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THE WOODMEN ACCIDENT INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
This Lincoln institution, beginning in a humble way,
has grown and flourished until it is now recognized as one
of the very best and safest accident insurance associations
in the country. It ought not to be necessary to point out
to Lincoln and Nebraska people the wisdom of patronizing
a home institution that is in every respect the equal of any
other similar institution in the country, and the superior
of a majority of them.
The Woodmen Accident Association was organized in
1890. It was founded by Dr. A. O. Faulkner, the present
president, at York, Nebr., but within the year the head
quarters were removed to Lincoln to seize the many ad
vantage of location. It started out to insure only members
of the Modern Woodmen against accident, but was later
broadened in its sccpe and mw insures members in good
standing of all fraternal societies. The territory covered
by the business of this country extends from Ohio to Colo
rado, and from the Ohio river north to the Canadian line.
At the present time it has approximately 30,000 policy
holders, and since its organization has paid out a total of
$1,054,014.74 in benefits. It paid out $150,000 in bene
fits in 1907, and this total will be increased somewhat in
1908. Its surplus, according to the last statement ren
dered was $153,665.19.
The Woodman Accident Association does not take risks
barred by other accident insurance companies, but it does
do one thing that commends it to those seeking safe and
reasonably priced accident insurance it offers a larger
weekly indemnity on risks taken than any other company,
premium considered. In other words, the policyholder
who meets with accident gets more for his money from
this company than from any other accident insurance com
pany. This is a statement of fact that can be demonstrat
ed by an investigation. The officers of the company are
as follows : President, A. O. Faulkner ; Vice President, W. .
E. Sharp; Secretary, C. E. Spangler; Treasurer, T. S.
Allen; General Attorney, A.R. Talbot. These gentlemen
constitute the board of directors.
Every one of these officials is prominently identified
with the growth and business of Lincoln. Their homes
are here. Their money is invested here. ' The company
employs a large force of clerks, whose homes are here, and
who spend their money with Lincoln business men. The
company is the means of putting thousands of dollars into
circulation here, which means employment for more men.
The dollars invested in accident insurance with this com
pany are retained fn Lincoln, not sent outside to build up
other communities.
Ordinary business sense ought to show Lincoln people
the wisdom of patronizing a home institution of this kind.
A Useful Gift is the Best
Overcoats and Suits at $10, $15, $18
Every Garment is Superior
for the1 price quoted. That's
what Mayer Bros. merchan
dise always has been and al
ways will - be, qualities that
price for price are Superior
in every way.
Fur Overcoats
make excellent .presents for
folk who drive a great deal.
A coat that will last you a
number of years.
Coat Sweaters
make a gift which, any per
son, will appreciate, especially
folk who live in the country.
The Coat Sweaters Come in Styles for Men and Women
MAYER BROS.
HEAD-TO-FOOT CLOTHIERS
CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
Decides to Accept Invitation to Par
ticipate in School Board Affairs.
The Central Labor Union took, an
important step at its meeting last
Tuesday evening when it decided to
accept an invitation tendered local
organisations to co-operate with the
board ot education in the matter of
a new high school. It was announced
that the Commercial Club, the Wom
an's Club, the City Improvement So
ciety and the Art Association had been
oBked to co-operate, and the central
body thought it a wise plan to also
set in the game. George Quick of the
Carpenters' Union and Mr. Chlpmau
of the Plumbers' Union were named
tot act on the committee from the
. central body. The Electrical Workers'
Union will be asked to name another
member of the committee. ,
The charter revision committee
brought up several interesting point3
which were discussed at some length.
The committee showed plainly that it
was doing business and was getting
ready to make a strong effort to se
cure favorable recognition of the in
terests of the wage-earners. Every
union man in town who has any ideas
about charter making is cordially in
vited to confer with this committee.
George Locker of the Typographical
Union is chairman.
T. C. Kelsey, delegate to the Den
ver convention, submitted his bill of
expense, which was placed on file.
Only about twto-thirdts of the sum
necessary to reimburse him has been
raised, and all unions that have not
contributed to the fund are requested
to come across as soon as possible,
About $30 is still lacking, and some
six or seven unions have made no
contribution.
