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Trained watchmen with automatic counters number The
passerby and value them respects possible customers
Thus fundamentally the United Cigar Stores Co. has grasp
on real estate problems such possessed by no other
Institution in the country
This may be illustrated by recent incident in Con-
neeteut An agent of the Cigar Stores real estate depart
ment valued up scientifically idle property leased from
its wealthy owner cut out the section desired for store
and rented the balance so that the company had Its
rent free and $500 per besides
Jewery stores, restaurants and MANY other forms Of
business are Occupying property owned In fee or under
99year lease by the United Cigar Stores Co. The Company
knows exactly the value Of such locations to its own ous
ness and If anybody else afford to pay more he can
have the premises the cigar store elsewhere and the
company keeps the real estate profit.
The real estate investments of this company stand on
its books at S245ooo An offer OF SoOooOoo or the entire
par value Of the corporation shares would be looked At
II is this real estate investment which il is planned to
capitalize at soooooo for the benefit of the stockholders
and expand by sales of bonds in Europe
1t will not has been enormously repor.d sell the
same to its stockholders for the company is in no need of
money Il is said to have at times more than couple OF
millions in cash on hand
The United Cigar Stores Co. aims to turn IFS business
demand for brand of goods The central warehouses
are not permitted to keep IS days stock Little need
but t S s saa ns . sells for
funds, and especially when it is doing tremendous real
omy expand beyond the lines Of W o Sr OF econ
The United Cigar Stores Co. claim no credit In in
venton for the economical size of its stores This was an
adaptation from London In the old days retail merchant
took most kind of store that cheap enough and big
enough Space seemed to have value irrespective cf hat use
he might make of il. his store wide or deep he
spread out his stock dressed up empty to give an
appearance little dreaming OF the economic waste in the
handling or goods large store spaces But should the
United Cigar Stores Co purchase frontage
and $50 feet of depth would of that space exactly
eupc space needed to do its business without any lost
motion of human hands feet 1t would consider il the
highest economy to throw the balance of the space
il could not he rented
On this principle London tobacconist multiplied MS
stores and to occupy vacant spaces restaurants were esab
shed where expansion could be had in the Of street
entrance. These worth S25 In the CITY of
London alone and sell the London Stock Exchange the
Lyons Restaurants, Limited. 7
takes time as we'll as talent to develop such business
the United Cigar Stores Co. is now upbuldsg but the
future here should be watched and studied by business and
investment interests for President Whelan may be right In
basis in the future for the profitable investments of this
| country
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Until recently railroad transportation the expanding
business of the United States absorbing The major portion
Of the accumuang investment funds of the country Now
capital Is turning steadily to industrial enterprises
President Whean of the United Cigar Stores Co.. to
which .he Supreme has just given clean hill of health
by forcing out the American Tobacco Co. and weny-eght
codeendants from ownership therein tells his friends that
manufacturing and retailing are the only lines left for profit
able enterprise
He has backed his opinion with his fortune and pur-
chased from the defendant litgants all their remaining
United Cigar Co. shares at under 5000 per share thus
assuring himself practical control OF the business he has
been all his life developing.
What his profit in the future may be is not OF such
general interest as valuation Of the business principles
which enable this company to cut the prices OF standard
goods IS to 10 per cent proclaim that nickel in the dollar
Is all the retail profit seeks and yet maintain the faith
that retailing to be in this country one of the great bases
for investments.
Tn. principles under the United Cigar Stores business
appear to be these:
l. Make your directors your partners, pay them
a percentage of the profits bu only from the growth
of the business; and permit them to have no other
business life or thought
2 The business must be of such size that It can
command the lowest prices at wholesale and sell at
the lowest prices at retail, making the quickest turn
over and insuring the freshest goods; and can also
command the best brain staff in every department
from store renting and furnishing to counter work
where every lost motion must be eliminated
3. Capital must be maintained requisite to meet
every problem OF change or growth
study OF this field becomes important to financial, In
vexmen and business interests because therein OF these
prncp appear to have reached their highest development
to date
The old system to raise capital by the credit OF
name, of directors who engaged to supentend the
work of Others third lower degree furnished both the
labor of brain and hand.
With the tremendous accumulation of capital throughout
N. civilized world credit is fleeing great and passing
to craftsmanship which the combination Of labor OF
brain and hand
The late Marshall Field forced his partners steadily out
of the business when they had accumulated an independence
p Morgan said the difficulty in the u S. Steel Corpora
ton u,s 10 find president who did not require all his time
| to spend his income
The business of the United Cigar Stores begins with an
organization of forty to fifty real estate experts that has
taken years train This department costs 100000 per
annum These experts study desirable business locations
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AMERICAN SURGEONS TO
TRY TO STAMP OUT PLAGUE,

