TITE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEEi MAY 26, 1907. WAT TO GET RID OF TIE WEEDS Ennsf it Contmed by Union Faoifio to Keep Rirht-of-Waj Oleaa. W. R, M'KUN CARRIES OUT MOHIER'S IDEA Mr.rhln Cnianei Gasollna 4 Will -n rrl Ore Twentr-FlTe Miles a Day Cleaning the Ground. '. .t problem of keeping the rl;ht-of-w7 nr. rnllroad branch lines free from weeds during the summer months has always been a difficult one to the operating offi cials. On many of the branch lines, along sidings and commercial tracks that are In frequently used, ' the roadbeds are bal lasted with dirt, and from early spring until late In the fall the rank growth of weeds becomes a source otreat annoy ance and heary expense, if s a common sight on ' branch reads throughout the western prairie country to soe weeds two or three feet high, and on commercial tracks where seldom used, sunflowers and other rank growth as high as seven and eight feet along both sides of the track. This forms a great obstruction to the movement of trains, causes slippery rails, which makes operation very annoying, and necessitates considerable reduction In ton nage with the consequent decrease In rev enue. It has1 been found absolutely necessary to get rid Of this growth at any cost. The pilot of the locomotive has bnen made use of to some extent by fitting It with knives, but this has not been of much benefit, and In the main, it has been necessary for the track department to engage large gangs of wen to cut this growth at an enormous expense Wtth scythes and shovels, and this cost Is practically continuous throughout the summer months, as the growth Is as fast as a reasonable number of men can cut It The time at which this work has to be done is at a time when laborers are In great demand In the fields, and It Is often almost Impossible to get the men at any cost during this period. On these branch lines the truck, generally speaking, being1 light, operating officials begrudge this unproductive outlay of labor. Many Suairestlons Made. The Union Pacific railroad a year ago set about to produce some means of handling this work at a minimum cost. Many sug gestions were made; namely, cutting the weeds by machinery, sprinkling the right-of-way with a saturated solution of salt v and water, which would tend to kill off the weeds. But after numerous experiments In the way of machines for the work the Idea of a gasoline weed burner was conceived by A. L. Mohler, vice president and gen eral manager, and one has been developed In the shops of the Union Pacific In Omaha, under the direction of W. R. McKeen, jr., superintendent of motive power, which Is doing the work very successfully and at a greatly reduced cost. Ths weed burner as designed consists of a four-wheel car entirely of steel, with regulation standard wheels, axlea, boxes How to Tell Clothes By A. Frank Taylor ERIE'S my great test for clothes: XT Thousands on thousands have JLX. made this teat for It has paid them to do so My teat has enabled Careful Clothes Buyers to get Full Value for their money it has prevented them from spending their Good Money, for which they had to give Honest Value in the Shape of Work, for Clothes in which there waa no honest that had been Improperly and Carelessly Cut In the first place and had been Improperly Tailored 'in the Second Place Clothes that, wl.u i'ney came up lor Final Inspection, were not sent back to be properly corrected as they should have been although that would Cost a little money but were given over to Old Dr. Goose, the hot Flat Iron because his work is Cheap to be merely Pressed and Stretched and Shrunk Into a Shape Resemblance. Clothes thut. while they looked Good In every way except in the one way my test reveals at the "try on" lost their Shape a short time after they had oeon at the Impels Drooped and Wrinkled at the Shoulders Gaped ut the Collar and Creased Back and Front. On the other Hand My Test has enabled Careful Clothes Buyers to buy the suit that has been properly and carefully Cut that has been put together by expert Nsedle-workers who moulded permanent Form Into the Very Cloth by means of the Needle. It has enabled Careful Buyers who want smart and stylish clothes to know Sincerity" Suits the suits that prove by actual Wearing that they are made right from Start to Finish. The suits in which the Lapels lie Flat and Shapely In which the shoulders are Smooth and properly rounded and in which the Collar lies close VP to the Lack of the Neck Just try this Test of mine, Mr. Reader It doesn't make any dlftuseneo uj.ou What clothes you try It the next Suit you buy from your High Priced Custom Tailor or the one you buy from the Dealer In ready-to-wears. Tou can prove for yourself that what I tell you t true You'll find that the Suit the Collar of which Isn't absolutely straight from tip to tip will pot hold lis Shape And the one the ColUr of which Is straight from tip to tip will look stylish and shapely for a long lime to come and nine times in tea will be a -Sincerity" B1lou:U find "SineerUy" SulU at your high-grade ready-to-wear dealer Look for the label bf low In the Coat of the next Suit you buy It insure Style, Serrlce and SatlsitutloB. 