurated in Kansas.
The other fund OF $4,000 which is to be
raised is for general newspaper and period
zeal advertising The real estate men who
fail to subscribe according to the order Of
the association will be forced to quit carry
ing on business in the state, II the associa-
ton can have it's way"
Mr.. Misner was enthusiastic over the pro-
posed bill advanced on the mortgage law.
He explained the Kansas association plans
to introduce the bill into the state legis-
ature and have it passed, repeating the
tax on mortgages. THE same evil from
the mortgage law exists in Nebraska and
other states as we'll as in Kansas" he said.
by reason OF this law the man that holdsN
a mortgage has to pay a tax on II and the
man that holds the mortgaged property Is
forced to pay a tax on his property, thus
forming two taxes on one piece Of property.
This condition is an unjust one and should
not exist.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
L. O. O. Z.

Omaha Lodge No. will have work in
the second degree for next Friday night
Beacon Lodge No. 20 will have candi-
date for the first degree on Tuesday night.
South Omaha Lodge No. 14s will put on
the first degree work Monday night.
Dannebrog Lodge No 216 will have work
In the second degree Friday night.
The Douglas County Past Officers asso-
citation will meet at Odd Fellows hall on
Monday night, January %. This will be
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

Loring E. Gaffy. Pierre's popular candl-
date for United States Judge on the South
Dakota district was born in Clinton
county. N. Y, in 1850; removed TO FOn Du
Lac county, Wis. with his parents in 1885;
was educated in the common schools and
high school OF Fon Du Lac with two
terms in business college; read law for
two years with Judge Drury; worked on
his fathers farm when not in school until
q years of age. when he went west to
Grand Island, Neb. Shortly after this he
went into the law office of George II.
Thummel at Grand Island. In 1876 he was
admitted to the bar. In 1877 he went to
Deadwood, S. ID. In 1880 was nominated
for territorial senator on the republican
ticket, but was defeated In the election by
John r. Wilson, democrat. In 1884 he re-
moved to Pierre. $. u. In 1888 he was
elected prosecuting attorney at Pierre and
reelected in 1890 In January 1894, he
was appointed judge of the circuit court
of the Sixth judicial circuit was elected
to that position in 1898 and re-eleced in 1902.
At the close OF his term in 1906 he vol
unfairly retired from the bench to resume
the practice OF his profession at Pierre,
where he has since been an active prac-
titioner.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
Gus Thomas Cheerful Jest.

Augustus Thomas pulled this one at the
annual dinner OF the Association of Theater
Managers OF Greater New York:
Two undertakers happened to meet on
Broadway
First NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mike, how is
business?
Second UndeFtaker-Fine. I've got two
on ice and three crossing the river.-New
York Telegram
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

the first regular meeting Of the association
and officers will be elected for the year
Of 1911, and other important matters Will
be up for consideration.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
RornI HinhInnder..

Ferncliffe Castle No ass, Royal High
landers, held regular installation OF Off
GERS Friday evening at Fraternity hall,
Nineteenth and Harvey streets.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
a shOOtiaE Ssraps

with both parties wounded. demands
Bucklsn's Arniea sslve. Heals wounds
sores. burns or injuries. &c For sale by
Beaton Drug Co
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

sword in hand beside the carriage all the
way to the palace This act Abdul Hamid
never forgot
Buchanan Pasha is the first Christian who
ever had actual command of the Turkish
navy. He won the sultans favor by his
honesty. 1t used to be the system so II
is said, for European shipbuiiders to get as
much money as possible for ships as nearly
worthless as the sultan's officers would ac-
cept. The sultan paid in one instance
Sl,s50.OoO and got in return an iron tub
filled with junk, the whole worth perhaps
100000. OF the money that went out Of
the sultan's purse his own officers got
81, 10000 and the contractors pocketed the
modest sum Of $4,000
On several occasions the American, who
usually was sent to shipyards to take de-
livery OF vessels ordered, refused to take
the tubs contracted for until changes had
been made bringing them up to contract
requirements. This made him no friends
among the shipbulders of the particular
government which had the monopoly OF
Turkish contracts at the time, and one day
q note from the embassy OF that power
suggested to the porte that the builders OF
the new vessel would prefer some one else
than Buchanan to take delivery of that
ship Abdul Hands reply was to make
an admiral and pasta out of Buchanan.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
Rrotherhood Of American Women.

