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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1911)
inn Omaha nUiNHAi unn: ivii. CASUALTIES IN FRENCH NAYY Tea Accident! Within Tear Canse Los of Hundred of Lives. dtte to snfisna eesigns OfflrUla Art Tr)lif la Tmm ' Explosion to Some ( llle or Revolattenary PropaKaa4a TARI5, Oct a. Tn atranjra accident ave occurred In tho French navy within yrar, fires on shipboard, shclla burst ing prematurely, itunn exploding while at Tractlce, culminating In the sinking of the battleship La IJberte. while at an chor In Toulon harbor. The fire on La IJberte broke out near the apparatus for flooding- the forward magaxlne, which afterward exploded so near that the flooding- machinery could not be used. This circumstance has seemed odd to In quirers, and even more singular was the breaking out of fires the rams morning en tha Tatrlo and on the fnffren, two other battleships. The official Inquiry will endeavor to establish the facts, but In the meantime sinister Inferences ar In circulation. Either there Is a certain want of pre caution, which Is a theory rejected by ad mirers of the navy, or the accidents have been caused with mallen purpose. Upon tha latter supposition the destructive ac cidents might have been Incited by tho communistic revolutionary propaganda carried on In the navy by civilian agi tators, or they may have been detached acts- of embittered Individuals In private rebellion against society and all author- ity. "Sabotage" la Common. Scarcely a day passes throughout tha year In France without acts of simple destructlveness affecting the public, such as tha cutting of telegraph and telephone . wires, the deranging of railway switches or tha placing of obstacles on tracks. ' The French have a word of their own for ; these acts. It Is "sabotage." Tha word ; Is scarcely translatable, although akin to vandalism. In collective movements !tha first step la to complain to the gov i eminent or the corporation, the second Is ! to demonstrate" by procession or meet ' lug and the next Is to destroy something has been subscribed by some of the wealthiest men of Tlelirlum. Including Count do Mermle, F.rnest Bolvay "the 8oda King;" the minister of state, Peer tiaert, Huron Janssen and Haron Km pain. The board contains several pro fessors of tha University of Brussels and tho queen's secretary, M. Ingen- bleek. Ilad Maaer for Toarlsta. A new terror has been added to the many In store for the unwary Amer ican tourist who patronises tha estab- llithments of Montmartrc. The police hsa Just discovered thst a band of an archist coiners has put In circulation over 30.000 francs worth of bad five franc pieces during the last month. The leader of the syndicate Is an an- archest, Maria LJopls. ho was con demned to death for her complicity In the revolt In Barcelona, which preceded he execution of Ferrer. The pro ceeds are probably for the anarchist cause. The coins are of unusually subtle manufacture, composed of practically the same alloy as the genuine ones, and poneeflslng such lllit defects that only an expert could have detected them.;, hence the facility with which they were put Into circulation. Taxlaa- Electric Signs. The municipal government has found a fresh source of revenue In the electric light signs. A decree has been Issued Inflicting exemplary taxation on the thirty-three classifications of electric signs. Tha principle of difference In assessment la not the number of lights altogether, but the amount of discomfort they cause the eye. Tha winking terrors and complicated daxtlera bruising and Inflaming the optlo nerve ,mut puy in proportion to the annoyance they may causa tha public, while the soft and beautiful lights of some varieties of out-of-door Illumination are lightly assessed. tha vineyards In tha champagne prov tinces, the provision shops In Northern 1 Franca or the railway atatlons, aa has .happened on the Western railway, be. ! cause the suburban tralna were usually : behind their schedule. Now those who know the French navy 'and believe thoroughly In the excellent spirit and discipline that generally per vades the service accept the Idea of coin cidence In the number of violent happen ings and attribute them where not purely 'accidental to "sabotage." Would Revive I. ace ledaatry. Queen E11xabeh of Belgium has un dertaken to revive or preserve the falling Brussels lace Industry. Although Brus eels laoe la admired and worn quite as much probably as It ever was, the In dustry la fading one. The lrls of Belgium prefer to do something else. The small profits, the effect on the eye alght and the long ' apprenticeship re- Quired to do the work drive then Into other callings. The picturesque old' fashioned laceworker type has ' almost disappeared from Belgium so that the making of genuine Brussels lace la be coming a lost Industry. The queen has formed a co-operative society to study how to make the lot of workers In laoe snore attractive, to find higher priced mar kets, especially In the United Rtates. and to encourage lawmaking courses In the Industrial schools. Queen Elisabeth has capitalised her company for 127,000, which RUSSIAN COMMUNES RESIST New Tremier Ha Trouble Trying1 to Dissolve Old Order. PEIISI0S FOR MRS. STOLYPIB Widow at Head of Cabinet Who Waa Assassinated Will Be Paid Amoeat jf Ills Salary by tar's Order. PERILS OF THE MAINE WOODS The case of John Wlckman, the woods man, who received a iraciureu