President Rudy is still absent from
the city, and Vice-President Quick
continues to wield the gavel.
Colonel Ford of the Typographical
Union presented credentials as a
delegate.
TELL 'EM TO TAFT.
Bryan can stand his third defeat,
He is not squealing of the hard times,
poverty and idle men in his state like
they are in the east. Taft promises
that the business " interests will be
taken care of and that is what the
east voted for. The east won and its
papers are full of hard luck stories.
Western Laborer.
. RAVAGES OF WHITE PLAQUE.
Five Millions to Fall Victims in the
Unite-j States. v
That five million people now living
in the United States are doomed to fill
consumptive graves unless something
fa done to prevent it, was the startling
declaration of Prof. Irving Fisher, of
Tale university, in an address on "The
Cost of Tuberculosis," before the in
ternational tuberculosis congress in
session at Washington, Tuesday.' Pro
fessor Fisher's address created a sen
sation among the hundreds who lis
tened to his statements. Professor
Fisher further declared that the 138.
000 persons who die of consumption
annually in this country cost, in hard
cash, over one billion dollars a year.
Professor Calmett of Lille, France,
director of the Pasteur institute, ad
vanced the theory that tuberculosis
bacilli are taken into the system by
swallowing. Heretofore inhalation
has been considered the principal
method of contracting consumption.
The theory of inhalation was warmly
defended by Professor . Tendeloo ot
Holland.
WRECK ON ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
Ethel Barrymore, the Actress Among
the Passengers.
The Illinois Central's fast Diamond
special, southbound, ran into an open
switch at Divernon, twenty miles south
of Springfield, late Monday afternoon.
The engine plunged into the ditch and
was completely demolished. Engineer
A. J. Shell and Fireman Edward Tay
lor, both of Clinton, 111., jumped, both
being injured. Elizabeth McGulre, seven-year-old
daughter of Charles Mc
Guire, was playing in the yard near the
tracks when the fragments.' of the de
molished engine struck and instantly
killed her.
Ethel Barrymore, the actress, was on
the train. She could not get out of
the coach doors and the porter pulled
her through a window. According to
the testimony of Fireman Taylor, a
section gang was working aYound the
switch at the time of . the wreck. The
switch presumably had been left open
during the work on tne track and left
open.
Powers of Australian Police.
In Australian cities the police are
now empowered to enter private
dwellings in which they suspect
gambling.
Philosophical.
A girl with freckles feels just as
philosophical about them as the man
does about being in a stock market
panic. New York Press.
Beware of Boasting.
Lavater: He who can conceal his
Joys is greater than he who ca hide
his griefs. ir
Brazil's Cotton Industry.'
Substantially one-third of the en
tire industrial capital of Brazil is in
vested in cotton mills.
Wear and Tear on Currency.
The annual wear and tear on the
world's currency is estimated at two
tons of gold and 100 tijjns of silver.
Self-Deeeption Common.
Greville: No man was ever so much
deceived by another as by himself.
Happy Manners.
Manners are the happy ways of do
ing things; each, once a stroke of
genius or of love, now repeated and
hardened into usage. Emerson.
. Hard.
About the hardest task we know
tt is trying to entertain a bashful
man.
Night-Gowns for Dogs.
Dogs' night-gowns made of soft flan
nel, lined with mauve colored satin,
Ire announced in Paris.
IS WHALEBONE KING
EDGAR R. LEWIS HAS PRACTIC
ALLY CORNERED SUPPLY. '
Million Dollars' Worth of the Stock
Shut Up in His New Bedford,
Mass., Stores Business Is
Sort of Gamble.
New Bedford, Mass. A million dol
lors' worth ot whalebone, practically
all the whalebone in the world, will in
a few weeks be stored in the ware
houses of William Lewis & Son, on
Rodman street'.
This fortune in whalebone is con
trolled by one man, Edgar R. Lewis,
and if the whalebone manufacturers
of the world want any of it they will
have to come up to the captain's office
and settle, for on top of the fact that
for a year over 150,000 pounds of the
bone has been on hand in this city
with hardly a transaction, comes, the
announcement to the whalebone man
ufacturers that practically all the
whaling merchants have agreed not to
send their steamers to the Arctic
ocean next year.