1 and pedestals. At one end of the car Is a gasoline engine mounted on the floor, which la used for propelling the car and pumping air. the air bMng used to force J gasoline to the burners and to elevate the aide wings. The propelling mechanism Is designed With two speeds slow speed used while burning weeds at three to four mil per hour and the high speed used in sxli to and from work at twelve to fifteen mllea per hour. Attached to the car are a number of tanks carrying the supply of gasoline suf ficient for the day's run on the road. This gasoline Is forced Into a system of burners carried on the back of the car, making a very hot flame close to the ground, which practically kills the weeds, while by cutting them the growth Is in no way stopped. Harnera are Attached. At the rear of the car, carried close to the ground, Is a framework earning the piping, to which Is secured a number of burners placed in rows across tho track. The framework is divided Into three sec tionsthe center section extending a little beyond the rails, and the side sections be ing hinged to the center section In order that they may bo lifted out of the way of obstructions outside of the track, and to clear cattleguards along the right-of-way. They can also he sot at any elevation fn order to get the burners close to the ground on any kind of grading. With these three sections In operation a strip twelve feet wide is burned, or three and one-half feet on each side of the rails. It has been found advisable to make a first burning early In the year when the arowth has reached six to eight Inches In height; then going over It again a few days Inter, when It has dried somewhat, and this time the weeds are entirely con sumed and the roots killed. It Is some times necessary to repent this performance three months later. The machine Is capable of burning from twenty to twenty-five miles a day, running about three to four miles an hour. Thre mon, all told, are required to handle the car, which they do, the car being handled on the road under orders as a regular train. Where the weeds are cut by band It re quires approximately sixteen men to cut ono mile of track per day, hence the ma chine does the equivalent work of about 800 men. From the foregoing It will be seen that this Innovation and solution of a difficult railroad problem has really been a very simple matter. The gasoline weed burner is In reality an automobile mounted on railroad car wheels and equipped with the weed-burning apparatus. The car carries the fuel for the burners, as well as for its own power, and Its operation Is so simple that It Is a comparatively easy Job for one man to handle this machine. In fact, In nice weather a trip through the country on this weed burner Is a very pleasant ride. FINAL TRIUMPH OF MEDICINE Medical Science Centering- Ita Skill on Mankind's Worst Enemies. A note of approaching triumph over mankind's enemies Is founded by Dr. Nicholas Senn, a distinguished member of the medical profession, In a short article In the Chicago Tribune. The reasons for his confidence as well as the lines of the campaign now in progress are thus out lined: Victory has followed victory, and many Of the most dreaded diseases have i.ow be come powerless In the conquest of pre ventive medicine. The wonderful results obtained by Behrlng's serum In the treat ment of diphtheria is the surest Indication that In the future . crude drugs must give way to serotherapy In the successful treatment of all acute, Belf-llmlted infec tious diseases. The clientele of the phys icians Is growing smaller and smaller, but their glory as humanitarians and scientists Is rising and will reach the cenlth after coming generations of more erudite physi cians have conquered and laid at their feet the two worst enemies of mankind tuberculosis and cancer. We are confident thut tuberculous In all Its forms soon will be forced to retreat, as we know Its ml crobic cause and are familiar with Its methods of warfare. We have learned by long experience that the most formidable weapons In fighting this disease are riot drugs, but pure air, sunshine and nu tritious, easily . digested food. Prof. Wright's opsonin treatment, now on trial, holds out much promise and may prove to be what we have been seeking for centu ries a specific against this disease. But what is vastly more desirable than a spe cific remedy In the prevention of the dis ease. We must meet this enemy openly and boldly, as "surely the best way la to meet the enemy In the field and