0AN JUAN. Porto Rico. June e.
american medical officers viii direct the
Hsrts TO stamp out speedily the bubonic
llAsus. Surgeons Lieut.. Col. Jefferson
J. kean. Major Frederick r. Russell
~ Lieut.. Frederick II. Foucar Of the
xgS1lcai Corps Of the United States
Army. Passed Assistant Surgeon r. II
Creel formerly stationed at Providence,
ana Or. Charles Williams Of Boston. of
~ Public Hssith and Marine Hospital
Osrvics. arrived to-day from New York.
foxtesn deaths have occurred from
oooonio' In Porto Rico. Certificates Of
eealth are now made compulsory for
ppyeans leaving San Juan. on account Of
ogoto0ts from interior towns. r
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GETS
THE EDISON MEDAL.
lnventored Honored for Electrical
Feat Edison Once Attacked
as lmpracticable.

BOSTON. June 2s-The Edison medal
for "meritortous achievement In cleo
tricai science has been awarded TO
George Westinghouse. lie was granted
II because Of the part he played In the
development Of the alternating current
system for light and power.
The medal was presented to Mr.. West
lnghouse last night at the dinner which
closed, at the Hotel somerset the
tyenty-ninth annual convention Of the
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American Institute Of Electrical En-
eineers. II was recalled that the alter
mating current. when introduced to tho
world in 1859. was attacked by none more
vigorously than by Thomas A. Edison
himself. who pronounced II Impractical
bic and deadly"
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Thaw's wife sued b. JeweIier.

Thav We wife Sued ~ Jewe1ler.
Mrs. Evelyn Ncsbit Thaw was sued
yesterday in the Supreme Court by Al
win L. Strasburecr for $40 for jew
elry purchased by her In December.
1909, from Robert Acker. who II now
a bankrupt. strasburger was appoint
ed trustee in bankruptcy by the
United States Court.
Mrs. Thaw was served with the
summons and complaint in white
plains
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HISTORY OF PANAMA.
Spaniards in 18th Century Land
ed at Site of Canal.
Tales Of Rich Gold Deposits Were Ae-
sponsibIs for Many Adventurers
Leaving Home to Seek the Fl
Dorado In the New World.