HFutheFHouU OF NNFFIcHh NVHHtH'
Homestead Lodge No. l4A OF the Brother
hood OF American Yeomen met IN regular
session Thursday night and installed the
new officers for the year; c. f. Stallcop.
grand master OF ceremonies, from Des
Moines, Ia. installed.
Mrs. Draper served a luncheon.
The Fraternal Union OF America invited
the Yeomen to their spacious apartments,
where the two orders Joined in merry
making.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

ried about the same time, both have child
rem, two daughters in each family; both
are Of the same complexion, both are bald
and both have lived In Logan the same
number OF years. In vocation they differ;
o. l.. Case 10 a real estate dealer; J. T.
Case Is a hardware merchant.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
FraternsI Union Of America Install

FraternaI Union Of America InstRlls.
Banner lodge. No. II. Frathrnal Union OF
America, held its annual installation Of
officers Thursday evening. There was
large attendance. After the business was
over there was dancing and refreshments.
The following officers were installed:
Fraternal master, A. Langfelt justice,
Nellie Van Horn; secretary, J. b. Mason;
treasurer, Cora Carrington; mercy, Clara
Curtis; truth, Minnie Lsnsfelt; guide, John
Kent: sentinel, Louisa Curtis; guard, Harry
Downs; musician, Emily Corr,
A Guarantee OF Business Prosperity
rh. Bee AdNartlsinn Columns
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
The Idea that Won.

one day about two years ago Gates was
leaning against a barbed-wire fence. He
was almost at the last ditch His meagre
funds were almost gone. He was almost
ready TO give Up. but the barb wires sug-
gested means whereby he could reinforce
the concrete. II win just cast some OF
those barbed wires in the concrete" he
thought. Ii WAS happy thought end one
that afterward proved TO be worth millions
Ties werc cast with barhed-wire strands
running lengthwise. Tests showed that
thirty-siN strands twisted in a certain
manner obtained the best results Yet even
then capitalists. whose names are known
throushout the world and who are de
lighted to buy AZ a bargain the patent
rights OF the civil war veteran. would nav
no attention TO the offer which MIR. Gates
made 10 them. They regarded his ideas
as those OF one OF the myriad OF imbecUe
inventors with which railroad officials are
pestered.
The Identity Of The purchasers OF the
Gates patents has not been revealed.
President RenWick OF the san joaquin
Valley railroad was reported TO have said
that Edward Green. son Of Hetty Green
vas heading the syndicate When asked
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

The Key to the situatiOn--Bee Want Ads.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
Making y Mig Hit.

While bringing one OF these new vessels
around from the Atlantic Buchanan made a
big hit with Mohammedans by neglecting
to salute the French nag in Algerian wa
terB The Ottoman government had never
recognized the French occupation OF AL
geria and no Turkish ship had ever put
int Algiers since the occupation.
breakdown in his machinery late one
evening off the Algerian coast Obliged
Buoknam to take refuge in the port Of Al.
giers, which by careful timing he entered
just before daybreak. Three times the
French commander sent out word that no
was ready to return the Turkish salute.
Bucknam's guns did not boom. The port
commander came to tho conclusion that
the habitual worthlessness of Turkish war
ships extended to the guns OF this vessel.
But the Mohammedans came out in small
boats by the thousands to see and touch
the ship Of the one great free power still
ruled by Islam's great caliph They kissed
the ship, they crowded its decks, they
filled TASKS from the sacred water that
washed its sides and they prayed From
far away in the interior faithful Mussul-
mans made three days pilgrimage by
camel back, The excitement became so
for the effect upon tribes further inland,
forbade the natives from visiting the ship.
When Abdul Hamid was overthrow
friends OF Buchanan Pasha in this country
were worried because no mention OF him
came in the dispatches, but his resources
and his ability, they felt, would keep him
going. A friend OF his who was visiting
him while Buchanan was stationed on the
faIa - all
I'VE we're sitting on the balcony Of his
house when in the moonlight we made out
boat containing three men sneaking
through the shadows of the loading
wharf. Buchanan watched them until he
became convinced they were whisky
smugglers We went down to the wharf
and he took off his shoes. coat ana hat.
What are you going TO do?' asked.
I'm going to teach those fellows that
mean what / say when l forbid whisky on
the island, he replied,
Just as the boat got underneath US In
the shadow Bucknam dropped over and
landed right among its occupants. One he
knocked overheard with his fist. Another
got after him with paddle, but Buchanan
grabbed 1t and threw the man over the
side. The third man he knocked endWise
with his fist Then he spent several min
utes showing first one and then another OF
them under the water as they tried to catch
hold Of the boat When ne thought they
had ha1 enough buchanan rowsd around to
the landing stage, and. climbing out Of the
beat kicked 1t toward the smusglers.
Now you can CO. he told them but
don't let me catch you trying to amuggls
whisky into Naos again New York Sun
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Roman Corso