spine through having a tree fall across his back, and who Is now at the Eastern Maine General hospital In Bangor, paralysed from the waist down, brings forcibly to mind the ever present danger In the lumber woods that of meeting with a serious accident when medical aid is unattainable, and of the terrible physical suffering and oftentimes death. which result a consequence, nun dreda of men have suffered untold pain In the- Maine lumber woods In years gone by, and many etorles of remarkable heroism In the face of great physical suffering are on record. Perhaps one of the most remarkable of these Is one which was formerly told by the late Dr. Faul Beaver of a Penoboscot Indian who had one of his legs crushed to a pulp by a falling tree near Moose- head lake back In the lata '50s. It waa Impossible to bring the man out of the woods to a settlement where a doctor could be obtained and to wait for physician to be summoned and to arrive would mean the death of the woodsman, 'Without anesthetic of any kind, and with no other Instrument than a butcher knife a meat saw and a common needle, the camp cook amputated the leg, while the Injured Indian watched every move ment, the pupils of his beadlike eyes narrowing down to the else of pin points, Only one or twice through ' the whole operation did the quick intake of his breath between clinched teeth give evl dence of the pain he was undergoing. It was Indian stoicism at Its best. sJVhen the last stitch had been taken and th slump had been sewed up, the India fainted. The nervous shock to his sys tem was too great, however, and he died a few days later. Bangor Commer cial. 87. PETERSBURG, Oct. tL Premier Kokovtnofrs difficulties with the en forcement of RolypUVs policies hss be- un. Ilo hss been trying to deal with c eputntlon representing S1.O0O household ers In Bakhmut district, Yekaterlnoslav province, who refused to break up their communes and pass on to Individual wnershlp of land. For two years these determined communists have been re sisting the counsels of the local governor to divide tholr land and an area of 302,400 rres has been lying fallow. Wormwood grows on It In place of crops. The depu- atlon declares that If the government wanted war It could have It; 70,0u0 able bodied men could be mustered In support of the communes. The peasants had sold one-third of their live stock and Were further prepared to suffer famine and fight to the end. This Bakhmut Incident s the most striking one in the carrying ut of tho agrarian reform, of which millions of peasants have taken advan tage, though the Inert peasant mass re sents It. Makln Artificial Pearls. A perfected method for obtaining pearls as been discovered by a Itusnlan sci entist, CxeslRV Khemellevsky, who Is In charge of the Ponevyexh blolOKical sta tion of the Imperial Plsclcultural society. Fine specimens of unattached pearls three to five millimeters In diameter have been obtained by this method In from three to five -years. No detail of the discovery has been communicated by Its author to anyone, but It la supposed to be based on the Japanese System of artificial irritation of the pearl mollusk by the Introduction of a foreign substance. The oyster gradually covers the nacre ous .or glass beads, which are Introduced through a perforation In the shell, with layers of prarl matter. The Jupaneso subject 300.000 oysters to this process yearly on the pearl banks In the Gulf of Ago. The principal fault with their product la that It Is generally found at tached to the valve of tho shell closely Ingrown or attached to the matrix by a thin stem. Royalties Not Good II enters. Of late years hunting has counted few enthusiasts among members of the Imperial- family. Though the imperial game preserve covering 180,000 acres and the - supplementary state preserve of 237.000 acres are second to none In variety and abundance of game, tils' Imperial family's modest total for last year was 1.3G7 head' of game killed, . Including bears, 0 elks, S lynxes, CI foxes, (13 rab bits, 43 pheasants. No aruochs were killed or hunted, presumably on account of the severe epidemics which depleted the only extant herd of these animals In the state preserve at Blclovlesh. The to tal for 1908 waa greater than that of any recent year, with 1,878 head killed. Chinese Igsore Obligations, Harbin advices declare that the Chinese government Is not fulfilling faithfully Its obligations under the Mukden Interna tional Plague conference rules. Though marmot hunting In Mongolia was prohib ited, and Us suppression entrusted to the Chinese, no steps to that effoot have been taken by the authorities. One Bus slan doctor, who made a reconnaissance In a Mongolian district, counted 1X Jer boa hunters recently. The Russian rail road officials have had tens of thousands of marmot skins offered to them, as of last year's catch. The Chinese continue to consuma marmot meat and fat unre servedly, constituting a plague menace for Manchuria and beyond. Kmnerop N'irhnlu ha sxanted a Pen Inn nf MUM rniililaa to the Widow Of Premier Ptolypln. Tins sum eijuas his salary as minister of the Interior. As Is known, Btolypln declined any supplemen tary salary as president of the council of ministers and his tenure of that post necessitated a considerable expenditure of private Income. BIG PROFIT IN CEMETERIES Home Boosting; at the Start Makes the Money Roll la Steadily. OYie New York lawyer got his real start n a curious way. lie promoted