This will allow the present large
stock of whalebone to be worked off,
and the whaling grounds will get a
rest.
These grounds in the Arctic ocean
have been visited for more, than 50
years, season after season. The whales
have been chased hard and often. Un
doubtedly some of the whales are in
the ocean to-day that were there when
the first whaling craft dared to pass
into the Arctic from Behring straits.
The first vessels that entered the
Arctic found the whales easy prey.
With the advent of the steam whaler,
the bowheads grew gradually more
timid. Each succeeding year nowa
days the bowhead has been found
further and further to the eastward,
nearer to the ice packs, where he is
harder to get at.
The Crozetts grounds in the Indian
ocean' are .again supplying good
catches. The whales deserted there
some years ago, and so the whalers
gave up going there. Now the whales
are coming back. Delagoa bay, on the
south coast of Africa, a former famous
whaling ground, will probably be found
barren by the bark Alice Knowles,
which is to visit there on her way to
the Crozetts. The bay is the pathway
now for big ocean-going steamers.
While 1 the catch ' of the Arctic
whalers the past season Is the small
est for several years, there will be
actually more whalebone in first hands
than has been the case in some time.
Most of the catch of last year is on
hand in the storehouses in this city.
. The stock of over 200,000 pounds of
bone could be easily disposed of at a
medium price, say $3.50 per pound,
but with the decision of the agents not
to send their vessels to the Arctic
next season, and with only the com
paratively small quantity to be caught
by the whales in the southern oceans,
the holders think the bone worth more
money, possibly rising five dollars pen
pound, and the market is stagnant.
The whalebone , business, both)
cattching and holding for a rising map
ket, is a sort of gamble. In some)
years when the stock has been low the!
merchants have held their bone sol
that the market would not be cleaned)
out, and have later been obliged :to)
sell it at a lower price than they could
have had. J
' But now, the whalebone king, E. ILi
LewiB, has control of all the bone,;
and he can dictate his own prices.1
The price question has, in fact, been
responsible for making Mr. Lewis)
price arbiter of the trade, for, having
found competition unprofitable, the,
whaling agents have. settled down toj
shipping their catch to Mr. Lewis and,
letting him dispose of it for them, i
A small army . of, scrapers is con-i
stantly kept on hand by Mr.-Lewis j
for the bone has to be scraped fre-j
quently to prevent mould. ,
A small trading schooner will protn
ably be sent north to pick up the
trade bone from the natives, should,
no whaler visit the Arctic ocean. The,
trade bone is got cheap by exchanging,
knives. ,
GIRL CLIMBS HIGH FOUNTAIN.
Colorado Maid Ascends Long's Peak,)
, the American Matterhem. ". '
Attired in overalls instead of skirts,,
pretty Emily Boynton of Longmont,
Col., aged 13, has climbed the dlwy
heights of Long's Peak the American
Matterhorn. The feat is regarded as;
a notable one, inasmuch as several)
men and women have lost their lives
in the ascent. One of the latest vie-'
tims was a young college man who;
slipped into a crevice, and his body
was never recovered. In another in-;
stance a Boston woman lost her way.
on the trail and froze to death in. k
snow storm.
The altitude of Long's Peak is 14,271.
feet. The real climb is the last.S.OOO;
feet. Above the Chasm lakes the trail!
, Miss Emily Boynton. .
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is narrow, and at one point, on an ex-; ,
ceedingly narrow ledge, it is necessary!
to climb around what is known as;
"Danger Rock," which "affords butiv
scant place to hold to in so doing. ' ' 'f
Emily Boynton was accompanied on;
her ascent of the peak ,by her father.
editor of the Longmont Ledger, and.
her sister. All of them are expert-,.
enced climbers, and claim that there!
is no danger' to the climber who pew
Besses steady nerves. ' On another 6c-f
caslon Emily accompanied her father
on a trip to the Chasm lakes. :- ,
., To the dismay of her mother, little
Miss Boynton insists upon wearing
the overalls, in which she does her:
climbing, much of the time around her.
home. As she runs about, often with
her hands thrust into the pockets of
the overalls, her mother's protests in
variably meet with the response that
they are so much mora comfortable)
than skirts.