Laura A. Smith in the Indianapolis Star.
 The Corso is the great shopping, visit ing street in Rome. To go on the Corso is like going to market in Indianapolis ana meeting all ones friends there. It Is the promenade of the fashionable world. They have splendid ice cream and ices in Rome and Americans love to sit outside the restaurants at the little tables on the sidewalks and eat ice cream and watch the crowds go by. The Corso 10 a mile long: street of shops and palaces and private houses. sometimes opening into broad piazza. There are verandas and balconies of all shapes and sizes to almost every house, not on one story alone, but often to one room or. anotheR of every story-put there with so little order or regularity that if year after yean and season after season 1t had rained balconies, hailed balconies. showed balco- nies, blown balconies, they could scarcely have come into existence in moro dis orderly manner. This is what Dickens says of the Corso: My objection to 1t was that 1t was many different widths. badly paved and vehicles rushed at us from every direction''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
SKY PILOT OF GREAT LAKES
Has Parish 1900 Miles Long and Large
 Membership

From the Baltimore Sun.
 A parish 1900 miles in length and 300 miles in width is in charge of the Rev. w. II. Law known from Buffalo to Du- luth as the sky pilot of the Great Lakes The membership of this parish runs into the thousands, and the great majority of the parishioners never worship twice, in the same locality, for services are held mostly in the moving ships. Some are human habitation.i s
 No wedding has ever taken place in this parish, no christening of baby, no serv
 Ices for the burial of the dead.
 This sky pilot seeks his parishioDers in a small gasoline boat % feet in length. Be- sides carrying the message of the gospel to these men. he takes to them books, magazines, papers and news of, the out side world.
 His visits are looked forward to by the lighthouse keepers and the light ship crews, for his territory Is so large that he is unable to visit them more than once during the season. He maintains a small circulating library or not more than 70 books. He aIso car ries with him photograph, with rec ords of the most popular hymns
 Some the lighthouses visited are far from the mainland, and the trips to them are hazardous. Standard Rock light, for instance, is nearly 50 miles out from Marquette on Lake Superior. It is erected In small but dangerous reef, which resembles a whales back. The light is 105 feet in height and rests on crib work, which Is encIrcied by a railway and for weeks at a time the weather Is so bad that it Is dan gerous for the keepers to venture out of doors. Between the light and
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City Man as a Farmer