not wait till he plunders us in our bed chamber." Scientists had good reason t suspect the mlcroblo origin of cancer, but so far have failed In proving It. The geographlo llml-" tations of cancer, Ita microscopic structure, and behavior in the tissues contravene the parasitic origin, and no'nt rather to mi erratlo cell growth of the nature of which we know little, but future Investigations from this standpoint ultimately may forge the key which will unlock the mysteries of this, the most stubborn and cruel of all chronic affections. When we once shall succeed in lifting the curtain which hides this foe we will make It more vulnerable to the attacks, of the closed columns of the followers of the flag of preventive medicine, and the hand to hand encounter of Individual physicians and surgeons. Preventive medicine Is the medicine of the future, and the final triumph of scien tific medicine will be the suppression of disease. In this struggle with the causes of disease we need not only the earnest and united support of the medical profes sion In the front ranks of this movement, but the encouragement and financial aid of the governments, general, state, county, city and village. Sanitation on a large scale, to be effective. Is costly, but every dollar spent will bring good returns. Hygienic Institutes must be established and maintained where young physicians can receive the necessary education and (raining to prepare themselves for the high im responsiDie omce or sanitary or health commissioner in the different com munlties. One such Institution, centrally located and amply endowed, would be a greater benefit to the people of the United Slates than all the Carnegie libraries and the supernumerary, half starved, lnsig- nmcani colleges and academies. Health officers should be above the mire of politics and should be appointed for their merit, without any regard to their political complexion, and should receive a salary commensurate with their service and social position, and should hold their office at long as their work la effective and satis factory to the community. If these thing were realised a new and much nueded specialty in medicine would be created scientific sanitation. But to accomplish our final object In public sanitation means must be provided for popular instruction in hygiene and sanitation in our schools and by popular lectures, in order to rnh the mass of the people, and by so doing enllrt tneir interest and secure their co-operation, Nothing would be of more far-reaching value to the laboring man than to h taught how to avoid disease and preserve his health. All gTeat reforms must have a beginning In the household. If ws can Interest our governments, our people, our educators and the public press In this gre t movement of abolishing preventable d's eases we continently may expect the mlllentum In medicine In due time, and It will b Inaugurated by the final triumph i or scientino medicine, WHEN MUSIC AND M035 EY MELT Cweet Mixture of Plain Giaft and the Art:s,io Tempsriment. SOME STORIES TOlD IN OLD NEW YORK Impresario Mho Chanced Check and the Violinist M ho Clot Kight Hundred Dollars for Do lus a Favor. NEW YORK. May u,-There is never a seasim thut does not bring forth some striking exhibitions of tho musical tem perament, especially when It collides with finance. It is at this psychological moment that the exhibition of the musical genius Is most Interesting. One of the tules of the season relates to a pianist who played an engagement Under the auspices of a former singer who occa sionally superintends concerts In a neigh boring town. She came to New York, saw the manuger of the virtuoso and arranged to pay t0 fr a concert. There were plenty of unsold seats when the pianist arrived In town and a considerable deficit as to the guarantee. But the manager said nothing about this and filled the hall with dead heads. After the concert the pianist got a check for the amount of his guarantee and was so well pleased with the evening that he asked the lady Impresario to coma out to supper with him. as his train did not leave for two hours. She accented and In the grill room of the hotel they enjoyed some supper and a bottle of champagne. Tho time passed so pleasantly that It was the pianist's train time before he noticed it. Simply rhnna-rd the Checks. "You will excuse me for running away so hurriedly." he suid after he had ex pressed his delight over the success of the evening, "but I barely have the time to catch my train. "And will you do me the favor of mailing this letter for me. It con tains the check you gave me for my guar antee. I put It In an envelope to forward to my manager In New Tork. Will you be kind enough to mall It for me." The Impresario's enjoyment of the even ing had been disturbed only by the thought of the deficit. She was wondering how In the world she