a ceme- teiy. On a trip In the suburbs he dis- o vexed some land that could be bought at a very low figure. Somehow, the law- er never knew Just how, the Idea of a cemetery and Its financial possibilities flashed acnurs him. He got options and started In to scrape together capital. It was astonishing to him to see how easily and quickly he could do It, for his plan had looked, as he had It on paper, too good to be true. It showed land sold steadily and surely at the rate of from $00,000 an acre up when It had cost but a few hundred. This lawyer Is ono of a fortunate few n New York who within the last twenty years have found cemeteries a profitable form of real estate Investment Nearly 120 cemeteries In which any one may buy a lot are within easy distance of the city, and probably all have a fairly good patronage. The demand for their ground goes on steadily. 'Strictly speaking," said a man who Is familiar with New York's cemeteries, "there Is no speculation St all about these enterprise, though I have known of sev eral whose locations were selected with so little Judgment that the lots have sold slowly and the big profit Is yet to come. Of course, with a cemetery, as well as with everything else, you can't Just sit back and expect to sell. A new cemetery ho got to be popularly launched and made known. It must become, to use a word, the fashion. If those behind It are not exceptionally good business men this may take some little time. Looking on cemeteries Just as a busl ness, there Is opposition of course, very big opposition, a host of competitors; but the demand is so great that It sweeps this all away. Roughly speaking, more than 75,000 people are now dying in New York each year. Nearly all are burled close to the city. Twenty thousand went In one single cemetery last year. Close to a million He there now and sanother cemetery has a record, of practically half a million. "Of course many of the cemeteries o New York are not speculations In any sense of the word, but seml-publlo instl tutlons that turn all they funds they get from the sale of lots and the care of lots Into betterments and fresh purchases. Greenwood Is such a burial ground. Out side of the value of, Its land yet unsold It haa assets of not far from S6.O00.00O to day besides $1,250,000 so held In trust for the special care of certain lots. Its yearly Income Is over S600.000. - "Not every one naturally can get the top prices for lots. In some cemeteries the figures run up as high as tt a square foot, and for really good locations they seldom drop below 2. Forty cents square toot In the newer cemeteries Is a the land haa been bought for a few hun dred dollars an acre the enormous profit may be seen." New York Bun. the richness and bewildering variety of their exhibits Is sharply accentuated by the manner of their presentment The booths containing the products of the cosst states, especially, are artistic In very respect They are built at home. from exact measurements, of native woods nearly every piece of which Is highly finished. Every large column and every small post Is hollow with glass Ides, and Is filled -with grain or fruits. Gists Jars, small and large, are used for preserving tho perishable products, with most pleasing effect. It may Interest vis itors to know that the fluid In these Jars Is pure water, with an Infusion of sul phuric acid. The magnifying effect Is trlklng, particularly as to the fruits and flowers. "Give me three grains of corn, mother." You remember the old time school book poem, of course. In an emergen- 3 three grains of any kind of corn might serve. For the farmer seeking top results for his hard work, only the best corn will do. At the land show the corn student can learn most anything he wants to know about corn. Vp In the north gallery Is a pithy object lesson.' Two ears are shown. liberal Education in Vital Things at the Land Show fx (Continued from Page Five.) side by side, and to the ordinary observer they look alike. But when he reads under neath the statement that one kind rave twenty-three bushels per acre more than the other, then be begins to Inquire. Into the why of this difference. The resulting Information Is Immediately valuable to the practical man. At this small but sig nificant exhibit the visitor can learn, too, much about the Insects and diseases that declmlnats promising fields. He can see and become acquainted with the "wooly bears" and leaf beetles and the various pestiferous little bugs that work dis aster when the farmer neglects to head them off. ' "Modern farm horses" Is the pat and handy name proudly applied to many of the great labor savers shown In ma chinery hall. This section of the show Is not the least Interesting by any means, To a good many of the visitors It Is a center of decided Interest. Nearly all of the exhibitors of machines that ure kept running were compelled to build solid foundations, onto which the machines are securely bolted, so that the condl tlbns are exactly the same as the farmer or factory man will face If he buys any particular machine for his own use. Some of the big tractor engines are monsters of mighty mien, calculated to pull any thing they can be hitched to. Here It Is that the person who has not kept closely In touch with modern farm development will be made to realize that machine power on the farm Is "the thing" these days. It saves labor and cuts down won derfully the time that tnuxt be devoted to seeding, plowing, harvesting