Colon, Panama.-It was lust for gold
that brought the Spaniards to America
In the fifteenth century. 1t was the
same lust that led them to make many
daring trips of exploration into the
interior. An expedition set out from
the island of Haiti one day in the
year 1913. When the vessel was well
out to the sea, and the wooded shores
OF the island had grown dim in the
distance, the adventures were amaz-
to hear muf1ed shouting from the
hold and a noise of knocking. The
sound was coming from one of a mum.
Der of great casks, supposed to con-
tain dried beef, and when the noisy
cask was discovered and the end
knocked of, well-built young man,
clad in the velvet garments gentlefolk
wore at that time, sprang out. Sev-
eral of the adventures recognized
him as Vasco Nunezele Balboa. a
young man knows to many O. the col
onists of Haiti.
Balboa explained that he had chosen
this way of coming aboard because
his creditors were watching him so
closely that he knew they would
never have permitted him to leave the
island openly, but would have caused
him to be seized and cast into debt
ors' prison.
The destination of this party of ad-
venture was Darien, near the site of
the Panama canal. No man knew
what lay across the isthmus, and in
deed most Spaniards believed at that
time that the West Indies were
islands q the coast of Asia.
When the vessel which Balboa had
boarded so unceremoniously reached
the mainland of Central America
members of the little Spanish colony
already there refused to allow the
captain of the vessel to come ashore,
for he had an evil reputation. The
other men, however, went ashore I'M
der the leadership of Balboa and at
once began trip of exploration. Bal
boa made an alliance with a powerful
IndiSn chief who ruled that portiex
of the land, and married the chiefs
daughter. At the wedding feast the
Indians brought rich gifts of slaves
and gold, and were amazed to see
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doctors say that the only hope of saw
ing their lives rests In an immediate
return to the Hawaiian islands. In
her youth in Philadelphia, Jean Duff.
child model and the idol of the artists,
was Little Mother to ten other chill.
dren. They grew up and passed from
her charge and, all forgot the good
hearted little girl who had cherished
them. Society lost track of Jean DUH
when she went to the west and trav-
eled on the stage.
After her marriage In Hawaii she
returned here with her husband. Klah-
ILL. and baby. Two children were
born later and the family earned their
livelihood by giving Hawaiian music
Jean suppressed her identity, which
was only learned when physician.
who was called to attend her. found a
weak, emaciated shadow Of the IA
nous young beauty. The doctor re-
membered her face at a glance and
Philadelphia society resolved to help
Jean and her little ones by the yard
party, which will be typically Ha-
wa.ian.
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now the eyes of the Spaniards gilt
tered at sight Of the yellow metal and
how they quarreled over it.
At once Balboa fitted up an expedi-
ton to cross the mountains to the
land of gold. With him he took 200
men and pack of savage dogs, which
should attack unfriendly Indians.
Balboa called the new ocean the
South sea. because he was looking
toward the south when first he saw
1t. But he and his followers, though
they had discovered a new ocean,
failed to find the land of gold for
which they had set out. He then re-
turned to Darien and sent word to
the Spanish king of the great discov-
cry which he had made. Then he
caused for small ships to be taken
apart and carried across the noun
tains, believing that somewhere on the
other side of the new ocean lay the
Ell Dorado. These vessels were set up
again and launched. the first European
ships to dip keel in the great South
sea. But before Balboa had equipped
them fully and put out to sea his enc
mics. hurrying across the isthmus,
captured him, accusing him of plots
against the king. There was no evil
dence of any such plotting on Balobo's
part, but those were lawless times,
and the men of Darien were jealous
of Balboa. In less than "a hours he
was tried. found guilty, condemned to
death and beheaded.
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JOHNS FRIENDS WERE LOYAL
Way Men VIII Stick by One
Another.

The bridegroom of three months
babe his wife adieu one morning and
started on business trip to town rs
miles distant. The journey was to be
made by automobile and he promised
to return in time for seven o'clock din
ner as usual.
But no husband appeared when din
ner was served and the anxious wife
watched the hands of the clock as
they journeyed on and announced
that the hour was midnight, and still
the husband failed to appear. The
frantic wife sent kilograms to six
friends OF the groom living in the town
where he might have gone, asking If
he was spending the night with them.
AS dawn appeared farm wagon drove
up containing a farmer and the miss
ing husband and furnishing motor
power for a broken down automobile
that trailed behind Almost simulta-
neously came messenger boy with an
answer to one of the kilograms, fol-
lowed at intervals by five others and
all of the kilograms said:
Yes, John is spending the night
with me-"
In loyalty what surpasses man?
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SHE'S HANDY WITH UNITS
Woman Constable Keeps In Trim b,
Daily Bout With Her
Husband.

San Jose. Cal-Mrs. William F. Cur
~, wife Of William F. Curry, clerk OF
the justice court of San Jose town.
ship, has been sworn In as q deputy
constable to serve without pay. The
appointment was made by Constable
M. F. Marshall.
Interesting stories are told Of Mrs.
Curry's physical prowess. and al
though she has not yet made her first
arrest. it is expected she will give a
good account Of herself should she
have occasion. Every morning she
dons the padded mitts with her hus-
band and they start the day with q
lively three-round go.
That she has punch In either fiss
was demonstrated recently when she
took hand in a domestic quarrel In
her neighborhood and administered a
beating to husband who was abusing
his wife.
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Relies Of IN Ane5ent Civilization on
the Edge Of DE Sahara, in West
Aries. Are Brought Back by
Dr.. Leo Frcbenius.