was going to mako up the difference between tho 1600 check she had given the pianist and the $.170 the concert had netted. It would be neceRSary to do some hustling before the check got back from New York. Then she suddenly realized that it might not bo necessary for her to worry so after all. She Could not mall the letter anyhow until the morning. By the time morning came she had slept so well with the thought that the cheok was not hurrying to New York that she had another Idea. She took the check out of the envelope, made out another for the exact amount of the net takings of the concert and then enclosed that to the manager In New York. Then she tore up the first check. "What if I did?" was the answer of this lady to the manager when he protested. "He didn't draw his guarantee and there fore he did not deserve It. Why should I have gone down Into my pocket for It?" As this lady Impresario had been a pianist herself, she had the musical tem perament too. One Little Case of Graft. One afternoon In the early spring a group of women sat In the drawing room of a prima dona who had been engaged to sing for a charity. They wanted to know who she would care to have appear with her to sing some duets. She sug gested a popular baritone. Nobody knew his address, and that question was still under discussion when a friend of the singer entered the room. He was not a singer but he knew many of them. "You must know M. Wobbcllinl's ad dress,'" the singer said. "Tell tiicse ladfcs that they may write to him about' the con cert next week." The newcomer obligingly gave the ad dress and disappeared after a very brief cull. He did not go home, however. He was In the telephone booth downstairs calling up the baritone. "You will give me 10 per cent then, will ypu," he was saying, "If I got you a con cert next week? You will have to sing only a few duets and you must ask &J0." Over the telephone came the assent to this proposition. VA11 right," he said, "the ladies will write to you tonight. I get 10 per cent, remem ber." The facts of this llttlo arrangement did not come to light until the middleman who had thought he was picking up $00 at an Informal Sunday call had to hire a lawyer to got It, for the baritone, with fidelity to his musical temperament bad declined to pay the promised commission. Violinist and Ills Pay. Once a rich grandfather volunteered to give his grandson a start In life. He had studied music, appeared In public without success and thought he would like to be a musical manager. Grandfather put up the money and the boy rushed off to Europe to engage a violinist whom he had always re garded as the greatest In his profession. He made a contract with him to come here for a larger sum than he had ever received In his life before. It was his Inexperience and his great admiration for the man that led him to risk so much of grandfather's money In Uiat way. The man had precisely the same experience that he always en countered In this country. The public man lfested so little interest in his highly artistic performances that more than $20,000 was sunk In the venture. There was still some more money at home, however, and grand father advanced enough for a season In London, where It was thought that some of the money might be got back. "You come to my rooms this afternoon If you have the time," said the youthful Im presario, "and be Introduced to Lady Lyon Searcher and the duchess of Graftsby. It will ' do you good to know them. Then there will be some other society people there and they will all help to make you talked about here." The impresario had managed to corral a few society people, and they expressed great delight over meeting the distinguished violinist. After a while be was asked to play for them. His violin was there, but he protested, looking all the while for ad vice to his manager. He winked and the muelo began. London exhausted all the pile that grand father had laid aside and there was no comeback.1 Accounts were settled up and the violinist, who had received JSOO at each of his three concerts, was the only one who had earned a cent. The night before he left London the violinist sent a letter to his manager asking why one London concert had been omitted from the number. He had not received his $800 for playing In the manager's rooms for the duchess of Graftsby. A month after a writ was served on the manager, and a little later when he wt-nt to the continent without having settled the matter he was called back by the efforts Of the Violinist 'to have him declared a bankrupt. The final $s00 was raid be cause the manager had not immediately repudiated the demand for the money when it was made first. If he had declared at the minute that he did not owe It there might have been some possibility of his gulling out of the payment. At the French restaurant en Fifth ve- TWT Jh nue