and haul ing to market; and "time Is money to the farmer more truly today than at any other time since cultivation of th soO began. Iton't Caff a Child. "Pon't box a naughty child's ears. Don't allow any provocation to tempt you to strike a child on the head." la the injunction contained In an article on skulls Issued by the International Hygiene exposition at Dresden. Corporal punish ment of any kind, says the writer. Is wrong, but when the head Is the point of rnntact between the angry parent and the child the former may easily become a murderer. In a collection of skulls at the exposition, lent by the Wuriburg uni versity, there ore many of children al well ss adults which show that the ab normally thin skull Is not unusually found, even In otherwise normal human beings, and the causes of death, which are stated on cards attached to the skulls, are Intended to serve as warnings to parents, teachers and guardians. New York Tribune. A Terrible Situation, This. This from Arnold Bennett's "Illlds Lessways:" She passed quietly up the stairs. When she was near the top her mother's voice, st once querulous and amiable, came from the sitting room: Where are you goinir to? There was a pause, dramatic for both of them, and in that minute pause the very life of the house seemed for an In stant to be suspended, nd then the waves of the hostile love that united these two women resumed their breathing and Hilda's lips burdened. "I'pHtalrs." she answered callously. Chicago Tribune. A BOLD STEP To overcome the well-grounded and reasonable objections of the more intelligent to the use of secret, medicinal compounds, Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., some time ago, decided to make a bold departure from the usual course pursued by the makers of put-up medicines for domestic use, and so has pub lished broad-cast and oDenlv to the whole world, a full and ( complete list of all the ingredients entering into the composition of his widely celebrated medicines. Thus Dr. Pierce has taken his numerous patrons and patients Into his full confidence. Thus too he has removed his med Iclnes from among secret nostrums of doubtful merits and placed them in a class all by themselves by making them remedies OF KNOWN COMPOSITION. By this bold step Dr. Pierce has shown that his formulas are of such excellence that he Is not afraid to subject them to the fullest scrutiny. Not only does the wrapper of every bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the famous medicine for weak stomach, torpid liver or bilious ness and all catarrhal diseases wherever located, have printed upon it in plain English, a full and complete list of all the ingredients composing it, but a small book has been compiled from numer ous standard medical works, of all the different schools of practice, containing very numerous ex tracts from the writings of leading practitioners of medicine, endorsing in the ttrtnest possible terms, each and every ingredient contained in Dr. Pierce's medicines. One of these little books will be mailed free to any one sending address on postal card or by letter, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., and requesting the same. From this little book it will be learned that Dr. Pierce's medicines contain no alcohol, narcot ics, mineral agents or other poisonous or injurious agents and that they are made from native, medi cinal roots of great value; also that some of the most valuable ingredients contained in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for weak, nervous, over worked, "run-down," nervous and debilitated wom en, were employed, long years ago, by the Indians for similar ailments affecting their squaws. In fact, one of the most valuable medicinal plants entering into the composition of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription was known to the Indians as " Squaw Weed." Our knowledge of the uses of not a few of our most valuable native, medicinal plants was gained from the Indians. , As made up by improved and exact processes, the "Favorite Prescription" is a most efficient remedy for regulating all the womanly functions, correcting displacements, as prolapsus, anteverslon and retroversion, overcoming painful periods, toning up the nerves and bringing about a perfect state of health. Sold by all dealers in medicines. , A WOIR. T My . Frieimds smd Fellow GM I represent Mr. B. F. Moffatt, of Chicago, the investment merchant through whose judgment and zeal the BUICK ,OIL COMPANY was put upon a sound financial basis and made one gf the speediest, if not the quickest, successes (all things con ddered) in the history of big money making enterprises. An investment in the stock or the BUICK OIL COM PANY I believe to be most desirable"! I have investigated the company thoroughly, and, in my opinion, and that of many others, including experts, this company's present flourishing condition is only a commencement of what is destined to be one cf the biggest money making and profit earning oil com panies in California, which means that its shares should become wcrth many dollars each and quickly. , The company is financially independent, without a dollar of Indebtedness (other than current bills, which are always promptly paid). It has a large cash surplus rapidly increas ing and its present income is at the rate of about $600,000 per year, which mammoth sum should be doubled any day when the company's next well comes in. On