Berlin phirs- the land of gold
and precious stones OF Queen Sheba
of King SolomOn,s time Is believed to
have been discovered by Dr. Leo Fro
benius, the German explorer and
scholar, who has Eefnnned to Berlin
from q two years. exploration trip in
West Africa Ophzr.~ according to
Doctor FrobenHzs. IL or rather, was.
not located In Rh0iesfa in South
Africa. where expIurers heretofore
have placed II. but In West Africa at
the lower edge Of ne Sahara desert
and in the vicinity or the Niger river.
As proof of his belief that he has dis
covered the land from which King
Solomon obtained tine vast amount of
gold and jewels nor his palaces for
himself and HIS $40 wives, the German
explorer brought 5GG boxes filed with
ceramics, bronzex. articles of gold
and silver. all Of which he dug from
ruins of cities whose history is lost
in the maze Of time
Doctor Frobeniuz says his explora-
tons and his many Finds" show that
the country and ftz pnopae at one time
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Woman and Three California Children
Who Kept Their Heads Were
Heroes.

Anaheim, Cal.-The three-year-oId
girl who chung to board in the well
without fuss, coolly awaiting rescue;
the mother who leaped unhesitatingly
into the well, without knowledge of its
depth, to aid her child; the little FIVE
year-old girl who ran three-quarters of
mile for aid; the boy who promptly
rode to the well, worked his wits and
quickly improvised a way for the res
cue Of the mother and ehild-each of
the four are entitled to awards for
heroism.
This was enacted at the Shannon
Kincaid ranch on the Santiago Canyon
road. M. s. Ingram took his family to
the ranch for the afternoon.
Answering the appeals of the chill
dren for romp on the hillside, Mrs.
Ingram after short visit with her
friend, Mrs. Kincaid, went out with the
little ones. Gathering around an old
well covered with boards. the children
were busily engaged in playing when
one of them worked loose a timber ON
the well. Little Lecna Ingram, aged
three years, was standing on one end
OF the timber and her weight was SUM-
Client to up-end it iaso the we'll The
child went down VITA it.
Mrs. Ingram. some distance away,
witnessed the accidsn ut, ran to the well
and leaped il after the child. She
landed In the waite. fourteen feet be-
low the surface of the ground and found
the little girl clinging to the timber,
which had become lodged between the
walls OF the well at the top Of the
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FINDS OPHIR LAND

enjoyed the very highest degree of
civilization of its time. Bronzes.
ceramics and utensils show that a
high degree of art and skill abounded.
The country, said Doctor Frobenius.
is exceedingly rich in gold and other
valuable minerals The natives,
tribes Of negroes, have made no at
tempt to mine. said the explorer, be-
cause of their religion, which forbids
1t, but fond as they are of gold orna-
ments. have been deferred by the su-
perstitious fear of "evil spirits of an
cient times, which they believe guard
the treasures. Doctor Frobenius is
now engaged in giving the details of
his discoveries in book which he is
writing.
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ONCE NOTED BEAUTY is ILL
Jean Duff, TubercuIar, Sent Back to
Native Honolulu by People Of
PhiladeIphia.

Philadelphia-The three Hawaiian
children of Jean Duff, once world IA
nous as an artists model, will give a
Honolulu yard party and many of the
most fashionable people in Philadel-
phia will be present to hear the music
of the guitars and the Ukolele and buy
beads which the children, will sell to
help take their father and mother back
to Honolulu and into the sunshine Of
the Pacific isles.
Jean Duff has contracted consump-
ton from her Kanaka husband and
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Two Frenchmen, in visiting an art
gallery. stopped to admire 2 painting
by an American. The artist happened
to be in the gallery and In broken
English one OF the Frenchmen asked:
How did monsieur ever catch such a
wonderful picture?"
o. replied the artist, with a far
away look. that painting was an on.
spring of my BRAIN"
The other Frenchman was greatly
interested and asked his friend what
that American had said.
Il can hardly explain" whispered
the first Frenchman excitedly; "he
said re picture was one spring OF of
his brain. Ees eet any wonder Eat re
Americans act queerly when they
have springs on their brains"
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TAXI GUSTS HANSON
London Museum Places Old vehi-
Gle on Exhibition
Thousands % Modem Cars Now In
Service and FsW OF the Horse
Drawn Fare C2rriers-BIg
Change In Last Years.