in which the opera singer gather during the season the impresario of a talking machine was discussing with sev eral guests the propriety of his having a certain singer make a record. He finally decided that he would and male a memorandum to have his secretary communicate with the singer the next day. Then the subject was dropped. Later that day this singer received a call from one of the guests at the same table. He wanted to know If the man would like to sing In the talking ma chine, what his terms would be and how much he would give If the caller man aged It. The singer was delighted and the caller told him he might arrange it, although It would be hard. "I will start right In now,'" h said, "and maybe you will get a letter from the company tomorrow. Don't say any thing about my having been here. They prefer to do all this sort of a thing them selves." It was not until he had paid this agent 10 per cent on the amount he received that the barytone learned how little he owed him. Tenor and Condactor Clash. It was another benefit that supplied the latest development of the artistic tem perament under the Influence of business. A tenor who Is very popular, although he has never reached the highest place, volunteered to help a wi'uu friend get up a concert for charity. She had known him for some time and he had frequently been engaged for his maximum fee to sing at her house. He had been so friendly this time that She supposed, of course, he had no financial interest In the matter. He even got his friend, a well-known conductor and composer, to come along and play his accompaniments at the concert. It was the conductor who received the day after the concert a fran tic telephone call asking him to come to see her immediately. Ha was there that afternoon. - "What In the world do you think has happened?" she began. "Why, Saenger has asked for his regular fee of $400 for singing yesterday In our concert. It was such a small affair, given here In my own house, that we will have no profit If I have to pay him that. I have known him for so long, and to think that after aoting as if this was all to be done for charity he now sends me a bill for $400. The conductor and composer thought for a while. "I think I can settle that all right," he said. "I will see him and let you know what he says." Then he sat down and wrote this note to the singer: Dear Saenger: Since I learn from our friend Mrs. X that you are to receive com pensation for your appearance In her char ity concert yesterday 1 cannot, of course, be exptcted to accompany you for nothing. I spoke to Mr. X about the matter and sha reminded me that I had been secured solely by you. I never accompany now, as you know, and would consont to do such a thing onlv under very spocial circum stances. My fee the last time I played ac companiments was $i. I will not raise It on you, but let it stand at thu. Mrs X lulls ma I must look to you for my check, as she will pay you. So send it along as soon as she pays up. Tlita. of course, put the enterprising tenor $100 to the bad. It had the effect, more over of opening his eyes to what he had done. He had never suspected that what he had done would ever reach any other ears. He wrote, therefore, to his accom panist that he had been misinformed, as he had no Idea of taking any compenaa- j tlon, and simultaneously dispatched a note to the woman saying that he had heard thet his agent had sunt her a bill under a misapprehension, supposing that the con cert was an engagement In tre ordinary course of business. Consumption of Wood Palp. WASHINGTON, May 26. A bulletin is sued by the census bureau today places the total consumption of wood pulp In the United States, for the year 1' at (,ft4,69( cords as compared with 1.191123 cords con sumed in K6. More than half of the pulp was made from spruce and of the spruce pulp, 721,323 cords were imported. i PIANOS PIANOS PIANOS HIS week will be a most opportune time for Buyers We expect to close out a number of and slightly used instruments regardless of their real value All will be sold on the easy payment plan if desired 1 New Upright, Mahogany Case, - $115.00 1 New Upright, Mahogany Case, - 127.00 1 New Upright, Walnut Case, - - 137.50 1 New Upright, Golden Oak Case, - 150.00 I New Upright, Mahogany Piano, - - 165.00 1 New Upright Burl Walnut Case, - 175.00 1 New Upright Sample, New York Make, 185.00 1 New Upright, Dark Mah ogany. - 192.00 We carry a complete line of the world's famous Knabe Pianos, also the Fischer, Sohmer, Estey, Checkering Bros., Schaffer, Franklin, Price & Teeple and RegaL Write us for prices and terms. New Pianos for Rent. HAYDEN BROTHERS TELEPHONE D 2600 NO GROUND FOR CONCESSION Packers and Commission Men Criti cise Post -Mori em Examination stock Rale. Packers and commission men of South Omaha express the belief there is no ground for