w. J. Spillman of the United States De-
 partment of Agriculture, In Leslie's
 The city man. has one advantage over
 the man who has lived on the farm all
 his life. He realizes that he is Ignorant
 of the principles of agriculture and is not
 only willing to take advice, but will even
 seek it. Unfortunately large number of
 farmers not only do not seek advice, but resent it when It is given to them. Hence 1t Is that the average experienced farm er in this country has labor income
 very little if any better than the wages paid ordinary farm hands This being
 true of men experienced in farming the city man who expects to go on the farm without any experience is doomed to all most certain failure. But If he can hold out until he has gained the necessary ex- perience, and if he happens to be en- dowed with the type of mind that en- ables him to acquire experience rapidly, there is chance for him to succeed.
 Some of the most successful farms in
 In nearly all cases, however, these men, in their, early experience on the farm, suffered the seyerest kind of hardship; but by persistent effort, and especially by
 close application to study of the prin- ciples involved in farming, they finally acquired the knowledge necessary to suc- cess. After they had reached this point the business training they had had in the city enabled them to surpass the ordinary farmer. who has had little business train ing ..f Hf ss~t .S
 A mistake the. city man makes is in be-
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years and years. He had won the big gest order the safe business ever had known and won 1t in a manner little short of spectacular.
 He walked into his office in Phila- delphia pleased with himself and pleased with the world. Picking up the mail that had accumulated In his ab- sence, he opened a letter from head quarters marked personal" 1t was from the vice president and demanded an explanation of why he left his own territory and went Into the division of another branch manager withou. permission from the head office.
 Robbins had to visit New York to ex- plain. It was idle for him to point out to the vice president that he had done something for which he should receive the hearty commendation of the com pany; that in his fidelity to the com pany's interests he had saved 1t from a loss that would be a trade disgrace. The rcint the vice president wanted him dis tlncty to understand was that he had violated the rules. If other men did lker wise there would be no organization. As usual Robbins replied more forcibly than wisely, and soon every one knew there was vacancy in the Philadelphia office.
 The more Robbins thought of his treat ment the more bitter he felt toward the vice president, and determined, In justice to himself, to go to the big banker who was known to be the financial head of
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the company and tell him of the case
 He did. He sat in the anteroom of the bank two hours after his card had gone in, and when at last he was admitted the banker checked him so soon as he under. stood who he was and what was the pur. pose of his visit.
 You come to me to complain of somU matter regarding the management of the safe company he inquired Jelly.
 q come to tell you of an act of injus- tice that"
 Pardon me, but my time is too valuable to be wasted on such matters" said the banker, ringing for the attendant to show Robbins out.
 Robbins was not far from the bankers cffice when he met an old friend, a law yer, who stopped him and told him he looked like thunder and asked him what was the matter.
 Robbins told him the whole story graph. ically.
 Poor fellow said the lawyer. And you don't understand it? How stupid you are for a bright man! Don't you know the banker and his friends are freezing out the minority stockholders? Don't you know that until the little fellows arc forced to sell out to the big ones you could do nothing more offensive than to add to the company's profits? Robbins. I'm ashamed of you. You don't under- stand the first principles of high finance"
 Copyright, 1910, by Richard Spillane.
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that the walters were startled. Let us get back to the office," he urged. Let me get those specifications"
 The architect laughingly permitted Robbins to hurry him along, and in Ehe office little time was lost in getting -he papers Then Robbins raced to his hotel and, giving order not to be disturbed on any account, went to his room and got down to work
 All that afternoon he studied and all the night he studied and figured. He knew factory costs. He knew how far he could go in ordinary competition, but in this instance he had to be guided largely by his judgment He had to figure how the other safe people would bid, knowing as they did that their chief rival was out of the field. It was useless for him to ask for instructions or advice from headquarters, for with out the specifications headquarters could not act intelligently. It all rested with Robbins. Never did Robbins do harder thinking than along about Il o'clock in the morning. He was heavy eyed, tired out. half dead for sleep. For 20 hours he had been hard at it. Then he wrote out his bid. When he had sealed the envelope he went down stairs, had shave and a face massage and then he proceeded to the archi- tects office.
 The architect looked surprised when he saw him.
 "I was going to give you another day or. two" he explained. T didn't mean to punish you, my dear man.
 We'll said Robbins, whether it was punishment or not all depends on what you say when you read the figures there.'
 The architect had opened the other bids. He tore open Robbins envelope, unfolded the sheet and glanced at it.
 Robbins" he said, "by the Lord Har- ry you deserve it. I congratulate you.
 The two men shook hands with a heartiness that probably never had been displayed in that office before.
 Robbins sent telegram to New York and then he went to bed, So soon as he was refreshed he left Pittsburg and proceeded to the factory of the com pany. There he left the specifications and gave directions about the building
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of the safes, and he also gave orders for repairing the safes in the main before he left Pittsburg that work would be done without expense to the Steel prince.
 His work at the factory finished, Robbins started home. He felt an ela- ton such as he had not known in years. He felt the great joy of accomplish ment, of work well done. He had done something remarkable. He had done something the trade would recall for
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lieving what he reads about the possi- bilities of a few acres devoted to fruit It Is true that in exceptional years a single acre of fruit of the proper kind, in a To- cality where there Is good market may bring return of 5000 or s200O but If we were to take the average income per acre of fruit in this country. it is probable that the profit would not be any larger than 1t is from ordinary farm crops. Recent investigations among small fruit farmers recently from the city indicate that as rule they are not successful, and in most cases the farms are for sale at prices even less than were paid for them orig inally -f9