December 15th the first quarterly dividend will be paid to all stockholders of record November 15th (on which date the stock books close, prepar atory to paying said dividend). Extra dividends will be paid from time to time. The properties of the Buick Oil Company consist of 640 ceres of exceptionally well located oil lands capable of maintain ing a large number of real fortune epouters. The stock recently sold represents large holdings acquired by Mr. Moffatt during the period when ho was financing the Buick Oil Company and since. Because of the ideal condition and prospects of this com pany the price of the shares held by Mr. Moffatt has been advanced in keeping with the company's actual earnings and the demand has steadily kept pace until heavy organized buying ?ias absorbed about all of this stock that Mr. Moffatt is willing to cell at the present time. Knowing that it is but a matter of days,; or weeks at most, when Buick oil stock will become worth double or treble the present ruling price of $1.00 per share, and naturally being . desirous of icJdnr advantage of such imminent onnortunitv. Mr. Moffatt will cease selling this siock for the t5me being. HOWEVER, being aware of the trend, I have secured control of several thousand shares for my own account and that of my friends and will deliver same at the present price of $1.00 per share until further notice. ' To those who may be unaware of the safety of such an investment, I would say that the Buick Oil Company is not a prospective enterprise but a thoroughly established success. Its product is sold to the Standard Oil Company at from 15' to 20 cents per barrel over ruling prices, owing to the superior quality of its oil. ' , The condition of the company and the ability of its -.management i3 public information, the details of which any inter ested person can ascertain with slight effort. ' Last June Mr. E. J. Lawrence, writing for The Mining Investor of Denver about 'THE BEST WELL IN CALI FORNIA TODAY," said: "It is the general verdict of oil men that this well is destined to be a long-lived producer. . Its nose is stuck into oil sands over 85 feet thick. These strata are a part of a gigantic subterranean lake'of oil which geologists esti mate contains billions of barrels of petroleum. "The Buick Oil Comp'any is fortunate in possessing ample acreage. "As an investment the stock of wisely planned and intel ligently operated California petroleum companies undoubtedly Btands without a parallel in the investment world." Another authority, the Evening Standard of London, Eng land, issue of May 2d, 1911, after quoting the opinion of the United States Government Geological Survey upon the Cali fornia oil fields, says: "One of the great attractions offered by these oil fields is the fact that the geological conditions are so well established that CAPITAL NEED NEVER BE RISKED IN LANDS OF DOUBTFUL VALUE." As for the truth of this last remark it is only necessary to remember that of the several hundred wells recently drilled in the Kern County district, where the Buick properties we lo cated, including those wells drilled for experimental purposes,' 1ms than 3 Dr cent were failur- . To understand the superior character of these properties the following telegram offers evidencewhich, if not sufficient to satisfy any reasonable person with funds for investment,' additional proof will be furnished. Los Angeles, CaL, Aug. 7, 1911. B. F. MOFFATT, 318 McCennlclc BIJf., dileafo, HI. No. 1 Buick well produced in July 111,962 brr! of oil cross, or dally avai-ag of orcr 3,600 barrels; the income from this will be approzi. metal? fifty thousand dollar. To iratp fully what theie fact really mean, thi well muit be compared with other. The California Oil World of July 20 publUhed statUtic showing the oil producUon of California for June, 1911 1 it appear that there wa a net production of 6,526,661 barrel from 4,859 actiTely producing well. Thi i a monthly arerage of about 1,434 barrel per well, a compared with 109,000 barrel produced and old from Buick No. 1 well in June. The daily production for June of all well in tha tate wa about 43 barrel per well, while Buick No. 1 well averaged over 3,500 barrel daily during the turn period. With Buick v property fully developed it i difficult to conceive it poctibilitie. No. 3 . well wiU be brought in shortly and No. 4 started, and President Buick can be expected to push derelopments. ILA. H. SAMPLE. I want to thank the many open-minded investors of this community for the patronage accorded me recently and to say that, as the Buick oil stock continues to increase in value, they will . have no occasion for regretting having acquired their holdings. To those who have not as yet purchased I would invite their immediate investigation of this security, and if they will favor me with their orders at once, I will deliver this stock at $1.00 per share. My own success, like that of Mr. Moffatt, whom I have the pleasure of representing, depends upon my making money for others. The sooner you buy, the more profit you should finally realize from Buick shares. They may never reach a $15 or $20 level, but if bought at $1.00 the almost certain increase in value to $5 to $10 as a result of enlarged dividends, will represent a suf ficient profit for any person. 1 Please call or write me at once if interested. ' Very truly yours, LUCUIS WELLS, 1530-1536 City National Bank Bld., Telephone Tyler 1530 v Omaha, Nebraska.