concession in the matter of stock sold subject to the post mortem examination, the rule concerning which goes into effect Monday. The packers con tend they have borne the loss of con demned stock until It can no longer be endured. At Armour & Co.'a plant as many as sixty cows a week have been condemned. The other plants show corresponding rec ords. The packers hold this loss should fall upon the shipper of stock and are for this reason determined the stock shall be bought subject to lnspeotlon. The commission men have signed an agreement to sell no more cows nor heif ers until the Inspection Is such that after passing the scales the packers shall bear any losses from the post mortem inspec tion. It was stated by representative men of each side there was no possible concession from the rule on the one hand and the signed agreement of the commission men on the other. The letters of advice sent out to the shippers Is they shall hold all cows and heifers until the matter is set tled. The commislon men are agreed that Don't throw your old shoes at the June Bride Let us repair and make them as good as new We will call for and deliver free of charge all repair work. 'Phone Douglas 7Bb7 and give us a trial job. Our workmanship the best. We have the only Goodyear stitcher in the city, used ior repair work. The very machine your shoes are made with. Men's Shoes Half Soles Nailed Half Boles Sewed Boys' Half Soles Nailed Boys' Half Soles Sewed Men's Leather Heels Men's Rubber Heels AH work called iffr If the government should put on a more rigid ante-mortem Inspection before the stock Is weighed out It would relieve all parties concerned. They believe the pack ers would concede to such an arrangement. The commission men declare they do not care how rigid the inspection may bo, but they want this separation of suspected stock made by the government and not left to men in their employ. Such an ar rangement would satisfy the shipper re specting the fair distribution. URE TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK Fifth County Commissioner Awaited Before Court House Matter Is Acted On. The move for a new court house Is tem porarily at a standstill. The commis sioners prefer to await the return of Com missioner Ure from Mexico before pro ceeding any further. At the meeting of the board Saturday morning all of tho resolutions relating to the subject were laid over for another week. Mr. Ure Is expected back from Mexico early In the week and until he comes the question of a new build ing will remain as It Is now. The failure of the board to take up the question Indicates there Is a deadlock, which Ure will have to break. Kennord and Solomon are both in favor of employ ing John Latenser as the architect to pre 65d Half Soles Nailed fJOtf fW) Half Soles Sewed 770 50 Misses' Half Soles Nailed 40 75 Misses' Half Soles Sewed 5c? 35 Ladies' Leather Heels 25e 50 Ladies' Hubber Heels GO for and delivered FKEE OF WK SKI.L high grade Silk Mohair and Common Shoe Laces, Shoe Polish in all sizes and colors, Sboo Brushes, Shoe Trees and Forms, Shoo Shiners, fancy Shoe Horos, Sho Lifts and Button Hooks, fancy colored Skins for PUlowi and Post Cards, Arch and Anklo Supporters, Heel and Knee Protectors, Electric, Cork, Hair, Felt and Fiber In soles, Sylvet Cloth, Down and Keuther Dustors Corn Plasters, Boot Powder and Foot Ease. ' Shoe Repair Co Piano new pare plans for the proposed new structure. Tralnor wants competitive bidding for the work and wants the county and city to go in together on the building. BrunlPK has a third plan calling for competiul V I J 1.1. , . 1. . . . v. i ...v. - ... a resolution which proposes to remodel the present building instead of erecting a new one. Under the circumstances the members of the board decided the only thing to do was to wait for the return of Ure. Tho county board is about to make an Investigation of the efficiency and economy of concrete and steel bridges over streams which have heretofore been bridged by wooden structures. At the meeting Sat urday the county engineer wns directed to draw up plans for a reinforced concrete and a steel structure. Bids will ba asked on both kinds so the board will be in a position to decide between them. Under a resolution passed by the board heads of departments at the court house will be required to certify In to the auditor the salary lint of their offices containing the names and salaries of employes paid by warrant. Tho payroll will then be made up by the auditor Instead of by the county clerk as at present. Jnry I)litref In Mnrder Case. KANSAS CITY. My W -Tho Jury lu tne caso of Thomas W. l'arka, proprietor of a cleaning and dyeing eHtabllHhment charged with tho murder of Perry f'orhln, a plumber, reiorted a disagreement this morning and was discharged. Ladies' Shoes CHARGE. tandard a 1804 Farnam St. 'Phono Douglas 7567.