London.-The new London museum
has shown its enterprise by adding a
hanson cab to its cnlIection, although
there are at LEASE four hundred of
these vehicles still IN use on the Lon
don streets But the last maker of
hansoms closed his doors three years
ago. and the museum authorities are
40 doubt anticipating ftE rapid extinc-
ton.
In 1905 motor tzxieabs first ap-
peared on the streets under the hum
BILE title of -Clzrences- Mechanical
Power" there being 10 of them as
compared with about 1900 hansoms.
In 1910 the hansoms had declined to
1908. while the tzxfcabs had risen to
6,397.
The exact figures for today have not
been complied. but II Is safe to esti-
mate that there are af least ii, 900 tax
icabs to 400 hansoms, Internationally
employed. The refusal of the han
som drivers b ACCEPT the taximeter
accelerated their end, for IL they had
accepted II thsy might have made a
longer fight. al the Paris fiacres are
doing.
DecorativeIys tina London streets
have lost by the passing of the ham
som. for the tall aelzcately poised
carriage, shiny black. with the driver
commanding cab AND horse from his
lofty seat and with the slender whip
rising above all, wzs an outstanding
picture Of London erz1z3c.
Buckinghamshlrs In planning to
raise. on June ~, In The Vale of Ayles-
bury, a memorial tn her favorite son,
John Hampden. who. according to Ma
caulay. would have heen the George
Washington Of his country If he had
survived the terrible wounds which
ne received In = light with Prince
Rupertis cavalry in Chalgrove.
Posterity has placed Hampden first
among the parliamentary party which
opposed Charles r and he began the
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Turk Blows Up House.

Pottsville, Pa.-John Turk of
Tuscarora was informed that a VIC
lent shock would exterminate the bed
bugs which recently have been bother
ing his sleep. Taking the advice at
face value Turk secured quantity Of
dynamite. placed 1t under the bed and
exploded It. The shock exterminated
the insects. also the bed and the
house In which the bed once was.
When Turk came to he was sitting In
the middle Of the road.
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Cheerful Outlook.

Father, DEAR" said Amaranth,
Willie Smithers is going to call at
your Office this morning to ask you
for my hand. Isn't. there some little
hint can give him before he goes
SO as to make it easier for him?"
YES" said Mr.. Blinks, tell him to
take ether before he comes. It win
save him much pain. -Harper's
Weekly.
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oh, George!" exclaimed a fond
mother. when she saw her small boy
considerably battered up and dirty,
you have been fighting again! How
often have ] told you that you
shouldn't fight?"
We'll" said he. what are you go
ing to do when a fellow hits your"
Why, keep out Of his way" said
the mother.
Il bet" said the youngster. he'll
keep out Of mine after this"
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fight in parliament as representative
of Buckinghamshire
Some curious old documents offered
for sale recently by London dealer
prove clearly that the wild fowl which
occupy the lakes in the London parks
were in occupancy there in the reign
of James l.
One document. is Lord Rochester's
bill of charges "for keeping the fowle
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EXCLAMATION.

Lottie-How dare you ask Mrs. Bull
lion to one-course luncheon?
Hattie-She won't know it. She's a
Fletcherite, and by the time she has
finished she'll have to move on to
some five o'clock tea.-Harper's Bazaar.
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and Gardens for April. May and June.
1911"
1t is signed by the earl Of Salisbury.
Another document Is for the Charges
layed out on st. James parke and the
syringe garden for keepinge and feed
ing his Majesties forrayne bestes and
fowle there 1611-12." and this is signed
by Sir julius Caesar.
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Her Special Advantages.

James Fullerton Muirhead in his
book. THE Land of Contrasts" tells
OF an American girl who was patroniz-
ngly praised by an Englishman TOR
the purity Of her English and who re-
piled: We'll. had special advan-
tages, inasmuch as an English mis-
sionary was stationed near ar tribe"
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Asks Dog as Wet Nurse.

Milwaukee. Wis.-To save the lives
of two baby tigers just arrived, Keep
er Bean, Washington park zoo. ap-
peais for a mother dog TO nurse them.
Mamma Tiger refuses to nurse her
offsprings.
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Woman Bound on FLAMING Bod.

Chicago.-Bound hand and foot and
then gagged and left to meet her
death on blazing bed, Mrs w. H.
Starr was rescued by her husband.
Robbers had tried to intimidate her,
and when they failed determined che
must die.